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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...
22) A wicked yarn
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Craft Fair Knitters mysteries volume 1
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"Mother’s Day should be a cinch for the good folks of the Crandalsburg Craft Fair, and knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger has a good feeling about this year’s yield. But things quickly get knotty when Lia’s daughter announces she’s quit her job and Lia finds herself tangled up in the murder of her best friend’s ex-husband. While Belinda’s alibi quickly gets her off the hook, nasty rumors spread throughout Crandalsburg that shroud the entire...
23) Yarns
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In Yarns, Tristan Jones tells how he began his writing career. He draws on his many adventures to evoke some of the memorable people he has met, and to describe some of the most beautiful cruising grounds in the world. He gives advice on everything from seamanship to dealing with local populations in remote places. Not to be missed is his marvelous evocation in the style of Conan Doyle as the mystery of the Mary Celeste is solved, or the Conrad-inspired...
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Both books in Paul D. Brazill's 'The Peter Ord Yarns', now available in one volume!Gumshoe Blues: After a divorce, Peter Ord decides to turn his life around and becomes a private detective. But with his constant drinking and questionable decision-making skills, his new career quickly takes a turn for the worse. Trying to solve challenging cases and keep up with his boozy sidekick Bryn Laden, Peter soon finds himself on the wrong side of a local crime...
25) Yarn
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“Yarn: A Tail of 2 Kittens" is the first book in the series called "A Tail of 2 Kittens." This enchanting children's story revolves around the adventures of two adorable kittens, Bonita and Mister C., and their unwavering love for yarn. The story is woven together much like the yarn they adore. It begins softly, gets tangled, cut, twisted, and entangled like yarn, only to be unraveled before coming together and sewn up, much like knitting a sweater,...
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Seaside knitters mysteries volume 4
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Holiday time is magical in Sea Harbor, as the Seaside Knitters turn winter yarns of deep reds, greens, and golds into gifts. But when murder comes to this small New England town, they must set aside their needles to pursue justice—and restore joy to the season.
In Sea Harbor the scent of snow fills the salty air, and at Izzy’s Seaside Yarn Studio, the Knitters feast on cookies, knit their gifts, and plan their holiday...
In Sea Harbor the scent of snow fills the salty air, and at Izzy’s Seaside Yarn Studio, the Knitters feast on cookies, knit their gifts, and plan their holiday...
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Gram and Bella are knitting long scarves. Gram's new cat, Pepper, rolls in yarn and gets tangled. Read what Gram does so he will leave their yarn alone. This A-level story uses engaging text to raise confidence in early readers. The book uses a combination of sight words and short-vowel words in repetition to build recognition. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text. Author Cecilia Minden, PhD, a literacy consultant and former...
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Haunted yarn shop mysteries volume 6
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Caught between two rival shopkeepers who are accusing each other of forging their crafts, Kath Rutledge teams up with the TGIF needlework group and Geneva the ghost to solve an untimely murder.
29) A tangled yarn
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Yarn retreat mysteries volume 5
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Casey Feldstein has her hands full with preparations at the Vista Del Mar hotel on the scenic Monterey Peninsula as another yarn retreat begins. The retreaters will be thrown for a loop this time, learning the trendy art of arm knitting and finger crocheting. But not everyone is enthusiastic about trying something new, and Casey is forced to come up with an alternative craft for her less adventurous pupils. Things go from worst to worsted when a travel...
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Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.
31) Aussie Yarns
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Primarily these yarns were written with an Australian readership in mind, most of whom would understand and appreciate the slang words and phrases used, particularly by unsophisticated bushies. However, I imagine some of the terms may leave non-Australians a bit perplexed. Stick with it, and by the time you've read Witness for the Defence, you will have probably worked out what a "sheila' is, along with all the other words and expressions that are...
32) Chilcotin Yarns
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Getting three trucks and two horses stuck in the mud on "a good road" into BC's wild, remote interior was just the start of Bruce Watt's hilarious adventures-and it was his honeymoon, too. When the newly married Watt moved there in 1948 to take up ranching, he was a just a kid in his early 20s. He and his wife fell in love with Big Creek, three hours southwest of Williams Lake, and its wildlife, beautiful landscapes and quirky, down-to-earth people....
33) Viennese Yarns
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This is the fifth book is about the Prussian family. The father is trying to take care of his wife, who is addicted to the drugs of the ninteenth century, a time when addiction hasn't been identified. There is only one place in the world trying to treat people for drugs, Vienna. So Otto has to take his family there and cope with the Viennese way of seeing and doing things. Will Hildegard overcome her dependencies? How will Otto cope with the strange...
34) Bush Yarns
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There are 49 yarns in my book starting with The Discovery of Australia then a few taken from my life experiences in the bush and at sea drifting into occasional brief yarns sparked by our history and through the second World War with a few Aboriginal yarns for good measure. In some, the names have been replaced to avoid embarrassment, but all are basically true. My life has been a kaleidoscope of experiences. I became first a beekeeper, then a drover...
35) Painful Yarns
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This much anticipated collection of stories, written by clinical neuroscientist and co-author of Explain Pain, Dr GL Moseley, provides an entertaining and informative way to understand modern pain biology. Described by critics as 'a gem' and by clinicians as 'entertaining and educative', Painful Yarns is a unique book. The stories, some of his travels in outback Australia, some of experiences growing up, are great yarns.
At the end of each story,...
36) Healing Yarns
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A retired naval man tells tall tales to his grandson to heal the wounds of the past.
A Greek urn washes up on a beach, will the one who finds it have their wishes come true?
A broken-hearted man who ends up living on the streets finds a special coin, can it give him his heart's desire?
An angler catches the best fish of his life, telling it to the fishing world may not be a good idea.
When Sylvia tries dating at 60, she gives up hope of finding...
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Christian based eBook (as are the other 8 eBooks in the ongoing series) based on the "Aesop's Fables" concept of teaching good moral characteristics and high standards of living to children of all ages. Pleasantly illustrated. New and unusual parings offer kids a modern approach to instructing your children in Godly ways. Clean education of basic human behavior with a little humor thrown in to make your kids giggle.
38) Folk Yarn 3
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An ancient tomb, an unknown creature, it's a story about the completely unfamiliar world. People like to explain supernatural events with the words of ghosts and gods, but those things can never be explained clearly in a few words. This is the experience of an unknown person, and about a long forgotten history...
39) Folk Yarn 2
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An ancient tomb, an unknown creature, it's a story about the completely unfamiliar world. People like to explain supernatural events with the words of ghosts and gods, but those things can never be explained clearly in a few words. This is the experience of an unknown person, and about a long forgotten history...
40) Folk Yarn 4
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An ancient tomb, an unknown creature, it's a story about the completely unfamiliar world. People like to explain supernatural events with the words of ghosts and gods, but those things can never be explained clearly in a few words. This is the experience of an unknown person, and about a long forgotten history...






