Witchy Crafts: 60 Enchanted Projects for the Creative Witch

by Lexa Olick

Overview

Weave Magic Into Your Handmade Craft Projects

Create powerfully magical crafts, tools, and more with this unique book offering step-by-step instruction for sixty witchy crafts you’ll treasure for years to come. Let personal energy flow through your hands and into these fun and imaginative ideas especially designed for witches.

Witchy Crafts is an illustrated two-part manual with Part One covering techniques, preparing your craft projects, and gathering the necessary materials. In Part Two, you’ll find all sixty craft projects with detailed instructions. Infuse magic into essential ritual items such as chalices and wands. Create magical home décor like a goddess cornucopia and crocheted pentacle coasters. Make accessories from bags to jewelry, construct a charm box, whip up your own herbal soap, and much more.

Along with color photos, step-by-step drawings, and correspondence charts, you’ll also find numerous helpful tips. Learn how to craft by the seasons, avoid common mistakes, and form a craft group.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738729244
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	02/08/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	34 MB
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About the Author

Lexa Olick (Buffalo, NY) has been crafting for over twenty years, creating artwork through knitting, crochet, felting, ceramics, sewing, decoupage, and much more. She is also a gifted writer (having received numerous awards for her screenplays) and artist (her artwork has been featured in the online gothic magazine Dark Romance, Dog Fancy magazine, and the Showtime series The L-Word).

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Before You Start

 

Chapter 1: From Rags to Witches: Materials

 

Gathering Your Supplies

 

1. Gemstones
2. Herbs
3. Essential Oils
4. Feathers
5. Natural Fibers
6. Shells

 

Experimentation & Substitution

 

1. Chopsticks
2. Coffee Cans
3. Cookie Cutters
4. Makeup Brushes
5. Molds
6. Nail Polish Bottles
7. Old Clothes
8. Sculpting Tools
9. Takeout Containers

 

Chapter 2: Witch Way Now: Techniques & Recipes

 

Techniques

 

1. Crochet
   1. Slipknot
   2. Chain (ch)
   3. Slip Stitch (sl st)
   4. Single Crochet (sc)
   5. Half Double Crochet (hdc)
   6. Double Crochet (dc)
   7. Triple Crochet (tr)

 

1. Drying Herbs and Flowers
   1. Air Drying
   2. Air Drying with Paper Bags
   3. Microwave Drying
   4. Microwave Pressed Herbs and Flowers
   5. Pressing

 

1. Grouting
2. Melting Wax
3. Painting
   1. Antiquing
   2. Dry Brushing

 

1. Polymer clay
   1. Clay Conditioning
   2. Baking Clay

 

1. Sanding
2. Sewing
   1. Blanket Stitch Edging
   2. Blanket Stitch Layers
   3. Whip Stitch

 

1. Tassels
2. Tissue-Mâché
3. Witchness Protection
   1. Moon Energy
   2. Charging with a Personal Touch
   3. Earth Cleansing

 

Recipes

 

1. Herbal Fire-Starters
2. Homemade Paper
3. Pomanders
4. Scented Pinecones

 

Chapter 3: Crafting Friendships

• Benefits of Crafting
• Crafting in Groups
• World Wide Wicca: A Guide to the Wiccan Online Community

 

Chapter 4: Witching Season: A Month by Month Guide to Crafting the Craft

 

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December

 

PART TWO: Projects

 

Chapter 5: Essentially Wiccan: Basic Tools of Wicca

 

1. Book of Shadows
2. Magic Wand with Incense Stand
3. Salt of the Earth Runes with Trinket Pouch
4. Heirloom Chalice
5. Goddess Offering Dish
6. Arrowhead Athame
7. Woodland Spirit Board
8. Altar Fan
9. Garden Candle Snuffer

 

Chapter 6: Fashioning Trends: Crafts to Wear and Share

 

1. Yggdrasil Pendant
2. Evil Eye Charms
3. Green Man Mask
4. Wish Bracelet
5. Beltane Flower Crown
6. Power Cuffs
7. Baby’s First Spirit Board Blanky
8. Quilted Amulet Purse
9. Leaf Amulet
10. Pentacle Purse
11. Ritual Capelet

 

Chapter 7: Green Witchery: Recycling the Old into the New

 

1. Garden Spell Box
2. Bottle Cap Runes
3. Keyboard Runes
4. Altar Tiles
5. Stashbuster Wand
6. Comfort Celtic Knot
7. Woven Tarot Bag
8. Egg Vivarium
9. Kitchen Witch Wand
10. Tarot Candle
11. Tarot Wall Hanging

 

Chapter 8: Crafts that Take Shape: Poppets, Sculptures, Statues and More

 

1. Fairy Baby
2. Pocket Poppets
3. Inukshuk Keychain
4. Goddess Tassels
5. Seed Sculptures
6. Hand Sand Candle
7. Poppet Facial Scrubs
8. Poppet Bath Teabags
9. Nest Rock Charms

 

Chapter 9: Hearth and Home: Crafts for Around the Home

 

1. Altar Cloth Weights
2. Mosaic Crystal Balls
3. Woodland Basket
4. Pentacle Coasters
5. Goddess Cornucopia
6. Witch Ball Centerpiece
7. Pentacle Wreath
8. Crystal Pillows and Candle Warmers
9. Wand Rests
10. Tangled Spell Candle
11. Cabochon Spoon Wand
12. Jeweled Mandala
13. Mandala Boxes
14. Framed Memento Pillow

 

Chapter 10: Marvelous Mixtures: Recipes to Delight

 

1. Coconut Solid Lotion
2. Sugar Body Scrub
3. Lip Balm
4. Milk Bath
5. Herbal Soap
6. Spell Bottles

 

Chapter 11: Witch Trials & Errors: Fixing Your Mistakes

           

Appendix

• Colors
• Crystals and Herbs
• Metals
• Runes

 

Bibliography

 

Index