Author: Leah Day
Publisher: Day Style Designs
ISBN: 9781951504021
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Book Description
This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts. Exquisitely illustrated with dozens of detailed, full page photographs, quilters, artists and anyone with an eye for bright color and gorgeous stitch work will find limitless inspiration inside this book.Leah's creative journey began with the birth of her son and the conception of her first goddess quilt in 2007. She discovered more than just quilt making skills in the process of making that quilt. She found the vehicle for change and self-discovery she'd been searching for her whole life.This Leah's story of transformation and how each goddess quilt in this series helped her become a better woman, wife, mother and quilter.This is not a book about any known goddesses from myth, legend, or religion. Leah's goddess quilts are simply fantasy self-portraits that represent who she wished she could be. By focusing on these powerful images and a desire to share them with the world, Leah found the strength and wisdom to become the figure in the quilt.Leah Day's Goddess Quilts is an artist's memoir with a positive message to embrace courage, forgiveness and gratitude. Leah honestly shares her personal struggles with self-criticism, the danger of dwelling on past pain, and how she overcame many obstacles blocking her path.This is the story of a creative entrepreneur following a childhood dream, a story of success and failure and the struggle to remain humble in an egotistical social media fueled world. This is the story of a wife and mother desperate to release her creativity to the world.The goddess on the cover is called Release Your Light.This is the light of your creativity.It is not a spark or a flickering flame.It's an explosion of light more powerful than the sun. Are you ready to release YOUR light?
Author: Leah Day
Publisher: Day Style Designs
ISBN: 9781951504007
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Leah Day's Goddess Quilts is an artist's memoir with a positive message to embrace courage, forgiveness and gratitude. Leah openly shares her struggles and how she overcame many obstacles blocking her path. Exquisitely illustrated with full page photographs, quilters, artists and anyone with an eye for gorgeous stitch work will love this book.
Author: Leah Day
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982993057
Category : Machine quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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In 2009, Leah Day started a new blog, the Free Motion Quilting Project, and set out to create 365 new free motion quilting designs. Each design was published online with photos and a video tutorial for free for everyone in the world to enjoy. This book is a compilation of those 365 designs, and within it you will find a treasury of ideas and inspiration you'll return to again and again. - Find hundreds of filler designs to work in all the different areas of your quilts. From the blocks, to the sashing, and into the borders, you're sure to find the perfect designs to fit your quilt. - Feeling confused with free motion quilting? Get back on track with Leah's quick tips on everything from machine settings to how to prepare your quilt top and backing before quilting. - Build your repertoire of continuous line quilting designs by stitching a different design every day. This book will definitely help you break out of the Stippling rut! Inside you'll find a high quality photo of each meticulously stitched design. For practice, trace the design, or visit www.LeahDay.com/365 to find video tutorials for every single design in this book. While this is not a primer on free motion quilting basics, this book is a helpful companion and the largest collection of free motion quilting designs ever published! This second edition offers a spiral binding to help the book lay flat near your sewing machine. Challenge yourself to memorize - not mark - a new design every day for a year. Stitch the designs exactly as shown or play with creating your own variations. The possibilities are endless! See why quilters like you have called this book "an amazing resource," "just what I needed" and "the best quilting book ever!"
Author: Ricky Tims
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 160705163X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Learn Tims’ innovative techniques step-by-step to create a stunning kaleidoscope quilt of your own. • An inspirational gallery of 26 student quilts • Like snowflakes, each quilt you make with this technique will be unique • Includes easy steps to enlarge or reduce the size of your quilt Create a spectacular kaleidoscope quilt with Ricky's unique strip-piecing method for making a multi-faceted pattern. You'll see impressive and intricate results from simple sets of strips; it’s foolproof with little need for pre-planning. The beauty lies in the unpredictability of how the fabric unfolds—just like a real kaleidoscope!
Author: Melissa Gorzelanczyk
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553510444
Category : Dancers
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Book Description
Dance prodigy Karma Clark's unrequited love for Danny is unbearable until Aaryn, son of Cupid, returns to try to fix his mistake and ends up falling in love with Karma, now a teenage mother.
Author: Tiya Miles
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 198485500X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives. WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award, Cundill History Prize, Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Book Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly “A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today FINALIST: MAAH Stone Book Award, Kirkus Prize, Mark Lynton History Prize, Chatauqua Prize ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, Book Riot, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist
Author: Leah Day
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997901146
Category : Machine quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Ready for a machine quilting adventure? It's time to explore walking foot machine quilting with Leah Day! Specifically designed for quilting on a home machine, this style uses a walking foot to evenly feed the layers of your quilt to produce beautiful quilting stitches. Learn how to quilt thirty designs in seven quilt projects.
Author: Steven Borsman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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"In the Fall of 2010 I gave an assignment in my Appalachian Literature class at Berea College, telling my students to write their own version of "Where I'm From" poem based on the writing prompt and poem by George Ella Lyon, one of the preeminent Appalachian poets. I was so impressed by the results of the assignment that I felt the poems needed to be preserved in a bound document. Thus, this little book. These students completely captured the complexities of this region and their poems contain all the joys and sorrows of living in Appalachia. I am proud that they were my students and I am very proud that together we produced this record of contemporary Appalachian Life" -- Silas House
Author: Jennifer Lommers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781714587971
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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From Oregon Artist, Jennifer Lommers - her first collector's edition book showcasing 99 of her paintings. From poppies to mixed media abstracts, enjoy this survey of her work of the last 15 years of art making.
Author: Ruth Chamberlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782214861
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This popular book by Ruth Chamberlin now returns as a Search Press Classic, with an updated design and preface on the author by the illustrious embroiderer Mary Corbet. A needle art that dates back over a thousand years, goldwork embroidery involves sewing with lavish metal threads. It has been prized and often used by religious orders and royal households for its opulence and the way the light glimmers and plays on the beautiful metallic designs. Those in love with this brilliant style of embroidery can now create their own with easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide. Through calm and deliberate instruction, Chamberlin's book aims to teach the reader how to create a personal sampler - a piece of embroidery containing a mixture of designs and stitches, which shall provide a basis for future projects and enable readers to continue on their goldwork journey. With multiple stitch techniques - from simple laid stitch to the more complex basket stitch, several design motifs with corresponding templates that can be used, and a luminous gallery of finished work interspersed throughout, Chamberlin's work gently introduces beginners to the exquisite needle art of goldwork embroidery.
