Q: What do you get when you cross a Lone Star with a Pineapple? A: A knockout Pineapple Star Quilt! Dazzling pineapple stars that anyone can piece! Create large, dynamic stars with solids and prints. Tremendous flexibility - make any project in six size. Paper-pieced construction means all diamonds are perfect. Workbook style guides you from easy paper-pieced construction through designing your own project! Large areas are perfect for show-off quilting! Also available from C&T: Pineapple Stars Paper Piecing Patterns - 9 preprinted sheets (8 to sew plus a practice sheet) to make 6 sizes of pineapple stars - perfect results every time!
As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity’s greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they do it. From the crystallographer’s laboratory where the secrets of DNA were first revealed by a long forgotten woman, to the electromagnetic chamber where the stealth bomber was born on a twenty-five-cent bet, to the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers set out to “fly a horse,” Ashton showcases the seemingly unremarkable individuals, gradual steps, multiple failures, and countless ordinary and usually uncredited acts that lead to our most astounding breakthroughs. Creators, he shows, apply in particular ways the everyday, ordinary thinking of which we are all capable, taking thousands of small steps and working in an endless loop of problem and solution. He examines why innovators meet resistance and how they overcome it, why most organizations stifle creative people, and how the most creative organizations work. Drawing on examples from art, science, business, and invention, from Mozart to the Muppets, Archimedes to Apple, Kandinsky to a can of Coke, How to Fly a Horse is a passionate and immensely rewarding exploration of how “new” comes to be.
Two award-winning quilters serve up creative new twists on the classic block! Award-winning quilters Jane Hall and Dixie Haywood have been making quilts with the Pineapple Log Cabin block for decades. Now you can use their secrets to create your own perfect pineapple quilts. Learn to use foundation piecing to sew perfectly accurate blocks Play with colors and block layouts to design your own vibrant pineapple patterns Feast your eyes on quilts that use the 10 different blocks in exciting new ways Links to full-size foundation patterns for perfect piecing Cutting charts for 10 different pineapple blocks in various sizes Complete instructions for two quilts help you master the basics
Poet Charles Lamb described the pineapple as “too ravishing for moral taste . . . like lovers’ kisses she bites—she is a pleasure bordering on pain, from fierceness and insanity of her relish.” From the moment Christopher Columbus discovered it on a Caribbean island in 1493, the pineapple has seduced the world, becoming an object of passion and desire. Beloved by George Washington, a favorite of kings and aristocrats, the pineapple quickly achieved an elite status among fruits that it retains today. Kaori O’Connor tells the story of this culinary romance in Pineapple, an intriguing history of this luscious fruit. O’Connor follows the pineapple across time and cultures, exploring how it was first transported to Europe, where it could only be grown at great expense in hothouses. The pineapple was the ultimate status symbol, she reveals—London society hostesses would even pay extravagantly to rent a pineapple for a single evening to be the centerpiece of a party. O’Connor explains that the fruit remained a seasonal luxury for the rich until developments in shipping and refrigeration allowed it to be brought to the major markets in Europe and America, and she illustrates how canning processes—and the discovery of the pineapple’s ideal home in Hawaii—have made it available and affordable throughout the year. Packed with vivid illustrations and irresistible recipes from around the world, Pineapple will have everyone falling in love with this juicy tropical fruit.
“This book is jam-packed with American heritage recipes, each one more delicious-sounding than the next!” —Gale Gand, James Beard Award–winning pastry chef These 400 delectable recipes showcase the essence of American desserts: high-quality ingredients put together with a brash spirit of fun and adventure found only in the good ol’ USA. Whether they are traditional sweets, back-of-the-box classics, or newly inspired creations, you’ll find them all in this veritable treasure-trove of goodies. “Unarguably comprehensive . . . this book—think of it as an enhanced Betty Crocker recipe cookbook—is well worth adding to the shelf.” —Publishers Weekly “Seductive and compulsively readable . . . Fertig has compiled an exhaustive and valuable collection of American recipes and the lore behind them that will as likely end up on your bedside table as your kitchen counter.” —Regan Daley, author of In the Sweet Kitchen “A significant addition to the sweet subject of desserts, Judith Fertig’s American Desserts does not miss a step as it marches along detailing just about any dessert worth preparing and pleasurably consuming.” —Marcel Desaulniers, author of Death by Chocolate “Her readable text reflects her exhaustive research on the history of our American desserts. She delved into old ‘receipt books,’ diaries, and other primary sources, and includes hundreds of recipes for both the beloved standards . . . and lesser-known old-fashioned desserts.” —Library Journal
This enchanting, juicy history takes us from the pineapple's origins in the Amazon rainforests to its first tasting by Columbus in Guadeloupe and its starring role on the royal dinner tables of Europe. In the eighteenth-century this spectacular fruit reigned supreme: despite the fact that, at first, to cultivate just one cost the same as a new coach, every great house soon boasted its own steaming pits filled with hundreds upon hundreds of pineapple plants. As the Prada handbag of its day, a real-life, homegrown pineapple was a powerful status symbol, so much so that at first, it was extremely unusual actually to eat the fruit. The image appeared on gateposts, on teapots, furniture and wallpaper. A new phase opened when growers in the Caribbean began supplying pineapples in the 1840s and later the first canning factory was built in Hawaii. As the story rolls on, through the heyday of pineapple chunks and cocktails, right up to the fashions of today,it touches on pineapples and sex, pineapples and empire, pineapples in art. Why is the pineapple so special? In one surprising sense it is indeed ideal. Made up of hundreds of separate fruitlets, its spirals embody the gradations of the Golden Mean - it is mathematically perfect. But it is more than that - for years a focus of traveller's tales, it is a treasure of sight and scent and taste. Packed with fascinating illustrations, this delicious book sees Fran Beauman explore the life and lore of the king of fruits: scholarly, witty and fun, it is a true hamper of delights.
Ten-year-old August Brown adjusts to his new home in Washington, D.C., with the help of the seven children of Pineapple Place, invisible to everyone but him.
