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Wise Craft Quilts: A Guide to Turning Beloved Fabrics into Meaningful Patchwork

Blair Stocker · Roost Books
Pages: 173
Format: Hardcover

Infuse your quilts with love--how to add your personal story and more meaning to your handmade quilts.In Wise Craft Quilts, celebrated quilt designer and crafter Blair Stocker shares ways to use cherished fabrics to make quilts with more meaning. Each of the twenty-one quilts featured here...
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Couture Sewing: The Couture Skirt: more sewing secrets from a Chanel collector

Claire B. Shaeffer · Taunton Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Sew a signature skirt for yourself. An expert on Chanel's clothing, Claire B. Shaeffer shares her unique insider-expertise of the couture industry. In her latest book, Couture Sewing: The Couture Skirt, she takes home sewers through each detailed step required to cut, fit, stitch,...
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The Great Zentangle Book: Learn to Tangle with 101 Favorite Patterns

Beate Winkler · Quarry Books
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Create, relax, and inspire one stroke at a time with The Great Zentangle Book!Zentangle(r) is a meditative art in which lines and shapes are created and combined to make one intricate piece of artwork. Complied by certified Zentangle trainer, Beate Winkler, these 100 step-by-step Zentangle...
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Little Ribbon Patchwork & Applique: Colorful Designs with Kaffe Fassett Ribbons and Fabrics

Heart Space Studios · Taunton Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

You will fall in love with the petite projects in this gorgeous book focused on using ribbons and small amounts of fabric. Little Ribbon Patchwork and Applique is an ingenious book for the budget-conscious crafter who has a keen eye for style. All 18 projects are small enough for a beginner...
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The Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana: Everything You Need to Start Growing Weed at Home

Lloyd Johnson · Adams Media
Format: Book

Advice for growing cannabis at home! Cannabis can be a tricky plant to cultivate, but The Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana makes it easy by guiding you through each stage of development to ensure that you always build a thriving garden. Inside, you'll find everything you need...
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Easy-to-Sew Home: Pillows, Curtains, Quilts, and More

Editors of Threads · Taunton Press; Sew Pmplt edition
Format: Book

Whether you want to spruce up your windows with some new curtains or turn your old cotton shirts into a beautiful bedspread, these eight projects will help you incorporate a little piece of yourself into every room of the house to truly make it your own. ·     ...
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Mind Your Manors: Tried-and-True British Household Cleaning Tips

Lucy Lethbridge · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The author of Servants tells us what made British households, of all sizes, shine.British estates were known to be the epitome of cleanliness with their white-glove perfection. Through her meticulous research on servants, Lucy Lethbridge gleaned much knowledge about how these homes were...
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The Big Book of Wooden Locks: Complete Plans for Nine Working Wooden Locks

Tim Detweiller · Linden Publishing
Format: Book

These unique projects for making working locks entirely from wood will present an an exciting challenge to woodworkers. "The Big Book of Wooden Locks" presents all of the most popular wooden lock projects of Tim Detweiler, the "Lock Man," from his first two book. Detweiller's...
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Turned Toys: 12 Fun Projects to Create for Children

Mark Baker · The Taunton Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

If you have woodturning experience, now you can create something truly special for family and friends. These beautiful hand-crafted toys are as enjoyable to make as they are to play with. Clear step-by-step instructions, detailed photographs, and easy-to-follow diagrams start with simple...
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Turning Toys with Richard Raffan

Richard Raffan · Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Most woodturners have children in their lives who would appreciate a hand-turned toy (or several) . The projects in Turning Toys can serve as a base for almost limitless variation, so you can put your own stamp on each object you create. Repetition is the key to mastering any craft, so these...
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Heirloom Wood: A Modern Guide to Carving Spoons, Bowls, Boards, and other Homewares

Max Bainbridge · Abrams
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Heirloom Wood is a love letter to wood's form and function through simple woodworking projects. Combining traditional techniques with contemporary design, Max Bainbridge teaches you how to identify wood types, source timber, and set up a basic toolbox, then offers step-by-step carving and cutting...
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Easy to Make! Curtains & Blinds: Expert Advice, Techniques and Tips for Window Treatments

Wendy Baker · Collins & Brown
Format: Hardcover

You don't have to be a professional to make beautiful curtains! Packed with sewing and design information, Easy to Make! Curtains & Blinds shows how to measure windows, do all the basic stitches and seams, and choose a fabric that will create the right look for your room. With details...
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The Big Book of Hacks

Doug Cantor · Weldon Owen
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In this reboot of the popular 2012 title, readers will find a collection of the most up-to-date and thrilling DIY tech projects around - straight from the experts at Popular Science magazine. Updated with new and more modern projects, the Big Book of Hacks the perfect book for aspiring...
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Fat Quarters: Small Fabrics, More Than 50 Big Ideas

Lark Crafts · Lark
Pages: 174
Format: Print book

What's a fat quarter? A lovely 18 x 22 inch bit of fabric that's often just languishing in a stitcher's stash. But with this creative collection, those bits of material can be transformed into a variety of wonderful things. Take one fat quarter and you can make a bowl cover or fabric flower....
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