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Updated July 25, 2025
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The 5-Minute Gardener: Year-Round Garden Habits for Busy People
Nicole Johnsey Burke
Paper Book
Nurture a year-round gardening habit with just 5 minutes a day, from the author of Kitchen Garden Revival and Leaves, Roots & Fruit. Do you find joy in seeing a plant grow from seed to flower? Has your main setback for maintaining a successful garden been finding...
Anna Maria's Blueprint Quilting: Explore Color, Pattern, and Technique with 16 Joyful Projects from 4 Simple Design Structures
Anna Maria Parry
Paper Book
Stitch 16 stunning quilts and patchwork projects based on four underlying "blueprints" while learning skills to create your own original designs. Uncover the mystery of quilt design with Anna Maria's Blueprint Quilting. Celebrated fiber artist Anna Maria Parry...
Modern Improv Quilting: Be the Boss of Your Design; Techniques & Projects to Get You Started
Laura Veenema
Paper Book
Improvisational piecing lets you be the boss Embrace the joy of improvisation as you create quilts and quilted projects, including duffel and crossbody bags, that are truly one-of-a-kind! This book is an introduction, guide, and step-by-step manual for giving you the skills to...
Essential Crochet Starter Stitches: Portable Stitch Companion: Solids, Shells & Fans, Openwork & Lace, and Simple Edgings (Pocket Guides, 1)
Melissa Leapman
Paper Book
Adapted from Melissa Leapman's Indispensable Stitch Collection for Crocheters, this beautiful, comprehensive, and easy-to-tote stitch pattern companion is a must-have for your crochet project bag!   In a small, easy-to-tote format, Essential Crochet Starter...
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
Thor Hanson
Paper Book
An award-winning natural-history writer presents "the perfect mix of science and story" (Sy Montgomery), opening the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks: "I couldn't put it down" (Doug Tallamy).    We all live on nature's...
Making Bird-Friendly Birdhouses: Instructions and Plans for 15 Specific Birds, Including Bluebirds, Wrens, Robins & Owls (Fox Chapel Publishing) Create Nest Boxes, Bat Houses, a Winter Roost, and More
Melvin "Bird Man Mel" Toellner
Paper Book
As popular as birdhouses are, many are designed with aesthetics in mind, rather than the bird's preferences and needs. Not so for the projects in Making Bird-Friendly Birdhouses. Lifelong birder Mel "Bird Man Mel" Toellner and pro woodworker Matt Maguire walk readers step-by-step through 15+...
Crochet Monsters: With more than 35 body patterns and options for horns, limbs, antennae and so much more, you can mix and match options for thousands upon thousands of possibilities!
Megan Lapp
Paper Book
With more than 35 Monster body options, plus myriad variations for limbs, mouths and teeth, horns, antennae, tails, scales, and so much more, you will never make the same Monster twice. Choose from wide open mouths with fangs to adorable Monsters with bunny ears and a cat tail to Monsters with...
The Art of Embroidery Design: A Workshop for Developing Your Own Original Stitching
Christi Johnson
Paper Book
Christi Johnson, author of Mystical Stitches, offers embroidery enthusiasts an in-depth workshop to create their own unique mystical and spiritually themed designs. Combining instruction with a series of hands-on experiments and exploration challenges, Johnson shares her expertise in conceiving...

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