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The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch

Susan Brandeis - Schiffer Pub Ltd
Format: Hardcover

Communicate your ideas using line, shape, color, and texture with this reference and how-to exploration in one. Whether your particular interest is pictorial, portraiture, abstract compositions, or actual text, you can "say" almost anything with thread. More than 350 color photographs...
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Trees of the West: An Artist's Guide

MOLLY HASHIMOTO - Mountaineers Books
Format: Hardcover

Illustrated throughout with art in a variety of mediums: pencil, pen, and wash sketches; block prints; studio watercolors; and intaglio etchingsIncludes a rich natural history and brief ethnobotanical notes for each featured speciesFeatures poems and quotes from other writers and artistscelebrating...
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Knitted Menagerie

Sarah Keen - GMC Publications
Format: Paperback

Within the pages of this you'll find to knit, ranging from sealife to birds, insects to mammals. You'll find everyone's favourites, including a lion, an elephant, blue whale, meerkats and a llama. The patterns vary in complexity, ensuring there's something for everyone....
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Wild Life: 50 Projects to Rewild Your Life From the Home to Outdoors

Anna Carlile - Hardie Grant
Format: Hardcover

Wild Life is an achingly beautiful gift book that introduces the concept of rewilding. No matter whether you live - in the mountains, by the coast, along the banks of a river or in the inner-city - this book is your passport to disconnect from one world and reconnect with another; to put down...
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Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt

Brenda Manges Papadakis - Brenda Manges Papadakis; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback


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Painting Watercolours on Canvas

Liz Chaderton - Crowood Press
Format: Paperback

Painting on canvas poses many exciting opportunities for the artist. Along with the immediacy, vibrancy, and unpredictability of watercolors, it is a liberating and creative process. This practical book explains how to start painting with watercolors on canvas and goes on to encourage...
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Urban Quilting: Quilt Patterns for the Modern-Day Home

Wendy Chow - Paige Tate & Co
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive guide for both first-time quilters and those looking for a refresher course, Urban Quilting teaches you everything you need to know about this timeless craft. Each pattern contains instructions for three different quilt sizes, with designs that feature bold colors and geometric...
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The Nameplate: Jewelry, Culture, and Identity

Marcel Rosa-Salas - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

A vibrant photographic celebration of nameplate jewelry featuring deeply personal stories and rich cultural contexts, collected by the creators of the Documenting the Nameplate project.. "Names don't just tell stories. They are stories." - Rawiya KameirNameplate jewelry comes...
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Red & White Quilts: 14 Quilts with Timeless Appeal from Today's Top Designers

That Patchwork Place - That Patchwork Place
Format: Paperback

Generations of quilters have been captivated by the simple beauty of red-and-white quilts. Today's quilters are no different. Whether it's humble patchwork or more complex designs, a quilt stitched in only red and white fabrics speaks to the hearts of so many quilters. In Red &...
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The Knit Vibe: A Knitter's Guide to Creativity, Community, and Well-being for Mind, Body & Soul

Vickie Howell - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

A knitting adventure with projects, patterns, rituals, yoga, creative inspiration, numerology, knitting experts, astrology, community, and more Vickie Howell, the DIY channel's popular queen of fiber, pens a love letter to knitting with The Knit Vibe - a book like no other - with...
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