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The Art of Seamless Knitting

Simona Merchant-Dest · Interweave

Go beyond the basics! Learn how to convert flat patterns to circular techniques with 12 classic, beautiful projects suitable for all ages. With The Art of Seamless Knitting, take your knowledge of top-down, bottom-up, and seamless knitting to a higher level by adapting lace, cable, and color...
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Finishing Basements: Projects and Practical Solutions for Converting Basements into Livable Space

Editors of Cool Springs Press · Cool Springs Press; Second edition

A fact-filled, 240-page manual that covers every aspect of designing and planning a basement conversionremodeling project. With more than 600 color photographs, this book goes into thorough detail on crucial subjects like moisture and climate control, egress, ventilation, lighting, and many...
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Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

Eric Toensmeier · Chelsea Green Publishing

When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just...
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The Sewing Machine Embroiderer's Bible: Get the Most from Your Machine with Embroidery Designs and Inbuilt Decorative Stitches

Liz Keegan · St. Martin's Griffin

Here is all the help needed to get the most out of your sewing machine’s embroidery functions, including details about the types and formats of available designs, how to get these designs off the internet and onto your machine, how to stabilize your fabric, which threads and needles...
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The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing

Susannah Charleson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued, and can rescue in return.With her critically acclaimed, bestselling first book, Scent of the Missing, Susannah Charleson was widely praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through her work...
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Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000

Roderick Kiracofe · Stewart, Tabori and Chang; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 1950–2000 is a stunning collection of approximately 150 eccentric and extraordinary quilts made predominantly by anonymous quilters in the US during the second half of the 20th century. Collected by renowned quilt authority...
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Adventures in Fabric-La Todera Style: Sew 20 Projects for You & Your Home

Julie M. Creus · C&T Publishing / Stash Books

This festive collection from designer Julie Creus brings together bright fabrics, ingenious construction methods, and a large dash of whimsy to make 3-D effects like you’ve never seen before in fabric. Create usable art with ingenious new techniques for fabric folding, fusing, weaving,...
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The Conquest of the Ocean

Brian Lavery · DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover

A captivating tale spanning 5,000 years of the oceans' history, The Conquest of the Ocean tells the stories of the remarkable individuals who sailed seas, for trade, to conquer new lands, to explore the unknown. From the early Polynesians to the first circumnavigations by the Portuguese...
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How to Eradicate Invasive Plants

Teri Dunn Chace · Timber Press

Unfortunately, invasive plants―like kudzu, ragweed, and Himalayan blackberry―won’t go away on their own. Luckily, How to Eradicate Invasive Plants offers a clear, practical solution to an increasingly common problem.Invasive plants are a growing threat to our home landscapes,...
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Fairy Gardening 101: How to Design, Plant, Grow, and Create Over 25 Miniature Gardens

Fiona McDonald · Skyhorse Publishing

Release your inner child and step into the fairy world by creating your own enchanted garden no matter how much space you have Fairy gardens are increasing in popularity and Fairy Gardening provides you with all the information necessary to design plant and care for your very own miniature...
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