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Designed in White

Lisa Libelle · White Star Publishers
Format: Hardcover

White is classic, clean, and always in style—and Lisa Libelle has perfected the art of decorating in white. Her romantic, shabby-chic designs use all the shades and nuances of this enchanting color, from crisp cotton upholstery on a couch, to lacy doilies and drapings throughout the home,...
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Margeau Blanc: A New Perspective on Winter White Knits

Margeau Soboti · Dover Publications
Pages: 75
Format: Paperback

Elegant in their simplicity, these 13 gorgeous knitwear items for autumn and winter combine plain silhouettes with a chic and sophisticated appeal. Margeau Soboti, a former Vogue Knitting editor, presents clear instructions, diagrams, and color photos for seven sweaters and six accessories....
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Cast Iron Signs of Pennsylvania Towns and Other Landmarks

N Clair Clawser · Sunbury Press, Inc.
Pages: 146
Format: Paperback

Author and field researcher N. Clair Clawser has spent over 50 years traveling the highways and thoroughfares of Pennsylvania to capture images of the cast iron road signs placed there in the early days of automobiles. Many of these signs are long gone, but quite a few remain and have been...
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Garden-pedia: An A-to-Z Guide to Gardening Terms

Pamela Bennett · St. Lynn's Press
Pages: 201
Format: Paperback

Quick: do you know the difference between hardpan and hardening-off? Between a native and a nativar? A cold frame and a cloche? Do you wish someone would write a book that explains in simple English what all those gardening terms mean - just give you the stuff you need to know, so you can be a knowledgeable...
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Hand Lettering A to Z: A World of Creative Ideas for Drawing and Designing Alphabets

ABBEY SY · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Your hand lettering contains a little bit of you! It expresses what you have to say, and demonstrates your creativity in all your communications. In Hand Lettering A to Z, artist and author Abbey Sy has invited four international artists--Meg Hyland, Joao Neves, Tessa Go, and Lisa Lorek--to...
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Mini Christmas Crochet: 20 On-the-Go projects

Val Pierce · Search Press(UK)
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Novelty knitters and crocheters will love this collection of mini Christmas projects to crochet ready for the festive season. Val Pierce has designed twenty different projects, including a mini Christmas stocking, a cute reindeer, a snowman, a Christmas cracker, a snowflake, star, Christmas...
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One Jump Ring: Endless Possiblilities for Chain Mail Jewelry

Lauren Andersen · Kalmbach Publishing
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Twenty-five everyday chain mail projects using only one size ring: 3/16", 18 gauge. Book features tips throughout to help you master chain mail. Book instructions are easy to follow resulting in quality-looking finished pieces. Build confidence as you move from simple to more complex...
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The Art of Coloring Wood: A Woodworker's Guide to Understanding Dyes and Chemicals

Brian Miller · Linden Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

If you're a woodworker looking to take your skills-and your next project- to a higher level of craftsmanship, you might want to consider coloring your wood with chemicals and dyes instead of stains. Unlike stains that can trap light and obscure grain patterns, chemicals and dyes, when...
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Graphic Clay: Ceramic Surfaces & Printed Image Transfer Techniques

Jason Bige Burnett · Lark Crafts
Format: Hardcover

For studio artists, production potters, students, educators, and hobbyists who love working with clay, this project-driven guide is an unmatched teaching tool and a fount of information and inspiration. Focusing on various surface processes, and encompassing skills ranging from letterpress...
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Bob Lang's The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker, Revised Edition: Shop Drawings and Professional Methods for Designing and Constructing Every Kind of Kitchen and Built-In Cabinet

Robert W. Lang · Fox Chapel Publishing; Second Edition edition
Format: Book

Demonstrating how woodworkers can approach the complex job of designing and making built-in cabinets for kitchens, family rooms, and home offices, this technical handbook provides meticulously detailed shop drawings, instructions, and hundreds of professional tips for saving time, materials,...
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Beckett Non-Sports Price Guide #2

Beckett Media LP. · Beckett Media LLC
Pages: 376
Format: Print book

Captures one of the fastest growing categories in the collectibles market- non-sports cards and collectibles! This book will feature up to date pricing on such sets as Star Wars, Batman and other vintage card releases that have helped form this segment of the industry. A must have for the collector...
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Anyone Can Knit

Libby Summers · Arcturus Publishing Limited
Format: Book

Anyone Can Knit sets out to prove its claim with a treasury of know-how and ideas appealing to every skill level. This beautiful, full-color title is packed with step-by-step instructions in essential knitting skills as well as stylish projects. Includes nineteen projects, each one accompanied...
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Italy: 20 Designs from Rowan for Patchwork and Quilting

Kaffe Fassett · Taunton Press
Pages: 152
Format: Print book

In Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Italy, Kaffe and his team--Liza Prior-Lucy, Brandon Mably, Corienne Kramer, Sally Davis, Judy Baldwin, and Julie Stockler--have put together a great range of quilt designs in striking color combinations including both classic and contemporary blocks. From the zinging...
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Pennsylvania Main Line Railroad Stations

Jim Sundman · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

In 1857, the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) took over Pennsylvanias Main Line of Public Works, a state-owned railroad and canal system built in the 1830s. Costly to build and maintain, and never attracting the traffic needed to sustain it, the state was eager to let it go. Keeping the rail...
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Dimensional Tuck Knitting: An Innovative Technique for Creating Surface Design

Tracy Purtscher · Sixth&Spring Books
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

A whole new dimension of texture! Dimensional tuck knitting, developed by Tracy Purtscher, is an ingenious new technique that looks complicated yet is deceptively simple. All a knitter must do is knit a field of stockinette with a few precisely placed knit or purl stitches that act as markers,...
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