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We loved Lotta Jansdotter's first book - Simple Sewing - because it really was simple and it captured her Scandinavia-meets-Brooklyn aesthetic so well. And we have similar expectations for her current book, Lotta Prints: How To Print with Anything, from Potatoes to Linoleum.

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Whether you want to add unique elements to your walls, furniture, paper or textiles, Lotta covers it all: rubber stamping, iron-on printing, leaf printing, stencil printing, potato printing, lino-block printing, and screen printing. Some of the projects are more advanced, but many are designed to give beginners confidence with instructions and tips.

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Lotta's been doodling and drawing since childhood and you're encouraged to make prints from your own designs. But if you don't consider yourself artistic, she includes 8 stencil pages at the back of the book to use in lieu of your own creations.

Lotta Prints is published by Chronicle Books and is widely available at bookstores.