An Unexpected Arrival

It’s not often I get something unexpected turn up in the mail – but today was one of those days.

Along with the unwelcome notification from the bank that they’d increased our direct debit amount for the fortnightly mortgage repayment, there was a large package from Murdoch Books. It contained this:

Complete Contemporary Craft: Textiles

 They’ve compiled selected pages from the ‘handmade style’ series and put them together into one pretty substantial volume (383 pages). Some of you may know that I designed a couple of pieces that were published in their ‘Knit: Handmade Style’ book in 2006 – a pure silk top and tie frontjacket – and those two patterns have been included in the selection they’ve reprinted in this new title.  But it’s also rather nice to see these other textile craft titles compiled into the one volume – the felting and the weaving sections are particularly attractive. 

Interestingly, the complimentary edition they’ve sent me is a UK version, priced at UKP19.99, but I think it’s also around in Australia for about $50.00 rrp.