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Beyond Cotton: Making by Hand: Stamp, Print, Dye & Paint 18 Modern Mixed Media Sewing Projects

Krista Fleckenstein - Lucky Spool Media, LLC, 2015.
Format: Print book

Mixed Media goes graphic, minimal and sophisticated. Go beyond commercially available materials and get your hands dirty! Create your own modern substrates through Krista's interactive project-based sewing workshops. Readers will stitch up 19 designer projects while experimenting with...
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Shape by Shape, Collection 2: Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters 70 More Designs for Blocks, Backgrounds & Borders

Angela Walters - C&T Publishing
Format: Print book

Take your quilting to the next level! Best-selling author Angela Walters shares 70+ all-new free-motion designs and variations to fit a variety of shapes, plus background fillers and borders. Tackle your quilt top one bite at a time with step-by-step illustrations and detail photos, plus...
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DIY Temporary Tattoos: Draw It, Print It, Ink It

Pepper Baldwin - Griffin
Format: Print book

Thinking about trying a brand-new look, but without the commitment? Here's all the info you need to design and create personalized temporary tattoos! Try out a design for a permanent tattoo, create a unique look for a special night out, design buzz-worthy wedding favors, or incentivize...
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Knitting Ganseys, Revised and Updated: Techniques and Patterns for Traditional Sweaters

BETH BROWN-REINSEL - Interweave
Format: Hardcover

Originally released in 1993, Beth Brown-Reinsel's bestseller, Knitting Ganseys, is a classic in the hearts of traditional and modern knitters alike, bringing this historic tradition to your needles for 25 years! This completely revised and update version of the perennial bestseller...
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Quilt Giving: 19 Simple Quilt Patterns to Make and Give

Deborah Fisher - Fons & Porter
Format: Print book

Enjoy the simple gift of quilting!Creating a quilt is always a gift--in finding the time to enjoy your hobby, and in giving away your finished piece. In the pages of Quilt Giving, you'll find nineteen quilts that make perfect presents for yourself or someone else.The quilt patterns...
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How To Embroider Texture and Pattern: 20 Designs that Celebrate Pattern, Color, and Pop-up Stitching (Landauer) Step-by-Step Instructions, Illustrated Stitch Guide, Easy-to-Follow Tutorials, and More

Melissa Galbraith - Landauer
Format: Paperback

Learn how to embroider stunning textures, patterns, colors, and 3D elements!Inspiring embroidery guide for beginner to advanced crafters to learn how to embroider texture, color, pattern, and 3D elements to their embroidery projects20 step-by-step embroidery projects and patterns of beautiful...
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The Mammoth Book of Chess (Mammoth Books 199)

Graham Burgess - Robinson
Format: Hardcover

'A terrific work that is particularly suited for those from beginner to club player'JOHN WATSON, The Week in ChessThe fully revised and updated award-winning, bestselling, classic chess book by FIDE Master and chess world-record holder, Graham Burgess.Comprehensive and clear, this...
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Lovely Little Embroideries: 19 Dimensional Flower Bouquet Designs for Hand Stitching

Beth Stackhouse - ?Landauer; First edition
Format: Paperback

Take your embroidery skills to the next level!19 embroidery projects and patterns, including hoops, pendants, sachets, accessories, ornaments, and moreStep-by-step instructions and helpful opening sections on basic supplies, transferring patterns, and finishing the back of a hoopIllustrated...
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Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing: Step by step techniques for making clothes and home accessories

Reader's Digest - Trusted Media Brands
Format: Hardcover

An indispensable volume for beginning and advanced sewers alike that guides readers through necessary equipment, techniques, fabrics and more.First published in 1978, Reader's Digest's popular Complete Guide to Sewing has become the standard stich-and-seam reference book for both...
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The Library: A Fragile History

Andrew Pettegree - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of incident....
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