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How to Make a Quilt: Learn Basic Sewing Techniques for Creating Patchwork Quilts and Projects. A Storey BASICS® Title

Barbara Weiland Talbert · Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Print book

With basic sewing skills and these simple step-by-step instructions, you can easily learn to make your first quilt! Barbara Weiland Talbert outlines the complete process in an easy-to-follow sequence, from selecting a design and choosing fabric to cutting pieces, assembling blocks, assembling...
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Bobbi Brown Beauty from the Inside Out: Makeup * Wellness * Confidence

Bobbi Brown · Chronicle Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Bestselling author and world-famous makeup artist Bobbi Brown reveals her secrets to radiant beauty in this gorgeous lifestyle guide. Featuring the best beauty food recipes, fitness tailoring, recommendations on nutrients, and restorative yoga and mindfulness, Bobbi lays the foundation...
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The Plant Lover's Guide to Dahlias

Andy Vernon · Timber Press, 2014.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Dahlias are the showgirls of the garden. Their colorful blooms, from purple, pink, and white to yellow, orange, and red, come in a huge variety of sizes and shapes. The Plant Lover's Guide to Dahlias is packed with everything you need to know to grow these fantastic flowers. The book...
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Spa & Bath Sets to Knit

Rhonda White · Leisure Arts; Lslf edition
Format: Print book

For a thoughtful gift of relaxation, knit a spa set for a friend or for yourself. Each of the 5 sets in Spa Bath Sets to Knit has an adult-size bath mitt, drawstring soap sack, and facecloth. All are knit in soft cotton worsted weight yarn using knitting needles sizes 5 and 7. There also...
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The Sewing Bible for Clothes Alterations: A Step-by-step practical guide on how to alter clothes

Judith Turner · New Holland
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

The Sewing Bible is a step-by-step practical guide to help people learn some basic sewing skills to help them alter their own clothes. Starting with the most common and easiest alteration, shortening trousers, and working towards the most technically challenged, shortening the sleeves on a lined...
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Decoding Your Dog: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Dog Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones

American College of Veterinary Behaviorists · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

More than ninety percent of dog owners consider their pets to be members of their family. But often, despite our best intentions, we are letting our dogs down by not giving them the guidance and direction they need. Unwanted behavior is the number-one reason dogs are relinquished to shelters...
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Why Knot?: How to Tie More than Sixty Ingenious, Useful, Beautiful, Lifesaving, and Secure Knots!

Philippe Petit · Harry N. Abrams; Nov edition
Format: Hardcover

On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Center's twin towers, where he performed for nearly an hour. During this history-making walk, and many others throughout his celebrated career, knots have always been indispensable...
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Vintage Crafts: 75 Do-It-Yourself Decorating Projects Using Candles, Colors, and Other Flea Market Finds

Clara Lidstr?m · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Vintage flair isnt just classy and cute its fun to create and perfect for any budget So let your creativity run wild on trips to the flea market and dont back down from that deal at the yard sale With Vintage Crafts use paper scraps teacups and a splash of paint to decorate your house room...
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Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park

Matthew Gilbert · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

OFF THE LEASH is a group portrait of dog people, specifically the strange, wonderful, neurotic, and eccentric dog people who gather at Amory Park, overlooking Boston near Fenway Park. And its about author Matthew Gilberts transformation, after much fear and loathing of dogs and social groups,...
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Flip Dolls & Other Toys That Zip, Stack, Hide, Grab & Go

Laura Wilson · Lark Crafts
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Why make an ordinary stuffed toy when you can sew irresistible creations that flip, zip, snap, stack, and move? Filled with wit, humor, and inventiveness, these delightful interactive playthings sometimes literally turn your expectations inside out. Page after page of clever projects include...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Selling Your Crafts on Etsy

Marcia Layton Turner · ALPHA

Etsy is a wildly popular website where crafters and craftsmen alike have discovered a portal where they can market and sell their handmade wares - literally around the globe. Any successful Etsy seller will tell you the difference between a successful Etsy storefront and the storefront...
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Easy scarves

Better Homes and Gardens Books · Meredith Corp. ;
Pages: 47

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100 Weekend Projects Anyone Can Do: Easy, practical projects using basic tools and standard materials

Editors at The Family Handyman · The Family Handyman
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

100 do-it-yourself simple projects, requiring only basic tools, precut lumber and standard materials.Build fashionable, functional, inexpensive indoor and backyard furniture - even if you're a complete beginner. These are realistic projects for the average weekend warrior that require no great...
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The Devil's Mercedes: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler's Limousine in America

Robert Klara · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In 1938, Mercedes-Benz began production of the largest, most luxurious limousine in the world. A machine of frightening power and sinister beauty, the Grosser 770K Model 150 Offener Tourenwagen was 20 feet long, seven feet wide, and tipped the scales at 5 tons. Its supercharged, 230-horsepower...
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A Beautiful Mess Happy Handmade Home: Painting, Crafting, and Decorating a Cheerful, More Inspiring Space

Elsie Larson · Potter Style
Format: Book

Step inside the world of Elsie and Emma, the sisters behind the décor blog A Beautiful Mess. With tiny budgets and a crafty, can-do attitude, they overhauled each room in their first homes with DIY projects using family photos, vibrant fabrics, flea-market finds, and affordable furniture....
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