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Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects

Christine Schmidt - Potter Craft; Stated First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

This is a book for low budgets and high ambition. Read it and you will learn how to put images of things onto other things. You will start by rolling up your sleeves. Your shirt will be stained anyways. At some point, you will harness the power of the sun.  Go ahead, look inside. You will...
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Art Makers: Empowered Embroidery: Transform sketches into embroidery patterns and stitch strong, iconic women from the past and present

Amy L. Frazer
Format: Paperback

The Art Makers series is designed for beginning artists and arts-and-crafts enthusiasts who are interested in experiencing a fun hands-on medium. If you're a beginning embroiderer, start with the at the beginning of the book. Essential tools, warm-up exercises, tips for embroidering...
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Unexpected Crochet for the Home

Lena Maikon - Leisure Arts, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Lena Maikon calls on the unique qualities of crochet and today's diverse yarns of natural and organic fibers to create and recycle innovative accessories for the home. There are 22 projects for rooms all through the house. They include chair pads, a place mat/table runner and coaster,...
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Extreme Balloon Tying: More Than 40 Over-the-Top Projects

Shar Levine - Sterling
Format: Paperback

Here are more crafty twists and turns from the authors of the popular Ultimate Balloon Book—but this time, they’re going way over the top with creativity. These balloon sculptures use new techniques like the roll lock and the starburst, and they’re a little more complicated...
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Morehouse Farm Merino Knits: More than 40 Farm-Fresh Designs

Margrit Lohrer - Potter Craft; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Tucked away in a valley surrounded by a luscious landscape and rolling hills, Morehouse Farm is home to two former Manhattanites—Margrit Lohrer and Albrecht Pichler—who sought refuge from city life to raise Merino sheep and create the plushest wool of them all. Morehouse Farm...
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50 Knit & Crochet Accessories: Go From Beginner to Expert with Easy Bags, Mittens, Socks and Hats

Collins & Brown - Collins & Brown; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Whether you're a Hollywood A-lister or urban hipster 50 Accessories to Stitch! has a pattern for you. From the elegant to the funky, the hip to the casual, no one is left out. Co-ordinating projects allow you to create a complete look, making this your one-stop accessories shop! Projects...
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Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

Jane Mount - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate gift for book lovers, this volume brims with literary treasures, all delightfully illustrated by beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf, Jane Mount. Book lovers, rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish, Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things...
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