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Challenge your carving skills as Halloween creeps near! Author and award-winning caricature carver Dwayne Gosnell will skillfully teach you how to carve, paint, and finish 4 classic monsters, including Dracula, Frankenstein, a witch, and a mummy. With detailed, step-by-step instructions and photography, each task is carefully described, from roughing out to painting and finishing each piece. Full-size, ready-to-use patterns are provided for every project, as well as paint notes, expert tips, and complete tools and materials lists. Perfect for both beginners and experienced woodcarvers alike!
Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Camping & Outdoor Survival Guide
• The Victorinox Swiss Army® Knife is the world’s #1 pocket knife brand—consumers all over the world recognize the iconic cross-and-shield logo.• U.S. consumers purchase more than 7 million Swiss Army Knives every year.• Victorinox social media: 85.9K Facebook followers, 146K Instagram followers, 25.1K Twitter followers.• Anyone who carries a Swiss Army knife in his pocket is a potential buyer of this book.• Must-have manual for fishing, camping, hunting, hiking, scouting, and outdoor adventures.
The Handmade Quilt
Discover the joy and serenity of slow stitching with hand piecing and hand quilting! With one quilt made up of 21 blocks, master teacher Carolyn Forster takes readers on a quilt making journey that begins with the basics and progresses to more intricate techniques with each new block. Providing templates for every design and step-by-step instructions and photographs, thoroughly practice hand stitching and hand quilting blocks, from stitching set-in seams to stitching curves. The Handmade Quilt provides both a complete learning experience for new quilters and a stunning project for experienced stitchers. You’ll be amazed by the finished project; an heirloom-quality quilt that’s a beautiful sampler of stash-busting blocks!
Making Your Own Bush Knife
Making your own custom accessories is a great way to add color, texture and comfort to your life—and can be fun too! Sew-It-Yourself Home Accessories offers 21 simple and beautiful projects to create with natural cotton. Using easy-to-learn sewing methods and bright, fresh fabrics, this book shows you how to make a range of useful items, from cushions, aprons and oven mitts to a laptop case, table linen and even a doorstop. Each project can be completed in just one weekend. Clear step-by-step instructions and color photographs make the process straightforward and simple, even for absolute beginners. A basics section at the front of the book introduces you to all of the tools, materials and techniques you need to know.
Party Crochet
Get noticed at your next party with an incredible crochet creation that you made yourself! Party Crochet offers 24 fun and fabulous designs for party wear, each perfect for that special occasion. Try the camisole top and matching skirt in silver and gold, the fuchsia/pink fur jacket, the strappy evening dress, the sequined bolero or the mini poncho—any of these terrific patterns will make your party style. Crocheted accessories include a corsage, a cuff bracelet and a stunning evening bag. Accompanied by gorgeous color photographs, these irresistible projects are perfect for beginners and veteran crocheters alike. Each design is worked using simple stitches, clearly explained with step-by-step patterns and diagrams. A comprehensive how-to section covers all the basics of crocheting, along with essential advice on yarns, hooks, and techniques.
Weekend Whittling Projects
Learn to whittle four little friends with one-of-a-kind personality and charm! Featuring step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, and full-size patterns for a snail, bear, troll, and penguin, author and talented woodcarver Sara Barraclough will guide you through each adorable whittling project. Also provided are complete material lists, painting guidance, and inspirational ideas for reimagining these charming characters into your own original masterpieces!
Little Book of Whittling Gift Edition
Now available in a handsome new hardcover gift edition, this friendly guidebook will encourage readers to whittle away the hours. Great for beginners looking for an easy way to get started and more advanced carvers looking for a relaxing way to spend their time, Little Book of Whittling Gift Edition provides 18 projects, including knives, forks, birds, animals, trees, and flowers. Chapters detail the proper whittling tools and materials, including what woods are best to carve, and how to start projects by selecting and safely sharpening the best knife for each project.
The Silk Road and Beyond
True accounts of one man’s long-distance trucking career that began in the late 1960s, these adventurous anecdotes are told by one of the first pioneers in long-distance trucking to the Middle East, Ivor Whittall. From traveling overseas to Kuwait, driving the desert trek between Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and surviving the infamously dangerous (and sometimes deadly) Tahir Pass in Eastern Turkey that has claimed the lives of truckers with its haphazard landslides and avalanches and tricky mountainous terrain, readers get a driver’s seat perspective to Whittall’s daring career. With 72 contemporary color photos of trucks, drivers, passports, visas, and custom forms, readers will be thrust into what it was like being a long-distance trucker in the 1970s. Full of disastrous near misses, border control mishaps, intense home sickness, mechanical failures, cultural misunderstandings, and so much more, this book will urge you to buckle up.
Making Inventive Wooden Toys
What does woodworking have to do with physics and fun? You’re about to find out! Making Inventive Wooden Toys is filled with high-octane, exciting, and slightly wacky toys for kids and parents to build together. These creative projects combine ingenuity and woodworking with real-life lessons in science, technology, engineering, art, and math—aka STEAM. Have fun building 33 easy-to-make wooden action toys that can do extraordinary things, like the Desk Top Rocket, the Anti-Gravity Box, the Ping Pong Ball Explosion, the Gator Snap, or the Horizontal Wheel-Top Racer. You’ll find there’s a secret treasure buried deep within each project… as they bring science to life and actually demonstrate the laws of physics right before your eyes!
Home Gardener's Perennials & Bulbs
Perennials are the types of plants that bloom every year, and because they know what to expect in terms of color, blooms, and textures, many gardeners use them to provide a basic structure to their gardens, borders, and the overall landscape. Home Gardener's Perennials & Bulbs provides essential information on designing gardens, improving the soil, planting, fertilizing, and maintaining perennials and bulbs. The book offers information on buying plants, starting plants from seed, and transplanting. Hundreds of step-by-step color photographs illustrate basic gardening techniques. This guide to creating beautiful gardens with eye-catching perennials also offers tips for saving time and money, along with useful advice on dealing with common garden pests and diseases.