Presents essays, advice, and projects for each month of the year.

Reproduction of the 1929 book - The Sew-It Book - Things to make with needle & thread and odds & ends. This beautiful vintage feel book features 17 projects including a child's apron, smock, sun bonnet, rag doll and Kimono-type jacket. Techniques include sewing, embroidery, doll dress pattern making and tie-dying are explained in detail. The 47-page hardback book with an embossed cover is a keepsake treasure with darling graphics that will charm sewers and quilters, young and old! Perfect book to teach children to sew. Great Grandparent gift.

Presents six dressmaking patterns that can be used to create an entire wardrobe that has thirty-six different looks and a total of over two hundred garments and accessories.

The Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences founded by Mary Brooks Picken offered a wide variety of correspondence courses to women beginning in the early 1900's. This beautiful reproduction is a very early edition of the school's coursework guide. It provides a synopsis of the lessons in sewing, dressmaking, tailoring & millinery. It also includes interesting articles explaining the value of the education the women would receive including saving money, creating a profitable business and improving their style & fashion sense.

Are you a do-it-yourselfer, or do you want to be? Are you looking to easily improve the decor of your home? If you're searching for inspiration, look no further! Material World takes you into the creative minds of 20 DESIGNERS from around the world to bring you unique home decor projects. Each fun project has a common thread -- THEY ALL USE FABRIC as a main ingredient! This beautifully illustrated book will take you on a journey from inspiration to materialization, with step-by-step instructions for projects to decorate and personalize every room in your habitat. It provides simple solutions for design dilemmas -- upholstering furniture, sewing slipcovers, window treatments, bed trimmings, light fixtures, floor coverings, pillows, room partitions -- even a bed for your dog! Perfect for a DIY novice or a seasoned professional, Material World covers a variety of exceptional SEW AND NO-SEW PROJECTS for terrific results. New York City architect, interior designer and co-host of DIY Network's "Material Girls", Cat Wei, curates a recipe book of project ideas (including many of her own designs) to beautify your home for better living.

Fabric flower techniques for the novice to the more advanced. Includes fifty fabric variations using traditional techniques and flower making shortcut methods featuring Clover Needlecraft tools, such as Kanzashi Flower Makers, Quick Yo-Yo Makers, Flower Frill Templates, and more.

The first global assessment of the diffusion and impact of e-business on companies and countries.

Fresh from Japan, the much-anticipated collection of Nani Iro sewing patterns is finally available in English! Beloved by art fans and textile enthusiasts around the world, Nani Iro fabric has developed a cult following since the brand's inception by artist Naomi Ito in 2002. With their simple, yet artful design, the 18 garment patterns in this book showcase fluid movement and beautiful drape for signature Nani Iro style. You'll find instructions for stitching up a wardrobe of comfortable, flowy pieces that you'll look forward to wearing again and again, including The Basic Blouse, The Cocoon Dress, and The Everyday Jumpsuit. Inside, you'll find outfit inspiration for mixing and matching me-made pieces to create artistically layered outfits. Plus, take a behind-the-scenes look at the brand's studio in Osaka for glimpse at the studio team's favorite ways to style their Nani Iro pieces.

Trust a librarian to help you find books you’ll want to read Library Lin’s Curated Collection of Superlative Nonfiction is a librarian’s A-list of nonfiction books organized by subject area—just like a library. Linda Maxie (Library Lin) combed through 65 best books lists going back a century. She reviewed tens of thousands of books, sorted them according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system, and selected an entire library’s worth for you to browse without leaving home. Here you’ll find • Summaries of outstanding titles in every subject • Suggestions for locating reading material specific to your needs and interests In this broad survey of all the nonfiction categories, you will find titles on everything from the A-bomb to Zen Buddhism. You might find yourself immersed in whole subject areas that you never thought you’d be interested in.

This follow-up to Crafting a Business provides everything a determined entrepreneur needs to know to successfully run her own business while raising a family. Through inspiring profiles, 28 women share diverse strategies on business development and operations, defining space and boundaries, and creating a viable work-family balance. A special “workshop” section also provides business basics for those just starting out.