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Fat Quarters: Small Fabrics, More Than 50 Big Ideas

Lark Crafts · Lark Crafts

What's a fat quarter? A lovely 18 x 22 inch bit of fabric that's often just languishing in a stitcher's stash. But with this creative collection, those bits of material can be transformed into a variety of wonderful things. Take one fat quarter and you can make a bowl cover...
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Sweetly Stitched Handmades: 18 Projects to Sew for You and Your Loved Ones

Amy Sinibaldi · Tuva Publishing

Sweetly Stitched Handmades includes 18 original designs that incorporate Amy Sinibaldi’s love for patchwork and embroidery, natural linen, and a carefully chosen color palette of patterns and prints. The projects range in difficulty so that a beginning sewer may easily complete...
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Colorful Crochet Afghans and Pillows: 19 Projects to Brighten Your Home

Kristel Salgarollo · Stackpole Books

Brighten up your home with bold, colorful patterns for 12 afghans and 7 pillows in a variety of styles.Many designs pay homage to classic quilt patterns such as Trip Around the World, Log Cabin, and Nine-Patch quilts, reinterpreting them with a unique crochet twistIncludes modern updates...
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Jeff Leatham: Visionary Floral Art and Design

Jeff Leatham · Rizzoli

A spectacular volume on the designs of Jeff Leatham, the floral artist to the stars. Jeff Leatham presents the next wave in designer floral arrangements. Leatham’s freewheeling sensibility is rooted in upscale sophistication, earning him patrons as diverse as Oprah, Kylie Minogue,...
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Best of Fons & Porter Quilting Quickly

Marianne Fons · Leisure Arts, Inc.

Quilting Quickly is the perfect project book for today's quilters who live such busy lives that they can't spend months or years on a quilt. The designs in this book, created for Fons & Porter by Jenny Doan and her Missouri Star Quilt Company, rely on pre-cut fabrics and helpful...
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Color Play: Expanded & Updated

Joen Wolfrom · C&T Publishing; 2nd Edition edition

Joen Wolfrom’s classic guide to creating with color has been completely updated to make it even easier to enhance your creative work with the beauty of well-chosen colors. Joen covers it all, from color combining basics to how to use nature’s tricks to create an illusion...
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Morocco: 20 designs from Rowan for patchwork and quilting

Kaffe Fassett · Taunton Press

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Knockout Knits: New Tricks for Scarves, Hats, Jewelry, and Other Accessories

Laura Nelkin · Potter Craft

An abundance of knitted luxuries--summery lace shawls, warm and wooly hats, a trio of cool knitted bracelets, and stunning beaded gloves--designed to grow your skills.Who doesn't love to knit accessories? They're fast, often require only a skein or two of yarn, and make amazingly...
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Star Wars Crochet

Lucy Collin · Thunder Bay Press; Box edition

An out-of-this-world crochet adventure, the Star Wars Crochet kit offers a fun and interactive experience by including a full-color paperback book with step-by-step instructions for crocheting Star Wars' most memorable characters, plus yarn, a crochet hook, a needle, stuffing, and safety...
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Knit Wear Love: Foolproof Instructions for Knitting Your Best-Fitting Sweaters Ever in the Styles You Love to Wear

Amy Herzog · STC Craft/A Melanie Falick Book

In this follow-up to Knit to Flatter, author Amy Herzog is back with more real-talk for knitters. In Knit Wear Love, she guides us through picking a base pattern that not only works for our inherent shape, but also suits our size and style—all with the skill of a top-notch teacher...
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