Description

‘Gentle, beautiful, skilled and creative.’ Robert Macfarlane

Banish winter blues and embrace the frosty months by cosying up with Emma Mitchell’s nature-inspired collection of crafts.

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, 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 cosy paradise.

Publisher Review

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 *