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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.

Discover the satisfying fun of spinning your own yarn! This step-by-step guide shows you how to create 80 distinctive yarn types, from classics like mohair bouclé to novelties like supercoils. Covering the entire spinning process, Sarah Anderson describes the unique architecture of each type of yarn and shares expert techniques for manipulating and combining fibers. Take your crafting to a new level and ensure that you have the best yarn available...

From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother’s tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother’s special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later, the kitchen became the heart of Hood’s own home. She cooked pork roast to warm her first apartment,...

Using just one ball of wool, cotton, silk or variegated yarn, you can make any of the huge variety of knitting and crochet projects in this book. All of the projects are on trend, with easy patterns ranging from hats, scarves, headbands and mittens, to bags, toys and home accessories such as baskets and throws. Using just one ball of wool means many projects can be completed in just a few hours following the straightforward instructions and handy...

Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a doughnut machine on the rampage.

Neighbors Porcupine and Badger find their close friendship sorely tested when they accidentally knit from opposite ends of the same piece of yarn.

"In October, thousands of monarch butterflies flock to California's Monterey Peninsula for the winter. To welcome the colorful guests, Cadbury by the Sea holds a week-long festival complete with a butterfly queen and court. Eager to show town spirit, Casey Feldstein is fluttering around setting up a yarn retreat, baking, and helping out at the festival. But when a former butterfly queen is found dead with a knife in her back after a Bless the Butterflies...

Examines the theme, characters, plot, style and technique of more than 700 nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by prominent authors from around the world.