Making Candles

Learn how to make beautiful, bespoke candles for you and your home in this easy-to-follow guide.

Sarah Ditchfield, founder of Candle by Events, shares her secrets for crafting 20 of her best-selling candle designs, so that you too can make both modern and traditional waxed creations at home from elegantly simple taper candles to show-stopping ice pillars.

Invaluable advice is included on the essential materials and tools you'll need to get started, along with handy measuring and heating charts. Every candle project is accompanied by simple instructions, step-by-step photographs and a gorgeous finished picture. There's even a chapter on how to decorate and package your candles if you'd like to give them away as thoughtful, hand-crafted gifts. 

If you are looking for a craft that you can truly immerse yourself in, and one that's perfect for the beginner candlemaker looking for professional results, this is the book for you.

This is a revitalized edition of Making Candles: Create 20 decorative candles to keep or to give (2017).

Book Contents

Introduction 6
Tools and materials 8
Techniques 14
The candles 20
Upcycling and recycling 72
Decorating your candles 74
Packaging your candles 76
Burn testing 78
Troubleshooting 79
Index 80