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Start Stitching: Sweet and Simple Needle & Thread Projects

Editors of Future magazines · Fox Chapel Publishing
Format: Paperback

Grab a needle and thread and start stitching today! If you love fabric and love embellishing, then this book is for you. Learn how to get the handmade look the easy way, with simple and fun step-by-step projects, advice on fabric, threads and finishing, and inspiring color photographs....
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The Paper Hat Book: Super Hats for Super Kids

Alyn Carlson · Quarry Books
Format: Paperback

Hats are pure fun and the perfect item to cap off any costume or ensemble. The right headgear ensures complete transformation, especially on the head of an imaginative child.The Paper Hat Book offers creative families 20 fantastic paper hats, all of which can be created quickly and easily...
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Brick Cars and Trucks: 40 Clever & Creative Ideas to Make from Classic LEGO®

Warren Elsmore · Barron'S
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

LEGO builders, rejoice! The celebrated author of Brick City, Brick Wonders, Brick Flicks and Brick Vehicles is back with this new title that offers 40 original, ingenious, and unique buildable projects to make from LEGO pieces. In Brick Cars and Trucks, anyone with a drawer full of LEGO...
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ScrapTherapy® Scraps Plus One!: New Patterns to Quilt Through Your Stash with Ease

Joan Ford · Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

While it is well-loved, leftover scrap fabric can start to feel familiar to quilters, so Ford reinvigorates the desire to use their collection. Not only does she recap her sought-after, step-by-step instructions to cut and organize smaller pieces of fabric and share 20 fabulous new patterns...
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Plantiful: Start Small, Grow Big with 150 Plants That Spread, Self-Sow, and Overwinter

Kristin Green · Timber Press (OR)
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback

Whoever coined the phrase "money doesn't grow on trees" must not have been a resourceful gardener. While we may not be able to harvest physical money, with the right plants and techniques gardeners can rely on nature to give itself away for free. Plantiful shows you how to have...
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To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World’s Greatest Railroad

Christian Wolmar · PublicAffairs; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel—full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the improbable origins of the Trans-Siberian...
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Whittling Handbook

Peter Benson · GMC Publications
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The Whittling Handbook is the perfect introduction to the simple, yet immensely pleasurable, craft of creating attractive objects with nothing more than a knife and a piece of timber. Whittling is an art form that can be as simple or as complex as you like. This delightful book guides the reader...
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Polymer Clay 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily through Step-by-Step Instruction

Angela Mabray · Creative Publishing int'l; w/DVD edition
Format: Hardcover

Polymer Clay 101 teaches all the basics for crafting with polymer clay. With hundreds of detailed photos, it covers tools and supplies, all types of beading technique, and terrific projects that will get you started and inspire you to take your skills and make your own custom designs.
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Quilters: Survival guide for fixing & finishing any quilting project

Joan Ford · Taunton Press
Format: Print book

ScrapTherapy is an innovative step-by-step quilt class and pattern series that has become extremely popular nationwide. The success of Joan's first two books has quilters, fabric and quilt-shop owners, and sewing enthusiasts clamoring for more. From talking novices through the quilting...
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Mini Knitted Charms

Sachiyo Ishii · Search Pr Ltd
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Charms and dangles are popular fashion accessories, used to decorate purses, bags mobile phones, and so on. In this book, Sachiyo provides patterns for 20 different designs - all in her distinctive, cute and fun style. All the projects are really quick and easy to make - each one can be made...
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Tiny Homes: Tiny House Design Tips

Tiny House Living · Tiny House Living
Pages: 121
Format: Print book

Tiny Homes Tiny House Design Tips Includes FREE BOOK! SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMES 51 Ideas on How to Organize and Decorate Your Small Living Space Thinking about moving into a tiny home? Have you heard a lot about the tiny house movement and have been thinking that this is the right move...
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Rubber Band Engineer: Build Slingshot Powered Rockets, Rubber Band Rifles, Unconventional Catapults, and More Guerrilla Gadgets from Household Hardware

Lance Akiyama · Rockport Publishers
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Create projects and projectiles that will fly, float, launch, or roll on their own power with Rubber Band Engineer!So many of the world's most inventive minds, from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs, were lifelong tinkerers. Their joy in the process is evident in the originality of their work....
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