Author: Leah Day
Publisher: Day Style Designs
ISBN: 9781951504021
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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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: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781477490549
Category : Machine quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In 2009, Leah Day started a blog with the goal of 365 new free motion quilting designs. Over the next two and a half years, she shared each design with photos and a video tutorial on her blog, The Free Motion Quilting Project. This book is a compilation of all 365 designs, organized in the order they were originally posted to the project. Flipping through this book, you'll find each design illustrated with clear, high quality photos. Each design is known as a "filler" design, which means they can fill your quilts in a continuous line without breaking thread. Fillers are also unique in the fact that you do not have to mark your quilt top before stitching the design. Each design is governed by a simple set of rules you can easily memorize, much like cursive writing, and then quilt over any area of your quilt. No, this book is not an elementary primer on free motion quilting, but a unique collection of photos designed to excite and inspire you. Stitch the designs exactly as they are shown, or play with creating your own variations. The possibilities are endless!
Author: David James Duncan
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0440336511
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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In his passionate, luminous novels, David James Duncan has won the devotion of countless critics and readers, earning comparisons to Harper Lee, Tom Robbins, and J.D. Salinger, to name just a few. Now Duncan distills his remarkable powers of observation into this unique collection of short stories and essays. At the heart of Duncan's tales are characters undergoing the complex and violent process of transformation, with results both painful and wondrous. Equally affecting are his nonfiction reminiscences, the "river teeth" of the title. He likens his memories to the remains of old-growth trees that fall into Northwestern rivers and are sculpted by time and water. These experiences—shaped by his own river of time—are related with the art and grace of a master storyteller. In River Teeth, a uniquely gifted American writer blends two forms, taking us into the rivers of truth and make-believe, and all that lies in between.
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: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 184765228X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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A New York Times bestseller 'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The Times At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.
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.
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: 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: Mally the Maker
ISBN: 9780997901160
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Ten year old Mally Spencer can't stop crying. Her Grandma disappeared months ago and her family is falling apart. But then a chance discovery in Grandma's sewing room catapults Mally into the magical world of Quilst. Is this where Grandma went? In order to find her, Mally must not only overcome her fears: she'll have to become a Maker.
