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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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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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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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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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

Amy Sedaris

First Edition 
Ex-library book in excellent condition with the exception Library stickers on the front cover and on the spine, as well as a stamp on the 4th page

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Crafts for Poor People

Describes how to make unconventional crafts from simple materials and offers humorous advice on finding inspiration for crafts, creating a craft room, avoiding the most common crafting accidents, and cooking edible crafts.

Simple Times

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New Jersey

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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Yumiko Higuchi

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Beautiful Motifs That Explore Stitching with Wool, Cotton, and Metallic Threads

Stitch simple and striking embroidery designs with wool, cotton, pearl cotton, and metallic threads. Japanese artist Yumiko Higuchi is celebrated for her embroidery designs with a Scandinavian flair. The motifs and patterns she offers here are true to her trademark zakka style: simple and graphic yet softened with organic shapes and imagery drawn from nature. The result is embroidery that feels modern and nostalgic all at once. In Embroidered Botanicals, Higuchi offers 39 embroidery projects highlighting the distinctive quality of different threads. With motifs created specifically for different types of thread-wool, cotton, pearl cotton, and metallic-makers will become better versed in the materials available to them. With beautiful photographs, clear step-by-step instructions, and detailed diagrams, this book will be an inspiring guide for those new to embroidery and a fresh and unique offering for those experienced with needle and thread.

Embroidered Botanicals

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

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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Judith Baker Montano

Hardcover book with spiraled pages within (see last picture). Pages lay flat, making it super easy to follow the instructions as you learn and perfect the stitches.  

4.46 rating on Goodreads.

￼Book is in like new condition, with the exception of a name written on the first page in the upper right hand corner. ￼

An Illustrated Stitch Guide and Source Book of Inspiration

Learn all there is to know about silk ribbon stitches, crazy-quilt stitches, composite stitches, and even left-handed stitches. Compact enough to fit in your work basket, the book is spiral bound-leaving your hands free to work.

Elegant Stitches

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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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Alanna Okun

North Carolina

Essays on Crafting

The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is a memoir about life truths learned through crafting. People who craft know things. They know how to transform piles of yarn into sweaters and scarves. They know that some items, like woolen bikini tops, are better left unknit. They know that making a hat for a newborn baby isn’t just about crafting something small but appreciating the beginnings of life, which sometimes helps make peace with the endings. They know that if you knit your boyfriend a sweater, your relationship will most likely be over before the last stitch. Alanna Okun knows that crafting keeps her anxiety at bay. She knows that no one will ever be as good a knitting teacher as her beloved grandmother. And she knows that even when we can’t control anything else, we can at least control the sticks, string, and fabric right in front of us. Okun lays herself bare and takes readers into the parts of themselves they often keep hidden. Yet at the same time she finds humor in the daily indignities all crafters must face (like when you catch the dreaded Second Sock Syndrome and can’t possibly finish the second in a pair). Okun has written a book that will speak to anyone who has said to themselves, or to everyone within earshot, “I made that.”

The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater

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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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Alabama

Quick Creative Quilting

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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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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Quilts made easy

Our Best Scrap Quilts

From that Patchwork Place

These 15 festive quilt patterns have been taken from our most popular books and transformed into a collection of colorful designs that capture the holiday spirit.

Favorite Christmas Quilts

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Make the most of scraps, spare parts, and leftovers

Patchwork-play Quilts

Mandy Southan

Mandy Southan takes the art of Shibori, in which fabric is bound, clamped or stitched before dyeing, and goes beyond the traditional blue and white to create fabrics in a fabulous array of colours, patterns and textures. Clear step by step photographs and instructions demonstrate how to use acid dyes and cold water reactive dyes in a variety of creative ways. Mandy then demonstrates shibori techniques such as binding, hand painting, capping, stitching, folding and clamping, pole winding and pole wrapping can be used to create truly wonderful dyed fabrics.

Shibori Designs and Techniques

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New York

Catriona Tudor Erler

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Arkansas

A guide providing ideas, hints, and tips for landscaping gardens for experienced garden designers or just a green-fingered enthusiasts. It features more than 350 colour photos and offers guidance on planting and growing.

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Norma Martínez, Carlota Cirera

Creative Creations for Your Cat

Sarah Sacks Dunn

Drafting and Design Simplified

Sarah Sacks Dunn (Editor)

Rotary Cutting and Speed Piecing

John McCann; Becky Thomas; Monica Sweeney

Loom Magic Xtreme!

Sally Schneider

Sensational Sets and Borders

Marie Browning

Melt & Pour Soapmaking

Amy Sedaris

Simple Times

Sutton Foster

Hooked

Yumiko Higuchi

Embroidered Botanicals

Jayne Davis; Jodie Davis

Pocket Posh Tips for Knitters

Judith Baker Montano

Elegant Stitches

Marie Bostwick

From Here to Home

Alanna Okun

The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater

Sandra McIver

Knit, Swirl!

Lynne Barr; Thayer Allyson Gowdy (Photographer)

Reversible Knitting

Helen Squire

75 Quilting Patterns - the Best of Helen's Hints

Jeanne stauffer

Quick Creative Quilting

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

Christmas Comfort and Joy

Susan R Wright

Our Best Scrap Quilts

Mary Green (Editor)

Favorite Christmas Quilts

Lynn Roddy Brown

Patchwork-play Quilts

Mandy Southan

Shibori Designs and Techniques

Sutton Foster

Hooked

Catriona Tudor Erler

♻️ Design Ideas for Home Landscaping