Home Sweet Home Sewing

"Here are 17 new designs from Helen Philipps exploring her love of fabrics, patchwork, and colour. There is a selection of inspiring projects including quilts, pillows, a spring wreath, little deer toy, handstitched pincushions and other sewing notions, pretty fabric bags, coasters, charms and decorations. Helen's style is fresh and modern and her work includes extra details and embellishments to inspire your own creativity." --Page [4] of cover.

Stitch a delightful workbox in the shape of a whimsical English cottage with this stunning design from Carolyn Pearce.

The best-selling authors of Barb Adams and Alma Allen are back, this time with quilts and projects celebrating the home, community and friendships! The featured quilt has nine blocks reminiscent of early American sampler designs. You'll not want to miss this new work by the authors of Quilting the Garden.

This is a collection of cross stitch samplers and gifts that will brighten up every corner of your home. The traditional cross stitch sampler has been brought up to date with a choice of eight picture designs to welcome guests. This book also provides further small projects inspired by the sampler designs.

Experience true domestic bliss with these simple yet stylish soft furnishing ideas, charmingly interspersed with handy homecare hints. Style guru, Jane Cumberbatch, has created a practical and irresistible handbook for the modern-day homemaker. 60 essential and blissfully simple ideas, inspired by today's love of all things retro, will add a touch of charm and flair to your home, without making you a slave to the sewing machine. The projects include a comfy denim beanbag, a roll-up linen blind with ribbon ties, and a patchwork duvet cover. They are all very straightforward and use only the most basic sewing techniques. Simplicity equals style and all the ideas are about being creative and resourceful, without spending a fortune or taking hours of your time. Home Sweet Home is a book for today, evoking a nostalgia for life's simple comforts.

This book contains lots of little cross stitch motifs which are quick and easy to stitch. It was inspired by the trend for making very small cross stitch items which can be used to adorn jewelry, such as pendants, bracelets and earrings. You could also make them into little pictures by mounting them into a small hoop or a tiny picture frame. There are designs which can be used to decorate mobile phone cases too. The designs cover a variety of themes, including flowers and cacti, gardens, birds and butterflies, seaside motifs, tropical motifs, and animals. The designs are colorful and pretty and will take crafters no time at all to stitch!

Busy bees and stately trees. Tiny snails and great white whales. All creatures large and small share the same majestic home -- our beloved Earth. Envoking a heartwarming sense of family and belonging, Jean Marzollo's serene, lyrical tribute, accompanied by Ashly Wolff's lush illustrations, celebrates the natural world with graceful simplicity. From the tiniest worker ant to the giant whales deep in the ocean, everything on Earth has a place to call home. Jean Marzollo’s beautiful poem celebrates the universal love of family and belonging, with a graceful simplicity. Lushly detailed, vibrant oil paintings by Ashley Wolff make the familiar places—deep water streams, sweet clover fields, cozy homes—sparkle with newness, inviting a fresh, wondrous look at the world around us. An Alternate Selection of the Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club

In our modern age of rampant consumerism, we are losing touch with the traditional domestic activities that previous generations took for granted. We buy everything we need—and much that we don’t—rather than making new or making do. We no longer know how to sew a button, darn a hole, or iron properly. However, while vacuum cleaners and washing machines might be a godsend, can we favorably compare a mass-produced holiday decoration from a superstore with a gorgeous home-made winter wreath? Home Sweet Home brings you 100 simple, traditional projects and advice that will reintroduce you to the joy of making things by hand and the pleasure of a home filled with individuality and charm. From making all-natural surface cleaner and removing stains to cooking the perfect Sunday roast, to laying a table and hosting a party, this sweet little book will not only help you create a cozy home but will also save you money. Today, a whole new generation is discovering the value, and pleasure, of making things for themselves, their homes, and their families.

From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series and A Star for Mrs. Blake, this riveting epic drama follows the Kusek family from New York City to America's heartland, where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism, a smear campaign, a sensational trial, and, ultimately, murder. In the spring of 1950, Calvin and Betsy Kusek load their family in the station wagon and head west from New York City to relocate to a close-knit town in South Dakota. They settle on a ranch and begin a life in their new state. Betsy becomes a visiting nurse, befriending a quirky assortment of rural characters, and Cal jumps at the chance to serve his community when a seat opens up in the state legislature. Their children, Jo and Lance, grow up caring for animals and riding rodeo. But things change when Cal runs for the U.S. Senate. The FBI investigates Betsy, and a youthful dalliance with the Communist Party surfaces to haunt the Kuseks. Communist hysteria takes over their small town, inflamed by Cal’s political enemies. Driven by fear and hate, their neighbors turn on them. Decades later tragedy again strikes the family as the ghosts of their past come back to haunt them.