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Home, Garden, and DIY January 2021--Deluxe Winter Edition
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| Living Without Plastic: More Than 100 Easy Swaps for Home, Travel, Dining, Holidays... by Brigette Allen and Christine WongWhat it is: a readable guide to non-plastic alternatives in a number of areas, including food, home, health and beauty, kids and babies, pet care, and crafts. In addition, there are lovely photos, a resource list, and a 30-day plastic detox plan. Read this next: 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste by Kathryn Kellogg; Simply Living Well by Julia Watkins. |
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Dinner, Uncomplicated: Fixing a Delicious Meal Every Night of the Week
by Claire Tansey
Building on her celebrated first book, Uncomplicated--which showed the world that food can be spectacular without being difficult, and special without being expensive--Tansey's follow-up release keeps a laser focus on dinner, with wall-to-wall meals and no filler, desserts or sides to wade through. With unfussy ingredients and simple approaches, this intuitive guide to dinner is organized in a way that lets you tackle that pressing daily question in any situation, in whatever way you day, your mood, and your family demands.
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Pie for Everyone: Recipes and Stories from Petee's Pie, New York's Best Pie Shop
by Petra "Petee" Paredez
"'Pie for Everyone' means what it says: armed with recipes, you'll be able to make pie for vegans, gluten avoiders, lard fanciers, whole-grain purists, and butter-crust traditionalists. The last group will be especially happy. Petra Paredez, a wizard with a rolling pin who founded Peter's Pie Company in New York, has a method for sneaking more butter into pie dough than I thought possible. This produces the melting, tender deliciousness that those of us who admire Petee's know well. There are small, improving deviations from standard recipes throughout the book, but tradition is the backbone [here]."--Pete Wells, The New York Times
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Boulangerie at Home: Bread, Brioche, and Other Baked Delicacies
by Rodolphe Landemaine
A French pastry chef provides the tools and instruction you need to master the art of classic French bread and dough-based baked goods. 100 recipes are featured; step-by-step instructions are aided with infographics, numerous photos, and an illustrated glossary.
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Tinkerlab Art Starts: 52 Projects for Open-ended Exploration
by Rachelle Doorley
Get inspired with hands-on creative prompts for children ages 3 to 8 featuring simple materials you can find at home from an experienced art teacher. From drawing, painting, and paper-cutting to making three-dimensional art with clay and recycled materials, Doorley presents 52 fun ideas for creative art play to get kids engaged in their own explorations.
"This book is such a HUGE time and sanity saver!"--Amazon reviewer
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Crochet Ragdolls
by Sascha Blase-van Wagtendonk
These crochet ragdolls are specially designed to be huggable lovies for the little ones or loyal playmates for slightly older children. Many of the animals have patterns for both a large "mom or dad" version and a baby version, including the monkey, frog, cat, bunny, crocodile, dog, hippo, owl, kangaroo, fox, sheep, and penguin. There is even a section on how to make little clothes for them to wear. Erin gives Ragdolls two thumbs up: "YES! ...the animals are great, with big and mini versions available.."
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Crochet for Play: 80 Toys for Make Believe
by Sarah Pawlowski
Crochet fun for everyone! Kids love to play grown-up, and with the crocheted toys in this book, they can pretend to be a doctor, hairdresser, carpenter, mail carrier, etc. Quick and easy to crochet, the 80 patterns for fun-to-play-with items include such imaginative toys as a hair dryer, hammer and nails, handcuffs, and much, much more. "The more I look at this book," says Erin, "the more I love it."
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Switch & Knit Stitch Dictionary
by Tabetha Hedrick
Now it's easy to design your own knit! Start with one of the 12 basic pattern "recipes" for pieces such as a hat, pullover, shawl, scarf, socks, tee, mitts, tunic, or cardigan. Choose nearly any yarn and a stitch pattern from the 60 four-stitch multiple patterns in the stitch dictionary, and you are on your way to your own unique knitted piece.
"This book is great, giving structured pattern repeats and the ability for knitters to customize projects."--Erin
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Simple Stitches Embroidery: 39 Fast and Fabulous Designs for Today's Stitcher
by Caroline Waryn
Simple Stitches Embroidery teaches the basics of embroidery, from materials and techniques to the most popular stitches. From adorable elephants for the nursery to cacti for the office and llamas for anywhere, the designs in this book are all easy enough for the beginner.
"[G]ood looking and easy-to-stitch designs, with easy-to-follow instructions"--Erin
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The Punch Needle Handbook: Easy Guide to Punching Plus 19 Projects
by Rohn Strong
Simple and easy, punch needle is an approach to creating personal and home décor projects that just requires you know how to hold a pen. You can pick up a punch needle and complete a project in less than an hour, with no prior skill needed. It requires just one easy-to-use tool, a background fabric, an embroidery hoop or frame, and yarn."[Not] too dense at 112 pages," writes Erin, "this one may be a keeper."
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*Miss Erin is Riverside Branch's knitter and crafter extraordinaire. |
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