The Sweater Chop Shop

Author : Crispina ffrench
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603426574
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sweater Chop Shop written by Crispina ffrench and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recycle, Re-create, Re-enjoy You don't even need a sewing machine to upcycle old sweaters into new wearables, blankets, pillows, and dolls that are fresh, playful, and utterly captivating. It's easy as felting the wool, cutting the pieces for your new project, and stitching everything together using simple hand-sewing skills. Noted designer Crispina ffrench shares her techniques and passion as she introduces you to the beautiful possiblities in old sweaters. "Crispina's blankets and throws and rugs are piled on and over each other on my beds, chairs, couches, and floors. She's a great artist who understands texture and how it adds individuality and comfort to a home, not to mention a car, or an old refurbished orange trunk seat!!" - Carly Simon "Crispina makes the most beautiful soulful blankets, pillows, and sweaters, out of people's old sweaters. In this amazing and magical book she shares her secrets so that you can do it too." - Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's

Author : Teresa Searle
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312362140
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heartfelt: 25 Projects for Stitched and Felted Accessories written by Teresa Searle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felt and felted accessories are hot! Teresa Searle shows how knitted and recycled knitted felt can be transformed into a wide range of unique accessories using simple decorative embroidery techniques and appliqu�. The book starts with an introduction to the processes involved in the projects: -How to make felted knitting by hand or with a knitting machine -How to felt knitting and recycled sweaters in the washing machine -How to appliqu� felt motifs using your sewing machine and other simple machine techniques -How to hand-appliqu� using blanket stitch and other easy decorative stitches Then goes on to show step-by-step photos and complete directions for over 24 stunning projects including: Russian Hat & Pull-on Hat Bunny Slippers & Baby Coat Scarves & Mittens Handbags.& Purses 3-D Roses used for jewelry and other accessories With its full color photography and wide range of appealing projects this book will appeal to all the sewers, stitchers, crafters or quilters who want to learn how to make felted accessories and how to embellish. The smaller projects are easy to create- each project has a box indicating the time needed. In addition they present an opportunity to recycle pieces of flat knitting or sweaters by turning them into felted knitting and using the end results to create a wide variety of beautifully embellished projects for both adults and children.

Author : Stephanie Corfee
Publisher : Walter Foster
ISBN 13 : 160058229X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashion Design Workshop written by Stephanie Corfee and published by Walter Foster. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful guide offers budding artists the perfect introduction to the fundamentals of fashion figure drawing. Showcasing the hip, girly artistic style of Stephanie Corfee, the step-by-step projects cover a range of looks—from sophisticated and elegant to cool and casual. The book also contains tips on accessorizing with purses, shoes, hats, and more. And for those who are serious about style, Fashion Design Workshop includes a glossary of fashion terms and a collection of model templates so readers can develop their own line of clothing!

Author : Stefanie Girard
Publisher : Quarry Books
ISBN 13 : 161673468X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweater Surgery written by Stefanie Girard and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary crafters are thriving on personalizing, modifying, and altering fashion, and as a way to take a greener approach to their creative lifestyle. This book shows you how to upcycle all your slightly worn, slightly damaged, or out-of-style sweaters into fabulous new items for your wardrobe and your home. Readers learn how to choose, cut, restitch, felt, and embellish old sweater fabric, transforming it into beautiful handbags, mittens, scarves, hats, hoodies, skirts, jewelry, soft toys, pillows, and more! Complete instructions for 27 projects, plus a huge gallery of exciting ideas for further inspiration.

Author : Scott Cooper
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631983873
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speak Up and Get Along! written by Scott Cooper and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A toolbox of twenty-one strategies kids can use to get along with others. Every child could use help with social skills and making friends. This book provides twenty-one concrete strategies children can use to express themselves, build relationships, end arguments and fights, halt bullying, and beat unhappy feelings. It’s like a toolbox of kid-friendly social skills—just open it up and pull out tools like: Mighty Might, which takes all the fun out of teasing Thought Chop, which helps kids resist self-defeating thoughts Squeaky Wheel, a type of persistence that gets results Coin Toss, a simple way to resolve small conflicts Each tool is clearly described, illustrated with true-to-life examples, and accompanied by dialogue and lines children can practice and use. Authentic stories and anecdotes show each tool in action. This revised and updated second edition incorporates electronic communication, cyberbullying, and social media with age-appropriate guidelines and stories. A note to adults includes up-to-date research on and recommendations for social skills and bullying. For kids, Speak Up and Get Along! makes learning social skills accessible and fun.

Author : Nicholas Shaxson
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146384
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Finance Curse written by Nicholas Shaxson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “artfully presented [and] engaging” look at the insidious effects of financialization on our lives and politics by the author of Treasure Islands (The Boston Globe). How didthe banking sector grow from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world? Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson takes us on a terrifying journey through the world economy, exposing tax havens, monopolists, megabanks, private equity firms, Eurobond traders, lobbyists, and a menagerie of scoundrels quietly financializing our entire society, hurting both business and individuals. Shaxson shows how we got here, telling the story of how finance re-engineered the global economic order in the last half-century, with the aim not of creating wealth but extracting it from the underlying economy. Under the twin gospels of “national competitiveness” and “shareholder value,” megabanks and financialized corporations have provoked a race to the bottom between states to provide the most subsidized environment for big business, encouraged a brain drain into finance, fostered instability and inequality, and turned a blind eye to the spoils of organized crime. From Ireland to Iowa, he shows the insidious effects of financialization on our politics and on communities who were promised paradise but got poverty wages instead. We need a strong financial system—but when it grows too big it becomes a monster. The Finance Curse is the explosive story of how finance got a stranglehold on society, and reveals how we might release ourselves from its grasp. Revised with new chapters “[Discusses] corrupt financiers in London and New York City, geographically obscure tax havens, the bizarre realm of wealth managers in South Dakota, a ravaged newspaper in New Jersey, and a shattered farm economy in Iowa . . . A vivid demonstration of how corruption and greed have become the main organizing principles in the finance industry.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Anne Marie Ryan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593331249
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas by the Book written by Anne Marie Ryan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A heartfelt and lovely Christmas tale for book lovers everywhere!”—Jenny Colgan, author of The Bookshop on the Shore In small-town England, two booksellers facing tough times decide to spread some Christmas cheer through the magic of anonymous book deliveries in this uplifting holiday tale for book lovers everywhere. Nora and her husband, Simon, have run the beautiful oak-beamed book shop in their small British village for thirty years. But times are tough and the shop is under threat of closure--this Christmas season will really decide their fate. When an elderly man visits the store and buys the one book they've never been able to sell, saying it's the perfect gift for his sick grandson, it gives Nora an idea. She and Simon will send out books to those feeling down this Christmas. Maybe they can't save their bookstore, but at least they'll have one final chance to lift people's spirits through the power of reading. After gathering nominations online, Nora and Simon quietly deliver books to six residents of the village in need of some festive cheer, including a single dad of twins who is working hard to make ends meet, a teenage boy grieving for his big sister, a local Member of Parliament who is battling depression, and a teacher who's newly retired and living on her own. As the town prepares for a white Christmas, the books begin to give the recipients hope, one by one. But with the future of the bookshop still up in the air, Nora and Simon will need a Christmas miracle--or perhaps a little help from the people whose lives they've touched--to find a happy ending of their own....

Author : Nancy Martin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101614056
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Black Book of Murder written by Nancy Martin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society columnist Nora Blackbird is thrust into the world of celebrity tabloid gossip when a billionaire buys the farm…. Nora’s assigned to write a profile on billionaire fashion designer Swain Starr, who recently retired to build a high-tech organic farm with his new wife, Zephyr, a former supermodel. But before Nora can get the story, the mogul is murdered. And now her boss wants her to snap up an exclusive on who killed Starr before the cops do. But solving this murder won’t be easy with a family as colorful as Nora’s. Mick, her sort-of husband, is associating with unsavory characters from his past. Her sister Libby is transforming into a stage mom for her diabolical twins. And Emma, the youngest Blackbird, is mysteriously kicked out of the house by Mick. Nora’s home life may be hogging the spotlight, but there’s also a matter of Starr’s missing pig, which just might be the key to solving this mystery and the way Nora can bring home the bacon….

Author : David Bowers
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761171738
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Useful Book written by David Bowers and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ec teachers, if you'd had them. The Useful Book features 138 practical projects and how-tos, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, relevant charts, sidebars, lists, and handy toolboxes. There’s a kitchen crash course, including the must-haves for a well-stocked pantry; how to boil an egg (and peel it frustration-free); how to grill, steam, sauté, and roast vegetables. There’s Sewing 101, plus how to fold a fitted sheet, tie a tie, mop a floor, make a bed, and set the table for a formal dinner. Next up: a 21st-century shop class. The tools that everyone should have, and dozens of cool projects that teach fundamental techniques. Practice measuring, cutting, and nailing by building a birdhouse. Make a bookshelf or a riveted metal picture frame. Plus: do-it-yourself plumbing; car repair basics; and home maintenance, from priming and painting to refinishing wood floors.

Author : Adam Carolla
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307717380
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks written by Adam Carolla and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills. He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID. At first the old sea captain just laughed. But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again. At this point it became apparent that he was serious. Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, "You've got to be kidding me, son." The bartender replied, "New policy. Everyone has to show their ID." Then I watched Burl Ives reluctantly reach into his dungarees and pull out his military identification card from World War II. It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys. What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back. In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his past—Sunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentator/comedian/complainer extraordinaire.