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Stitched Photo Mosaic Quilting: A Unique Grid Technique for Piecing Images into Beautiful Quilts (Landauer) For Intermediate to Advanced Quilters - Learn How to Turn a Cherished Picture into a Quilt

Timna Tarr - Landauer
Format: Paperback

"Timna Tarr is the master of mosaic quilting." - Scott Fortunoff, President of the Jaftex CompaniesTurn your favorite photos into one-of-a-kind quilts!Easy-to-follow project guide to creating stunning portrait quilts by taking any image or photo and breaking it down into small...
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Idiot's Guides: Dog Tricks

Debra Eldredge DVM - Alpha Books
Format: Paperback

People love to see dogs do funny and useful tricks, such as playing basketball, picking up toys, and putting down the toilet lid. Idiot's Guides: Dog Tricks demonstrates more than 80 popular tricks with detailed, step-by-step instructions and eye-catching full-color photographs. The book...
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Toys & Prices

Mark Bellomo - Krause Publications; Twentieth Edition edition
Format: Print book

Toy StoriesFor more than two decades, Toys Prices has provided an easy-to-use format, collecting trends and invaluable information to some of the greatest toys ever created. Featuring 35,000 listings and more than 100,000 values, this handy and comprehensive guide provides expert collecting...
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Zippy Loom Creations: 20 Quick & Easy Knitting Projects

KB Looms - Cedar Lane Press
Format: Paperback

Super-Fast Knitting That's Fun for Everyone!The Zippy Loom and Zippy Loom Creations make knittingso quick and easy, you can finish a scarf in 15 minutes. From there you cancombine your Zippy Looms or purchase the Zippy Master Set to form a widevariety of long, square, and rectangular...
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Knitted Animal Friends: Over 40 knitting patterns for adorable animal dolls, their clothes and accessories (Knitted Animal Friends, 1)

Louise Crowther - David & Charles
Format: Paperback

Learn to make an adorable collection of knitted animal toys with these new patterns by the author of My Knitted Doll, Louise Crowther. Louise, brings her unique style of coordinated knitwear with cute colourwork details to this new collection of toy animal knitting patterns. There are a total...
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Texas Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have A Beautiful Garden All Year

Robert "Skip" Richter - Cool Springs Press
Format: Book

One of Americas biggest and most diverse landscapes begins in your yard. Theres no way around it Texas is huge. The state dials in at well over 250,000 square miles, housing most of the United States power grid, arguably all of its delicious food, and almost every kind of environment imaginable...
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Punch Needle: Master the Art of Punch Needling Accessories for You and Your Home

Arounna Khounnoraj - Quadrille Publishing
Format: Paperback

Discover a fresh take on a traditional craft in this ultimate introduction to the art of punch needling.Giving this forgotten craft a modern twist is author Arounna Khounnoraj (aka Bookhou) . One of Canada's most sought after mentors and creatives, she has caused...
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Resin Alchemy: Innovative Techniques for Mixed-Media and Jewelry Artists

Susan Lenart Kazmer - Interweave
Format: Book

Discover one of the hottest trends in mixed media--resin! Join mixed-media and jewelry artist Susan Lenart Kazmer as she opens new frontiers in her application of resin techniques.Resin Alchemy offers detailed step-by-step technique tutorials on using resin, from the basics of mixing and pouring...
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Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

Jason Fagone - Crown; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of car   In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel...
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Home Ec for Everyone: Practical Life Skills in 118 Projects: Cooking Sewing Laundry & Clothing Domestic Arts Life Skills

Sharon Bowers - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Discover the tremendous pleasure of learning how to do it yourself how to cook, sew, clean, and more, the way it used to be taught in Home Ec class. With illustrated step by step instructions, plus relevant charts, lists, and handy graphics, Home Ec for everyone offers a crash course in learning...
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