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All Things Home
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All Things Home:
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New Book of Herbs
By Jekka McVicar / Dk Adult
A unique and innovative combination of cookbook, gardening guide, and organic reference, New Book of Herbs illustrates how growing and using fresh herbs can enhance ones home, health, and garden. Readers will learn how to raise and maintain herbs the organic way; discover the best ways to create simple, delicious recipes, and to recognize the medicinal, environmental, and therapeutic uses of these remarkable plants. New Book of Herbs will guide and inspire anyone interested in using herbs to achieve a healthy lifestyle.
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Root Cellaring
By Workman Publishing
Root collaring, as many people remember but only a few still practice, is a way of using the earth's naturally cool, stable temperature to preserve perishables. Anyone can build a root cellar and store fruits and vegetables safely and naturally using a cool, dark space (even a closet!) and the advice in this book. Paperbac, 320 pages.
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Keeping the Harvest
By Workman Publishing
Illustrated directions explain techniques for canning, freezing, drying, and pickling fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Paperback, 208 pages.
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Home Cheese Making
By Workman Publishing
Here are 85 recipes for cheeses and other dairy products that require basic cheese making techniques and the freshest of ingredients, offering the satisfaction of turning out a coveted delicacy. Among the step-by-step tested recipes for cheese varieties are: Farmhouse cheddar, gouda, fromage blanc, queso blanco, marscarpone, ricotta, and 30-minute mozzarella. Recipes for dairy products include creme fraiche, sour cream, yogurt, keifer, buttermilk, and clotted cream. There are also 60 recipes for cooking with cheese, including such treats as: - Ricotta Pancakes with Banana Pecan Syrup
- Cream Cheese Muffins
- Broiled Pears and Vermont Shepherd Cheese
- Prosciutto and Cheese Calzones, and
- Grilled Vegetable Stacks with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce.
Profiles of home cheese makers and artisan cheese makers scattered throughout the text share the stories of people who love to make and eat good cheese. Plus information on how to enjoy homemade cheeses, how to serve a cheese course at home,cheese tips, lore, quotes, cheese making glossary, and more. Paperback, 224 pages.
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In God's Garden: A Personal Gardening Planner
By Caroline Ash / Tyndale House
Keep a record of the Creator's activity in your yard with this personal planner. You'll find practical tips and information on planting and cultivation; pages to record designs and ideas; a seasonal diary to track spring bulbs, summer perennials, fall and winter berries; checklists of tasks; space for photographs; and inspirational quotes and Scriptures. 73 pages, slipcased hardcover from Tyndale.
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A Down to Earth Bible Study
By JoAnne Taylor / Amg Publishers
Over the past decade, the popularity of personal gardening has increased dramatically. Professional gardener, Joanne Taylor, believes that what awaits us outside our front door is nearer to God than theology itself. There are secrets within nature many people don't recognize that teach us how to live, grow, and be wise. The garden is where human existence began and where much of modern life is reflected, and this book presents numerous examples of this through principles of reaping and sowing, weathering storms, and basic plant-growing techniques that have many life applications. Ideal for small-group and personal study, this book presents day-to-day gardening tips but is also a branch for spreading the good news of the gospel by using nature as the instructor. Each of the twelve lessons provides readers with the information, inspiration, and motivation to reach down to earth and create wonderful gardens that will breathe life back into the earth, but more importantly, back into themselves.
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Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots Hardcover
By Workman Publishing
Presents 12 spirited, easy-to-implement ideas for theme gardens that parents and kids can grow together. Illustrated throughout by the author's own lyrical watercolors, each garden includes a plan, the planting recipe - seeds, seedlings, and growing instructions spelled out step-by-step - and activities. Hardcover, 159 pages. Workman.
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Cold-Climate Gardening
By Workman Publishing
Early and late frosts, arctic winds, and inhospitable terrain are just a few of the obstacles facing those who garden in the icebox region of the United States and Canada. Lewis Hill has spent a lifetime in northern Vermont, and is undaunted by the challenges of weather and climate. His system for how to garden more and better in the time that you do have is covered in this extensive 308-page guide. There is tons of invaluable information that will prove northern gardeners that they can grow food, how to landscape techiniques to employ that will protect vulnerable plantings, how to warm up the soil earlier, and which species are appropriate to your area. Not just for those who live in the snow belt, this book will also be useful to those who want to extend their gardening season in any climate.
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Pruning Made Easy
By Workman Publishing
Trusted nurseryman and author Lewis Hill helps readers overcome their fears with one of the most authoritative and complete pruning manuals available. Hill outlines the many reasons for pruning and explains the different methods used for each purpose. Over 300 two-color illustrations. Paperback.
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Taylor's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables
By Watson / Houghton-mifflin
The most comprehensive guide available, featuring more than 500 of the best historic, regional, and ethnic vegetables. Complete instructions on how to select and grow the best varieties for your own garden. Illustrated with more than 200 color photographs and 20 how-to drawings. Plus sources of seeds and expert advice on organic control. 343 pages, paperback from Houghton Mifflin Company.
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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
By Edward C. Smith / Workman Publishing
The author gives his time-tested advice on planning and planting a self-sufficient garden, jump-starting your growing season, trellising, companion planting, composting and more. A detailed A-to-Z of vegetables and herbs gives you all the specifics about growing and harvesting needs.
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The Flower Gardener's Bible Paperback
By Workman Publishing
Americans love flowers. We grow them with a passion and crave helpful advice on nurturing them in our gardens. A great, friendly, indispensable book, The Flower Gardeners Bible is written with wit and authority by Lewis and Nancy Hill, who share both their joy in growing flowers and more than 75 years of combined experience. In the same format as the very successful The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, this new primer is both painstakingly thorough and stunningly photographed. It covers every facet of growing perennials, annuals, bulbs, wildflowers, small trees, vines, and shrubs for season-long color and beauty. It is organized in three sections, and the first focuses on the basics -- choosing the right varieties for your zone and type of garden, and planning and planting for maximum impact. The second section presents plans for 25 distinctively themed gardens. And finally, a photographic encyclopedia of more than 400 species includes detailed descriptions of each plant -- garden uses, susceptibility to pests and diseases, propagation methods, and more. The Flower Gardener's Bible is illustrated throughout with more than 500 full-color photographs that are joyously informal, and charming in their simplicity Dozens of charts group plants by bloom time, height, color, affinity to shade, specific soil and sun needs, appeal to birds and butterflies, and more. The Flower Gardener's Bible takes every reader -- at any level of interest and expertise -- and offers the one thing guaranteed to increase his or her pleasure in flower gardening -- knowledge. Paperback, 384 pages.
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Herbal Tea Gardens
By Workman Publishing
This tea-lover's gardening bible contains full instructions for growing healthy tea herbs, tips and techniques for brewing tea, and more than 100 recipes that make use of the soothing and healing qualities of these powerful plants. Paperback, 187 pages.
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Carrots Love Tomatoes
By Workman Publishing
First published in 1975, this much-loved classic has taught generations of gardeners how to use plants to protect and support each other to produce bigger and better harvests. Here is a reader's complete reference to the magic and mystery of companion planting -- which plants nourish the soil, which best keep away bugs and pests, and which plant pairs just don't get along. With easy-to-access information in alphabetical sections, this is a reference that readers will turn to again and again as they learn to use companion planting to grow the best, most trouble-free garden they've ever imagined. The powerful secrets of companion planting make it easy, and Riotte's easy-going style makes it fun. A Selection of the Rodale Book Club. Paperback, 219 pages.
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Roses Love Garlic
By Workman Publishing
This sequel to Carrots Love Tomatoes expands on Louise Riotte's vast and eclectic gardening knowledge. In this fun guide Riotte examines the value, lore, and uses of hundreds of herbs and flowers in her own unique style. With sections on using plants to make natural dyes, garden growing tips and techniques, and companion planting -- and even a dozen illustrated garden plans -- this book is an intriguing exploration into the world of plants. Paperback, 240 pages.
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Saving Seeds
By Workman Publishing
This book will tell you all you need to know about how to raise, harvest, and store seeds for the easiest-to-grow and most popular vegetables and ornamental plants. Each vegetable and flower is discusses in detail. And Saving Seeds answers hundreds of frequently asked gardening questions: - Will cucumbers cross with melons or squash?
- Do some weeds cross with vegetables?
- Should I avoid raising hybrids for seed?
- How can I raise seeds that will produce earlier crops? Tastier crops?
Paperback, 185 pages.
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Seed Sowing and Saving
By Workman Publishing
Hands-on instructions for sowing seeds from more than 100 common vegetables, annuals, perennials, herbs, and wildflowers. A Selection of the Rodale Book Club; Garden Book Club. Paperback, 224 pages.
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Let it Rot!
By Workman Publishing
In 1975, this book helped start the composting movement and taught gardeners everywhere how to recycle waste to create soil-nourishing compost. This classic guide contains advice for starting and maintaining a composting system, building bins, and using compost. Paperback, 153 pages.
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Secrets to Great Soil Paperback
By Workman Publishing
Create productive soil anywhere, with step-by-step instructions for making compost and fertilizers. A Selection of the Rodale Book Club; Garden Book Club. Paperback, 215 pages.
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Healing Plants of the Bible: History, Lore & Meditations
By Vincenzina Krymow / St. Anthony Messenger Press
Healing Plants of the Bible invites you to consider not only the lilies of the field, but dozens of other flowers, herbs, trees, and plants mentioned in the Bible. With lavish illustrations and exhaustive research, this volume will acquaint you with 38 of the plants most often appearing in Scripture, the lore behind their medicinal properties and meditations that focus on their ability to heal the spirit. An appendix offers scriptural and medicinal information on 40 additional plants.
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Herbs of the Bible: And How to Grow Them
By Allan A. Swenson / Citadel
People go to the Bible and their gardens for the same reason: spiritual sustenance. In his latest book on sacred gardening, Allen A. Swenson combines wisdom from the Good Book and his passion for America's most popular hobby in a comprehensive guide that celebrates the glory of biblical herbs. Aloe, coriander, marjoram, dill, hyssop, and sage are among the herbs from ancient times that we value today for their taste, beauty, and fragrance. In Herbs of the Bible, you'll discover how to grow these and many more varieties, whether in an outside garden or in plastic or clay pots on your windowsill. And you'll learn the many practical uses for divine herbs, from cooking to aromatherapy.
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Instant Guide To Edible Plants
By Pamela Forey / Random House, Inc
An Instant Guide to Edible Plants is an ideal compact guide to the identification and uses of the most commonly found edible wild plants of North America. An easy to understand system of color-coded bands that denotes the edible part of the plant leads quickly to the correct section of the book. Detailed full-color illlustrations, concise text, including information on the food uses of each species, and a distribution map allow you to make a positive identification. Symbols alert you to the dangers of similar, sometimes poisonous, plants.
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The Edible Flower Garden
By Kathy Brown / Lorenz Books
Flowers have been used for culinary purposes since the earliest times: rose petals have been used to perfume candies, cakes and desserts for centuries. The Edible Flower Garden is a unique gardening guide and recipe collection in one beautifully photographed volume. Over 25 planting flower combinations, with accompanying recipes showing how to use blossoms, blooms, and petals in the kitchen. Gorgeous color photographs throughout capture the beauty of the garden in bloom and the culniary potential of flowers, while step-by-step gardeners and avid cooks will be thrilled by the imaginative use of flowers, both indoors and out, and will consult this authoritative reference and stunning visual source book for years to come.
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Taylor's 50 Best Herbs and Edible Flowers
By Taylor / Houghton-mifflin
Take the guesswork out of gardening. Instead of the disappointments of trial and error, you can get it right the first time with the help of the editors of "the best guides on the market." Herbs and edible flowers are among the most satisfying plants you can grow. With the right selections, they are also among the easiest. Whether you want to grow herbs to use in cooking, for fragrance, for sentiment, or to dry for winter bouqets, you will find in this book the most sure-fire plants to grow in your own garden.
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Tips For Quilters
By Rachel Pellman / Good Books
This handbook for quilters is full of hints, shortcuts, and practical know-how from experienced quilters. Reading it is like quilting beside your grandmother and your favorite aunt! Quilting expert Rachel Pellman has assembled wisdom from a premiere group--those women who have perfected precise piecing for generations, who learned from their grandmothers how to prevent thread from knotting, who continually experiment with new batting, new tools, new markers. Offered candidly and clearly, the hints in this handbook are of value for the novice and experienced quiltmaker alike.
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Quick Colorful Quilts: 15 sizzling new fast easy quilts
By Good Books
This gloriously colorful book is packed with inspiration--and 15 projects for beginners (or more experienced quilters looking for a manageable weekend undertaking). Veteran quiltmaker and teacher Rosemary Wilkinson, and her quilting friends, give all the information a beginner hopes for--from basic background (how to select fabrics with different tonal values, which hoops and frames work best, what equipment is essential, and so on) to each step through a quilt (proper cutting techniques, chain-piecing, adding borders, and more). The friendly pages are full of diagrams, eliminating all fear of confusion and uncertainty. And all fabric yardages are clearly stated. The 15 projects are divided into three sections: "Fresh Colors," "Vivid Colors," and "Bright Colors." In keeping with the book's promises to be colorful, each quilt pattern includes four alternative color schemes to the fully completed, featured one. There is no end to the inspiration this irresistibly inviting book offers. In addition, dozens of Tips and Notes from these quilting experts are scattered throughout the book, making this a treasure all quilters should have in their libraries.
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Amish Quilt Patterns
By Rachel Pellman / Good Books
This reliable favorite is newly revised for greater usefulness! With 100,000 copies already in print, this new edition offers increased clarity of 30 popular and often-requested patterns. Here are the full-sized patterns themselves, as well as step-by-step instructions, color suggestions, and exact yardage measurements for creating the traditional charm of the Amish masterpieces. This manual also offers a selection of quilting templates in the actual sizes needed to make a full-sized quilt. (these templates give the quilter the opportunity to capture the authentic look of Amish quilts, distinguished by their fine and elaborate quilting.) Detailed drawings and diagrams throughout the book lend accuracy to the whole satisfying process.
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Quilts In Bloom
By M. Haslam / Quayside Publishing Group
Quilts in Bloom gathers together some of the most amazing floral quilts of yesterday and today. Ranging from primitives to traditional favorites to abstract floral fantasies, techniques have been selected to help you create your own floral quilt. Step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions for machine or hand quilting are included.
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Handcrafted Pillows
By Creative Publishing / Quayside Publishing Group
Handcrafted Pillows shows how to sew and craft piles of pillows that will add style and a creative touch to any room. Five types of pillows are taught step-by-step, then are styled as thirty scrumptious looks. The projects include new classics like a pleated pillow with bead accents; charming and romantic pillows like a cloud of satin ruffles; bold pillows with iridescent sheer overlays and pampering pillows like an eye bag and faux fur lounger. Today's most popular fabric arts are featured, from photo transfer to foil stamping to sashiko quilting. From Creative Publishing.
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Needlework Skills: A Hand Sewing Primer, Book 1
By Rebekah Wilson / Hope Chest Legacy
Simple and easy to follow, this introduction to Needlework is the perfect primer for both young and old alike. Step by step lessons provide the foundation for more complicated patterns, with the sewer learning incremental steps towards sewing success! Both illustrations and photographs provide a detailed example of exactly what stitches are to be made, and illustrate how one is to accomplish them. Projects with patterns are also included to finish each unit. Information on needles, fabrics, yarn and supplies; hand stitches, embroidery, crocheting, projects and more are all included. Vintage illustrations are included as well, providing a gentle Victorian feel to the text. Photos of finished projects are included as well. 160 pages, hardcover.
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The Crochet Answer Book
By Edie Eckman / Workman Publishing
This perfect little handbook is here to answer all your crochet dilemmas. From selecting the right hook and yarn for the project, to getting started in the round or flat, working around corners and other tricky spots, and venturing into more complext patterns, Eckman is your constant companion, offering clear answers, complete with easy to follow diagrams.
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Stitch Sampler: The Ultimate Visual Dictionary to Over 200 Classic Stiches
By Lucinda Ganderton / Dk Adult
More than 200 decorative and practical stitches-fully illustrated and clearly explained. Stitchcraft in Color: Stitch Sampler is a practical and inspirational guide to choosing and working a comprehensive range of stitches. Packed with color photographs of finished stitches and work in progress, it is an invaluable source of reference for embroidery, canvas work, dressmaking, and other needlecrafts. For quick and easy reference, stitches are grouped under the headings of outline and border, filling, openwork, and needlepoint stitches. Every stitch is accompanied by step-by-step instructions, and every stage of the working is illustrated with clear, annotated photographs. A time-saving information box shows the finished stitch close-up and includes advice on how to use it and which threads and background fabrics are the most suitable. Stitches are graded according to the level of skill required. Stitch Sampler features a unique photographic gallery, showing finished samples of each stitch for comparison and selection. The book also includes a practical section that demonstrates how to prepare threads and fabrics and how to select materials. Both an instructional manual for beginners and a source book for the more accomplished stitchers, Stitch Sampler is the essential guide to modern needlework.
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Candle Making
By Cheryl Owen / Quayside Publishing Group
Candles are perfect for creating atmosphere, from providing soft, scented lighting for a romatic occasion to conjuring up a festive outdoor party mood. Candle Making makes this carafting craze accessible to anyone. Basic techniques are fully explained in the "getting started" section, together with information on materials and creating your own designs. Sixteen specially created projects show a selection of effects using different waxes, such as beeswax and applique wax, as well as various techniques, such as stneciling, layering, frosting and embedding. Prjoects include tapers, floating flowers, oriental appliques, garden flares and more. Within each project, important details are shown in magnificent close up photos and the accompanying instrcutions take you through the process step by step. 96 pages, softcover, from Creative Publishing.
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The Candlemaker's Companion
By Betty Oppenheimer / Workman Publishing
Create exquisite, handcrafted candles at home with this comprehensive primer. From wax to wick to wrapping, the magical glow of a handmade candle is now easier to create than ever before. With illustrated step-by-step instructions and complete source lists, The Candlemaker's Companion shows you how to: Create rolled, poured, molded, gel, dipped, and custom candles Scent, color, and decorate candles for special places and occasions Make innovative containers, holders, and gift packaging Create luminaria, lanterns, and floating candles Use specialty techniques such as overdipping, painting, layering, and sculpting
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The Soapmaker's Companion
By Susan Miller Cavitch / Workman Publishing
From the author of the best-selling The Natural Soap Book comes this illustrated guide to making over 40 specialty soaps - from exquisite stained-glass, marbled, and layered soaps to soothing masseuse bars, hardworking laundry soap, and practical liquid soaps. Through clear, step-by-step instructions, master soapmaker Susan Miller Cavitch leads you through every step of the soapmaking process and teaches you to: - craft exotic and practical soaps in your home
- blend and use essential oils and natural colorants
- design multi-colored, marbled, and imprinted soaps
- understand the chemistry of soapmaking and create your own personal bars
Plus, you'll get tips on how to get started selling soaps!
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Making Natural Liquid Soaps
By Workman Publishing
With Catherine Failor's easy hot-process soapmaking technique and a few simple, pure ingredients, such as cocoa butter, lanolin, and jojoba, readers can create liquid soaps that are better for their skin, better for the environment, and just plain better than those they'll find in a store. Failor includes simple directions -- illustrated with lavish color photographs -- for blending oils and additives, adding color and scent, and developing one-of-a-kind personal liquid soaps at home. Included are recipes for moisturizing hand soaps, revitalizing shampoos, invigorating shower gels, soothing bubble baths, and even baby and pet shampoos! Paperback, 133 pages.
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Making Rag Rugs: 15 Step-by-Step Projects
By Clare Hubbard / Workman Publishing
Creating a beautiful throw rug from scraps is easy enough for anyone to master. Making Rag Rugs, a collection of 15 original designs from a variety of talented rug crafters, suits the skills of any crafter, from the rawest beginner to the most sophisticated talent. This book shows how to utilize such simple recycled ingredients as leftover fabric, old clothes, and household textiles to create these beloved and time-honored rugs. The techniques are easy to learn, the cost is minimal, and very little special equipment is needed. Each project is accompanied by a detailed "what you will need" list, step-by-step instructions with color illustrations and full-color photographs of the whole rug, and close-up detail that brings the projects to life and makes them easy to achieve. Specification boxes detail the size of the rug and the technique used.
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