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The Savvy Seamstress: An Illustrated Guide to Customizing Your Favorite Patterns

Nicole Claire Mallalieu · C&T Publishing / Stash Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Transform your favorite garment patterns, one small detail at a time. Add or remove pockets, adjust the neckline, or swap a zippered back to a button front! With step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and how-to photos, you'll learn professional design alterations for your favorite...
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Sew a Modern Home: Quilts and More for Every Room

Melissa Lunden · That Patchwork Place
Format: Book

Melissa Lunden presents 19 practical quilting and sewing projects for living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, and nurseries. This beginner-friendly book teaches a range of techniques.
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Reinventing the Chicken Coop: 14 Original Designs with Step-by-Step Building Instructions

Kevin McElroy · Storey
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Backyard chickens meet contemporary design! Matthew Wolpe and Kevin McElroy give you 14 complete building plans for chicken coops that range from the purely functional to the outrageously fabulous. One has a water-capturing roof; one is a great homage to mid-Modern architecture; and another...
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Classic Stitching: 25 Beautiful Projects

Anna Elizabeth Draeger · Kalmbach Books
Format: Print book

Beaders will relish having the best designs from one of the arts most popular figures Anna Elizabeth Draeger all in one handy, timeless volume. Anna offers 25 designs for many classic bead stiches, including herringbone, ladder, peyote, right-angle weave, crossweave, and more. These fashionable...
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The Bridesmaid's Manual: Make it To and Through the Wedding with Your Sanity

Sarah Stein · Berkley
Format: Paperback

Will you be my bridesmaid? It's flattering, isn't it? A romantic celebration, and you'll be playing a supporting role. But what if being a bridesmaid means committing to a year of party planning and splurging on an unflattering dress you'll wear at the wedding--and never...
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Go Big Knits: 20 Projects Sizes 38-54

The Editors of Marie Claire Idees · Trafalgar Square Pub
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

It can be hard to find a pattern for a cardigan or sweater that makes it easy to knit larger sizes - but now the search is over! This collection from Éditions Marie Claire includes 20 designs in Sizes 38-54 (M-XXL) , from comfortable everyday wear to refined, classic looks that are perfect...
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20 Easy Knitted Blankets and Throws: From the Staff at Martingale

Martingale · Martingale
Format: Paperback

Immerse yourself in comfort and beauty with this varied assortment of fun-to-knit throws.Get a value-packed collection of 20 appealing knitted throw patternsHave your choice of styles ranging from cute baby afghans to elegant lace designs--perfect gifts for teens, tweens, women, and menStitch...
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The Big Book of Maker Skills

Chris Hackett · Weldon Owen
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Makers, get ready. This is your ultimate, must-have, tip-packed guide for taking your DIY projects to the next level - from basic wood- and metalworking skills to plugged-in fun with power tools, from cutting-edge electronics play to 3-D printing wizardry. Join Chris Hackett, Popular Science...
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Outdoor Wood Projects: 24 Projects You Can Build in a Weekend

Steve Cory · Taunton Press
Pages: 201
Format: Paperback

Create something to show for your weekend! If you're looking for projects that you can start and finish in just a weekend's time, look no further than Outdoor Wood Projects. This collection of 24 projects for the backyard and garden can be completed with basic DIY tooling, inexpensive materials,...
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Perfectly Mindful Origami - Origami Paper Boxes

Mark Bolitho · Jacqui Small
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

This covetable collection of perfectly mindful origami includes more than 25 inventive paper origami box projects, ranging from simple lidded classic forms to complex pentagonal, hexagonal and octagonal boxes with integral twisted lids. Perfect for holding accessories or for putting on display,...
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Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival

Laurence Gonzales · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet. As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed...
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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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Beautiful Paper Cutting: 30 Creative Projects for Cards, Gifts, Decor, and Jewelry

Lark Crafts · Lark Books (NC)
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Easy, beautiful, and inspiring, these projects come from more than a dozen of Etsy's finest paper designers. Cynthia Shaffer, Ellen Deaking, Rachel & Morgan, and other top artists have created fun-to-make cut-paper items that range from a pretty frame decorated with paper flowers...
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75 Birds, Butterflies & Little Beasts to Knit & Crochet

Lesley Stanfield · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Book

Expand your knit and crochet repertoire with this menagerie of miniature bugs and beasts: from creepy crawlies and weird wrigglers to beautiful butterflies and splendid metallic-thread dragonflies. Use them to decorate clothes and accessories, give them as gifts---or use to decorate your...
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The Hero's Closet: Sewing for Cosplay and Costuming

Gillian Conahan · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 207
Format: Paperback

Cosplayers rejoice! The Hero's Closet is the ultimate DIY guide to creating unique and fantastical homemade costumes This essential handbook offers detailed, step-by-step instructions that cover the basics of sewing costumes (which often require skills not found in standard sewing guides)...
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