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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft
Fun, illustrated projects for those who believe in magick.
From sewing, gardening, and jewelry-making, to calligraphy and lotion- concocting, here are Wicca craft projects for everyone. And with the ritual tools, altars, amulets, candles, mirrors, cauldrons, and a deeper understanding of their meanings, new and veteran Wiccans can enrich their ceremonies, from Esbats and Shabats to magical circles, and from kitchen magick to ritual baths.
• For readers of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Wicca and Witchcraft and The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Spells and Spellcraft
• According to FoxNews.com, Wicca is hugely popular on college campuses, and at least two colleges excuse believers from class on Wiccan holidays
• Ideal for both “sole practitioners” and groups of Wiccans
• Only “make-your-own” book on Wicca crafts
- GenresWicca
336 pages, Paperback
First published September 7, 2004
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February 17, 2011
Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft / 1-59257-262-6
To date, I have found about three guides on Wiccan craft projects, and these guides are all fairly disappointing.
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft" tries to do a little bit of everything - cooking, brewing, sewing, miscellaneous crafting, and so on. Sadly, each topic is remarkably shallow - in this case "a little bit of everything" means, apparently, a VERY little bit.
The section on sewing a ritual robe basically involves buying a really big bolt of cloth, cutting a robe-sized shape out of the bolt, and then sewing the two sides together and wearing the result. I'm not a professional seamstress, but I do know how to sew a robe and I know how to sew a potato sack; the instructions here are far closer to a potato sack. For the record, if you want to sew a ritual robe, I personally recommend buying a "Christmas Pagentry" pattern for 99 cents and sewing up the ubiquitous "Angel Robe". If you want a hooded robe, check out the Halloween patterns - there's always a good "Elven Cloak" pattern available. These patterns are professional but not too hard, and you'll have actual sleeves and a proper neckline and maybe even a back zipper, rather than a potato sack to slip over your head. I'm just frustrated with why this book doesn't use simple and obvious tips and patterns like this, instead of describing a potato sack as a ritual robe!
Everything else is superficial as well. The full moon cookies are a basic sugar cookie recipe my mom has used for years. The goddess libation is a common non-alcoholic drink mix. The majority of the other crafts utilize very simple and "childish" craft materials - white Kraft glue, glitter, paper plates, Popsicle sticks, and so forth. I think this would be a GREAT resource for pagan parenting, or if you were trying to put together some kind of pagan "Sunday School" class, but since I don't have children it doesn't do much for me.
I think the biggest problem is that a lot of these authors assume that if a person is new to the Craft then they must also be new to crafting. I'm still looking for a good Wiccan crafting book that is really in-depth and professional, but if you're looking for a book to involve children in Wiccan crafting, this is probably a decent resource.
~ Ana Mardoll
To date, I have found about three guides on Wiccan craft projects, and these guides are all fairly disappointing.
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft" tries to do a little bit of everything - cooking, brewing, sewing, miscellaneous crafting, and so on. Sadly, each topic is remarkably shallow - in this case "a little bit of everything" means, apparently, a VERY little bit.
The section on sewing a ritual robe basically involves buying a really big bolt of cloth, cutting a robe-sized shape out of the bolt, and then sewing the two sides together and wearing the result. I'm not a professional seamstress, but I do know how to sew a robe and I know how to sew a potato sack; the instructions here are far closer to a potato sack. For the record, if you want to sew a ritual robe, I personally recommend buying a "Christmas Pagentry" pattern for 99 cents and sewing up the ubiquitous "Angel Robe". If you want a hooded robe, check out the Halloween patterns - there's always a good "Elven Cloak" pattern available. These patterns are professional but not too hard, and you'll have actual sleeves and a proper neckline and maybe even a back zipper, rather than a potato sack to slip over your head. I'm just frustrated with why this book doesn't use simple and obvious tips and patterns like this, instead of describing a potato sack as a ritual robe!
Everything else is superficial as well. The full moon cookies are a basic sugar cookie recipe my mom has used for years. The goddess libation is a common non-alcoholic drink mix. The majority of the other crafts utilize very simple and "childish" craft materials - white Kraft glue, glitter, paper plates, Popsicle sticks, and so forth. I think this would be a GREAT resource for pagan parenting, or if you were trying to put together some kind of pagan "Sunday School" class, but since I don't have children it doesn't do much for me.
I think the biggest problem is that a lot of these authors assume that if a person is new to the Craft then they must also be new to crafting. I'm still looking for a good Wiccan crafting book that is really in-depth and professional, but if you're looking for a book to involve children in Wiccan crafting, this is probably a decent resource.
~ Ana Mardoll
November 26, 2018
Great reference! A must-have on your new witchling shelf.
January 31, 2016
LOVED THIS BOOK! Even if your not interested in the religious aspect to to book there's still lots of creative nature based hand crafts to try! To bad the library wants this back because this is a keeper!
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