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Home, Garden, and DIY January 2018
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| Design Your Own Crochet Projects: Magic Formulas for Creating Custom Scarves... by Sara DelaneyWhat it is: a guide for beginning and experienced crocheters, especially those who are budding designers. With color photographs and clear instructions, it details 31 different stitches, how to choose yarn, how to create a pattern, and lots more.
Projects include: scarves, cowls, hats, socks, mittens, gloves, and others that can all be customized. |
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| Craft Coffee: A Manual by Jessica Easto; illustrations by Morgan KrehbielWhat it is: a charmingly illustrated, accessible, and thorough guide to making delicious coffee at home.
What's inside: among other things, brewing basics (including tips about grind size, water, and temperature), how to choose hardware (kettles, grinders, and full-immersion devices, oh my!), details about coffee beans (covering different varieties, decaffeination, etc.), and where and how to buy supplies.
Want a taste? "Coffee should not be mysterious." |
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| The Sullivan Street Bakery Cookbook by Jim Lahey with Maya JosephWhat it is: a cookbook featuring various recipes from the author's famous, Italian-influenced New York City bakery.
Why you should read it: Remember that easy no-knead, Dutch-oven bread recipe that took over the internet a while back? Yeah, that's Jim Lahey's; clearly the man knows his way around a kitchen.
Recipes include: several sourdough starters, Simple No-Knead Sourdough, Apple-Fennel Pizza, Orange Olive-Oil Cake, Oven-Baked Pasta, Chili, Garlic Roast Potatoes, and Panettone. |
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| Read This If You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn LeamyWhat it is: a friendly manual that aims to make drawing fun, even (especially?) for those who think they can't draw. Using 50 examples from a wide variety of artists in order to showcase tips, techniques, advice, and exercises, this book is great for all ages.
Chapters include: Don't think, do(odle); Let there be lines; Get cross (-hatching); Find your angle; Face facts; It's all an illusion; and Find your happy accident. |
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| EveryDayCook by Alton Brown; photography by Sarah De HeerWhat it is: a more personal cookbook by popular author and Food Network star Alton Brown, which showcases 101 of his favorite recipes as well as his choice of tools, spirits, methods, and less-common pantry items.
Recipes include: Breakfast Carbonara, Buttermilk Lassi, Bad Day Bitter Martini, Crispy Chickpeas, Beef Pho, Smoky the Meat Loaf, The General’s Fried Chicken, BBQ Potato Chips, and Green Grape Cobbler. |
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| Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from my Corner of the South by Vivian Howard; photography by Rex MillerWhat it is: an award-winning combination of cookbook and memoir that details more than 200 recipes and includes information about essential parts of Southern cooking, addressing ingredients, tools, seasoning meats, canning, and more.
Who it's for: viewers of PBS' A Chef's Life, fans of classic Southern food, and lovers of fresh takes on Southern food.
Recipes include: Grandma Hill's Hoecakes, Foolproof Grits, Blueberry BBQ Chicken, Peaches and Cream Cake, and Tempura-Fried Okra. |
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| Pati's Mexican Table: The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking by Pati Jinich; photography by Penny De Los SantosWhat it is: The charming Jewish-Mexican host of the PBS show Pati's Mexican Table provides simple yet delicious recipes for salsas, pickles, salads, soups, sides, main dishes, sweets, and drinks -- and it's all seasoned with Mexican cooks' tricks, ingredient information, and more.
Recipes include: Charred Tomato Salsa, Classic Avocado Soup, Chicken à la Trash, Shredded Pork in Ancho-Orange Sauce, and Triple Orange Mexican Wedding Cookies. |
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Teen Cosplay Workshop
Tuesday, January 16, 5:30 pm
Northeast Branch Library
Ever wonder how some cosplayers create such lifelike weapons and accessories? Learn how to make professional cosplay weapons with cardboard, tape and paint! Basic materials provided. Teens welcome to bring costume-specific items as needed. Registration required, as space and materials are limited, but the event is free! Need more than and hour to work on your stuff? No problem! Teen Anime and Manga Club is in the same room from 6:30 - 7:30. Enjoy working on your projects while watching streaming shows with fellow cosplay and Anime enthusiasts.
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Make it Mondays - Valentine Card for the Military
Monday, January 29, 1 pm
Pleasure Island Branch
Make a card and write a thank you note to current and retired military members. Operation Gratitude and Giving Registration Required - Supplies provided unless specified Join us for a variety of projects that will be given back to the community!
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Fiction to Fashion - Intro Session
Tuesday, January 23, 6 pm
Northeast Branch Library
Calling all creative teens (ages 13–18) for our 4th Project Runway-style fashion design challenge. Using unconventional materials like discarded library books, cassette tapes and CDs, we challenge you to make a stunning outfit to send down the runway at Expo 216. You could win “Crowd Favorite,” “Most Avant-Garde,” “Best Runway Swagger” or “Most Ready to Wear” and take home prizes. Contest Sign Up (January 1–31) Sign up at nhclibrary.org. Pick up materials for your design at Myrtle Grove Library or use your own from home. Intro session with Mr. Scooter Tuesday, Jan. 23, 6–7 pm, Northeast Library First check-in, Q & A, pick up materials.
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Finish It @ Your Library
first Wednesday of every month, 4:00 pm
Northeast Branch Library
Do you knit, crochet, needlepoint, or partake in another craft? Bring your current project to the library and work on it with other crafters the first Wednesday of every month from 4-6 pm.
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Make a Blanket Day
Saturday, February 24, 10:00 am
Northeast Branch Library
Calling all quilters, knitters, crocheters, or fleece-crafters! Join together with other local "blanketeers" to create blankets for children in need. You can bring your sewing machine, an afghan in progress, or whatever you need to work on a blanket or two. Can't sew or knit? You can still help with no-sew fleece blankets or by tying & labeling finished blankets. Drop in for an hour or the whole day. All blankets and donated materials will go to the New Hanover/ Brunswick/Pender chapter of Project Linus.
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Contact your librarian for more great books! |
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New Hanover County Library
201 Chestnut Street Wilmington, North Carolina 28401 910-798-6301 www.nhclibrary.org |
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