Better Homes and Gardens Memory Quilts


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Better Homes and Gardens Scrap-Lovers' Quilts


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Whether your pile of scraps needs thinning out or you simply love the well-planned scrappy look, this collection of favorite quilts and wall hangings utilizes scraps in both traditional and contemporary ways. 8 quilts: Make Your Point (color placement makes Pinwheel and 16-Patch blocks appear to be set on point); Broken Dishes (showcasing favorite fabrics); Enjoy the Simple Life (appliqué message and blocks in country prints); Trail Mix (combining Four-Patch and Nine-Patch variations); Square Dance (a diamond pattern emerges from simple squares and triangles); Living in the Past (inspired by a circa-1885 Ohio Star quilt); Centennial Pineapple (Log Cabin variation); and Country Charm (X blocks with floral appliqué). Better Homes and Gardens® Scrap-Lovers' Quilts (Leisure Arts #4147)




Better Homes and Gardens Can It!


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A complete, step-by-step guide to fresh flavors for home canning and preserving Home canning and preserving is growing in popularity every day. It's easy and a great way to get the most from your backyard garden or farmer's market finds so that you can enjoy seasonal bounty all year long. This follow-up to Better Homes and Gardens You Can Can, gives you fresh, new flavor ideas and combinations to spice up your canning and preserving. Better Homes and Gardens Can It! brings canning and preserving to a whole new level, perfect for new canners looking for contemporary ideas as well as experienced canners wanting to expand their recipes. Full of delicious recipes and hands-on instruction, as well as gorgeous photography, this is the book you want to add new excitement to canning fruits and vegetables! Includes more than 100 recipes with simple instructions for success Features 140 beautiful full-color photographs that showcase the recipes and provide instruction Bonus chapter of food gifts with simple packaging ideas For today's growing number of do-it-yourselfers and home cooks who embrace the benefits in-season produce, Better Homes and Gardens Can It! is the source for fresh, new canning and preserving ideas.




Gunsmith Kinks 4


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Continuing the proud tradition of Gunsmith Kinks®, Gunsmith Kinks® II, and Gunsmith Kinks® III, this newest member of the family - Gunsmith Kinks® 4 - presents 569 brand new gunsmith kinks to help you cure problems in the shop, to bring you new ideas for tools and time-saving fixtures for your gun work, to give you lots of solid and useful suggestions for your business and shop -- and, of course, to bring together all the jokes that have appeared in the Gunsmiths Newsletter since Gunsmith Kinks® III came out back in 1993. As an added plus, weve added many brand new Gunsmith Kinks® and jokes that havent appeared in any Newsletter yet. All are shop proven and written by the people doing the work and, every Kink® has a credit line identifying the author.Included are lots of instructions -- 64 pages in fact -- that walk you through a variety of processes - from Color Case Hardening to applying BakeOn finishes. How-to articles reprinted from Brownells BenchTalk Newsletter and a whole chapter dedicated to advice on proven ways other folks have increased their sales and, therefore, their profits. That same chapter has advice and counsel on subjects ranging from customer service, to making a buck and just about every other aspect of the business. 133 pages feature 167 job-specific Gunsmith Kinks® for handguns, rifles, and shotguns.To make finding all this tremendous new information easy -- for info is of no use unless you can find it -- the new Gunsmith Kinks® 4 is cross-indexed with ALL THREE previous volumes Gunsmith Kinks® , Gunsmith Kinks® II, and Gunsmith Kinks® III. If you look up a subject in Gunsmith Kinks® 4, right beside the entry you can see if there is more information on the same subject in one of the other three volumes, and which page to find it on.The sum total of know-how collected here is truly mind-boggling. You, the reader, get to tap into the job files of the worlds best gunsmiths and take advantage of the hours theyve spent figuring out how to fix the problem thats sitting on your bench!




Stitch Zakka


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Today's coolest crafters use beautiful COSMO embroidery thread to bring a fresh perspective to the centuries-old technique of embroidery. This charming collection features embroidery patterns for 22 contemporary projects including an iPad sleeve, e-reader holder, pillow, tote, baby bib, softies, and so much more. Each project is fully explained with simple instructions, helpful hints, colour photographs, and plenty of creative inspiration.




Red & White Quilts


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Generations of quilters have been captivated by the simple beauty of red-and-white quilts. Today's quilters are no different. Whether it's humble patchwork or more complex designs, a quilt stitched in only red and white fabrics speaks to the hearts of so many quilters. In Red & White Quilts, 14 of our generation's top designers share their takes on red-and-white quilts, ranging from vintage-inspired beauties to more modern styles. From patchwork to applique to English paper piecing, designers including Lisa Bongean, Sue Daley, Kim Diehl, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, Carrie Nelson, Camille Roskelley, and Jen Kingwell offer a one-of-a-kind collection sure to inspire you to create your own legacies in red and white.




She Sheds


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"She Sheds provides inspiration, tips, and tricks to help create the hideaway of your dreams"--




Piece and Quilt with Precuts


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Learn easy, efficient tricks for piecing irresistible quilt tops with precuts and leftover fabric scraps, and discover 18 machine-quilting motifs you can mix and match. Award-winning quilter and designer Christa Watson guides you through 11 skill-building projects with quilting designs in three categories: walking-foot, free-motion, and a combination of the two techniques. Christa is here to help you start and finish strong!




The Magical Unicorn Quilt


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The bestselling Piece O’ Cake Designs author helps you capture the magic of this mythical creature with colorful and versatile full-size patterns. Let your creativity run wild with this totally adorable, rainbow-colored quilt to appliqué. With two sizes of unicorn blocks (35” x 35” and 50” x 50”) and 5 sizes of quilts (wall, crib, twin, throw, and queen), you’ll be able to make an enchanting quilt for all the unicorn lovers in your life, large or small! Includes instructions for both needle-turn appliqué and machine appliqué, as well as finishing techniques. This quilt will be a galloping success as the perfect gift for baby showers, birthdays, and other special occasions.




Quilt-lovers' Favorites


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