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Stitched in Time
Memory-Keeping Projects to Sew and Share from the Creator of Posie Gets Cozy
Written by Alicia Paulson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $22.95
In Stitched in Time Alicia Paulson shares 30 beautiful, inventive, and thoughtful projects that encourage you to take your memories down from the bookshelf, out of the closet, or off the hard drive and bring them into your daily life. Creator of a charming line of handmade gifts and accessories called... Read more >
Memory-Keeping Projects to Sew and Share from the Creator of Posie Gets Cozy
Written by Alicia Paulson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $22.95
In Stitched in Time Alicia Paulson shares 30 beautiful, inventive, and thoughtful projects that encourage you to take your memories down from the bookshelf, out of the closet, or off the hard drive and bring them into your daily life. Creator of a charming line of handmade gifts and accessories called... Read more >
Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines
Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too
Written by Kay Gardiner and Ann Meador Shayne
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $29.95
Dear Fellow Knitter,
Welcome! Come on in. Have a seat—we’ve been waiting for you.
Ever since our first book, Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters’ Guide, we’ve been exploring techniques and ideas that we once thought were the sort of thing that only brilliant knitters could do.
Our conclusion: We are all brilliant knitters!
None... Read more >
Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too
Written by Kay Gardiner and Ann Meador Shayne
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $29.95
Dear Fellow Knitter,
Welcome! Come on in. Have a seat—we’ve been waiting for you.
Ever since our first book, Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters’ Guide, we’ve been exploring techniques and ideas that we once thought were the sort of thing that only brilliant knitters could do.
Our conclusion: We are all brilliant knitters!
None... Read more >
Dress Your Best
The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body
Written by Clinton Kelly and Stacy London
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $19.95
The 8 million fans of TLC’s hottest show, What Not to Wear, know it as the place to go for real-life fashion advice. Now the show’s hosts, Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, offer spot-on fashion wisdom—with an attitude—in this fully illustrated, authoritative, and irreverent fashion guide to dressing your best for... Read more >
The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body
Written by Clinton Kelly and Stacy London
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $19.95
The 8 million fans of TLC’s hottest show, What Not to Wear, know it as the place to go for real-life fashion advice. Now the show’s hosts, Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, offer spot-on fashion wisdom—with an attitude—in this fully illustrated, authoritative, and irreverent fashion guide to dressing your best for... Read more >
Simply Sublime Bags
30 No-Sew, Low-Sew Projects
Written by Jodi Kahn
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $19.95
You’ll tire of hearing “Where did you get that bag?”
Simply Sublime Bags offers the secrets to creating four-figure-price-tag-worthy bags. And most of them only take an afternoon! Whether it’s a casual carryall or a ritzy, patent leather clutch, the envy of your friends is only a few hours away.
Why break... Read more >
30 No-Sew, Low-Sew Projects
Written by Jodi Kahn
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $19.95
You’ll tire of hearing “Where did you get that bag?”
Simply Sublime Bags offers the secrets to creating four-figure-price-tag-worthy bags. And most of them only take an afternoon! Whether it’s a casual carryall or a ritzy, patent leather clutch, the envy of your friends is only a few hours away.
Why break... Read more >
Knitting Noro
The Magic of Knitting with Hand-Dyed Yarns
Written by Jane Ellison
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $27.50
Noro yarns are often called the “world’s most exciting yarns,” and their popularity is staggering. Each ball of this exquisite, multicolored yarn is individually dyed to produce a unique palette of vivid and subtle hues. No two balls are exactly alike.
In Knitting Noro, designer Jane Ellison presents more than 30... Read more >
The Magic of Knitting with Hand-Dyed Yarns
Written by Jane Ellison
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $27.50
Noro yarns are often called the “world’s most exciting yarns,” and their popularity is staggering. Each ball of this exquisite, multicolored yarn is individually dyed to produce a unique palette of vivid and subtle hues. No two balls are exactly alike.
In Knitting Noro, designer Jane Ellison presents more than 30... Read more >
Knitting for Good!
A Guide to Creating Personal, Social, and Political Change Stitch by Stitch
Written by Betsy Greer
Format: Trade Paperback, 228 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.00
In the last five years knitting has undergone a complete transformation. Once considered a grandmotherly craft, knitting is now embraced by new generations of young, socially and politically conscious crafters. For these new knitters, their craft represents much more than the finished project; their knitting is a way to slow down... Read more >
A Guide to Creating Personal, Social, and Political Change Stitch by Stitch
Written by Betsy Greer
Format: Trade Paperback, 228 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.00
In the last five years knitting has undergone a complete transformation. Once considered a grandmotherly craft, knitting is now embraced by new generations of young, socially and politically conscious crafters. For these new knitters, their craft represents much more than the finished project; their knitting is a way to slow down... Read more >
Aranzi Cute Stuff
Written by Aranzi Aronzo
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $14.95
Cute Stuff is a book of instrctions on how to make 17 different small objects featuring the Aranzi Aronzo menageri of characters. Hot off the trail of the runaway hit craft book The Cute Book and the Aranzi Machine Gun series, Cute Stuff shows you how to make everyday items and... Read more >
Written by Aranzi Aronzo
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $14.95
Cute Stuff is a book of instrctions on how to make 17 different small objects featuring the Aranzi Aronzo menageri of characters. Hot off the trail of the runaway hit craft book The Cute Book and the Aranzi Machine Gun series, Cute Stuff shows you how to make everyday items and... Read more >
The Foxfire Book
Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining
Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Edited by Eliot Wigginton
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1972
Price: $16.95
In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing... Read more >
Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining
Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Edited by Eliot Wigginton
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1972
Price: $16.95
In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing... Read more >
Bend-the-Rules Sewing
The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew
Written by Amy Karol
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $21.95
Author Amy Karol, whose Angry Chicken is one of the best-loved craft blogs on the Web, brings stitchers everywhere a down-to-earth introduction to sewing, including thirty projects so adorable and cool they’ll inspire anyone to pick up a needle and thread.
Written with Amy’s characteristic warmth and flair, you’ll find information... Read more >
The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew
Written by Amy Karol
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $21.95
Author Amy Karol, whose Angry Chicken is one of the best-loved craft blogs on the Web, brings stitchers everywhere a down-to-earth introduction to sewing, including thirty projects so adorable and cool they’ll inspire anyone to pick up a needle and thread.
Written with Amy’s characteristic warmth and flair, you’ll find information... Read more >
Continuous Cables
An Exploration of Knitted Cabled Knots, Rings, Swirls, and Curlicues
Written by Melissa Leapman
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $32.50
Mention the phrase “cable knitting,” and most people—knitters and non-knitters alike—envision textured ropes, twists, and braids winding up knitted fabrics. But did you know that knitters can also create circular, closed-ring shapes with cables? Just imagine: curlicues, rings, swirls, knots—even intricate Celtic-inspired motifs—all richly embossed on knits!
In Continuous Cables, expert knitwear... Read more >
An Exploration of Knitted Cabled Knots, Rings, Swirls, and Curlicues
Written by Melissa Leapman
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $32.50
Mention the phrase “cable knitting,” and most people—knitters and non-knitters alike—envision textured ropes, twists, and braids winding up knitted fabrics. But did you know that knitters can also create circular, closed-ring shapes with cables? Just imagine: curlicues, rings, swirls, knots—even intricate Celtic-inspired motifs—all richly embossed on knits!
In Continuous Cables, expert knitwear... Read more >
