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Create Your Own Improv Quilts: Modern Quilting with No Rules & No Rulers

Rayna Gillman · C&T Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

A natural follow-up to the best-selling Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts, this book applies Rayna's no rules, no mistakes, no worries style to modern quilting. Starting with strips and geometric shapes, you'll cut and sew without patterns, required yardage, or complicated diagrams. This...
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Sewing Happiness: A Year of Simple Projects for Living Well

Sanae Ishida · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Twenty simple sewing projects are tied together with a thread of memoir that tells the story of how sewing brought Sanae Ishida profound happiness. Each seasonal project, specially designed to promote health, creativity, relationships and more, provides gentle inspiration to live your best...
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The Indestructible Houseplant: 200 Beautiful, Easy-Care Plants that Everyone Can Grow

Tovah Martin · Timber Press (OR)
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Tovah Martin, the undisputed Queen of Green, shows that anyone can grow healthy houseplants. It all boils down to a simple set of skills and - here's the crucial part - picking the right plants. These tough but beautiful plants can thrive in less-than-ideal conditions, and they're...
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Make & Love Quilts: Scrap Quilts for the 21st Century

Mary Katherine Fons · C&T Publishing / Stash Books
Format: Paperback

To warm the heart, soul, and bedroom, this how-to book, Make Love Quilts with Mary Fons, features a stunning collection of 12 quilts specifically sized to fit beds queen and king. Constructed from Marys favorite fabrics for a modern aesthetic, the quilts are classified as scrap quilts...
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Colorful Crochet Lace: 22 Chic Garments & Accessories

Mary Jane Hall · Interweave Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

A colorful take on crochet lace!Crochet lace is more popular than ever, and Colorful Crochet Lace brings it to life in living color. Designer Mary Jane Hall has created a stunning collection of 22 chic and wearable lace garments and accessories. You'll find a wardrobe's worth of colorful...
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Sweet & Simple Needle Felted Animals: A Step-By-Step Visual Guide

SACHIKO SUSA · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Sweet & Simple Needle Felted Animals provides detailed instructions to create your own cute and cuddly collection of needle felted pets, barnyard buddies and mascots.

These adorable furry figurines make wonderful gifts and accessories that you can carry around or wear....
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Natural Beauty with Coconut Oil: 50 Homemade Beauty Recipes Using Nature's Perfect Ingredient

Lucy Bee · Quadrille
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Coconut oil, as we know, is nature's perfect ingredient. It has earned that accolade not only for its versatility in cooking, but also its application as an effective and economic beauty treatment for skin, hair, and oral health.

Tapping into the current trend for making your own beauty...
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501 Quilting Motifs: Designs for Hand or Machine Quilting from the Editors of Quiltmaker Magazine

That Patchwork Place · That Patchwork Place
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

This collection features 501 quilting motifs selected from more than 26 years of Quiltmaker magazine. What a value! Now quilters of all levels can finish gorgeous, one-of-a-kind quilts. Handy indexes cross-reference each motif by size and style, so finding the perfect one is quick and easy.Get...
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Dare to Sketch: A Guide to Drawing on the Go

FELIX SCHEINBERGER · Watson-Guptill
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

An inspirational, instructional, and visually stimulating guide to sketching and drawing. Dare to Sketch is filled with practical tips about which materials to use, a variety of subject matter ranging from easy to more challenging, and wisdom about overcoming creative blocks and fear...
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Add One Stitch Knitting: All the Stitches You Need in 15 Projects

Alina Schneider · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

With 15 knitting stitches clearly explained and demonstratedAuthor and renowned blogger Alina Schneider demystifies the knitting process and helps you learn 15 essential knitting stitches with this easy, step-by-step guide. Starting with the simple knit and purl stitches, each lesson will...
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Potter Craft Books-Once Upon A Knit

Genevieve Miller · Random House Inc
Format: Paperback

RANDOM HOUSE-Potter Craft Books Once Upon A Knit Iconic fairy- tale characters from storybooks movies and television inspire this collection of magical knitting patterns perfect for modern knights villains and princesses This book contains twenty-eight grimm and glamorous fairy-tale projects...
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Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Specialized Issues

George S. Cuhaj · Krause Publications
Pages: 1296
Format: Paperback

The world leader in specialized paper money!With the invaluable input from more than 50 international contributors, the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Specialized Issues, is the largest and most comprehensive catalog featuring world bank notes of a specialized nature--notes issued...
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Seaside Quilts: Quilting & Sewing Projects for Beach-Inspired Décor

Carol C Porter · Design Originals
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Seaside Quilts shows you how to transform your dwelling into a relaxing shore retreat, with sea-inspired linens and home décor. Discover charming ways to enhance your bedroom, bathroom, kitchen or family space with coordinating seaside hues and matching coastal themes. This book presents...
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Start a Community Food Garden: The Essential Handbook

LaManda Joy · Timber Press
Pages: 203
Format: Paperback

Recommended by the American Community Gardening Association

Community gardening enhances the fabric of towns and cities through social interactions and accessibility to fresh food, creating an enormously positive effect in the lives of everyone it touches. LaManda Joy, the founder...

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