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50 Little Paper-Pieced Blocks: Full-Size Patterns to Mix & Match
by Carol Doak“A delightful little volume . . . will inspire you to create colorful 3” blocks for use in greeting cards, name tags, tote bags, and small wallhangings.” —American QuilterCreate perfectly-pieced miniature quilt blocks in a variety of themes—from hearts and flowers to airplanes and birthday cakes. Secure them inside your Carol Doak’s Keepsake Frame Cards for gift-giving and artistic display. These blocks are also perfect to mix and match for making table linens, wall quilts, and other small projects.Patterns include: Airplane * Apple * Basket (2) * Birdhouse * Birthday Cake * Bluebird * Candle * Crayons * Cross * Dreidel * Duck * Egg * Fan * Flowers (7) * Gift * Girl * Hearts/Love (5) * Hot Air Balloon * House * Mailbox * Maple Leaf * Ornament * Pinwheel * Sailboat * Shamrock * Square * Stars (8) * Sunrise * Trees (3) * Umbrella
Fanciful Cloth Dolls: From Tip of the Nose to Curly Toes: Step-by-Step Visual Guide
by Terese CatoThe self-taught designer guides you through creating enchanting heirlooms—including a tooth fairy, pincushion girls, an elf, and a tiny flower sprite. You don’t have to be a doll maker to enjoy crafting these little sweethearts. If you love to craft and sew, you’ll have fun learning new techniques for creating a whimsical fairy, an impish elf, or a sweet pincushion girl. From fabric sculpting to face painting and all the finishing touches, every captivating detail of your doll will be appreciated for years to come. A charming gallery of variations for each project will inspire you to add distinctive character and personal flair to your creations. Create a special keepsake doll that your family will cherish for generationsEach of the four projects has complete head-to-toe instructions, including details for expressive faces, perfect hair, cute clothes, and an abundance of accessoriesPerfect for both beginner and experienced doll enthusiasts—learn the basics, try new techniques, and sprinkle in your own unique embellishment style
Top Chef: The Cookbook
by Bravo MediaThe creators of Bravo’s Top Chef share inside stories and more than 100 recipes in this New York Times bestselling cookbook and series companion.In Top Chef: The Cookbook, Tom Colicchio invites fans and home chefs into the hottest kitchen on prime time. This volume features some of the most memorable winning recipes from the first three seasons, as well as dishes from the Elimination Rounds and the Quick-Fire Challenges. Here you’ll find Elia Aboumrad’s Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Waffles; C.J. Jacobson’s Crepes; Hung Huynh’s Tuna Tartare; Lea Anne Wong’s Deep Fried Oysters; Tre Wilcox III’s Bacon wrapped Shrimp; and much more.In-depth discussions with contestants, judges, and crew reveal the inner workings of the show, and lavish photographs take readers behind-the-scenes into the Top Chef pantry and competition sites. This cookbook will have aspiring culinary contenders reliving classic show moments and relishing new recipes!
Cats on Instagram
by @cats_of_instagramFrom the popular Instagram profile comes this collection of adorable cat photos to warm the hearts of cat lovers everywhere.Cat lovers, rejoice! This irresistible book compiles more than four hundred photos from the hugely popular Instagram profile @cats_of_instagram into a keepsake treasure. Playful categories including “bowties,” “surprise!,” and “happy cats” showcase all the charm and delightful quirks of the wide world of cats. This is an ebook that will have feline fans smiling in recognition, surprise, and appreciation.
Playful Precut Quilts: 15 Projects with Blocks to Mix & Match
by Amanda NeiderhauserModern precuts meet classic quilt blocks in this guide featuring 15 patterns by the popular quilt designer and author of the Jedi Craft Girl blog.Designer Amanda Niederhauser lets you into the creative process with quilt blocks that you can mix, match and customize with your own personal touch. Playful Precut Quilts features 15 different 12” blocks in an engaging variety of settings and sizes. You can make a sweet sampler quilt with all 15 blocks or repeat motifs for endless variations. Wherever you are on your quilt journey, these precut-friendly patterns make it a breeze to mix colors and prints. With designs that will appeal to every quilter, this book will quickly become your “go to” when you want to make a table runner for your friend’s birthday, a baby quilt for your newborn niece, or a throw for your parents’ anniversary.
You Are So Loved
by Chronicle BooksA follow-up to the bestselling Everything Is Going to Be Okay—bold words of affirmation with audaciously positive art, craft, photography, and design.Good vibes are back—and are exactly what the world needs now. And uplifting messages of hope, love, and encouragement continue to crop up everywhere in contemporary art and design. You Are So Loved serves up a second delightful helping of optimism from a mix of favorite artists from the first book—including Enormous champion, Katie Daisy, and Jen Renninger—and new talent like Dallas Clayton, Lisa Congdon, and Jessica Hische. Each artist offers warm and fuzzy sentiments packaged in cutting-edge art. Whether it’s an invitation to stay in the “here and now” or a reminder that “everything’s alright forever,” there’s a breath of fresh air on every page.“The printed version of a giant hug.” —Design*Sponge
1, 2, 3 Quilt: Shape Up Your Skills with 24 Stylish Projects
by Ellen Luckett BakerThe author of 1, 2, 3 Sew brings her creative skill-building approach to beginning and intermediate quilters—with two dozen projects included.In this book, expert seamstress and craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker shares her fun building-block approach to quilting. Organized by quilting shapes—squares, triangles, hexagons, circles, flowers, stars, and diamonds—this easy-to-follow guide provides a simple way to master the elements of quilt design.Twenty-four projects progress in difficulty, allowing you to develop your technical skills as you work through the book. From the minimal Argyle Apron to the stylish Hexagon Handbag and more intricate Star Quilt, these modern, bright designs will appeal to beginning and intermediate quilters alike.
Sensational Quilts for Scrap Lovers: 11 Easily Pieced Projects; Color & Cutting Strategies
by Judy GauthierDiscover new possibilities for your fabric stash with this guide featuring 11 easy scrap quilts using ingenious, no-waste cutting techniques!Quilter Judy Gauthier is a master of turning fabric scraps into fabulous quilts. In this practical guide, sheshares her secrets for conquering that mountain of odds and ends. Learn how to piece gorgeous scrap quilts from fabric prints you never thought would go together—even remnants in odd shapes and sizes. Judy’s easy-to-use templates and color theory tips will have you cutting up your scrap surplus and making magic in no time. With these fun and inspiring projects, playing with scraps may become your all-time favorite sport.
Bead Jewelry 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily through Step-by-Step Instruction (Look, Learn & Create)
by Karen Mitchell Ann MitchellPacked with photos—a complete bead jewelry course in a book, with thirty easy projects!Written for the absolute beginner, Bead Jewelry 101 is filled with thorough instructions and step-by-step photographs that expertly guide you through the basics of making bead jewelry. Authors Ann and Karen Mitchell are a dynamic team of jewelry designers who will teach you all about the tools and materials while showing you how to use them. After a visual glossary that familiarizes you with various materials you'll be working with, project chapters are organized by different jewelry parts, called findings, so you will learn new techniques and build new skills with every piece of jewelry you create. You'll discover thirty easy projects, and variations of the projects will give you great ideas and lead you in unlimited new directions as you learn to design your own jewelry. Learn to make bead jewelry in just a few hours and enjoy the rewards for a lifetime with Bead Jewelry 101!
Kim Schaefer's Skinny Quilts: 15 Bed Runners, Table Toppers & Wallhangings
by Kim SchaeferMake the most of narrow spaces with these 15 quilting projects that use appliqué and piecing techniques, by the author of Quilts from Textured Solids.Skinny quilts put the spotlight on narrow spaces with surprising splashes of color and personality. These quick projects are a great way to bring your scrap stash to life and accent a tabletop or other slice of space with pizazz. Bestselling author Kim Schaefer’s latest book features fifteen fun projects, using both applique and piecing techniques in a variety of color palettes and styles. Easy to do and perfect for last minute gifts and décor.
Foolproof Fabric Dyeing
by Linda JohansenA reference guide to all you need to know to dye fabric, including necessary tools, the best dyes, which fabrics to use, additives, precautions, and more.Dyeing expert and author of Fabric Dyer’s Dictionary, Linda Johansen offers a full overview of the process, including special tips and techniques for tricky colors. The compact size is perfect to take along to a class or to the fabric store to match complementary fabrics and materials. And the hidden wire-o binding will allow the guide to lay flat next to your work surface for easy reference.Dyeing is addictive! You’ll come back to this must-have guide over and overComplete and easy-to-follow recipes for every shade and hue for each color of the spectrumIncludes directions for Dharma and ProChemical dyes
Carol Doak's Creative Combinations: Stunning Blocks & Borders from a Single Unit
by Carol Doak“Try Carol’s inspirational quilts projects by learning how to work with unit placement, how to paper piece and how to choose your fabrics.” —Fabrications Quilting for YouCarol Doak is back with something new for paper piecers! Learn how the same rectangular unit can work in dramatically different ways in the blocks and borders of your quilt. If you haven’t tried paper-piecing yet, you’ll discover how quickly and easily your quilt comes together with Carol’s foundation piecing technique. She provides tips for tools and fabrics, plus plenty of inspiration. Get creative with your own unit combinations—link to online patterns that give you the flexibility to change the size of your quilt, or design your own pattern“Doak is the doyenne of foundation paper piecing—a quilt-piecing technique that uses a paper foundation for precision stitching of quilt blocks . . . Most of the blocks are beginner friendly, and Doak’s expert guidance helps quilters new to the technique get started . . .This collection will appeal to quilters of all skill levels.” —Library Journal“Instead of giving designs for square quilt blocks, Carol Doak’s clever concept is to design rectangular paper-pieced units which can then be combined in different ways to make unique blocks or borders. Each unit is presented with multiple design possibilities, reinforcing their versatility.” —Quilters Newsletter
Duct Tape Engineer: The Book of Big, Bigger, and Epic Duct Tape Projects (Engineer Ser.)
by Lance AkiyamaLearn to create furniture, bags, outdoor items, and more using duct tape and simple tools and materials, with no special engineering skills needed.Start with duct tape basics that will aid in assembly: Learn cutting and tearing methods and taping techniques (yes, there's more to it than slapping it down). Discover how to make sturdy duct tape sheets that can be cut and shaped. Using easily accessible tools and supplies like a utility knife and heavy-duty cardboard boxes, try your hand at making a desk and desk chair. Grab some foam and make a backpack, or create a custom hammock. Build a geodesic dome, and go truly epic with a giant pyramid catapult.Every project includes step-by-step instructions and clear diagrams and photos. Don't miss Lance Akiyama's tips and suggestions for supplies, project variations, and material substitutions. Follow the solid construction techniques and you'll ensure that these DIY projects will become favorite classroom activities and family projects.Among the projects are:A lightweight bed frame and full-size dresser with working drawersOutdoor pieces like a hammock and garden swingA heavy-duty toolbox with pockets galore, and a stylish two-color messenger bagBallistics, including a slingshotA kayak!These projects are real, they work, and are super fun. Roll up your sleeves and let the engineering begin!
Foolproof Walking-Foot Quilting Designs: Visual Guide Idea Book
by Mary MashutaLearn to create a wide array of designs for walking-foot quilting no matter what your skill level.Take your machine’s walking foot for a walk on the wild side and move beyond basic stitch-in-the-ditch quilting! In her follow-up to bestselling Foolproof Machine Quilting, award-winning author Mary Mashuta teaches you how to quilt attractive lines, curves, and geometric shapes with a walking foot. The book includes a multitude of designs, each adapted for walking-foot quilting and marked with clock icons to indicate the skill level and time required to accomplish it. This visual guide provides an inspirational gallery of 30 finished quilts and is enhanced by detailed photos of successfully quilted blocks, center panels, sashing, borders, and corners.• Includes clock icons for each design to indicate the skill level and time required to accomplish• Custom designs to fit every block, border, and corner—with no marking and no math• Ideas for using commercial quilting templates, paper cuttings, and traditional sashiko-style designs• Decorative stitches, hand quilting, and embellishments are used to enhance piecing
Anatomy of a Doll: The Fabric Sculptor's Handbook
by Susanna Oroyan&“At last! A complete book on doll design and soft sculpture has been written.&” —Virginia Robertson, designer and publisher Master dollmaker Susanna Oroyan gives you the definitive book on fabric sculpting. Anatomy of a Doll is packed with an abundance of exquisite photographs that capture the best work from dollmakers today. Detailed step-by-step illustrations for an incredible variety of cloth dolls are included for you to create any type of cloth doll imaginable. Many methods of doll construction are covered so that beginning and professional dollmakers have a handy answer book. Beginners will find the book a practical guide that examines techniques for making all kinds of dolls. The more experienced dollmaker will discover an abundance of new ideas and techniques never before found in one book. Anatomy of a Doll shows you everything from bending wire to cutting cloth, which will allow you to create your own original dolls!&“[Enjoy] this book as a peerless museum guide, as a user&’s manual of the inventive hand and mind, and as a parable of science.&” —Scientific American&“It&’s finally happened—the cloth doll book that says it all! Thank you Susanna—the table is set, the banquet is prepared!&” —Elinor Peace Bailey, author of Storytelling with Dolls&“Here is all the information you need—written in Susie&’s friendly, casual style.&” —Cary Raesner, editor of Doll World
Renewable Energy Development: Technology, Material and Sustainability (Clean Energy Production Technologies)
by Santosh Kumar Vivek Kumar SinghThis edited volume is a comprehensive guide to understanding and harnessing the power of renewable energy for a sustainable future. In a world dealing with the urgent need to combat climate change and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, this book provides a new perspective on renewable energy. It is filled with cutting-edge research and practical insights, exploring the technologies, advanced materials, and sustainability practices driving the renewable energy revolution. Renewable energy resources are developing the latest advancements in solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass, tidal, and wave energy technologies. This book is unique and opens a new window on classic renewable energy sources as well as new developments in technology, advanced material innovation, and sustainability aspects leading with various factors such as energy storage, transmission, institutional and economic factors, renewable energy application in smart cities, building and other solar thermal applications, environmental aspects, electrical energy generation, and climate change mitigation potential to achieve net-zero targets. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, climate change scientists, capacity builders, and policymakers. Additionally, the book serves as an additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of sustainable energy, engineering, material science, and environmental sciences. National and international energy, sustainable and material scientists, managers, and policymakers will also find this to be a useful read.
Oculoplastic Surgery: A Practical Guide to Common Disorders
by Essam A. El ToukhyThis book provides guidance on various clinical approaches for treating oculoplastic disorders as well as ocular trauma. Highly illustrated and informative chapters examine the interaction between oculoplasty, ophthalmic sub-specialties (pediatrics, cataract, refractive, neuro, glaucoma) and other relevant clinical areas throughout the chapters. Oculoplastic Surgery: A Practical Guide to Common Disorders, 2nd Edition has been fully revised where required with the latest insights and research featuring new chapters on corneal neurotization, lacrimal disorders, reconstruction of the complicated socket and the psychological aspects of lid anomalies and scars. Consultants, surgeons, trainees and health professionals from all the specialties and sub-specialties related to oculoplasty, will find this book to be an indispensable resource for further developing skills and knowledge in the field of oculoplastic surgery.
Inside HBO's Game of Thrones
by Bryan CogmanThe official companion to HBO’s blockbuster fantasy series features 100s of photos, storyboards, costume designs, insider stories, and much more.One of the highest-rated cable series of all time, HBO’s Game of Thrones was a major cultural phenomenon. In this official companion book, executive story editor Bryan Cogman gives fans new ways to enter this expansive fantasy world and discover more about the characters and electrifying plotlines. Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones: Seasons 1 & 2 reveal how the show’s creators translated George R. R. Martin’s best-selling fantasy series into the unforgettable land of Westeros. Featuring interviews with key actors and crew members that capture the best scripted and unscripted moments from the first two seasons, as well as a preface by George R. R. Martin, this special volume offers exclusive access to this beloved television series.
Dogs on Instagram
by @dogsofinstagramFrom the popular Instagram profile comes this collection of adorable dog photos to warm the hearts of dog lovers everywhere.Dog lovers are a passionate bunch, and Instagram is the perfect platform for expressing their devotion. The curators behind @dogsofinstagram channel this passion perfectly in this delightful book, a must-have collection featuring more than four hundred of the best crowdsourced dog photographs from their wildly popular feed. For dog lovers by dog lovers, this eclectic compilation celebrates the full spectrum of things to love about our four-legged friends.
Radiant Landscapes: Transform Tiled Colors & Textures into Dramatic Quilts
by Gloria Loughman&“By playing with light and color, [Loughman] designs additional dimensions to quilted landscapes, thereby creating smashing results.&” —Publishers Weekly Light not only catches the eye, it can transform your work into something truly magical. With four inspiring projects to get you started, world-renowned, award-winning quilt artist Gloria Loughman shows you how light can set a mood. You&’ll get stunning results with her mosaic tile process for capturing the essence of natural light with your fabric selection. You&’ll learn how to create your own landscape quilt with her easy-to-master techniques, including fusible tiling, invisible machine appliqué, free-motion stitching, plus fabric dyeing and painting. In addition, she shares important design principles behind perspective, composition, color, and focal points that add dramatic depth to your landscape appliqué quilts.
The History of Vegas: Stories
by Jodi AngelA collection of dark short fiction about neglected and troubled teenagers, named a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year.Trouble. From the first page of each of the edgy and unrelentingly intense stories in this debut collection, the teenaged characters are headed for big trouble. The adult world has mostly failed them, and they find themselves entering into highly charged situations where they make their own rules, with misguided understanding of the consequences. The stories burn hot and fast, providing searing insights into their world of sex, drugs, drinking, violence, and accidental grace, played out in small, tough towns. Written with raw directness and understanding that makes these stories impossible to forget, The History of Vegas announces an exciting, fresh talent. “Bright, brooding, iconic, and dark.” —Anthony Swofford, New York Times bestselling author of Jarhead“In essence, Angel is writing a kind of abbreviated naturalism, the kind of fiction that writers like Raymond Carver and Larry Brown honed to perfection. Angel excels at it as well, whether the setting is the urban jungle of Las Vegas, the dirt roads of the lonely, expansive West or even the seemingly placid suburbs.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Braids, Buns, and Twists!: Step-by-Step Tutorials for 82 Fabulous Hairstyles
by Christina ButcherStep up your style with this illustrated guide to runway-ready hair: “This book should be every hair hopper’s new bible” (BUST Magazine).Changing your hairdo is a fun and easy way to get a fresh new look. Whether you’re headed for a big night out or just adding a little style to your day, you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for in Braids, Buns, and Twists.This guide features tutorials and simple, step-by-step illustrations for 82 classic and contemporary styles. Plus, full-color fashion photographs demonstrate how to tailor and accessorize each ’do. With advice for different hair types and lengths as well as product tips and fun variations, Braids, Buns, and Twists! is the must-have beauty resource for showstopping hair.
Make Your First Quilt with Alex Anderson: Beginner's Simple Step-by-Step Visual Guide
by Alex AndersonThis illustrated beginner’s guide takes you through the skills, tools, and techniques you need to make your first quilt—from first step to last stitch.Alex Anderson has taught countless quilters across the world through her books and television programs. In Make Your First Quilt with Alex Anderson, she offers step-by-step instructions and illustrations designed for beginners. Alex explains the basics of quilting, such as choosing fabrics, rotary cutting, basting, quilting, and binding.For your first quilt journey, Alex teaches you how to piece classic Arkansas Crossroad blocks. With these fundamentals in place, it’s time to choose from 12 different layout options—in 4 different sizes—as you embark on your first quilt!
A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
by Georgeanne BrennanA woman and her family give up life in 1970s America for a farmhouse in southern France in this memoir peppered with delicious French recipes.From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new life—this time in the South of France. In 1970, James Beard Award–winning author Georgeanne Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence en Provence. She and her husband, with their young daughter in tow, bought a small farmhouse with a little land, and a few goats and pigs and so began a life-affirming journey. Filled with delicious recipes and local color, this evocative and passionate memoir describes her life cooking and living in the Provençal tradition.Praise for A Pig in Provence“You can almost smell the lavender as you follow Brennan’s love affair with the province that became her second home and shaped the culinary persona of this cooking teacher and food author. Brennan is a talented storyteller.” —San Francisco Chronicle“Georgeanne Brennan’s captivating memoir reminds me of why I, too, was enchanted by Provence. She beautifully captures the details of living in a place where the culture of the table ties a community together—where everyone knows the butcher and the baker, and everyone depends on the farmers.” —Alice Waters, owner, Chez Panisse“Fascinating . . . Brennan revels equally in the preparation and consumption of the regional cuisine You can almost hear her lips smacking.” —The New York Times Book Review“Georgeanne Brennan’s romance with Provence continues to deepen, and the result of her long residence there is an intimacy with local people, food, and folkways. I would love to pull up a chair to her table.” —Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun
The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned: A Photographic Record of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
by William BronsonIllustrated with more than four hundred on-the-scene photographs, this is the definitive account of the 1906 earthquake and fire that devastated San Francisco.The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned tells the tragic story of the four days of upheaval and destruction that swept San Francisco when a violent earth tremor rocked the land, succeeded rapidly by a devastating fire that destroyed nearly thirty thousand buildings and left more than a quarter million people homeless. William Bronson’s blow-by-blow account is full of dramatic detail and includes a fascinating cast of characters, including Enrico Caruso, John Barrymore, and other turn of the century icons. A classic of San Francisco history, The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned reveals what really happened that April morning when the face of the city was changed forever.