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One-Day Room Makeovers: How to Get the Designer Look for Less with Three Easy Steps

MARLA MERIDITH · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

By painting the walls, rearranging key pieces of furniture and adding new decorative accessories to complete the style, your boring living room will beautifully come to life at practically no cost. No need to bust down walls or buy a whole new living room set. Martin Amado is a home designer...
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String Art Magic: Secrets to Crafting Geometric Art with String and Nail

Rain Blanken-Turner · Spring House Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Geometric string art is created by winding colorful thread around nail heads to develop wonderfully detailed and complex fractal designs. However, without the proper numbered point patterns, it can be almost impossible to recreate. No longer thanks to String Art Magic. With 20 fun and simple...
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Flossie Teacakes' Guide to English Paper Piecing: Exploring the Fussy-Cut World of Precision Patchwork

Florence Knapp · Quilting Company
Pages: 127
Format: Paperback

In a sea of quilting project books, Flossie Teacakes' Guide to English Paper Piecing stands alone. Drawing together many disparate strands, this comprehensive guide offers up a deeper exploration of this precision patchwork craft, providing everything quilters need to know on a practical...
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Create and Maintain Your Own Smallholding: A Guide to Sustainable Self-Sufficiency

Liz Wright · Flame Tree Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Learn how to set up your own smallholding, grow your own fruit and vegetables, rear chickens, pigs, lambs and other livestock to help you create a sustainable, organic lifestyle. This excellent new guide brings the heart of the land to your table, with advice on where to buy, how to maintain...
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Paper Craft Home: 25 Beautiful Projects to Cut, Fold, and Shape

Sarah Louise Matthews · Roost Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Paper craft is given a stunning and contemporary look through these easy-to-make projects for home décor.Transform a simple sheet of paper into something extraordinary! Explore the versatility, beauty, and simplicity of paper. From a geometric paper-folded vase to paper petal lights...
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Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship

Steven Ujifusa · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades.There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into...
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Easy Stack Quilts

Paula Doyle · C&T Publishing
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback

Learn how to make simple, one-of-a-kind quilts using large-scale print fabrics! Easy Stack is a quick-cutting, fabric-efficient way of making great quilts that are rotary cut and machine pieced. Using only 4 fabric repeats and easy-to-cut strips, you can create 3 kinds of fun and unique...
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Easy Lace Knits: All You Need to Know to Start Knitting Lace & 20 Simply Beautiful Patterns

Anniken Allis · Stackpole Books
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

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Knitting with Beads Made Easy: Simple Techniques, Handy Shortcuts, and 60 Fabulous Projects

LIV ASPLUND · Trafalgar Square Books
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

It's never been easier to knit with beads! From pretty pearls to classic silver or gleaming glass, a few beads are the perfect way to add a little glitz and glamour to any knitted project -- and knit designers Liv Asplund and Jane Asprusten have finally made it as simple as it sounds....
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The Handmade Quilt: A Skill-Building Sampler

Carolyn Forster · Landauer Publishing LLC
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback

Discover the joy and serenity of slow stitching with hand piecing and hand quilting! "Scrap your stash" guide One quilt of 15 blocks provides both a complete learning experience for new quilters and a stunning project for experienced stitchers The finished heirloom-quality quilt...
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