Kathrine Lee

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

Gorgeous Sweater and Accessory Patterns from Los Angeles' Top Crochet Designer

Crocheting is the new knitting and no doubt, hot designer Katherine Lee is spurring the trend. The percentage of women under the age of 45 who know how to knit and crochet has doubled in the past six years. Retailers and the media are jumping on the bandwagon, too, by energizing many women who have not knitted or crocheted for years. It's a hip, calming pastime to our hectic busy lifestyles. Unfortunately, the crochet patterns on the market are not necessarily in tune with today's young crocheter. That's why this book is a must-have for any enthusiast. SweaterBabe.com's Fabulous & Flirty Crochet provide this expanding market of crocheters with twenty fresh and fashionable designs from Lee, a top pattern designer and instructor. These are not your boring old granny sweaters. These patterns are for beautiful, lacy, feminine, sweaters, camisoles, hats, belts, tanks, handbags, and scarves. Fun-to-make, and stylish to wear, these contemporary projects will appeal to crafters of every skill level.

SweaterBabe. com's Fabulous and Flirty Crochet

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Margaret Hubert

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Timeless Techniques and Fresh Ideas for Crocheting Square by Square

Granny squares are to crochet what pieced squares are to quilting. They originated with pioneer women using up precious scraps of yarn to make blankets for their families, and over the years, many recognized, named patterns have been handed down from one generation to the next. Beyond this treasury of 75 different granny square motifs, Margaret Hubert shows the evolution of the granny square, how it can be used and interpreted in different ways with different yarns, and how today's crocheter can design her own projects using the granny squares of her choice with the yarn choices of today. Just as Margaret learned from her grandmother and mother and then passed the skill down to her daughter and granddaughter, each generation finds new uses and artistic ways to interpret granny squares.

The Granny Square Book

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Marie Kondo

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

Presents a guide to cleaning and organizing a living space, discussing best methods for decluttering and the impact that an organized home can have on mood and physical and mental health.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Lisa Maus

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Learn to Paint the Easy Way

Painting is so much fun to do but it's one of those things that you have to practice at to get better. Well actually most things are like that but with painting there are so many aspects to getting the composition down onto the canvas that it takes a lot of the joy out of the process. Yes, painting really can be a struggle if you don't know what you are doing and don't have a good teacher to guide you. Many people take group classes and while they are fun, they can leave you a little lost as to how you would do that again if you had to on your own. Some people have really big goals when it comes to learning how to paint while many just want to enjoy the process. Either way when you do sit down to paint it should be fun, relaxing and in the end, you should have learned something or at least feel satisfied with your results. This book can help with that. While it won't make you a master after one lesson, and there are people out there who believe that if it's not great the first time then they give up, it will get you better every time you paint. These lessons are a system, that teach perspective without the math. These lessons can help you learn a way of painting that will let you grow and learn as an artist. So whether you are looking for fun with painting on those rainy afternoons or in groups or you really to want to make a bigger goal out of the world of art then why not use a system that teaches you, even for beginners, how to start, create and end with wonderful results.

Paint and Sip Vol. 4

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Erika Knight

250 Stitches to Knit

Offering clear, concise knitting instructions, this series has served as a classic reference for handcrafters for more than 30 years. Featuring 250 texture-friendly designs for knitters of all skill levels, this handbook gives techniques for cable, ripple, knot, and twist stitches. The reference provides a multitude of new knitting patterns both for the home and to wear--such as a honeycomb afghan, medallion-rippled sweater, and twisted-arches scarf. Beautifully photographed swatches are displayed with the latest yarns and include easy-to-follow instructions and design tips. An all-in-one guide to creating textures and cables, this crafting resource is the perfect knitting companion.

Cables and Arans

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Debby Ware

30 Hats and Caps from Debby Ware

Hats, adorable hats. Knitting maven Debby Ware, creator of the famous DebbyWare knit kits, has drawn on her years of experience to put together 30 pint-sized hat and cap patterns filled with bright and unusual color combinations. Three separate sections -- Homecomings, Hooplas, and Humdingers -- are filled with such delightful designs as the Newborn Beanie, Hobo Hat, Holly Holiday, Peppermint Cap, Feather Fedora, Lemon Drop, Black & Bright Beret, and many more for newborns to children up to 2 years. Not only are these cute and quirky caps fun and easy to knit, they are instant family heirlooms that can be handed down to each new generation.

Scrumptious Toppers for Tots and Toddlers

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Wendy Gardiner

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

15 Step-By-step Projects with Essential Techniques to Kick-start Your Sewing

Containing 15 fresh, fun fat-quarter projects, from doorstops and drawstring bags to tablemats, aprons and cushions, this book is ideal for sewers of all abilities. It starts with a comprehensive techniques section, guiding you through a variety of useful techniques, from inserting a zip and sewing buttonholes to creating patchwork. The techniques are fully explained and are combined with easy-to-follow step-by-step photography. The book then leads on to the projects; each contains inspiring photography, instructive hand-drawn illustrations and heaps of handy hints and tips. Each project is made from fat quarter fabric, but there is no reason why you cant cut your own or use up some of your cherished left-over stash fabrics instead.

Fun with Fat Quarters

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Cindi Gordon

Basic supplies - Paints, mediums and finishes - Brushes, care and use of - Surface preparation - Transfer methods - Chalk pastels - Terms and techniques_

Painting Tiny Treasures

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Katie Jacobs

Entertaining the Ones You Love the Whole Year Through

So Much to Celebrate is the essential guide to entertaining from one of Reese Witherspoon's top Draper James stylists, Katie Jacobs, who serves up creative tips for hosting memorable gatherings---from a charming backyard movie night to an unforgettable holiday party. This gorgeous book overflows with inspiring ideas for celebrating all year long.

So Much to Celebrate

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Reader Digest

Completa guide to needletwoek

Martha Stewart

Dana Gallagher

Susan Spungen

Encompasses every aspect of creating hors d'oeuvres, features instructions and useful tips, and contains more than 300 recipes for unusual tea sandwiches, soups in edible bowls, drinks, and other appetizers

Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

More love less panic

Just 100 Calories

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Francesca DenHartog

16 Simple Styles You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics

16 Simple styles you can make with fabulous fabrics.

Sew What! Skirts

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Julie Schnittka

2001 Taste of Home Annual Recipes

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Cherie Calbom

Cleanse and Revitalize Your Body the Healthy Way

Understand the different types of fasts, and experience improved weight loss, spiritual renewal, and optimal health. There is a new surge of interest in fasting, yet many people are unaware of how to navigate the many types- juice liquid diet, raw-foods, and Daniel vegan diet, and their various requirements and benefits. The Juice Lady, Cherie Calbom, offers her nutritional expertise on the how-tos of fasting. This comprehensive book provides menus, recipes, and strategic fasting guidelines. You will learn how to begin, what to eat and/or drink, how long to fast, and how to break a fast. Ultimately you will discover the myriad of benefits derived from fasting the right way for a healthy life.

The Juice Lady's Guide to Fasting

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Thoughts that can change your life

Lena Dunham

A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Includes two new essays! NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays establishes Lena Dunham--the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls--as one of the most original young talents writing today. In Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one's way in the world: falling in love, feeling alone, being ten pounds overweight despite eating only health food, having to prove yourself in a room full of men twice your age, finding true love, and most of all, having the guts to believe that your story is one that deserves to be told. "Take My Virginity (No Really, Take It)" is the account of Dunham's first time, and how her expectations of sex didn't quite live up to the actual event ("No floodgate had been opened, no vault of true womanhood unlocked"); "Girls & Jerks" explores her former attraction to less-than-nice guys--guys who had perfected the "dynamic of disrespect" she found so intriguing; "Is This Even Real?" is a meditation on her lifelong obsession with death and dying--what she calls her "genetically predestined morbidity." And in "I Didn't F*** Them, but They Yelled at Me," she imagines the tell-all she will write when she is eighty and past caring, able to reflect honestly on the sexism and condescension she has encountered in Hollywood, where women are "treated like the paper thingies that protect glasses in hotel bathrooms--necessary but infinitely disposable." Exuberant, moving, and keenly observed, Not That Kind of Girl is a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the struggle that is growing up. "I'm already predicting my future shame at thinking I had anything to offer you," Dunham writes. "But if I can take what I've learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine will have been worthwhile." Praise for Not That Kind of Girl "The gifted Ms. Dunham not only writes with observant precision, but also brings a measure of perspective, nostalgia and an older person's sort of wisdom to her portrait of her (not all that much) younger self and her world. . . . As acute and heartfelt as it is funny."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "It's not Lena Dunham's candor that makes me gasp. Rather, it's her writing--which is full of surprises where you least expect them. A fine, subversive book."--David Sedaris "This book should be required reading for anyone who thinks they understand the experience of being a young woman in our culture. I thought I knew the author rather well, and I found many (not altogether welcome) surprises."--Carroll Dunham "Witty, illuminating, maddening, bracingly bleak . . . [Dunham] is a genuine artist, and a disturber of the order."--The Atlantic

Not That Kind of Girl

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Janet Allon

How to Profit from Doing What You Love

Business advice especially for women, with profiles of two dozen entrepreneurs who have transformed their passions and hobbies into profitable careers. 150 color photos.

The Business of Bliss

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Parragon

Make this fashion guide the wardrobe essential of your bookshelf.

Fashion Style Book

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Deborah L. Martin

The Care and Feeding of Your First Grown

Grow joy in your home with Deborah L. Martin's Your Houseplant's First Year, featuring illustrations by artist Yu Kito Lee!

Being a good plant parent doesn't mean lavishing your plant with artisanal water, the shiniest pots, or the fanciest fertilizers. It's about consistent, loving care. No matter whether you choose to bring home an easy-growing peace lily or a strong-willed fiddle-leaf fig, the friendly, expert advice packed inside these pages will help you give your plant everything it needs to thrive.

-Discover the care that's best for your own special sprout
-Troubleshoot problems and help your plant achieve its full potential
-Expand your plant family with simple propagation tips
-Record special moments--from your plant's arrival in your home to milestones in growth

Get ready to enjoy a natural, healing bond; new confidence in your plant-parenting abilities; and pride in every achievement your sprout reaches. Your Houseplant's First Year will be your trusted guide as you grow together!

Your Houseplant's First Year

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Donna Kooler

150 stitch patterns 22 projects

Traces the history of knitting, describes the various tools and materials used, offers detailed how-to intructions for 164 different stitches and stitch patterns, and includes a variety of contemporary projects.

Donna Kooler's Encyclopedia of Knitting

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Mason -Dixon Knitting outside the lines

Sharon Boggon

Sarah Whittle

A Visual Reference of over 50 Needlecrafts and 130 Stitches that Go with Them

(back cover) Celebrating the versatility of needlecrafts, The Needlecraft Style Directory shows you not only how to begin, but also how to improve your skills in this most adaptable of crafts. Complement, supplement, expand, and develop your needlecraft expertise. Whether you are seeking new avenues for your creativity, or looking for fresh techniques to embellish and support your favorite craft, you need look no further than here. Covering over 50 needlecraft techniques and over 160 stitches, this book outlines the basics on stitching, embroidering, quilting, and appliqué. It also helps you find the best technique for your designs, and gives you all the information you need to choose your next creative direction. Comprehensive cross-referencing will direct you to information you need quickly and easily, and galleries showing finished work will inspire you to new levels of creativity. Topics Covered: Surface embroidery ● Straight stitches Counted thread work ● Buttonhole stitches Quilting, patchwork, and appliqué ● Chain stitches Basic stitches ● Pulled and drawn stitches Line stitches ● Needlepoint stitches Crossed stitches ● Knotting, couching, and filling

The Needlecraft Style Directory

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Maribel Valdez Harris

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