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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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Jamie Durie's Edible Garden Design: Delicious Designs from the Ground Up

Jamie Durie · Harper Design, 2014.
Pages: 205
Format: Print book

America's favorite design expert, Jamie Durie, shares his ideas for sustainable, healthy living, showing how to create a beautifully designed, completely edible garden, whether you live in an apartment or a house.Jamie Durie believes outdoor spaces, including gardens, should be an extension...
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Embroidery: A Maker's Guide

Eleanor Crow · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

A practical guide to embroidery, inspired by craft traditions from across the globe, and the second volume in the Maker's Guides series from the Victoria and Albert MuseumEmbroidery: A Maker's Guide contains fifteen beautiful step- by- step projects for crafters at all levels. Each one takes...
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Everyday Confetti: Your Year-Round Guide to Celebrating Holidays and Special Occasions

Karen Ehman · Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group ,
Pages: 182
Format: Print book

A fun and practical resource for women who want creative ideas and recipes to celebrate everything from Christmas and Thanksgiving to birthdays and life's milestones.
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

Keith Houston · W W Norton
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated." -- Erik Spiekermann, typographerWe may love...
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Up, Down, All-Around Stitch Dictionary: More than 150 stitch patterns to knit top down, bottom up, back and forth, and in the round

Wendy Bernard · Stewart, Tabori and Chang; Spi edition
Format: Book

Stitch dictionaries are to knitters what Websters is to a writer. Within the pages of these inspiring reference books are the endless variations of knit and purl stitches that produce the fabrics of all knitting. But in the Up, Down, All-Around Stitch Dictionary, designer Wendy Bernard...
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Decoupage Your Home: A contemporary guide to transforming everyday objects

Snyman · Search Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

One of the most popular crafts to re-emerge recently, decoupage is ideal to decorate just about anything, from small household items to large pieces of furniture. Readers will discover its delights with this start-to-finish guide packed with technique know-how and stylish projects. Starting...
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Arne & Carlos' Field Guide to Knitted Birds: Over 40 Handmade Projects to Liven Up Your Roost

Carlos Zachrison · Trafalgar Square Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Let Arne & Carlos guide you on a journey into the colorful and imaginative bird kingdom! Inspired by nature both at home and abroad - from their garden in Tonsåsen come the characteristic bullfinch, chickadee, and wagtail, to name a few, but the fun doesn't stop there. Knit cold-weather...
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Netted Lace: Techniques and Patterns

Margaret Morgan · Sally Milner Publishing
Format: Print book

Once used primarily for fishing, netting now works beautifully as a base for filet lace. While many lacemakers use commercially available varieties, Margaret Morgan wanted unique sizes and colors. So she began to make her own. Here she explains the equipment she uses and the traditional...
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Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending Up with More

Erin Boyle · Abrams Image
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

For anyone looking to declutter, organize, and simplify, author Erin Boyle shares practical guidance and personal insights on small-space living and conscious consumption. At once pragmatic and philosophical, Simple Matters is a nod to the growing consensus that living simply and purposefully...
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Once Upon a Time . . . in Crochet: 30 Amigurumi Characters from Your Favorite Fairytales

Lynne Rowe · Search Press Limited, 2015.
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

This fun, quirky book contains 12 cute and whimsical fairy tale favorites, from Puss in Boots and the Ugly Duckling to Thumbelina and Rapunzel, using both amigurumi and standard crochet designs. The book also contains an easy-to-use step-by-step techniques section, showing the reader how to pin out their...
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Birdhouses & More: Easy-to-Build Houses & Feeders for Birds, Bats, Butterflies and Other Backyard Creatures

A.J. Hamler · Popular Woodworking Books
Format: Book

Make Your Yard a Home for Creatures Great and Small!Imagine filling your backyard with birds, bees, butterflies, chipmunks, deer, toads and more. That's all possible with the beautiful, yet practical, projects in this book.Birdhouses & More offers easy-to-follow plans for 25 projects--from...
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Quilting the New Classics: 20 Inspired Quilt Projects: Traditional to Modern Designs

Michele Muska · Sixth&Spring Books
Format: Paperback

All quilters draw inspiration from the past. But how do today's artisans put their personal stamp on classic patterns? Twenty influential quilters from across the stylistic spectrum - including Jacquie Gering, Darlene Zimmerman, Allison Aller, and Victoria Findlay Wolfe - present their...
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A Very Merry Paper Christmas: 25 Creative Ornaments & Decorations

Lark Crafts · Lark Crafts
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

It's the most wonderful time of the year - so celebrate in style with your own festive, homemade paper crafts. From wreaths and buntings to table settings, tree toppers, and ornaments, this collection of 25 projects offers a bounty of decorative items for a beautiful holiday. Created...
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The Hero's Closet: Sewing for Cosplay and Costuming

Gillian Conahan · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 207
Format: Paperback

Cosplayers rejoice! The Hero's Closet is the ultimate DIY guide to creating unique and fantastical homemade costumes This essential handbook offers detailed, step-by-step instructions that cover the basics of sewing costumes (which often require skills not found in standard sewing guides)...
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