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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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Scarf Style

Pam Allen · Interweave
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

This collection of 31 elegant and ingenious scarf designs tap the expertise of more than 25 knitwear designers who offer new ways to think about this most basic of garments. Designs by Kathryn Alexander, Debbie Bliss, Nancy Bush, Lily Chin, Nicky Epstein, Sasha Kagan, Sally Melville, and Kristin...
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Betsy Beads: Confessions of a Left-brained Knitter

Betsy Hershberg · Xrx Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Betsy Beads uses commonly available materials to knit beaded items with uncommon polish. Betsy frames the issues to consider when choosing fibers, beads, knitting needles, and closure options. Betsy Beads introduces basic bead knitting techniques, then shows how to use them to make Betsy's...
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Double Knitting: Reversible Two-Color Designs

M'Lou Baber · Schoolhouse Press
Format: Paperback

The fascinating technique of Double Knitting produces a two-faced, negative-image fabric. This style of knitting has been simplified by the author to enable you to work both sides in a single pass. M'Lou's stunning designs for coats, jackets, and shawls are all easily accessible...
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Knitting Out of Africa

Marianne Isager · Interweave
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Beautiful and historic African carpets, baskets, and other textiles provide the design inspiration for these 16 sophisticated knitted cardigans, pullovers, and sweater vests. Intended for seasoned knitters, these projects use domino, double knitting, entrelac, intarsia, and stranded two-color...
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Knitting Nature: 39 Designs Inspired by Patterns in Nature

Norah Gaughan · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A fractal is a complex geometric figure made up of patterns that repeat themselves at smaller and smaller, or larger and larger, scales. In nature, they're found in fern leafs and corals. In this book, they're found in the pattern for a scarf, the cables of a pullover, and the intricate...
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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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Shear Spirit: Ten Fiber Farms, Twenty Patterns, and Miles of Yarn

Joan Tapper · Potter Craft
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

An artisan who captures Maine's summer air in her sun-and-sea-dyed yarns. A weaver and a poet whose Buddhist stupa sits near the barns of their Massachusetts farm. Two scientists turned sheep farmers whose flock grazes in the shadows of Montana's Bridger Mountains. A Navajo sheep...
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Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room

Vivika Hansen Denegre · The Quilting Company
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Create modern quilted home decor for every room in your house! Showcasing the best of Modern Patchwork Magazine, Modern Patchwork Home features patterns from today's top designers. From quilts and runners to pillows and whimsical accessories, customizable carryalls to a cool yoga mat,...
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Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff

Myquillyn Smith · Zondervan
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

More Style, Less StuffCozy Minimalism isn't about going without or achieving a particular new, modern style. Nope. It's simply a mindset that helps you get whatever style YOU LOVE with the fewest possible items.You want a warm, cozy, inviting home, without using more resources,...
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