[.ca] Wonderful Wire Works: An Easy Decorative Craft (ISBN 0806922699)

Fantastic Projects Anyone Can Do:
This beautiful book is full of fantastic projects anyone can do. Baskett walks the reader through each project with clear instructions, diagrams and photographs. The photographs are awe inspiring. You'll find jewelry, bottles, lamps and lampshades, picture frames, amazing baskets and candle holders. Wire is inexpensive, now comes in many colors and gauges and is easily obtained. You'll be cranking out gifts in less than an hour. The recipients of my work could hardly believe I made it. Baskett's instruction makes it easy to be an artist

Truly Wonderful:
I looked at his book and had to have it. The pictures are delicious and the writer makes everything seem so simple and straightforward. I plan to make the salt and pepper shakers, the bead and wire wine glasses and some of the jewelry as soon as I can get the materials. The materials issue is my one complaint about the book. Many projects require "cabochons," which seem to be very hard to find. However, they are sold at stained glass supply houses as "jewels." They are also sold in millimeters, not inches (which is how the size is given in the instructions). I wish that she had included supply sources as an appendix. Other than this complaint, the book looks fun and well-explained and offers an incredible variety of great-looking projects.

This book is wonderful!:
I came across this book while shopping for fabric, couldn't afford it at the time but immediately put in my amazon wishlist. Of course having it delivered to work was a bad idea, I keep flipping through it and planning all the projects that I can't wait to work on! Not sure about the other reviews that mention materials being hard to find because I haven't started looking for them yet, but as a former art student and hardware store habitue, I don't plan to have any difficulties. An excellent book for both beginners and the seasoned crafter, the instructions seem very easy to follow and it's full of great ideas. In fact, a local artist has devoted an entire store to selling handmade crafts VERY similar to those in the book...

Great Ideas:
This book gives wonderful ideas and showes great pictures. The only problem I have is finding the materials. As a female in a hardware store the men working there look at you like you are crazy when you ask where buss wire or a downspout strainer is.