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Valentine Paint Date Friday, February 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Calling all Lovebirds! Show your love by sharing a painting project for Valentine's Day. Two separate 11x14" canvases, side-by-side, will form one painting. Valid District cardholders only. All supplies provided. Just a few spots left.
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Homemade Holiday : Craft Your Way Through More Than 40 Festive Projects
by Sophie Pester
No more braving the crowds for tacky decor - spend time with friends and family and turn cold nights cozy with Homemade Holiday. Create charming handmade gifts and ornaments, delicious edible treats and quirky gift-wrap ideas. Clear step-by-step instructions, handy tips, and easy-to-use templates ensure that you'll soon have the festive season all wrapped up.
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Quick & cute carving projects : patterns for 46 projects to carve in one day
by Lori Dickie
From snowmen and Santas to puppies, pigs, and pirates, even complete beginners can carve delightful wooden characters with this book. Caricature carver Lori Dickie shows you how to get great results fast, with just a blank basswood "egg" and her friendly step-by-step instructions. Readily available at online craft stores, pre-cut basswood eggs are an easy way to learn the basics of in-the-round woodcarving. These premade blanks allow new carvers to achieve instant success, and make your first project fast and fun. Lori provides 46 ready-to-use patterns for cute critters, memorable personalities, and fairy tale fantasies, along with plenty of holiday-themed patterns for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more.
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Fat Quarter Christmas : 25 Projects to Make from Short Lengths of Fabric
by Jemima Schlee
"Part of a fantastic new series of stash-busting sewing books aimed at beginner to intermediate crafters, this book has 25 quick and easy projects to make, all from fat quarters or fabric scraps. Each project has easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and beautiful accompanying photography, as well as a comprehensive tools and techniques section. This book is ideal for using up leftover remnants of fabric to create a range of gorgeous items. Use them to decorate your home for the holiday season or simply to add unique finishing touches to gifts. Projects include: hanging hearts, tree bunting, fairy light shades, traditional stocking, gift bag, card ribbons, snowflake garland, parcel belt, decorative rosette, napkin rings, placements and mantle edging." --Amazon.com. |
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Macrame for Beginners and Beyond : 24 Easy Macrame Projects for Home and Garden
by Amy Mullins
Discover a fresh, new take on the traditional craft of knotting and bring the boho vibe into your home with this collection of 24 stylish macrame projects. Learn all the basic macrame knots with the knot tutorial library so you can get started with your favorite projects, whether it's a simple hanging plant holder or a stunning statement arch for a wedding or special celebration.
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Design your own crochet projects : magic formulas for creating custom scarves, cowls, hats, socks, mittens, and gloves
by Sara Delaney
Creating customized crochet wearables is easier than you think. Designer Sara Delaney walks you through the entire process, from choosing the most appropriate yarns to developing your own unique patterns. Flexible formulas and fill-in-the blank templates show you exactly what you need to make one-of-a-kind scarves, cowls, fingerless mitts, mittens, gloves, hats, and socks. If you're new to designing, build your confidence with 18 practice patterns for head-to-toe garments that use Delaney's customizable formulas. This first-of-its-kind crochet book - complete with a stitch dictionary featuring 31 classic stitches - gives you everything you need to make flawless and singular crocheted accessories.
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Knit Yourself Calm : A Creative Path to Managing Stress
by Lynne Rowe
Knitting is a relaxing and therapeutic pastime, and this winning combination focuses on mindfulness and the perfect stress-busting knitting projects. Whether you choose a portable project to knit on the go, a group project to do with friends, or one that introduces new skills to stimulate a creative mind, this book is the perfect path to keeping calm. The book is aimed at beginners as well as more advanced knitters, but does not include anything more complex than basic knit and purl stitches, increasing, decreasing and some simple colorwork. Lynne Rowe covers the essential techniques at the start of the book, followed by projects that have been specifically designed for mindfulness. The projects themselves are split into five sections: Quick and Easy, Portable, Group, Big, and New Skills. Within these sections, you can choose to make things such as a wash cloth, a hat, a blanket, a shawl and an evening bag, amongst others. Every single one has been designed to promote calm and mindfulness and all the projects are beautifully photographed with clear and simple knitting patterns.
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Making winter : a hygge-inspired guide to surviving the winter months
by Emma Mitchell
A guide that draws on the Danish philosophy of hygge—which is all about coziness, simple pleasures and the company of loved ones—features 25 creative crafts and recipes, with easy-to-follow instructions and photographs, that will keep you warm no matter how cold it is outside.
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The art of brush lettering : a stroke-by-stroke guide to the practice & techniques of creative lettering & calligraphy
by Kelly Klapstein
"Popular Instagram brush lettering artist, Kelly Klapstein, takes a simple, serene approach to teaching the art of creating beautiful letterforms with easy to use and richly colored brush pens. Kelly begins by guiding you through the tools you'll be using, and the best ways to position the arm, hand, and paper.<br /><br />Focusing primarily on the widely popular large brush pens while also providing instruction on using small brush pens, Kelly demonstrates a range of basic strokes and provides drill sheets for practice and improvement.<br /><br />You'll see how to create print and script letterforms, freestyle lettering, and the best ways to develop your own personal style"
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