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Craft Project Books
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Craft Project Book
Craft Project Book
by Home Biz Team @ Powell's Books
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Think books are just for reading? Think again! With a few basic supplies and a vivid imagination, a book can easily be transformed into a work of art. A child's storybook, loved beyond recognition, can be reborn in a charming collage or altered to tell a... (read more)

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Bookbinding and Book Arts
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Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials
Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials
by Jeannine Stein
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Any booklover with the slightest inkling toward craftiness will swoon over the darling projects outlined in this book. Make a sharp-looking portfolio from vintage album covers, a paint-sample photo album, or a journal from a hot water bottle. (Far more adorable than it sounds, I promise.) Also includes a basic introduction to bookbinding tools and techniques.
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Needlework
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Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials [With CDROM]
Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials [With CDROM]
by Deborah Jones
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I'm a machine embroiderer; I know that once you've covered every easy textile in your house with embroidery, you are soon itching to start on your towels, your sweaters, and maybe that old leather purse that you love too much to throw away even though there is a big stain on it. Why not embroider over that stain? Will your machine break or will your purse fall apart? Not if you follow Deborah Jones's great instructions. Jones not only tells you how to master these difficult fabrics, but also which fabrics to avoid – those that are impervious to good stitching. Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials comes with a CD-ROM of embroidery designs in fabric-specific versions.
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Altered Art and Collage
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Next Steps in Altered Photo Artistry: New Ways to Transform Images for Fabric and Quilt Art [With Audio CD]
Next Steps in Altered Photo Artistry: New Ways to Transform Images for Fabric and Quilt Art [With Audio CD]
by Beth Schwartz Wheeler
Staff Pick
Next Steps in Altered Photo Artistry is for the craft artist who understands the basics of photo manipulation and wants to move onto more impressive and expressive work. Besides the many screenshot examples, there are photos of finished projects to arouse the crafter's imagination. While author Beth Wheeler's previous book, Altered Photo Artistry, focused primarily on flowers, this book draws inspiration from all sorts of photographs, including architecture, landscape, faces, and clipart. For the intermediate photo-crafter, this is a handy reference tool.
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Toy Making
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Knitting
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Knitting from the Top
Knitting from the Top
by Barbara G. Walker
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Back again after 20 years. Everything from the top: sweaters, skirts, pants, etc. The only book of its kind.... (read more)

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Sewing
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Applique Your Way
Applique Your Way
by Kayte Terry
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The perfect addition to any stitcher's library and repertoire, Appliqué Your Way is a fantastic resource for expertly pulling off this often overlooked craft. Includes 30+ chic and simple projects, patterns, and a genius lay-flat binding. Just the thing to revamp your crafty roster!
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Origami
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Snowflake Origami: They Sparkle!
Snowflake Origami: They Sparkle!
by Jordana Tusman
Synopsis
Create your own Winter Wonderland This kit includes a 48-page book of simple step-by-step fold-and-cut instructions to create a variety of beautiful paper snowflakes. Packaged with the book are a miniature pair of scissors and twenty-eight sheets of... (read more)

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    The Book of Fine Linen

    Francoise De Bonneville

Knitting
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Hatheads: One Man + Two Knitting Needles = 50 Fun Hat Designs
Hatheads: One Man + Two Knitting Needles = 50 Fun Hat Designs
by Trond Anfinnsen
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After teaching himself to knit, author Trond Anfinnsen found that pull-on hats--aka beanies or skullies--were the perfect-size project. As his pile of hats grew, so did his knitting skills, and soon he began personalizing the hats for family, friends... (read more)

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Sewing
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Free-Style Handmade Bags and Skirts
Free-Style Handmade Bags and Skirts
by Woon Jin
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Whether youare a sewing novice or an aficionado looking to add patterns to your DIY repertoire, Freestyle Handmade: Bags and Skirts is for you. Projects include a variety of skirts for roaming the countryside or dashing around the city to bags that carry... (read more)

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Metal Technique
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Complete Metalsmith Student Edition
Complete Metalsmith Student Edition
by Tim Mccreight
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Students, hobbyists, and others just getting started in metalworking have turned to this informative, easy-access reference time and time again. Without getting bogged down in confusing details, it teaches them what they need to know about the most... (read more)

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Sale Books
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Son of Stitch 'n Bitch: Forty-Five Projects to Knit and Crochet for Men
Son of Stitch 'n Bitch: Forty-Five Projects to Knit and Crochet for Men
by Debbie Stoller
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Debbie Stoller knows that at least half the projects women knit are intended for the men in their lives. She also knows that knitting for a boyfriend or husband or father is full of pitfalls. The answer Son of Stitch 'N Bitch, the hip, smart knitter's... (read more)

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Chip Carving: Techniques & Patterns
Chip Carving: Techniques & Patterns
by Wayne Barton
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Using a minimum of tools, anyone can quickly create beautiful carvings. Exquisite patterns, lettering styles, and designs for jewelry boxes, humidors, chair backs, buttons, shingles, more. Many photos, patterns, diagrams. “The very best in... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Saturday, November 21, 2009
Craft Project Book
  1. Craft Project Book
    by Home Biz Team @ Powell's Books
  2. The Techniques of Japanese Embroidery
    by Shuji Tamura
  3. Foxfire 6 (Foxfire)
    by Eliot Wigginton
  4. Complete Metalsmith Student Edition
    by Tim Mccreight
  5. Appli-Curves: Traditional Quilts with Easy No-Sew Curves with CDROM and Pattern(s)
    by Elaine Waldschmidt

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Monday, November 23, 2009
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Original Essays | September 29, 2009

William Davies King: IMG Recollecting Nothing



Time plays tricks with history, even when the history is personal and the time-scale short and recent. I wrote the first sentences of Collections of Nothing within a week of September 11, 2001, and I had an early version of the complete story finished by June 2002. The book finally came out in July 2008. What came between were years of rewriting and coping with rejections, followed by... Continue »
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    Collections of Nothing

    William Davies King
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