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Petit Collage: 25 Easy Craft and Dcor Projects for a Playful Home

Lorena Siminovich - Potter Craft
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved design brand for nurseries, playrooms, and every space in between, Petit Collage shows you how to make 25 of their bestselling paper and wooden accessories for your home. Customize toy chests, create cheerful name plaques, build bunny clocks, and more, with artist and owner...
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Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving

Cathy Barrow - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

2015 IACP Award WinnerA householder's guide to canning through the seasons.In Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Practical Pantry, food preserving expert Cathy Barrow presents a beautiful collection of essential preserving techniques for turning the fleeting abundance of the farmers' market...
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A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory

Sara Midda - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller In and Out of the Garden and the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda’s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book. Drawn from the artist’s wealth of impressions and memories, it is a book for lovers of food and art and fine...
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A Garden to Dye For: How to Use Plants from the Garden to Create Natural Colors for Fabrics & Fibers

Chris McLaughlin - St. Lynn's Press
Format: Hardcover

Home-grown botanical dyes are in, and they're part of today's shift toward natural and organic living. "A new generation discovers grow-it-yourself dyes," says the New York Times. And you don't have to have a degree in chemistry to create your own natural dyes. It just...
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Quilt-opedia: The Only Quilting Reference You'll Ever Need

Laura Jane Taylor - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Covering a wide range of techniques for both hand and machine quilting, this gentle guide uses clear step-by-step illustrations to walk the novice quilter from the very beginnings of choosing materials, preparing and cutting fabric, through to intermediate and advanced techniques like adding...
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The Making of a Rag Doll: Design & Sew Modern Heirlooms

Jess Brown - Chronicle Books,
Format: Print book

Designer Jess Brown is known for her irresistible, starry-eyed rag dolls. In this inspiring book, Brown shares a custom pattern and simple instructions to sew, personalize, and accessorize your own rag doll. Illustrating the story behind these dolls, the book places emphasis on natural...
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Handmade Gatherings: Recipes and Crafts for Seasonal Celebrations and Potluck Parties

Ashley English - Roost Books
Format: Book

Celebrate the seasons and connect with your community through parties tothrow in collaboration with your friends. Handmade Gatherings offers:? 16 seasonal party ideas ? 52 recipes ? 32 crafts and activities.  From the décor, to the entertainment, on down to the recipes...
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The Knowledgeable Knitter: Understand the Inner Workings of Knitting and Make Every Project a Success

Margaret Radcliffe - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Hardcover

The Knowledgeable Knitter is the definitive reference for any knitter seeking better results, whether the challenge is reading a pattern chart, substituting yarn, modifying a pattern, fixing a mistake, shaping a collar, or adjusting an armhole. Expert Margaret Radcliffe, author of The Knitting...
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To Knit or Not to Knit: Helpful and Humorous Hints for the Passionate Knitter

Elvira Woodruff - W W Norton
Format: Print book

To Knit or Not to Knit is a unique Dear Abby/mini knitting essay collection, offering humorous tales of triumph and terror on the needles, with a witty nod to the famous and infamous throughout history.As Mrs. Wicks happily quotes everyone from William Shakespeare to Beatrix Potter,...
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Modern Crochet: Crochet Accessories and Projects for Your Home

Molla Mills - Jacqui Small LLP
Format: Hardcover

Modern Crochet offers a new and exciting take on this popular craft. Clear and colourful, the book is full of ideas and inspiration for the thread and hook. The book introduces the tools and yarns you will need, then outlines basic crochet techniques, and follows with over 30 projects for you to make.
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