Crafting is a game – summer

Enjoy a completely redesigned and expanded edition of the entire Crafting is a Game series, featuring 57 brand new projects.
Inside, you will find projects using textiles, paper, natural materials, polystyrene, beads, decorative doughs, and more. Try your hand at various new or less traditional materials. The steps vary in difficulty, but require no special prior knowledge as everything you need is included.
The entire series is divided by season. This second volume, like those that follow, lets you choose from a variety of projects to inspire your own creations. The guides in this book can serve as a mere starting point. Feel free to modify the projects as you wish, or let them simply spark your imagination to work on a completely different creation, using a different material or technique. This is exactly what crafting is about – exploring uncharted paths, unfamiliar materials, and searching for new ways to shape what is waiting to be created, bringing the immense joy that comes with making things.
Summer is a time of sunshine, long days, and spending time outdoors. This volume therefore brings you ideas that carry the relaxed vibe of warm days and the scent of nature. We use materials that you can gather on a trip or holiday and transform them into bright summer decorations. Work with textiles, recyclable materials, as well as sand or concrete.
About the author:
Alena Isabella Grimmichová has been crafting since early childhood. She learned the basics of working with textiles – sewing and embroidery – from her grandmothers. Her work grew out of a fascination with colour and patterns, which led her to focus primarily on fabric and textiles. Today, she mainly explores diverse textile techniques in her work. She is interested in their various combinations and in merging new and old methods of fabric processing. This passion has influenced not only her own creations but has also been channeled into several books focusing on different fabric techniques originating from Japan and Africa. Between 1992 and 2005, she ran her own Galerie N°9 in Prague's Lesser Town. Since 1993, she has exhibited her work in the Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Austria. She also collaborates with numerous handicraft magazines.