Böcker utgivna av David & Charles

A visual voyage through the world of retro caravans, exploring the exterior and interior design of these classic icons and revealing the resurgence of interest in modern-vintage caravans - whether used for touring or as creative backyard spaces - with practical advice on restoring and styling.

Buying a classic and iconic E30 BMW 3 Series can be just the start of a wonderful adventure. This book explains how these fantastic cars can be modified to suit a vast range of applications, from fast road use to race and rally.

A fantastic selection of knitting patterns for blankets and throws from established designer and best-selling author Claire Crompton, author of The Knitter's Bible and Knitter's Bible project books. Featuring strong blanket and throw designs across a range of styles for the new-to-knitting market.

Having this book in your pocket is just like having a real marque expert at your side. Benefit from Nigel Thorley's years of Jaguar experience, learn how to spot a bad car quickly, and how to assess a promising one like a true professional. Get the right car at the right price!

A collection of fresh, Spring-themed sewing projects using Tilda fabrics and embellishments. It allows you to choose from a variety of sewing and papercraft designs, including bags, soft toys, fabric boxes and unique decorations. It uses colour palette such as shades of red, pink, white, pale green, azure blue and cyan.

16 gorgeous cake decorating projects that are impressive and stylish, but use small cakes in various sizes to keep the baking elements simple and allow you to really focus in on learning how to decorate a cake. Bridges the gap between decorating cupcakes and cookies and decorating larger tiered cakes for beginner to intermediate decorators.

Learn how to make beautiful quilts with this comprehensive guide to patchwork and quilting for beginners. Covers all aspects of quilting from piecing and patchwork to quilting and binding. Includes quick and clever techniques with step-by-step illustrated instructions. Choose from 16 small and large projects including bed quilts, bags and wall hangings. Features a quilting glossary explaining common quilting and sewing terms.

Following his dismissal from a job he never should have had, the author packs a tent, some snacks, and a suit, and sets out on a two-wheeled adventure across Europe. With no idea where he's going, and only two very large and confusing maps to rely on, he heads out to prove that planning and forethought are the very antithesis of a motorcycle adventure.

Having this book in your pocket is like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from the author's years of Lotus/Caterham 7 experience, learn how to spot a bad car quickly, and how to assess a promising one like a professional. Get the right car at the right price!

Create a Christmas to remember with holiday gifts and decorations from the popular fabric designer and author of Country Cottage Quilting. This is a collection of beautiful Christmas crafts from top designer Lynette Anderson. This book features a wide range of ideas for a useful mixture of gifts and keepsakes to create, from quick-to-stitch gifts, including a Christmas Friends Pillow, Santa's Sweet Stockings, and Santa Tea Towel to beautiful decorations, like Star Tree Decorations, festive placemats and napkins, and a stunning wall-hanging quilt. The simple patchwork techniques Lynette uses are a great backdrop for the festive applique and stitchery designs. Beautiful fabrics, festive colors, and cute motifs are enhanced by a book design that captures Lynette's heart-warming, quirky style.

Readers learn how to design and make their own stunning sweet tables, complete with cakes, cookies, cupcakes, cake pops, whoopie pies, macaroons, and many more sweet treats. The book features six gorgeous sweet table themes, with over 40 cake decorating projects, each designed to be colour coordinated and visually stunning.

Break the rules with a sewing style that's all about irresistibly rough edges, uneven stitching and mismatched fabric!

The projects combine simple patchwork and applique, felt and trim embellishments, and decorative stitchery. Each chapter has its own charming motifs and colour theme, the projects cover a range of festive gifts/decorations. Designs are suitable for all abilities, with each chapter offering designs that can be completed in 3 hours, 2 days or a week.

In this comprehensive guide to embroidery, you'll learn the basic stitches and master 8 different embroidery styles, including blackwork, crewelwork, hardanger, pulled thread, goldwork and freestyle. Every stitch has clear step-by-step instructions and is accompanied by coloured diagrams, making it easy to create impressive embroidered designs.

Learn how to create amazing three-dimensional flowers with machine quilting, patchwork and applique techniques.

Presents a showcase of the 12 winning quilt designs from the finalists of the 2010/2011 Jelly Roll Dreams international quilting competition. In this title, each design comes with a full colour styled photograph, comprehensive making instructions and diagrams, and requires just one Jelly Roll to make.

A guide to choosing, assessing and buying the Porsche 987 Boxster or Cayman of your dreams. It is packed with advice from running costs, paperwork, vital statistics, valuation and the Porsche community, right through to whether your Porsche can fit in your garage and indeed, with your lifestyle.

A guide to choosing, assessing and buying the Porsche 930 Turbo of your dreams. It is packed with advice from running costs, paperwork, vital statistics, valuation and the Porsche community, right through to whether your Porsche 930 can fit in your garage and indeed, with your lifestyle.

Just how successful the bond between man and dog is depends on the dog's ability to 'read' us and our moods, so the more we understand about our own behaviour, the better we can influence our dog's responses. The anxieties of an owner can be reflected in their dog's behaviour, and the same is true of a calm, even-tempered owner. A dog may be man's best friend, but first, we need to be our own best friend. This book will show you how.

A collection of fun projects for your home and garden. It features 20 projects in 9 themed sections, varying from simple bunting and cushions to a Christmas gingerbread house, a deck chair cover and a fun children's teepee. It offers step-by-step instructions and stitch diagrams for both right and left handers.

A seasonal collection of projects using the latest Tilda fabrics and embellishments.

In this hilarious and heart-warming collection of essays, the bestselling author reflects on a life spent exploring the British countryside on foot.From the splendor of the Pennines and the Lake District to the drama of the Dorset coast; from the canals of the Midlands to wildest Scotland, this book is an attempt to explain a passion for walking and the delights it can bring.Culled from Stuart Maconie's monthly column in Country Walking, it's full of the beautiful places, magical moments and wonderful characters he has encountered on his travels. It discusses such intrepid adventures as taking on the famous "e;Wainwright"e; fells of the Lake District, walking Hadrian's Wall with colleague Mark Radcliffe, and why the most important things to carry in a rucksack are a transistor radio and a small bottle of red wine.Praise for Stuart Maconie"e;Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny."e; -The Guardian"e;He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell."e; -The Observer"e;Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton."e; -Peter Kay"e;An heir to Alan Bennett . . . stirring and rather wonderful."e; -The Sunday Times

Cake decorating is the perfect way to celebrate. This book is packed with cake designs for weddings and romantic occasions. It includes cupcakes, mini cakes, cookies, fondant fancies and macaroons. It offers step-by-step illustrated instructions covering essential techniques, such as piping and stenciling.

A collection of quilted designs, focusing on a popular country garden theme. It features a range of ideas, from quick-to-stitch projects to larger wall hangings and bed-sized quilts.

Make cute, creative creatures from farmyard and forestand dress them up for gifts that will delight friends and family! Instagram doyenne Isabelle Kessadjian, the hottest name in crochet, brings you adorable animals to crochet in this fabulous new collection of twelve cheeky characters. From foxes in the forest to perky pigs in the farmyard, all of these animals come with their very own stylish wardrobe and mini accessories. Isabelles easy to follow patterns show you how to crochet each animal friend, and then you can choose how you want to clothe and accessorize. Each animal is presented as a mini story to bring your new friend to lifeso why not go on a day out with Family Rabbit and their baby Bunny, take a romantic trip to Paris with Koala and Panda, have fun on a camping trip with Bear complete with satchel and camera, explore the forest with Reindeer and Fox, and enjoy a feast with the pink and perky Pigs?

With this eclectic collection of forty designs, learn to crochet motifs that can be applied an endless number of projects.If you love crochet, you will adore this collection of over forty cute motifs including classic hearts and flowers, as well as more quirky designs for skulls, mushrooms, and seasonal-themed motifs such as gingerbread men. The motifs are fun, original, and quirky and the patterns are suitable for crocheters of all abilities, even novices.As well as the motif designs, this collection includes tons of practical ideas for how to use the motifs in simple projects such as bunting and key rings, as well as embellishments on scarves and bags. There are seasonal projects for Christmas and Halloween so you can get festive and crochet decorations and gifts for family and friends.Praise for Hooked!"e;Hooked! has 40 of the most adorable and whimsical motifs that are great for embellishing any project! There are so many great projects in this book. You can learn how to make little flowers, stars, animals, hearts, and more! There are 40 different motifs to choose from and they are great for creating buntings, afghan squares, decorating garments and so many other applications."e; -The Stitchin' Mommy

Learn to pipe 100 buttercream blooms to adorn your cakes and cupcakes with this complete visual reference from the world's leading buttercream artists. This stunning book includes a stable buttercream recipe and the basic techniques you need, along with step-by-step photos of each flower, plus five cake decorating projects to test your new skills.

Beginner's Guide to Crochet comprehensively teaches all the basic crochet techniques, skills and stitches to get someone started.

Liberty prints are the world's most desirable fabric range. This beautiful book shows Liberty lovers how to use these highly sought-after fabrics to create beautiful sewn items for little girls. Over 20 step-by-step projects range from full-size bed quilts and dresses to small-scale replicas for dolls using simple sewing techniques.

This is the story of a man, a team, and their life and times, as well as a complete record of all their achievements and failures. It logs the financial and personal cost of racing in the prewar and postwar periods. It tells of how the mighty car company Renault became involved with them in the late 1950s.