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First Frost: Cozy Folk Knitting

Lucinda Guy · Interweave
Format: Book

Discover traditional northern European knitting techniques to create modern garments.Lucinda Guy follows up her recent successes with another exploration of northern European knitting, this time expanding to include Nordic, Baltic, and Scandinavian heritage knitting traditions. This latest...
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How to Fix Absolutely Anything: A Homeowner’s Guide

Nicole Smith · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

The one book that shows you how to fix anything anywhere in your home!There are a million things that can go wrong in your home. Faucets leak. Floorboards creak. Paint flakes. Chairs break. With How to Fix Absolutely Anything, you'll have step-by-step instructions to tackle even the most...
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Modern Collectible Dolls: Identification & Value Guide

Patsy Moyer · Collector Books
Format: Hardcover

Nearly 600 dolls--complete with histories, sizes, dates, facts, and current values--are featured in this all-new first edition in a series of annual books by doll expert Patsy Moyer.
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Adorn: 25 Stylish DIY Fashion Projects

Kit Lee · Hardie Grant Books
Pages: 159
Format: Print book

Indulge in the pleasure of creating catwalk looks for yourself and learn how to create on-trend, stylish outfits and accessories with these inspiring fashion DIY projects. Bored of the blandness of affordable fashion available in shops, fashionistas Kit and Shini joined forces to create...
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Eat Beautiful: Food and Recipes to Nourish Your Skin from the Inside Out

Wendy Rowe · Clarkson Potter Publishers
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Wendy Rowe knows skin. After more than 20 years of experience as a makeup artist and beauty consultant, Wendy's approach is uncomplicated and holistic: care for it from the inside out. In Eat Beautiful, she has created easy and delicious recipes specifically designed to give your skin...
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Routers and Router Tables

Editors of Fine Woodworking · Taunton
Pages: 171
Format: Paperback

The router is the most versatile and resourceful power tool in the woodworking shop, capable of shaping profiles, making duplicate copies, flush-trimming, and cutting nearly every joint used to build cabinets and furniture. Add a router table to the mix, and you can do all these tasks with...
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The Knitted Alphabet: How to Knit Letters from A to Z

Kate Haxell · Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Give a personal decorative touch to knitted projects by adding an inspiring message, a special date, a beloved name or initials. This book shows readers how to hand knit every letter of the alphabet, plus numbers and punctuation marks, in 26 different fonts--from simple classic lettering...
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The Art of Dressing Curves: The Best-Kept Secrets of a Fashion Stylist

Susan Moses · Harper Design
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Susan Moses, the go-to celebrity stylist for curvy women both on and off the red carpet presents the first inspirational, confidence-building, prescriptive style guide for plus-size women who want to dress fashionably and look their beautiful best.Nearly two-thirds of American women are plus-size...
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Sweet Paul Eat and Make: Charming Recipes and Kitchen Crafts You Will Love

Paul Lowe · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 283
Format: Print book

It began as a little blog highlighting the recipes and crafts of the Norwegian-born food and prop stylist Paul Lowe. Six years later, Sweet Paul is an online magazine followed by millions and a print quarterly sold nationwide in specialty stores. Praised by the New York Times as "...
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Home & Away: Knits for Everyday Adventures

Hannah Fettig · H. Fettig
Pages: 95
Format: Print book

Modeled in the beautiful backdrop of Georgetown, Maine, are the results of nine essential wardrobe patterns. Each sweater pattern includes two sets of instructions that allow the advanced knitter to choose to knit with seams or without. Included within this book are pattern guides and information...
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The Knitting All Around Stitch Dictionary: 150 new stitch patterns to knit top down, bottom up, back and forth & in the round

Wendy Bernard · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Wendy Bernard's groundbreaking reference title Up, Down, All-Around Stitch Dictionary was the first of its kind to provide stitch patterns written for top-down, bottom-up, back-and-forth, and in-the-round constructions - and readers took notice. Now Bernard is back with The Knitting...
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Crewel Intentions: Fresh Ideas for Jacobean Embroidery

Hazel Blomkamp · Search Press
Format: Book

Keeping to a theme started in Crewel Twists, this book continues the concept of using non-traditional techniques and materials in crewel or Jacobean embroidery. It showcases four large projects, each with an accompanying small project similar in technique, and shows needle workers how to be creative...
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Duct Tape Discovery Workshop: Easy and Stylish Duct Tape Designs

Tonia Jenny · North Light
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Duct tape has never looked so good!With the help of Duct Tape Discovery Workshop, you'll learn the techniques to make working with duct tape easy and stylish.Hosting a get together at your place? Make a set of duct tape coasters and stemware tags to match your party's theme! Need...
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Quilters: Survival guide for fixing & finishing any quilting project

Joan Ford · Taunton Press
Format: Print book

ScrapTherapy is an innovative step-by-step quilt class and pattern series that has become extremely popular nationwide. The success of Joan's first two books has quilters, fabric and quilt-shop owners, and sewing enthusiasts clamoring for more. From talking novices through the quilting...
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Idiot's Guides: Crochet

June Gilbank · Alpha
Format: Print book

Tailored for the complete crocheting novice, Idiot's Guides: Crochet is a fun, charming guide to learning the basic stitches and techniques. Photographed in a film-strip style, the dozens of full-color photographs and instructions allow the reader to clearly see how each stitch is executed....
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