Making Winter: A Creative Guide for Surviving the Winter Months

(Hardback)

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From delicate silver jewellery, paper-craft decorations and crocheted mittens, to foraged infusions, delicious recipes and nature diaries, Making Winter is filled with projects designed to fend off dreariness in the winter months. Step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs, shot at Emma's cottage in the Fens in eastern England, take you through each project, so that even beginners can enjoy the mood-boosting benefits of a craft-filled winter and snuggle down in their own cozy paradise.

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Gentle, beautiful, skilled and creative. -- Robert Macfarlane
Charming... [Emma] has found a way to alleviate seasonal affective disorder with crafts and creativity. Definitely one for the den -- Katrina Burroughs * The Sunday Times Home *
[A] really pretty little book, full of recipes, designs and ideas for presents -- Joanne Harris * Good Housekeeping *
Emma has created the most beautiful, delicious, enriching book - capable of turning the bleakest, wintery afternoon into a warm, nurturing, life-enhancing treat -- Emma Freud
Inspiring and comforting * Psychologies *
This charming book is packed with ingenious and inexpensive things to do during winter * Daily Mail (Weekend) *
[A] real winter warmer * Daily Express *
Even if you're not crafty, you'll be inspired by the projects in Making Winter, which all include step-by-step instructions and gorgeous photographs. * Stylist *
Brighten bleak winter days with Emma's recipes * Delicious. magazine *
You're engaging not only with the natural world but with the year's cycle in a way that grounds you in time and place and makes something from the here and now ... I believe that's something that can have vast - and perhaps unexpected - value ... That a book should act as inspiration or catalyst to even one reader makes the writing of it worthwhile ... [This book] will reach thousands -- Melissa Harrison * Caught by the River *
an inspirational book * Country Homes & Interiors *
Gorgeously cosy ... this is a book to snuggle up on the sofa with and hold back the dreary winter nights * Inside Crochet *
An ideal present for anyone looking to try something different * Let's Knit *
Banish the winter blues with this gorgeous collection * Crochet Now *
Beautifully styled * Popular Patchwork *

Author Bio

Emma Mitchell is a popular designer-maker, craft teacher and naturalist. She has been published in Mollie MakesandCountry Living. She has been featured in The Guardian and has appeared on the UK TV seriesLove Your Garden. Her Instagram account, @silverpebble2, has over 85k followers.