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Modern Triangle Quilts: 70 Graphic Triangle Blocks • 11 Bold Samplers

Rebecca Bryan · C&T Publishing
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Ready to take the triangle challenge? Choose from 70 pieced modern triangle blocks and 11 quilts! Sew beautiful 3-sided blocks from pieced stripes, chevrons, curves, and more. Play with unexpected design elements, choose a winning color palette, and achieve balance and symmetry. Grab your...
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Country Living Rustic Homes: Barns, Cabins, Cottages & Farmhouses

Country Living · Hearst
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Reclaim, repurpose, refurbish, or restore your way to the country-style home of your dreams! Rustic touches borrowed from barns, cabins, cottages, and farmhouses make even modern homes feel warm and snug. Country Living offers an abundance of inspiring ideas and gorgeous photographs to help...
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The Children's Collection: Knitting

A. Starmore · Interweave
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Featuring 10 heirloom knitwear patterns for children, this collection celebrates the artistry and craftsmanship of two of the knitting community's most prominent designers. The intricately designed patterns, suitable for children from their toddler years to their preteens, include cardigans...
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Metal Jewelry Workshop: Essential Tools, Easy-to-Learn Techniques, and 12 Projects for the Beginning Jewelry Artist

Helen I. Driggs · Fox Chapel Publishing
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Learn how to create exciting metal jewelry using just 12 simple, inexpensive hand tools - no jewelry torch required! 12 beautiful projects with step-by-step photos show exactly what to do and how the result should look 8 practice exercises help build beginner's skills and techniques...
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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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Fighter!: Ten Killer Planes of World War II

Jim Laurier · Voyageur Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Plunge into the action, and marvel at ten of the best and best-known World War II fighter aircraft!There's no shortage of fantastic archival aviation photography from World War II. But photos from the period fall short in three major categories: the vast majority are black and white,...
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STEAM Play & Learn: 20 fun step-by-step preschool projects about science, technology, engineering, arts, and math!

Walter Foster Jr. Creative Team. · Walter Foster Jr
Pages: 80
Format: Flexibound

Preschoolers will love tackling these 20 fun, easy-to-follow step-by-step projects as they learn about STEAM topics (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) . Topics include symmetry and how light bounces to create reflections with mirror mandalas, diffusion and capillary action...
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Play With Art

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK Children
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

More than 50 projects to draw, paint, print, stencil, model, and more.The perfect starting point for teaching your little one about all types of art, delve into more than 50 fun art projects for kids. From handprinting and sponge painting to mapmaking and origami animals, this is the perfect...
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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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Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements

Joe Sonderman · Voyageur Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Seeing this panoply of signs splashed across the pages in Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements is almost as good as taking a road trip!You can get your kicks--and pretty much anything else--on Route 66, provided you see the sign that s advertising it! Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements...
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Cultivating Chaos: How to Enrich Landscapes with Self-Seeding Plants

Jonas Reif · Timber Press (OR)
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Self-seeding plants can create naturalistic gardens of great charm, but left to their own devices quickly spiral out of control. Maintaining the balance of plants so that a small number of robust species do not evict the others and developing the structure of the garden are important techniques...
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Vinegar: The Miracle Food

Celine Tregan · Cardinal
Format: Book

Vinegar: The Miracle Food is the perfect guide to using vinegar as a home remedy, cleaner, recipe ingredient, weight loss aid, and even as a beauty product! For those who care about their health and want to use natural remedies to maintain it, mix up healing solutions with vinegar...
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Plumbing

Steve Cory · The Taunton Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

Stanley's Plumbing: A Homeowner's Guide is a comprehensive, visual handbook packed with step-by-step photographs and authoritative, reliable information. Eventually, every homeowner needs to repair, replace, or upgrade a plumbing fixture. Save heaps of money by learning how to do it yourself....
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Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control

Jessica Walliser · Timber Press
Pages: 240
Format: Book

It may seem counterintuitive to want bugs in a garden, but insects are indeed valuable garden companions. Especially those species known for eating the bugs that eat plants. Assassin bugs, damsel bugs, and predatory stink bugs are all carnivores that devour the bugs that dine on a garden.Attracting...
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2019 Official Red Book of United States Coins - Hardcover

RS Yeoman · Whitman Pub Llc
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The Official Red BookA Guide Book of United States Coins is 72 years young and going strong. Collectors around the country love the book's grade-by-grade values, auction records, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data....
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