Weekend Quilts

This is the book for time-challenged quilters. Instructions are divided into one-hour segments. With Judy's organizing tips, you'll be able to pick up right where you left off with ease. Quilt patterns include Almost Argyle, Bingo Whirl, Bloom Where You're Planted, Cotton Candy Squares, Crown of Stars, Fire on the Mountain, Gratitude, Gumdrop Mountain, Just Snowballs, Katlin, Lacy Lou, Shadow Stars, Shine on Bayou Cane, Leaf Season, Walk in the Forest, and Winter Break.

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Decorating With Papercraft: 25 Fresh and Eco-Friendly Projects for the Home

Paper’s not just for note cards or scrapbooking anymore! Decorate your home with the 25 fun and fabulous eco-friendly papercraft projects featured in this inspiring new collection. You can conjure up tea light lanterns, vintage flower lampshades, decorative bowls, picture frames, stacking photo cubes, even a decoupaged dresser…all from paper, both new and recycled. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and beautiful photography guide you through the process of making these chic, one-of-a kind designs. There are patterns for all skill levels as well as pages of templates conveniently included in the back of the book for reference.
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New Masters of Woodturning: Expanding the Boundaries of Wood Art

In this unique collection of contemporary art that has redefined the limits of shaped wood, crafters and designers alike are treated to a wealth of knowledge from 31 leading wood artists who share their personal motivations, thought processes, and the studio techniques employed to bring out the breath-taking beauty of wood. Contemporary artists such as Virginia Dodson, Binh Pho, Harvey Fein, Paul Fennell, and Marilyn Campbell are among those whose works are given studio-quality photographic treatment. Each featured piece encourages crafters to find new ways of connecting with their own creative channels and makes this book an important document of the modern craft—sure to become a treasure in every woodworking library.

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130 Projects to Get You Into Filmmaking

"If the screenplay equation of one page equaling one minute of screen time can be applied, then Grove, a producer and founder of Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards, couldn't provide a more tightly packed and potent two-hour narrative. This may be the most engaging and visually demonstrative introduction to filmmaking available in print. Actual filmic examples of diagrammed screenshots, storyboards, script breakdown sheets, business forms, equipment, lighting, makeup, and shot catalogs help to flesh out attractively the author's attainable 130 steps from idea to direction to postproduction to marketing and publicity." (LJ Reviews)

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Photography: A Critical Introduction

Photography : a Critical Introduction, 4th ed. includes over one hundred photographs and images in full color. Featured artists include Bill Brandt, Susan Derges, Rineke Dijkstra, Lee Friedlandler, Fran Herbello, Hannah Hoch, Karen Knorr, Dorothea Lange, Chrystal Lebas, Lee Miller, Martin Parr and more.
Chapters cover key debates in photographic theory and history, documentary photography and photojournalism, photography and the human body and photography in the age of electronic imaging.

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Knitwear Design Workshop: A Comprehensive Guide to Handknits

Learn to design knitwear with a perfect individual fit! From the initial spark of inspiration to the sewing of the last seam, Shirley Paden will guide you through the knitwear design process in the new Knitwear Design Workshop. Based on successful workshops Paden teaches to the fashion industry in New York, Knitwear Design Workshop finally gives you the foundation to take your knitwear designs to the next level with confidence. 

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Creative Silver Chains: 20 Dazzling Designs

                                           Silver chains are the backbone of any jewelry collection and these distinctive designs have special handmade touches that machine-made jewelry just can’t match. The best part is that anyone can craft them, thanks to this extensively illustrated introduction that explains all the basics, from link formation to soldering and polishing. Try one or all of the 20 exquisite projects like the Geometric Chain, comprised of varied wire forms that rest in the crooks of their neighboring links, or the Spine design, which utilizes flattened wire and unique pivoting joinery. A gallery of contemporary chains provides inspiration.

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Vintage Collage Journals: Journaling With Antique Ephemera

Vintage Collage Journals is the sequel to artist Maryjo Koch’s Vintage Collage-Works, her first book illustrating her unique style of collage art with antique ephemera. In her new book, Koch has compiled an inspiring portfolio of her many themed journals combining collage techniques with watercolor painting and other artist’s techniques. She explores the collage medium in travel journals, recipe keepsake books, and nature and garden sketchbooks. As an avid collector of antique paper ephemera, Koch utilizes the things she collects in inventive ways to add personal touches to her journals, mingling them with photos, sketches, and paintings of the many themes she explores. Along the way, she also shows how the act of making a journal can be a valuable way to explore an experience or subject in greater depth.
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Chic&Easy Beading: Fast and Fun Fashion Jewelry Projects

Chic & Easy Beading, Vol. 3 offers a collection of projects for making jewelry in only a few hours. While beginners can learn to craft jewelry with stringing, wirework, and basic bead-stitching techniques, the variety of projects and stunning materials will appeal to beaders of all levels. Gemstones, pearls, crystals, metal, and chain combine for some of the best and easiest projects collected from the pages of Bead&Button.

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Knitting Brioche: The Essential Guide to the Brioche Stitch

The essential guide to the Brioche stitch, a knitting technique that creates a double-sided fabric, most classically a deeply-ribbed fabric. Learn to knit the brioche stitch and learn the necessary abbreviations and terms. Over 50 different variations of the basic brioche stitch are featured, along with 25 patterns including hats, gloves, sweaters, capelets and more. If you ever wanted to learn how to do the Brioche Stitch, this is the book. This book covers everything brioche, including casting on, basic brioche stitch, brioche stitch variations and provides some wonderful patterns to try out your new skills. Patterns include "the book exchange cardigan" a nice men's cardigan, "the tulip caplet" a purple and violet caplet, "delfs's blauw" this is a white and blue beanie, "darmstadt pullover" a woman's pullover sweater, "hedera jacket" a beautiful woman's jacket, "fiets hand shoes" adult size woman's hand warmers and many more! Brioche stitch creates a deeply ribbed very warm fabric.

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Wool Pets: Making 20 Figures With Wool Roving and a Barbed Needle

Anyone can make cute and cuddly creatures from a handful of fluff and a barbed needle! There are only a few books written on the subject and most of those focus on ‘flat’ needle felting on a surface. This book is about sculptural needle felting—creating 3-D animals and figures using the felting needle to sculpt wool.

The book shows the techniques and describes how the felting needle works with wool fiber to create felt, while explaining the differences between this art form and other forms of felting. The reader learns how to hold the needle, what sort of materials to use, and why.

There are about 20 complete projects including various birds, bugs, four-legged animals, and people—each one unique and irresistible! Laurie also shows the reader ways to display their felted creations as mobiles, ornaments, or arranged in shadow boxes.

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