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Knitting Never Felt Better: The Definitive Guide to Fabulous Felting

Nicky Epstein - Sixth&Spring Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

With her signature style, the bestselling and beloved needlework author Nicky Epstein offers the best guide to felting. Using ten chic garments and more than 150 stunning sample swatches as examples, she covers the top techniques for turning wool yarn into vibrant and dense textures. Before...
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Strip Your Stash: Dynamic Quilts Made from Strips 12 Projects in Multiple Sizes from GE Designs

Gudrun Erla - C&T Publishing
Format: Paperback

Bust your stash with 12 strip quilts, perfect for those larger pieces of leftover fabric that you aren't sure how to use. Cut, sort, store, and sew 2 1/2? strips. Confidently pair fabric prints, using three no-fail strategies! The popular quilter behind GE Designs shares quick yet impressive...
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Making Shadow Puppets (Kids Can Do It)

Laura Watson - Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover

In this Kids Can Do It title, kids discover the secret to creating traditional shadow puppets based on designs from around the world. With instructions for nine beautifully crafted and decorated wooden rod puppets, portable screen set-ups, scenery and script ideas, this book will help them...
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100 Flowers to Knit & Crochet: A Collection of Beautiful Blooms for Embellishing Garments, Accessories, and More

Lesley Stanfield - St. Martin's Griffin; Original edition
Format: Print book

100 Flowers to Knit & Crochet showcases a lush bouquet of blossoms perfect for embellishing your favorite clothing or accessories. As a finishing touch for all your handmade garments or a great pick-me-up for a vintage find, these lovely blooms are the perfect way to use up scraps...
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Eco-Christmas Craft Book, The: 30 stylish festive projects that wont hurt the planet

Marrianne Miall - Search Press
Format: Paperback

All you need to do is save up some recyclable or foraged items such as cardboard, newspaper, wine bottle corks, twigs and pine cones. You can choose your own color scheme to match your home and, because the materials are recyclable, you could make new ones every year! Including all the things...
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Complete Care For Your Aging Dog

Amy Shojai - NAL Trade
Format: Paperback

Explaining how to keep an older dog healthy and happy throughout its golden years, a noted pet authority describes the special needs of an aging canine, dietary and nutritional requirements, essential over-the-counter pet medications, exercise, home nursing care, and more. Original.
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I Can Make Puppets

Mary Wallace - Maple Tree Press
Format: Paperback

Yes! Kids can create puppets that are fun, great-looking, and easy to make. I Can Make Puppets will show you how to make lovable characters that are as much fun to create as to play with. Using common household odds and ends, construction is no fuss, no mess, with no complicated instructions....
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Contemporary Figures in Watercolour: Speed, Gesture and Story

Leo Crane - Batsford
Format: Hardcover

Dive into figure painting with this fresh take on capturing the human form in watercolour.Painter Leo Crane and art model Roy Joseph Butler explore how to interpret the gestures and movements of the figure through the language of paint. Through a range of exercises, they show how to work...
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Artful Halloween: 31 Frightfully Elegant Projects

Susan Wasinger - Lark Crafts; Original edition
Format: Paperback

These 30+ costume, pumpkin, and home-decorating ideas are not just beautiful--they are scary beautiful. From unique pumpkin decorations to a “blood”-splashed dinner-party centerpiece to a Yard Specter made from two poles, a string of lights, and torn, draped fabric, these creepy...
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Make It Yours with Mimi G: A Sewist's Guide to a Custom Wardrobe

Mimi Ford - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate collection of basic patterns that can be sewn, modified, and styled to yield more than 100 unique looks. Make It Yours with Mimi G is all about creating a fully functional wardrobe to love. Starting with six base patterns, Mimi G then hacks each pattern to create 26 new designs...
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