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Clara Parkes presents a fast-paced account of the year she spent transforming a 676-pound bale of wool into commercial yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way.
Join Parkes on a cross-country adventure as she meets a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured,...
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TGIF (Thank Goodness it's Fiber) is the name of the spunky group of fiber and needlework artists founded by Ivy McClellan, Kath's beloved grandmother. Though Ivy has recently passed on, the members still meet regularly at her fiber and fabric shop, The Weaver's Cat, which Kath has now inherited. But that's only the first in a series of surprises when Kath returns to the small town of Blue Plum, Tennessee, to settle her grandmother's affairs. There...
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154 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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"Are you a knitter, crocheter, crafter, or none of the above? This clever book gives yarn lovers -- both knitters and non-knitters alike -- 50 fun ways to use their stashes without taking out their knitting needles. The projects are easy and simple, but with a modern aesthetic that manages to be both sophisticated and inviting. 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...
10) Cat knit
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Cat and Yarn are the best of friends. They have so much fun playing together, the two are inseparable. Until the day Girl takes Yarn away. When Yarn Returns, he is completely changed, no longer Cat's bright and rolly friend. Cat is mad! Soon, Cat begins to miss his best friend, and he just might realize that a little change isn't so bad after all."--Amazon.com.
12) Extra yarn
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With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
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xi, 180 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 x 26 cm
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"'Harvesting Color' presents the entire process of infusing your life with color--finding the right plants, harvesting them at the best time, transforming the crop into beautiful dye, and, finally, marring pigment to fiber. In this beautiful book, Rebecca Burgess showcases three dozen common plants that yield striking hues. Citing fascinating botanical lore, she demystifies the process of recognizing each plant in the wild. For those you can grow...
14) Hilo sin fin
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
"Anabel encuentra una caja mágica con un hilo de lana sin fin, y con sus colores transformará su pueblo gris y triste."--P. [4] of cover.
15) El ovillo mágico
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Una mañana, un erizo se despierta y encuentra un misterioso ovillo de lana clavado en sus púas. Fascinados, todos los animales del bosque vienen a su casa y el erizo felizmente le teje algo a cada uno de sus visitantes, vestimentas de lana que de repente y mágicamente se convierten en lo que cada animal más desea. Pero cuando un animal se encuentra en peligro y el ovillo de lana ha llegado a su final, los demás animales necesitan ayudar al erizo....
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