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Keepsake Crimes: A Scrapbooking Mystery

Laura Childs
Format: Paperback

Award-winning Mystery Author In New Orleans's French Quarter sits Carmela Bertrand's little scrapbooking shop, Memory Mine. When one of the city's elite dies during Mardi Gras, Carmela's estranged husband is the number one suspect. Carmela doesn't think that Shamus is cu
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Quilting Your Memories: Inspirations for Designing with Image Transfers

Sandy Bonsib
Format: Book

Rescue your photos from those tired, sterile photo-album pages--feature them in a precious heirloom, a whimsical storybook scene, or an extraordinary work of art instead! Learn to transfer photographs, children's drawings, and more onto fabric. Then gather inspiration from more th
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Quilting: A practical guide to quilting and patckwork with techniques, charts & beautiful projects

Isabel Stanley
Format: Paperback

This beautiful book includes over 140 quilting patchwork and applique projects divided into four popular themes. Each section offers inspirational designs for quilts and throws, bedlinen and tablelinen and clothing as well as accessories for every room in the house.
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Quilting for People Who Still Don't Have Time to Quilt (#4183)

Marti Michell - Asn Pub
Format: Paperback

Since Marti Michell's first booklet in the Quilting For People Who Don't Have Time To Quilt series was published in 1988, hundreds of thousands of people have learned to make quilts using her fast and easy techniques. Now in an expanded and enlarged version, this edition will open the door...
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Quiltmaking by Hand: Simple Stitches, Exquisite Quilts

Jinny Beyer - Breckling Press
Format: Paperback

Celebrating today's surge of interest in hand crafts, this book introduces new quilters to a simple yet versatile set of techniques that allows them to create sensational quilts entirely by hand. A world-class designer and extraordinarily skilled quilter, Jinny Beyer demonstrates everything...
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Creating Your Perfect Quilting Space

Lois L Hallock
Format: Paperback

Explains how to transform a cluttered, makeshift space into a functional, beautiful, and well-organized home quilting studio, in a guide that offers dozens of helpful ideas and tips, an innovative selection of practical storage solutions, and before-and-after photographs of real-l
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Scrapbook Workshop: The Best Techniques From Your Favorite Scrapbook Bloggers

May Flaum - Memory Makers
Format: Paperback

A must-have for continuous scrapbooking inspiration! May Flaum has brought all your favorite and up-and-coming scrapbook bloggers together in Scrapbook Workshop. Whether or not you follow blogs, this collection will serve as an idea book filled with projects and techniques you'll use again...
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The Knitting Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide for All Knitters

Claire Montgomerie - St. Martin's Griffin; 1 Spi edition
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive guide to knitting covering all the techniques needed to learn to knit and beyondThe Knitting Encyclopedia is a wonderful reference guide for knitters of all levels. Whether youre just learning to cast on, or designing your first sweater, here is your guide through all the skills...
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Simple Knitting: A Complete How-to-Knit Workshop with 20 Projects

Erika Knight - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Simple Knitting is a unique workshop-based, how-to-knit book that will teach you the key techniques while creating an enviable collection of knitted items. Each of the 20 projects in the book teaches a new skill, as well as building upon and consolidating those knitting techniques already...
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The Complete Photo Guide to Crochet: *All You Need to Know to Crochet *The Essential Reference for Novice and Expert Crocheters *Comprehensive Guide ... *Packed with Hundreds of Tips and Ideas

Margaret Hubert - Creative Publishing int'l; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

This is a comprehensive reference book on all aspects of crochet. This book provides a reference for all methods, including Tunisian, filet, intermeshing, broomstick lace, bruges lace, and freeform crochet. Includes step-by-step instructions for all the basic stitches and swatches of 100s...
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Complete Guide to Embroidery Stitches: Photographs, Diagrams, and Instructions for Over 260 Stitches (Reader's Digest)

Jennifer Campbell - Readers Digest
Format: Hardcover

It is oh-so-easy and oh-so-convenient to count on Reader's Digest crafts. To count the ways: one, clear and consistent directions that anyone can translate into a professionally finished crafts item; two, color photographs that do all the work sans words, if necessary; three, sidebars...
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Death by Cashmere: A Seaside Knitters Mystery

Sally Goldenbaum
Format: Paperback

Readers can't help but get entangled in this USA Today bestselling series.Now in trade paperback-the new mystery series that spins a yarn about knitters and murder in a seaside village.Not long after Isabel "Izzy" Chambers opens up a knittin
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Knit One, Kill Two (Knitting Mysteries, No. 1)

Maggie Sefton - Berkley Book
Format: Mass Market Paperback

FIRST IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING KNITTING MYSTERY SERIES!Despite the fact that her aunt was an expert knitter, Kelly Flynn never picked up a pair of knitting needles she liked - until she strolled into House of Lambspun. Now, Kelly is about to learn how to knit one, purl two,...
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Crewel World

Monica Ferris - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

When Betsy's sister is murdered in her own needlecraft store, Betsy takes over the shop and the investigation.But to find the murderer, she'll have to put together a list of motives and suspects to figure out this killer's pattern of crime...Includes a beautiful embroidery pattern!
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The Quick and the Thread: An Embroidery Mystery

Amanda Lee - Obsidian
Format: Paperback

First in a new mystery series that will have readers stitching-and itching for more When Marcy Singer opens an embroidery specialty shop in quaint Tallulah Falls, Oregon, she throws a soiree and a Stitch-In. Soon, Marcy's sign- up sheet for embroidery classes fills up and everyone...
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The Lover's Knot: A Someday Quilts Mystery

Clare O'Donohue - Plume
Format: Paperback

Book #1 of the Someday Quilts Mystery series In the tradition of Jennifer Chiaverini and Emilie Richards, a debut quilting mystery Nell Fitzgerald is thrilled when she receives a gorgeous handmade quilt in a lover's knot pattern from her grandmother Eleanor as an engagement gift. Her joy is short-lived,...
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The Quilter's Apprentice

Jennifer Chiaverini - Plume
Format: Paperback

After moving with her husband, Matt, to the small college town of Waterford, Pennsylvania, Sarah McClure struggles to find a fulfilling job. In the meantime, she agrees to help seventy-five-year-old Sylvia Compson prepare her family estate, Elm Creek Manor, for sale. As part of her compensation,...
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Sewing Basics: Creating a Stylish Wardrobe with Step-by-Step Tech

Pat Moyes
Format: Paperback

Sewing Basics is extremely helpful for someone just learning how to sew or someone getting back into sewing. It guides beginners through the entire sewing process, from preparing the fabric to mastering challenging techniques.Details such as deciphering the back of a pattern en
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The Sewing Book: An Encyclopedic Resource of Step-by-Step Techniques

Alison Smith - DK Publishing
Format: Book

This is the only sewing book you'll ever need. Every tool and every technique you require for making your own home furnishings or clothing is closely and sharply photographed, carefully annotated, and clearly explained. The Tools section begins with the basic toolkit, opening up into...
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Sewing Edges and Corners: Decorative Techniques for Your Home and Wardrobe

Linda Lee
Format: Print book

This handy reference offers more than 40 major corner and edge techniques for garments and home decorating projects. The easy, step-by-step instructions are appropriate for all experience levels and cover everything from tablecloths and napkins to pillows, shams, vest, and ties.
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Simplicity's simply the best sewing book

Martha Vaughan
Format: Print book

Whether you are new to sewing, an expert or just getting back to it this book guiodes you through the latest in sewing at home. Answers everything you could want to ask.
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New Complete Guide to Sewing (Readers Digest)

Editors of Reader's Digest - Readers Digest
Format: Hardcover

This volume provides the guidance you need to sew successfully, whatever your level of skill. Comprehensive step-by-step instructions cover everything from cutting out patterns to making sleeves and fitting zips, and are accompanied by thousands of colourful illustrations, diagrams, and photographs....
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The Essentials of Sewing: Potter Needlework Library

Sue Thompson
Format: Book

From the Potter Needlework Library. Marries needlecraft fundamentals with a truly sophisticated sense of style. This book illustrates basic techniques with beautiful, innovative projects designed by the most creative artisans working today, so crafters can experience the thrill of
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