Knitless
Knitless

Author: Laura McFadden

Publisher: Running Press Adult

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0762456647

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Are you a knitter, crocheter, crafter, or none of the above? This book gives yarn lovers -- both knitters and non-knitters alike -- 50 ways to use their stashes without taking out their knitting needles. The projects are simple, but with a modern aesthetic. Get your hot glue gun fired up, adhere some pompoms to an old office chair, and make the most ho-hum seat in your house into a cozy piece of pop art furniture. Or treat your neck to a stylish infinity scarf. All you need is some bulky yarn and the ability to braid. This book will strike a chord with DIYers who love yarn but don't always want to take the time and effort to knit something from it. Projects also include a Sputnik lamp shade, a welcome mat, friendship bracelets, and even a rehabbed woven lawn chair.

Knitless Death: A Cozy Mystery Short Story
Knitless Death: A Cozy Mystery Short Story

Author: S. Y. Robins

Publisher: Cozy Murder Mystery Bookshelf

Published:

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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Enjoy this fun amateur sleuth short story by best-selling cozy murder mystery blind author S.Y. Robins. Katy Gordon is having the time of her life. She is about to step on stage to accept the Bennet Award—the most prestigious award within the knitting community. She possesses a rare gift with the needle. Katy creates masterpieces, using skill and precision, of every kind of clothing imaginable, from patterns she’s created or adapted from antique patterns she owns. From Victorian and sensual to the Roaring 20s and beyond, Katy creates award winning pieces that have made her famous in the world of costume design as well as a variety of other arenas. She has never been more excited, that is, until a crazy woman rushes the stage and accuses Katy of stealing her designs and stealing her award. Katy is flabbergasted by the outburst and is stunned as the security guards drag the woman away. Katy chalks it up to some lunatic’s antics and tries not to let it spoil her evening. That is, until a few hours later when that same woman is found dead with one of Katie’s specially designed knitting needles found at the scene. Katie finds herself a suspect in a murder she did not commit. Can she discover the real killer before she is sent away for the crime? Or will this journey plunge her into a world of mystery and intrigue she has only ever read about? If you enjoy a light-hearted, easy, and relaxing murder mystery book, then this is the book for you. Suitable for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman, and Deany Ray.

No Idle Hands
No Idle Hands

Author: Anne L. MacDonald

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2010-11-17

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0307775445

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“Fascinating . . . What is remarkable about this book is that a history of knitting can function so well as a survey of the changes in women’s rolse over time.”—The New York Times Book Review An historian and lifelong knitter, Anne Macdonald expertly guides readers on a revealing tour of the history of knitting in America. In No Idle Hands, Macdonald considers how the necessity—and the pleasure—of knitting has shaped women’s lives. Here is the Colonial woman for whom idleness was a sin, and her Victorian counterpart, who enjoyed the pleasure of knitting while visiting with friends; the war wife eager to provide her man with warmth and comfort, and the modern woman busy creating fashionable handknits for herself and her family. Macdonald examines each phase of American history and gives us a clear and compelling look at life, then and now. And through it all, we see how knitting has played an important part in the way society has viewed women—and how women have viewed themselves. Assembled from articles in magazines, knitting brochures, newspaper clippings and other primary sources, and featuring reproductions of advertisements, illustrations, and photographs from each period, No Idle Hands capture the texture of women’s domestic lives throughout history with great wit and insight. “Colorful and revealing . . . vivid . . . This book will intrigue needlewomen and students of domestic history alike.”—The Washington Post Book World

Death Wish: A Cozy Mystery Collection of 32 Short Stories
Death Wish: A Cozy Mystery Collection of 32 Short Stories

Author: S. Y. Robins

Publisher: Cozy Murder Mystery Bookshelf

Published:

Total Pages: 1280

ISBN-13:

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Enjoy this fun amateur sleuth short story by best-selling cozy murder mystery blind author S.Y. Robins. This collection contains 32 Cozy Mystery Short Stories by S. Y. Robins. Included in this collection: Bag and Lady Bake Off Cold Death Colorful Death Crafty Murder Curl Up And Dye Death Groupie Deadly Brewed Dog Dig Death Drop Dead Hotel Gone Missing Killer Chocolate Killer Cupcakes Killer Nail Killer Tiramisu Knitless Death Life's a Beach Missing Hearts Murder Book Club Murder by Cheesecake Scoop Away Shoes and Baby Sew Much Trouble Spicy Murder Spooky Followers Steamy Death The Death Next Door Un-friend Warm Food Cold Body Wine Up Dead Wicked Vampire Witch You Were Dead If you enjoy a light-hearted, easy, and relaxing murder mystery book, then this is the book for you. Suitable for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman, and Deany Ray.

Plagued By Quilt
Plagued By Quilt

Author: Molly MacRae

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-11-04

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0698168216

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The latest novel in the national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery series Yarn shop owner Kath Rutledge is at a historic farm in Blue Plum, Tennessee, volunteering for the high school program Hands on History. But when a long-buried murder is uncovered on the property, Kath needs help from Geneva the ghost to solve a crime that time forgot.... Kath and her needlework group TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Fiber) are preparing to teach a workshop at the Holston Homeplace Living History Farm, but their lesson in crazy quilts is no match for the crazy antics of the assistant director, Phillip Bell. Hamming it up with equal parts history and histrionics, Phillip leads an archaeological dig of the farm’s original dump site—until one student stops the show by uncovering some human bones. When a full skeleton is later excavated, Kath can’t help but wonder if it’s somehow connected to Geneva, the ghost who haunts her shop, and whom she met at this very site. After Phillip is found dead, it’s up to Kath to thread the clues together before someone else becomes history.

Voices from the Thai Countryside
Voices from the Thai Countryside

Author: Samruam Singh

Publisher: Center for Southeast Asian Studies 1

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Writing under the pseudonym Samruan Singh, the Thai author Surasinghsamruan Shimbhanao (19949-1996) wrote the stories in this collection during the mid-1970s, a decade of dramatic social and political change in Thailand. An activist dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged, he wrote these stories to convey the agony of the Thai countryside under the pressure of accelerated social and economic change. They are thus vignettes from the daily lives of ordinary villagers. Read as a collection, they offer stark testimony about a troubled period in Thai histroy.

The Culture of Knitting
The Culture of Knitting

Author: Joanne Turney

Publisher: Berg Publishers

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781845205928

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From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of sources, including interviews with knitters from different disciplines as well as amateurs, the text breaks down hierarchical boundaries and stereotypical assumptions that have previously negated the academic study of knitting. The book also highlights the diversity and complexity of knitting in all its guises. The Culture of Knitting investigates not merely why knitting is so popular now but also the reasons why knitting has such longevity. By assessing the literature of knitting, manuals, patterns, social and regional histories, alongside testimonial discussions with artists, designers, craftspeople and amateurs, the book offers new ways of seeing and new methods of critiquing knitting - without the constraints of disciplinary boundaries - in the hope of creating an environment in which knitting can be valued, recognized and discussed.