These fashionable crochet projects use yarn from Paton's, well-known for its high-quality product and cutting-edge designs. Everything is fresh, young, and colorful--and even beginners will be able to do them, thanks to the helpful basics section. Select from summer ensembles, elegant holiday outfits, springtime glamour, and accessories. Coordinate a tropical-bright beach cover-up and halter top with a pretty purse--or crochet a classic V-neck with a flattering tie. Each project comes with details on sizing the garment, choosing the hook, materials, and yarn tension.
Revised and Updated, Featuring a New Case Study How do successful companies create products people can’t put down? Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging. Hooked is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder—not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior. Eyal provides readers with: • Practical insights to create user habits that stick. • Actionable steps for building products people love. • Fascinating examples from the iPhone to Twitter, Pinterest to the Bible App, and many other habit-forming products.
Crochet is the "next big thing" in crafts and DIY fashion, already a trend with teens and a staple of current clothing trends. The trendy, simple projects in GET HOOKED will entice even the coolest young person. Clear, starting-from-scratch directions begin with how to hold the hook and where to put the yarn, then move with lightning speed to the good stuff--actually making crocheted items to wear and to share. Extra sections show teens how to make their own hook holders, plan crochet groups, pick fun movies to crochet by, stretch their fingers to keep them nimble, and even crochet for charity. Add the low, low cover price, and stand back as hordes of teens rush to Get Hooked! Projects Include; Friendship Wrist Cuffs Key Chain Baubles Blossom Belt Green Leaf Tote Sushi Roll Pillow Fingerless Punk Gloves Fingerless Prom Gloves Cheer-Me-Up Pillow Je T Aime Beret Star Power Purse Bracelet Baglet Beaded Bookmark Chunky Scarf Pleated Miniskirt Hipster Head Scarf Beauty Bin & Ring Cave And More!
Leonard Maltin is America's best-known film historian, film reviewer, and author of books that have sold more than 7 million copies. He remains a thought leader on past and present Hollywood through his website www.leonardmaltin.com, and a social media presence that includes an active Facebook page and a Twitter feed with more than 66,000 followers. In Hooked on Hollywood, Maltin opens up his personal archive to take readers on a fascinating journey through film history. He first interviewed greats of Hollywood as a precocious teenager in 1960s New York City. He used what he learned from these luminaries to embark on a 50-year (and counting) career that has included New York Times bestselling books, 30 years of regular appearances coast-to-coast on Entertainment Tonight, movie introductions on Turner Classic Movies, and countless other television and radio performances. Early Maltin interviews had literally been stored in his garage for more than 40 years until GoodKnight Books brought them to light for the first time in this volume to entertain readers and inform future film scholars. Teenaged Leonard Maltin landed one-on-ones with Warner Bros. sexy pre-Code siren Joan Blondell; Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actor Burgess Meredith; Cecil B. DeMille's right-hand-man Henry Wilcoxon; Oscar-winning actor Ralph Bellamy; playwright, novelist, and MGM screenwriter Anita Loos; early screen heartthrob George O'Brien; classic Paramount director Mitchell Leisen; and others. Later in his career, Maltin sat down with men and women who worked inside the top studios during the heyday of movies and early television. This second set of in-depth interviews reveals what life was like under Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn, and the other titans of Hollywood. What emerges is a fascinating and at times uproarious homage to Golden Era Hollywood. In addition, key feature articles from Maltin's newsletter Movie Crazy are published here for the first time, providing new perspectives on the Warner Bros. classics Casablanca and Gold Diggers of 1933 as well as many other masterpieces—and bombs—from Hollywood history. Finally, Maltin looks back at what he considers Hollywood's "overlooked" studio, RKO Radio Pictures, which gave us such classics as King Kong and the many dance musicals of Astaire and Rogers. In Leonard's unique and witty style, he looks at dozens of obscure RKO features from the 1930s, including saucy pre-Codes, musicals, comedies, and mysteries. Leonard Maltin's love of movies and vast knowledge about their history shines through from the first page to the last in this unique volume, which includes 150 rare photos and a comprehensive index.
Anna has it all - great kids, boyfriend, good teaching job. Except she's so bored. Perhaps a new hobby's in order? Something...crafty? A quirky lesbian romance about love never being quite where you expect.
Everyone has a story to tell--so make your own book to tell it with! From the scissors that snip the pages to the glues and stitches and ties that bind them; from elaborate compound structures with pockets to multiple signatures in a thick, sewn volume, here are the techniques you need and the styles you want. Cut and fold pages in a simple accordion, or hide a second book inside. Create pop-ups, fan, and slot-and-tab books. Construct handscrolls and hanging ones, soft- and hardcovers, even portfolios and boxes. Hundreds of illustrations and diagrams will guide you, and dozens of striking pictures will seize your imagination! The author lives in Berkeley, CA. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK
This book has designs for handkerchiefs that can be cut up to be utilized in projects as well as designs for hankies that are precious and must be preserved. Laurene Sinema's passion for linens inspired these wonderful projects and idea for using handkerchiefs
Create irresistible amigurumi masterpieces with these 40 uniquely adorable and easy-to-follow patterns. These cuddly, crocheted stuffed toys are guaranteed to charm, making them an enchanting addition to a child’s toy collection, a perfect homemade gift or a whimsical way to brighten your home. Best of all, each project requires either little or no sewing, allowing them to come together quickly and easily. With patterns for everything from mermaids and the Loch Ness Monster to jellyfish, teapots and cinnamon rolls, there’s something to delight every craft lover across a spectrum of skill levels. Beginners can learn the basics behind amigurumi stitches, and experts will enjoy trying out new techniques and designs. Each addictive project will have you reluctant to put down the crochet hook, and the impressive variety of patterns from Knot Too Shabby Crochet’s Melanie Morita means you won’t have to. Recreate your favorite fairy tale with the “Once Upon a Time” chapter, crochet an entire ocean’s worth of sea creatures with “Beach Bums,” or put together a picnic with “Eat Your Heart Out.” The entertainment is endless with this must-have book of patterns.
From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger, funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business (and how it can help you, too). Whether she’s playing an “age-defying” book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the Broadway stage, Sutton Foster manages to make it all look easy. How? Crafting. From the moment she picked up a cross stitch needle to escape the bullying chorus girls in her early performing days, she was hooked. Cross stitching led to crocheting, crocheting led to collages, which led to drawing, and so much more. Channeling her emotions into her creations centered Sutton as she navigated the significant moments in her life and gave her tangible reminders of her experiences. Now, in this charming and poignant collection, Sutton shares those moments, including her fraught relationship with her agoraphobic mother; a painful divorce splashed on the pages of the tabloids; her struggles with fertility; the thrills she found on the stage during hit plays like Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, and Violet; her breakout TV role in Younger; and the joy of adopting her daughter, Emily. Accompanying the stories, Sutton has included crochet patterns, recipes, and so much more! Witty and poignant, Hooked will leave readers entertained as well as inspire them to pick up their own cross stitch needles and paintbrushes.
