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Complete Crochet Course: The Ultimate Reference Guide

SHANNON MULLETT-BOWLSBY - Lark Crafts
Format: Hardcover

From renowned crochet designer Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby comes the ultimate reference manual for the absolute beginner. Filled with step-by-step photography throughout for an easy-to-follow and fully visual experience, this unparalleled guide teaches you how to crochet from the very first...
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Easy Knits for Beautiful Yarns: 21 Shawls, Hats, Sweaters & More Designed to Showcase Special Yarns

Toby Roxane Barna
Format: Paperback

Drawn to a beautiful, unique yarn, but not sure what to do with it? Look no further. Gorgeous hand-dyed, variegated, self-striping, speckled, and other fun yarns abound for the knitter today, but sometimes the color variations and changes can make it difficult to find patterns that allow...
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Weekend Wraps: 18 Quick Knit Cowls, Scarves & Shawls

Cecily Glowik MacDonald - Interweave Press
Format: Paperback

The Fast and the Fabulous! Looking for knits that take only a little time but are big on style? Weekend Wraps features 18 designs that make short work of knitting gorgeous accessories. Cecily Glowik MacDonald and Melissa LaBarre, along with some of today's top design stars, have created...
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Gorgeous Gouache: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Opaque Watercolor Painting

Viddhi Saschit - Better Day Books
Format: Paperback

The modern guide to opaque watercolor painting! If you love the bold and beautiful look of gouache painting but thought the medium might be too complex for you, think again! Gouache is very similar to watercolor and totally within your reach when you follow the easy and accessible instructions...
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Reading Fashion in Art

Ingrid E. Mida
Format: Paperback

Dress and fashion are central to our understanding of art. From the stylization of the body to subtle textile embellishments and richly symbolic colors, dress tells a story and provides clues as to the cultural beliefs of the time in which artworks were produced. This concise and accessible...
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Knitting Modular Shawls, Wraps, and Stoles: An Easy, Innovative Technique for Creating Custom Designs, with 185 Stitch Patterns

Melissa Leapman - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Hardcover

Shawls are practical, versatile, and an ever-popular project among knitters. Noted designer Melissa Leapman has developed an innovative technique that promises hundreds of beautiful shawl design options in Knitting Modular Shawls, Wraps, and Stoles! Beginning with a simple triangular wedge,...
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Construct It! Architecture You Can Build, Break, and Build Again

JESSIE ALKIRE - Checkerboard Library
Format: Library Binding

Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In Construct It! Architecture You Can Build, Break, and Build Again, kids will build a working wrecking ball, pulley elevator, bridge, and more! Colorful step-by-step photos bring each project to life. Techniques and tips...
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Knit a Hat: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting

Alanna Okun - Abrams
Format: Paperback

Knitting is an excellent handcraft and something people love the world over. For crafting newbies, knitting can seem highly daunting: you need needles (but what size) , yarn (but what weight) , and a pattern (but what kind) , and very quickly knitting can start to resemble another...
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Radiant Quilts: Stunning Quilts from Simple Shapes

Elsie M Campbell - Landauer
Format: Paperback

Radiant Quilts offers a complete guide to making gorgeous scrap quilts using just one, two, or three simple repeated shapes. Renowned author and quilt designer Elsie M. Campbell uses triangles, clamshells, half-hexagons, strips, and diamonds to make nine start-to-finish, stash-busting projectsfrom...
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The Confident Closet: The ultimate guide to helping you purge, organize, & build a wardrobe for confidence & personal style

Melanie Kluger - Blurb, Incorporated
Format: Paperback

Personal Stylist Melanie Kluger saw a problem that needed to be addressed. Women all over the world were frustrated with their closets and didn't know how to make a change. This book is that change that is so desperately needed. Through beautiful graphics, charts, journaling prompts,...
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