Judy Pollard

Tricia Lund

Joanne Lauterjung

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maine

Use foundation-piecing techniques to simplify the construction of seven difficult shapes. Fifteen quilt plans in a variety of styles are provided.

Classic Quilts with Precise Foundation Piecing

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Bonnie K. Hunter

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Reuse, Repupose, Recycle! the Art of Quilting Green

Learn how to make 12 earth friendly quilts plus a shopping bag.

Scraps and Shirttails

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Vanessa Arbuthnott

Gail Abbott

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

50 Projects for Curtains, Shades, Pillows, Cushions, and More

Add texture, colour, warmth, and character to your home with 50 easy-to-follow projects Soft furnishings—from curtains and pillows, to bed and table linen—can provide the perfect finishing touches to a room, adding an injection of color and pattern. So often, store-bought furnishings are either hugely expensive or mass-produced, but The Home-Sewn Home shows you the easy way to create your own, using the wonderful fabrics designed by Vanessa Arbuthnott. There are 50 inspiring step-by-step projects, all with easy-to-follow step artworks and instructions. The projects range from a simple pillow and table runner for the novice stitcher, through to lined curtains with an array of different headings, blinds, bed throws, and table linen. There is a chapter on accessories, including a cook’s apron, a tote bag, and table mats, which also make great presents, while the basic techniques chapter teaches you all the skills you need to make any of the projects. Throughout the book, Vanessa offers practical advice on mixing fabrics, colors, and patterns, helping you to achieve a truly individual look in your home. There are variations, too, allowing you to adapt the projects to suit your own surroundings. Whether you have just bought your first sewing machine, or want to find new ways to use Vanessa’s stunning fabrics, The Home-Sewn Home will show you the way.

The Home-Sewn Home

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Torie Jayne

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Over 35 Sewing Projects to Make Your Home Beautiful

Bring color and style to your home with Torie Jayne’s beautiful sewing projects. Torie Jayne is a successful young designer, blogger, and author with a keen interest in creating beautiful accessories for the home. Her blog, toriejayne.com, receives over 100,000 hits a month, and features her trademark sewing in beautiful saturated pastels, as well as baking and other crafts. Now Torie has created over 35 projects for you to make, to bring some of her style to your home. The kitchen chapter includes table linen, a bread basket, and utensil holder, while the bedroom chapter features an eye mask, make-up bag, and a padded headboard. The entrance hall chapter includes useful storage projects, such as square storage boxes made from fabric plus fabric and oilcloth bags. The garden chapter showcases practical projects such as a garden kneeler with carry-handles and a polka-dot tool belt, as well as decorative bench cushions, a child’s play tent, and bunting. Every project is in fresh, appealing colours, and reflects Torie’s sewing expertise, as well as her eye for patterns.

Torie Jayne's Stylish Home Sewing

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40-page Leisure Arts booklet with small sewing projects and recipes

Thoughtful gifts and easy accessories 

See Simple

Tif Fussell

Rachelle Blondel

Crafty recipes & inspiration for the handmade home

More than just a 'how to' guide Granny Chic offers inspiration to keen crafters hoping to breathe new life into vintage fabrics and second-hand objects. From handmade notebooks to lace lampshades and pinnies made from tea towels, each of the craft 'recipes' brings the granny chic look to life whilst allowing you to give them your own personal twist. This selection of 20 projects includes spruced-up coathangers, a 'dingle dangle' door screen a 'patched and pieced' lampshade and a crocheted tea cosy. In addition to the projects Granny Chic offers advice on the granny chic lifestyle, from befriending your local fabric shop to creating a handmade home. Packed full of ideas it will have you rustling in your vintage fabric to find your inner granny chic crafting soul.

Granny Chic

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Stewart O'Shields

Patchwork--the piecing together of many different fabrics--is back! And it’s making a splash on fashion runways, in the hottest magazines, and on the coolest indie craft blogs. No wonder, because patchwork gives stitchers an exciting way to make use of their old fabric scraps; in effect, they’re designing new material by creating original combinations of patterns. Thanks to a pool of talented designers and this new entry in the popular Pretty Little series, anyone can pick out some fabrics and get started. Thirty projects showcase a variety of creative ideas, including funky ornaments, a silk scarf, star pincushions, a yoga-mat carrier, and much more. An introduction teaches the basic techniques, and all the projects appear in full-color, close-up photos.

Pretty Little Patchwork

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Gudrun Erla

Dynamic Quilts Made from Strips: 12 Projects in Multiple Sizes from GE Designs

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 patterns to win over both traditional and modern quilters. Complete with helpful charts and illustrations, these beginner-friendly designs each come in two or more sizes.

Strip Your Stash

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T. Colin Campbell

Nelson Disla

An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

2020 Foreword Indie Award Winner in the “Health” Category From the coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up, Whole Despite extensive research and overwhelming public information on nutrition and health science, we are more confused than ever—about the foods we eat, what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for our health. In The Future of Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell cuts through the noise with an in-depth analysis of our historical relationship to the food we eat, the source of our present information overload, and what our current path means for the future—both for individual health and society as a whole. In these pages, Campbell takes on the institution of nutrition itself, unpacking: • Why the institutional emphasis on individual nutrients (instead of whole foods) as a means to explain nutrition has had catastrophic consequences • How our reverence for "high quality" animal protein has distorted our understanding of cholesterol, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, environmental carcinogens, and more • Why mainstream food and nutrient recommendations and public policy favor corporate interests over that of personal and planetary health • How we can ensure that public nutrition literacy can prevent and treat personal illness more effectively and economically The Future of Nutrition offers a fascinating deep-dive behind the curtain of the field of nutrition—with implications both for our health and for the practice of science itself.

The Future of Nutrition

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Nancy Schwab

Crease on back cover as seen in photo. Otherwise, all pages and binding clean and intact.

Yes you can finish your nuno felt project in under one hour! Learn to nuno felt faster & better using tips & techniques that lead to better results! Intended for the nuno felter with medium level experience and skills, not a basic how-to. Includes special detailed chapters on how to use a microwave, a portable electric sander and how to pick the best fabrics & fibers plus quick & easy ways to fix mistakes. Second edition.

Nuno Felting Tips and Tricks - Second Edition

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Kathleen Taylor

All pages, cover and binding clean and intact. Truly like new.

Discover the Magic of Knitted Felt with 25 Easy Patterns

Presents step-by-step instructions and twenty-five patterns to create a variety of hats, bags, slippers, and mittens.

Knit One, Felt Too

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Beverly Galeskas

All pages, cover and binding clean and intact. Black marker line along edge of barcode on back. 

Knitters will find specific techniques and instructions for felting their knitting in this detailed step-by-step introduction, including how to felt on purpose and not by mistake, techniques for both hand and machine felting, and choosing and testing yarns. They'll also learn whether knitting swatches is really necessary and how big to knit a piece before felting. Twenty-four detailed projects include stylish bags, totes, hats, and mittens; warm and fuzzy vests and slippers; and decorative pillows, placemats, and coasters. With a section on embellishing felting and felting on felt (needle felting), knitters will be inspired to create these beautiful projects for friends and family, from the baby's first felt hat to the furry slippers for cold winter nights.

Felted Knits

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Tina Skinner

Penny Rugs and Pretty Things from Recycled Wool

It costs very little to get started, the skills are easy to master, and the projects take only a few hours. You'll quickly be addicted to this enjoyable craft; and friends and family will rave about their gifts. Christmas ornaments, decorative penny rugs, pretty pouches, and floral brooches are among the featured projects. With some recycled old wool clothing, a few pretty yarns and threads, sharp scissors, and a good needle, you're on your way, and this is a portable craft that tucks in a purse and goes with you to boring meetings, hockey matches, and doctors' waiting rooms. Clear, illustrated instructions and templates will help you create dozens of fun projects.

Fun Felt Crafts

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Jason Thompson

Creases on back cover as noted on photos. All pages and binding intact.

The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book

In these pages, Jason Thompson has curated an extensive and artistic range of both achievable upcycled crafts made from books and book pages and an amazing gallery that contains thought-provoking and beautiful works that transform books into art.

The content encompasses a wide range of techniques and step-by-step projects that deconstruct and rebuild books and their parts into unique, upcycled objects. The book combines in equal measure bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts techniques, along with a healthy dose of experimentation and fun.The beautiful high-end presentation and stunning photography make this book a delightful, must-have volume for any book-loving artist or art-loving book collector.

Playing with Books

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Elizabeth Letcavage

Patsy Buck

Cover and pages intact. This is a coil-bound book, so it can lay flat while in use. Some handwritten notes as seen in photos, but nothing that obscures the text.

All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started

An introduction to soap making that includes step-by-step illustrations and instructions for making cold press soap, molding soap, cutting bars, creating new recipes, building a soap mold, liner, and cutter, and packaging soaps as gifts.

Basic Soap Making

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Heidi Reimer-Epp

Mary Reimer

Pages, cover, dust jacket, and binding all intact. 

The Definitive Guide to Making, Embellishing, and Repairing Paper, Books, and Scrapbooks

Presents step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions for basic and advanced papermaking and bookbinding techniques and projects, and includes a gallery.

Encyclopedia of Papermaking and Bookbinding

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Esther K. Smith

Like-new condition. One ding to lower left corner of cover. Pages, cover and binding intact.

Fold, Cut and Stitch Your Way to a One-Of-a-Kind Book

From zines you can fold in a minute to luxurious leather journals and sumptuous sketchbooks, How to Make Books will walk you through the easy basics of bookmaking. Whether you’re a writer, a scrapbooker, a political activist, or a postcard collector, let book artist Esther K. Smith be your guide as you discover your inner bookbinder. Using foolproof illustrations and step-by-step instructions, Smith reveals her time-tested techniques in a fun, easy-to-understand way.

How to Make Books

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Erin Zamrzla

20 Bookbinding Projects for Explorers, Travelers, and Nature Lovers

The handmade books presented here are meant to spark outings and offer creative ways for you to explore your personal style and interests: Make treasure hunts even more special with a personalized Treasure Hunt Collection Bag and Notebook. Take notes at the beach with a Waterproof Book made with Tyvek pages. Make a canvas-covered Camping Songbook to take with you to the campsite. In this collection of twenty Japanese bookbinding projects, traditional techniques meet contemporary style, from easy-to-fold accordion books to the intricate Japanese stab-stitch bindings. Book artist Erin Zamrzla makes bookbinding easy and unintimidating. Her clear step-by-step instructions make even the more complicated stitches easy to re-create. Information on the basics of bookbinding—including terminology, tools, and techniques—is included, and many projects encourage the creative use of ordinary and recycled materials. The projects are: Everyday Outings • Grocery List Pad • Lunch Box Notes • Necklace Book • Cross-Stitch Cover • Write Your Own Story Journal Outdoor Play • Treasure Hunt Collection Bag and Notebook • Little League Score Book • Waterproof Book • Bicycle Book • Texture Collector Nature Excursions • Observation Journal • Leaf and Flower Press • Fishing Log • Stargazing Log • Camping Songbook Road Trips • Tiny Tickets Memorabilia Book • Photo Notes • Notes from the Road Postcard Book • Fold-Out Map Booklet • Things to Check Out

Handmade Books for Everyday Adventures

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Cover, pages and binding intact. Some impressions on the front cover, likely from writing on a paper placed over the cover. Good readable condition.

300 Papermaking Recipes

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Paul Jackson

Purchased used and have read through. Cover corners slightly bent. Cover, pages and binding intact. 

Creating Beautiful Things with Origami, Papier Mâchê, Pop-Ups and Other Papercrafts

Describes a variety of art techniques that involve paper, including origami, papier mache, decoupage, weaving, and others; and features illustrated instructions for numerous projects, and photographs of finished works.

Artistry in Paper

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Terry Taylor

Purchased used and have read through it. Red dot remains mark on bottom edge. Cover corners a bit dented. Completely readable with no missing or torn pages. Intact binding.

Inventive Projects from the Recycling Bin

A collection of projects and ideas for making books out of common everyday items normally placed in the recycle bin.

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