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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

Drafting and Design Simplified (edited by Sarah Sacks Dunn) is your Step-by-Step Guide to Drafting & Design

Declare your independence and find out how to draft and design your own quilts! A dream team of quiltmaking experts shares the latest and greatest techniques. There's no need to be a whiz at numbers! With clear, step-by-step directions and more than 350 photos and illustrations, you'll quickly learn the tricks, from resizing blocks to creating an original-- and wonderful-- quilt design.

Discover how to:
* Put design principles to work for you
* Take inspiration from photos or pictures to design original pictorial quilts
* Make your computer your favorite quilt design tool
* Create perfect circles, diamonds, hexagons, octagons, apple cores, clamshells, and kites
* Play with an image, adding, repeating, stretching, skewing, or curving it for a whole new look
* Draft dozens of patterns such as Stars, Mariner's Compass, Pineapples, Curved Flying Geese, Fans, Orange Peel, and many more

Drafting and Design Simplified

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25 Spectacular, Never-Before-Seen Designs for Rainbows of Fun

From the authors of the instant bestseller Loom Magic! comes a second amazing project book with twenty-five totally new and extreme designs! Rainbow Looms are taking the world by storm, with devotees of all ages accessorizing their wrists, backpacks, and rooms with fun and creative projects. These super imaginative, out-of-this-world projects will take your rubber band loom projects to the next level. Here are kid-tested step-by-step instructions and bright color photographs to show you how to make the coolest rubber band projects out there, including: Twisty headband Bouquet of flowers Octopus Decorated ponytail holder Fashion jewelry stand Glow-in-the-dark stars Zipper decoration Hockey stick Bloodshot eyeballs Black bat And many more!

Loom Magic Xtreme!

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Streamline your quiltmaking! Make more quilts in less time than you had imagined, inspired by the techniques that fill this book. Your quilts will go together quickly, with flair and precision. More than 230 color photographs and detailed step-by-step directions tell you how to marry rotary cutting with the best piecing techniques.

Learn these tips and tricks from the pros:

* Make your workspace work for you
* Take every opportunity to use strip piecing
* Create dozens of triangle squares in an afternoon
* Cut unusual shapes without templates
* Enjoy foundation piecing, hassle-free
* Learn shortcuts for adorable miniatures
* Complete speedy bed-size quilts in a weekend
* Discover the joys of quiltmaking with a buddy

Dozens of hints to help you get it right the first time!

Quilting that's quick, easy, and accurate!

Rotary Cutting and Speed Piecing

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Your Step-by-Step Guide to Sensational Sets & Borders

Discover lots of exciting new ways to arrange your stash of blocks in fresh, creative settings, and then surround them with a dynamic pieced or plain border. More than 200 quilter's-eye-view photos and clear step-by-step directions will guide you each step of the way.

Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn:

* Simple solutions for dealing with blocks that aren't the same size
* How to size and fit borders so they never, ever ripple or wave
* Sashing strategies that instantly add pizzazz to your quilts
* An ingenious, time-saving way to join blocks together (cut your assembly time in half!)
* The secrets to custom-fitting a pieced border
* Dozens of clever ideas for straight and diagonal settings

And much, much more!

Sensational Sets and Borders

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It’s never been easier to produce a fragrant, alluring bar of soap that’s good for the skin and produces mounds of Rich bubbles. Whether it’s melt and pour soaps or bath oils and salts, these simple recipes and techniques will enable you to enjoy one of life’s least expensive luxuries. And because the soap base can be melted in a microwave oven and cures immediately, you can create some thing really lovely in a single day.￼

Melt & Pour Soapmaking

Hardcover (under 2 lbs)

Oregon

Easy Do-It-Yourself Projects to Make for Your Favorite Pet

Have you always wanted to make your cat a new toy using basic household items? Want to make a homemade costume or outfit to give your furry feline friend a little style? Are you a fan of do-it-yourself projects? Look no further than this book then. With the easy-to-follow instructions in Creative Creations for Your Cat, learn to create toys and accessories such as: Scratching Boxes Food Dispenser Tubes Bow Ties Treat Jars Tents to Play In Fluffy Snake Toys Photo Frames And Much More! Full-color photography accompanies the straightforward tutorials to create an easy guide to creating and completing affordable projects your kitty will love. This is a great way to spend time with kids, while you learn how to make accessories and toys for your cat, using common materials and even recycling objects you have around the house, like bottles, old clothing, boxes, among other things. This book is the perfect gift for the cat-lover in your life, even if it’s yourself!

Creative Creations for Your Cat

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

A Knitter Sees the World

A New York Times Bestseller

Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world.
 
Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite readers and devoted crafters on excursions to be savored, from a guide who quickly comes to feel like a trusted confidante. In Knitlandia, she takes readers along on 17 of her most memorable journeys across the globe over the last 15 years, with stories spanning from the fjords of Iceland to a cozy yarn shop in Paris's 13th arrondissement.
 
Also known for her PBS television appearances and hugely popular line of small-batch handcrafted yarns, Parkes weaves her personal blend of wisdom and humor into this eloquently down-to-earth guide that is part personal travel narrative and part cultural history, touching the heart of what it means to live creatively. Join Parkes as she ventures to locales both foreign and familiar in chapters like:
 

 * Chasing a Legend in Taos
 * Glass, Grass, and the Power of Place: Tacoma, Washington
 * A Thing for Socks and a Very Big Plan: Portland, Oregon
 * Autumn on the Hudson: The New York Sheep & Wool Festival
 * Cashmere Dreams and British Breeds: A Last-Minute Visit to Edinburgh, Scotland

 
Fans of travel writing, as well as knitters, crocheters, designers, and fiber artists alike, will enjoy the masterful narrative in these intimate tales from a life well crafted. Whether you've committed to exploring your own wanderlust or are an armchair traveler curled up in your coziest slippers, Knitlandia is sure to inspire laughter, tears, and maybe some travel plans of your own.

Knitlandia

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick welcomes readers to the quirky, unforgettable town of Too Much, Texas, in a heartwarming, richly satisfying story of friendship and moving forward...

Mary Dell Templeton prefers the quiet charms of Too Much to the bright lights of Dallas any day. She's relieved to be moving back to her hometown-and bringing her cable TV show, Quintessential Quilting, with her. There are just a couple of wrinkles in her plan. Her son, Howard, who is her talented co-host and color consultant, and happens to have Down syndrome, wants to stay in Dallas and become more independent. Meanwhile, Mary Dell's new boss hopes to attract a different demographic-by bringing in a younger co-host.

What Holly Silva knows about quilting wouldn't fill a thimble, but she's smart and ambitious. Her career hinges on outshining the formidable Mary Dell in order to earn her own show. Yet as Holly adapts to small-town living and begins a new romance, and Mary Dell considers rekindling an old one, the two find unlikely kinship. For as Mary Dell knows, the women of Too Much have a knack for untangling the knottiest problems when they work together. And sometimes the pattern for happiness is as simple and surprising as it is beautiful...

From Here to Home

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Sandra McIver presents 18 designs based on the innovative one piece, one seam circular constructions she calls a swirl.

Knit, Swirl!

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50 Brand-New, Groundbreaking Stitch Patterns

Most of the stitch dictionaries on knitters' shelves are remixes of familiar stitch patterns already published elsewhere. Not so for Lynne Barr's groundbreaking book Reversible Knitting. Not only is every one of the 50 stitch patterns completely new and never before seen, but each is also reversible--for a total of 100 different looks!
Reversible stitch patterns can be used to create projects where either side can be worn facing outward, or where two sides of the piece are visible simultaneously (such as a scarf or a garment with collar or cuffs that that can be worn up or down). In addition to stitch patterns, the book features 20 such projects--from accessories like scarves, hats, and socks to sweaters and dresses--designed by the author and by 12 top knitwear designers including STC authors Véronik Avery, Norah Gaughan, and Teva Durham. Rounding out the book are in-depth instructions for the specialized techniques required for reversilbe work.

Reversible Knitting

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Popular quilting pattern designer Helen Squire, well known for her 'Dear Helen, Can You Tell Me...?' series of nine pattern books, updates any quilting library with 75 of the best patterns from twenty years of 'Helen's Hints,' her American Quilter magazine column. Mix and match the patterns and watch secondary designs come alive. Reduce, enlarge, and play with arrangements to suit your quilt's personality. Quilt as desired? No problem; the combinations are endless! All 75 patterns are suitable for hand or machine quilting.

75 Quilting Patterns - the Best of Helen's Hints

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Brand new. #suttonfoster #hooked #broadway #crochet #crafting #crossstitch #nonfiction #hardcover 

New York

How Crafting Saved My Life

From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV's Younger, funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business (and how it can help you, too). Whether she's playing an "age-defying" book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the Broadway stage, Sutton Foster manages to make it all look easy. How? Crafting. From the moment she picked up a cross stitch needle to escape the bullying chorus girls in her early performing days, she was hooked. Cross stitching led to crocheting, crocheting led to collages, which led to drawing, and so much more. Channeling her emotions into her creations centered Sutton as she navigated the significant moments in her life and gave her tangible reminders of her experiences. Now, in this charming and poignant collection, Sutton shares those moments, including her fraught relationship with her agoraphobic mother; a painful divorce splashed on the pages of the tabloids; her struggles with fertility; the thrills she found on the stage during hit plays like Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, and Violet; her breakout TV role in Younger; and the joy of adopting her daughter, Emily. Accompanying the stories, Sutton has included crochet patterns, recipes, and so much more! Witty and poignant, Hooked will leave readers entertained as well as inspire them to pick up their own cross stitch needles and paintbrushes.

Hooked

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Vanessa - Ann's Victorian Cross Stitch

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Texas

501 Crafts, Decorating and Food Ideas to Make Your Holiday Unforgettable

Introduces more than five hundred suggestions for holiday crafts, decorating tips, and food and entertaining ideas for Christmas, with instructions and patterns for crafters of different skill levels.

Christmas Comfort and Joy

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Hawaii

Create 30 Irresistible Projects with a Few Basic Stitches

Divided into five sections--Basic, Timeless, Contemporary, Heirloom, and Vintage--a selection of thirty decorative crochet projects is accompanied by simple, step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs and illustrations that explain how to create stylish scarves, wraps, afghans, fashion accessories, and more.

Essential Crochet

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Missouri

Texture, Color, Desgin, and the Global Knitting Circle

The craft of knitting continues to thrive, both as a way to produce unique, stylish, handcrafted garments, and as a practice of meditative solace in a stressful world. This lively, comprehensive book for the growing population of contemporary knitters is an invaluable guide to fiber quality, texture, color, and pattern resources. It provides a complete global overview, from the politics of knitting as economic opportunity in undeveloped areas to the communal pleasures of Internet knitting circles to the inspiring beauty of ethnic motif in mittens, scarves, socks, and other items. Lisa Myers profiles influential designers, celebrates the joys of knitting in solitude and the tactile pleaures of yarn, and provides patterns for projects including a Log Cabin Pillow, an "intellectually challenging" three-dimensional hat, a Mobius scarf, and even a Palm Pilot cover. Lisa Myers holds a Ph.D. in English literature and is the proprietor of Sophie's Yarns in Philadelphia.

The Joy of Knitting

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

And Other Greetings That Slide, Dangle and Move

Pop-up cards, with their wonderfully interactive, dimensional nature, are all the rage these days--and renowned artist Sandi Genovese shows crafters how to make their own. These 25 memorable projects truly make cards pop, including a multi-tiered chocolate cake design that looks good enough to eat; an ornament-bedecked, three-dimensional Christmas tree card for the holidays; and the accordion-folded “Hand in Hand” card that seems to applaud when it's opened and closed. All projects feature a gorgeous color shot of the completed card, templates, and a vibrant page layout.

Pop-Up Cards

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Connecticut

Knitters take their work with them on the bus, on the subway, on the airplane . . . everywhere. This pretty, purse-sized knitting guide packed with helpful tips and tricks will be the new best friend of knitters on the go.

Written by crafting expert Jayne Davis, Pocket Posh Tips for Knitters goes beyond knit 1, purl 2 to offer helpful tips and tricks on selecting yarn, refining patterns, and completing projects. 

Pocket Posh Tips for Knitters

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The Vanessa-Ann Collection

Holidays In Cross Stitch (1990)

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Quick and Easy Cross Stitch Gifts

30 Daring Designs to Celebrate Strong Women

Trailblazing women take center stage in Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch, a collection of stylish patterns and capsule biographies that celebrates some of our favorite lady heroes. Feminism is back in the spotlight, and powerful women, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Malala Yousafzai to Gloria Steinem and Michelle Obama, have inspired a whole new generation to smash the patriarchy. With an introduction on the rise of modern feminism, and instructions on the basics of cross-stitch, this book features patterns for embroidering twenty iconic women -- like suffragette Susan B. Anthony, author Virginia Woolf, political icon Hillary Rodham Clinton, and pop superstar Beyoncé -- and ten empowering feminist sayings. This charming book gives today's nasty women everything they need to begin crafting hip, feminist works of art.

Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch

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Go beyond the basics of knitting! Learn how to convert flat patterns to circular techniques with 12 classic, beautiful projects suitable for all ages.

With The Art of Seamless Knitting, take your knowledge of top-down, bottom-up, and seamless knitting to a higher level by adapting lace, cable, and color patterns to circular knitting and shaping techniques. The book delves deep, showing different modes of construction and stitch pattern adaptations for seamless (or nearly-seamless) knits while also offering a sophisticated collection of elegant and timeless designs that knit up quickly, give a custom fit, and do not require sewing.

The Art of Seamless Knitting is the go-to hands-on reference book that will be a staple in any knitter's library.

Sarah Sacks Dunn

Drafting and Design Simplified

John McCann; Becky Thomas; Monica Sweeney

Loom Magic Xtreme!

Sarah Sacks Dunn (Editor)

Rotary Cutting and Speed Piecing

Sally Schneider

Sensational Sets and Borders

Marie Browning

Melt & Pour Soapmaking

Norma Martínez, Carlota Cirera

Creative Creations for Your Cat

Clara Parkes

Knitlandia

Marie Bostwick

From Here to Home

Sandra McIver

Knit, Swirl!

Lynne Barr; Thayer Allyson Gowdy (Photographer)

Reversible Knitting

Helen Squire

75 Quilting Patterns - the Best of Helen's Hints

Sutton Foster

Hooked

Various

Vanessa - Ann's Victorian Cross Stitch

Better Homes and Gardens Editors (Editor); Carol Dahlstrom (Editor)

Christmas Comfort and Joy

Erika Knight

Essential Crochet

Lisa R. Myers

The Joy of Knitting

Sandi Genovese

Pop-Up Cards

Jayne Davis; Jodie Davis

Pocket Posh Tips for Knitters

Various

Holidays In Cross Stitch (1990)

Oxmor House

Quick and Easy Cross Stitch Gifts

Anna Fleiss; Lauren Mancuso

Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch

S. Mechant

Art of Seamless Knitting

Popular Mechanics Press Editors (Editor)

The Boy Mechanic

Popular Mechanics Press Editors (Editor); C. J. Petersen (Produced by)

The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys