Craft Month

March is National Craft Month!🎨🧶

Stop by the Valhalla Branch to browse our crafty display or visit the Main Library in Pleasantville to check out our dedicated Arts & Craft collection 🧑‍🎨

Updated January 22, 2026
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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Knit it! : learn the basics and knit 22 beautiful projects
Leapman, Melissa.
Paper Book
This inviting craft book lays the groundwork for a lifetime of knitting--no prior skills necessary! Expert knitting author Melissa Leapman presents step-by-step instructions for all the essential skills, techniques, and abbreviations needed to get started knitting, plus clear how-to illustrations...
Just paint it! : The World's Most Enjoyable Painting Course. Ever!
Piyasena, Sam
Paper Book
For anyone who has ever gazed longingly at a set of artist's paints and brushes in a store and wished that they knew where to begin, this is the book for them. This companion to Barron's Just Draw It! relies on the belief that anyone can paint, and encourages readers to not only learn, but to...
Hooked : how crafting saved my life
Foster, Sutton
Paper Book
From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV's Younger, funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business (and how it can help you, too). Whether she...
Art : everything you need to know about the greatest artists and their works
Hodge, Susie
Paper Book
Art introduces readers to 100 of the world's most important artists and their paintings, from the 13th century to the modern era. Works by artists including Caravaggio, Vermeer, van Gogh and Warhol are reproduced in superb high quality, arranged chronologically and set in their historical...
The knitting circle
Hood, Ann
Paper Book
Come on in and join the knitting circle - it might just save your life... Spinning yarns, weaving tales, mending lives... Every Wednesday a group of women gathers at Alice's Sit and Knit. Little do they know that they will learn so much more than patterns... Grieving Mary...
The beginner's guide to hand building : functional and sculptural projects for the home potter
Cobb, Sunshine
Paper Book
The Beginner's Guide to Hand Building is a friendly, contemporary take on the classic hand-building book-perfect for new and returning ceramic artists.
Needles and pearls
McNeil, Gil
Paper Book
Slip one ... A year after her husband's death, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. Knit two together... The boys are thriving, the wool shop is starting to do well and despite two weddings, an in-school...
Close knit : a novel
Colgan, Jenny
Paper Book
Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer novel set in Scotland's windswept Northern isles, by beloved New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. In the northernmost reaches of Scotland, where a string of little...
Flowers, fruit & vegetables : simple approaches to drawing natural forms
Civardi, Giovanni.
Paper Book
Provides a highly visual guide to drawing flowers, fruit and vegetables.

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