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60 Quick Knits for Beginners: Easy Projects for New Knitters in 220 Superwash from Cascade Yarns

Sixth & Spring Books - Sixth&Spring Books
Format: Paperback

60 Quick Knits for Beginners is an essential volume for every novice knitter and anyone picking up needles for the first time! Offering a wide array of creative techniques and attractive patterns, this entry in the beloved 60 Quick Knits series is the perfect book for anyone learning...
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family

Arabella Carter-Johnson - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,...
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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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Documents That Changed the Way We Live

Joseph Janes - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories...
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Knitter's Stitch Collection, The: A creative guide to the 300 knitting stitches you really need to know

Lesley Stanfield
Format: Paperback

This is a creative guide to the 300 knitting stitches you really need to know, including brand new stitches and timeless classics. An invaluable resource of original stitch patterns, this collection is for newcomers, designers and knitters of all abilities. Instead of being merely a round-up...
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The Little Book of Rock Painting: More than 50 tips and techniques for learning to paint colorful designs and patterns on rocks and stones

F. Sehnaz Bac - Walter Foster Publishing
Format: Paperback

Filled with creative exercises, art prompts, templates, and step-by-step projects, The Little Book of Rock Painting encourages interactivity for immediate results, while teaching beginners the fundamentals of the medium in an engaging and fun way. In the new The Little Book of ... series...
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Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

VICTORIA FINLAY - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth - how we make it, use it, and what it means to us.How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese...
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Nautical Quilts: 12 Stitched and Quilted Projects Celebrating the Sea

Lynette Anderson - SewandSo
Format: Paperback

A brand new collection of beautiful quilted and stitched projects by internationally-renowned designer, Lynette Anderson. Lynette brings her distinctive style of patchwork mixed with exquisite hand embroidery and applique to the theme of nautical quilts. This subject was inspired by her own family...
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The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll

Ian S. Port - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A riveting saga in the history of rock 'n' roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified sound - Leo Fender and Les Paul - and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton...
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Melissa Leapman's Designer Crochet: Accessories: Fresh new designs for hats, scarves, cowls, shawls, handbags, jewelry, and more

Melissa Leapman - Creative Publishing Inter
Format: Print book

Accessorize your wardrobe with one-of-a-kind crocheted pieces, following these new patterns from knit designer Melissa Leapman!Sometimes, all it takes is the right accessory to pull off a great look. And if that accessory happens to be handmade by you? All the better! In this book, popular...
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