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  How to Sew: Basics

  Charles The Editors of David &

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  A brief introduction to the basics of sewing, perfect for beginners or advanced sewers interested in a refresher. 
   
  This brilliant little guide covers all the essential basics of sewing, including how to choose the best fabrics and threads for projects, in clear and simple points. Learn skills in amazing sewing crafts such as cross-stitch, patchwork and quilting. This book provides all you need to know to start your own projects today, including indispensable advice for inserting zips and making and using bias bindings.

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  Hat Shop - 25 Projects to Sew...

  Susanne Woods

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  “Describes how to experiment with different materials, fabric, embellishments, and small accessories to create fabulous one-of-a-kind hats!” —Threads 
   
  The latest installment in our popular Design Collective series features over 25 hat projects from contemporary designers all over the world, each hand-selected for their freshly sewn flair and skilled millinery work. Ladies and gents, boys and girls . . . what will you tip from the top of your head? A bonnet, a cap, a cloche, a tam? Projects include other adornments for your crown, such as headbands, fascinators, and scarves. From playful to practical, sassy to sophisticated, there is something for everyone to make and wear any day, every day. 
   
  “Provides the tools and the inspiration to create a hat for every season.” —Stitch Gifts

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  The Country Cooking of Ireland

  Colman Andrews

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  The acclaimed food and travel writer brings to life the people, countryside, and delicious food of Ireland in this James Beard Award–winning cookbook. 
   
  Fast emerging as one of the world’s hottest culinary destinations, Ireland is a country of small farms, artisanal bakers, cheese makers, and butteries. Farm-to-table dining has been practiced here for centuries.  
   
  Meticulously researched and reported by Saveur magazine founder Colman Andrews, this sumptuous cookbook includes 250 recipes and more than 100 photographs of the pubs, the people, and the emerald Irish countryside taken by award-winning photographer Christopher Hirsheimer.  
   
  Rich with stories of the food and people who make Ireland a wonderful place to eat, and laced with charming snippets of song, folklore, and poetry, The Country Cooking of Ireland ushers in a new understanding of Irish food.

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  The Southern Bite Cookbook -...

  Stacey Little

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  In the South, a conversation among home cooks can be just about as illuminating as any culinary education. Luckily for Stacey Little, home cooks run in the family.Whether it’s fried chicken or pimento cheese, fruit salad or meatloaf, everybody’s family does it a little differently. The Southern Bite Cookbook is a celebration of those traditions and recipes every Southern family is proud to own.It’s the salads and sandwiches that’s mandatory for every family reunion and the hearty soups that are comforting after a long day. It’s the Sunday Dinner that graces the Easter table every year.If you’re lucky enough to hail from the South, you’ll no doubt find some familiar favorites from your own family recipe archives, along with a whole slew of surprises from southern families a lot like yours.In The Southern Bite Cookbook, Little shares some of his favorite, delicious dishes including:Pecan Chicken SaladGlazed HamTurnip Green DipChicken Corn ChowderCornbread Salad No matter what’s cooking, Little’s goal is the same: to revel in the culinary tradition all Southerners share.The Southern Bite Cookbook has all of the best recipes that brings people together and the meals our families will cherish for generations to come.

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  Minimalism and Decluttering -...

  Alexandra Jessen

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  If you want to learn the secret practical strategies to living the minimalist life and decluttering your home your way, then keep listening.... 
  You don’t have to own only three T-shirts and live in a house with no furniture to be a minimalist. In fact, that is actually what is now being coined as “extreme minimalism”. Not to bash it though, that can certainly work for some people, but that isn’t how minimalism and decluttering have to be. In fact, minimalism is actually about a reassessment of your priorities so you can strip away the excess stuff that doesn’t provide any value to your life. 
  So, if you’re someone who has a life and house full of unnecessary “clutter” and you want to remove the things that don’t bring value without having to purge everything you own, then this audiobook will show you step-by-step how to achieve that.  
  Here is just a sample of what you will discover:
  
  The three questions to ask yourself to live a meaningful life 
  How to purposefully declutter your house starting now! 
  Why getting more money won’t always make you happier 
  Declutter by buying more things! 
  Think you have to get rid of everything to be a minimalist? Think again! 
  What monks know about happiness that you don’t 
  The 10 essential steps to a minimalist budget 
  The must-know strategies to make minimalism work for the busiest people and families! 
  Why minimalism is a spectrum and why you don’t have to be an “extreme minimalist”. 
  The two easiest techniques to cultivate happiness, joy, and peace into every aspect of your life 
  And much, much more!

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  James McNeill Whistler

  Patrick Chaleyssin

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  Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. Whistler’s work can be divided into four periods. The first may be called a period of research in which he was influenced by the Realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Whistler then discovered his own originality in the Nocturnes and the Cremorne Gardens series, thereby coming into conflict with the academics who wanted a work of art to tell a story. When he painted the portrait of his mother, Whistler entitled it Arrangement in Grey and Black and this is symbolic of his aesthetic theories. When painting the Cremorne Pleasure Gardens it was not to depict identifiable figures, as did Renoir in his work on similar themes, but to capture an atmosphere. He loved the mists that hovered over the banks of the Thames, the pale light, and the factory chimneys which at night turned into magical minarets. Night redrew landscapes, effacing the details. This was the period in which he became an adventurer in art; his work, which verged on abstraction, shocked his contemporaries. The third period is dominated by the full-length portraits that brought him his fame. He was able to imbue this traditional genre with his profound originality. He tried to capture part of the souls of his models and placed the characters in their natural habitats. This gave his models a strange presence so that they seem about to walk out of the picture to physically encounter the viewer. By extracting the poetic substance from individuals he created portraits described as “mediums” by his contemporaries, and which were the inspiration for Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Towards the end of his life, the artist began painting landscapes and portraits in the classical tradition, strongly influenced by Velázquez. Whistler proved to be extremely rigorous in ensuring his paintings coincided with his theories. He never hesitated in crossing swords with the most famous art theoreticians of his day. His personality, his outbursts, and his elegance were a perfect focus for curiosity and admiration. He was a close friend of Stéphane Mallarmé, and admired by Marcel Proust, who rendered homage to him in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. He was also a provocative dandy, a prickly socialite, a demanding artist, and a daring innovator.

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