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Thoroughly Modern Dresden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 101

Thoroughly Modern Dresden

Not Your Grandmother's Dresden Plate Quilts! 13 lively new Dresden Plate quilts serve up a visual feast of contemporary colors and clever designs for all skill levels. Change up the look of your quilts with lots of variations on the basic Dresden Plate block and settings. Use breakthrough piecing techniques to put together a whole quilt of perfect blocks in a day. Check out the gallery of quilts to see how much fun Dresden Plates can be. Includes a complete set of templates for successful cutting, pressing, and placement. Forget everything you thought you knew about Dresden Plate quilts. The new Dresdens are colorful, clever, and fun-nothing stodgy or old-fashioned here! They're easy to make, too, with Anelie Belden's new stitch-and-flip technique. Try this fresh take on an old favorite.

Mini-Mosaic Quilts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Mini-Mosaic Quilts

Celebrate the decorative intricacy of tiled mosaics in your next quilting or sewing project. Author Paula Doyle proves how easy it can be to get perfect precision patchwork on a small scale with her piecing techniques. Create more than 30 different complex-looking blocks that make for wonderfully colorful patterns. Use lots of different fabrics in these miniature quilts, table runners, tote bags, and many other projects. Includes fusible grid guides for either 1⁄2" or 1" tiles, and all of the project designs are fat quarter-friendly. Good things really do come in small packages!

Quilt a New Christmas with Piece O'Cake Designs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106

Quilt a New Christmas with Piece O'Cake Designs

The bestselling design teams delivers “a fresh take on holiday colors and fun patterns for Christmas stockings, lap quilts, and wall hangings” (The Applique Society Newsletter). Piece O’ Cake Designs fills your home with the Christmas spirit all year round! Half of these new designs give the holiday season a whimsical twist with unexpected fabrics and colors, and the other half are versatile and beautiful quilts that you can use even after the rest of your holiday decorations are packed away. Projects include: Christmas in the Park The All Wonderful Red & Green Quilt Caribbean Christmas Circular Momentum A Treat Before Takeoff! The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney with Care Perky Partridge Pincushion/Ornament “Use the included full-size applique templates to create Christmas stockings, lap quilts, and wall hangings in the distinctive fresh and happy Piece O’ Cake style. Several of the quilt projects can be adapted for year-round use if made in different fabrics.” —American Quilter

Karel++
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Karel++

This creative approach to learning C++ programming introduces readers to Karel the Robot and then shows them how to design programs that instruct Karel to perform complex tasks. Karel's world is essentially a practice field on which readers learn valuable lessons about creating and debugging program. The programs instruct the robot to move and manipulate its environment using object orientation.

One Block Wonders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 76

One Block Wonders

1 Great Fabric + 1 Block = 1 Stunning Quilt! • Brand new technique is all about texture, movement, sparkle, and swirl! • Choose hexagons or octagons-you're the designer • Easy random cutting! No planning, no fussy cuts, no mess-ups • Simple piecing with NO Y-SEAMS! Amaze your friends! Maxine shows you exactly how to choose a large-scale print, figure yardage, cut and piece these drop-dead gorgeous quilts. Big pieces and clever short-cut methods make these quilts go together faster than you'd think. Choose one of two projects or use the techniques in any size quilt you can imagine.

Dresden Quilt Workshop
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Dresden Quilt Workshop

Darling, dainty Dresdens Step up your piecing with a small-scale version of the cherished Dresden Plate. Fall in love with the classic quilt block all over again as you learn the secret to impeccable mini Dresdens in two sizes - 4 1/2" and 9" finished. Polish your piecing, pressing, and applique with proven techniques and apply those skills to 13 projects from bed-size beauties to wallhangings and table toppers. A mix of easy and intermediate quilts includes a quilt-as-you-go project, tranquil yet engaging color palettes, and not-quite-traditional layouts with their own unique flair. • Stitch tiny Dresden Plates with perfect points and petals • Tradition with a twist! Sew 13 unique quilt projects ranging from a table runner to a bed quilt • Learn precision piecing and pressing tips anyone can use, plus blind-hem applique and practical quilt-as-you-go

Technology of the Oppressed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Technology of the Oppressed

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  • Published: 2022-02-15
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world. Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don’t just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences wi...

Simply Modern Christmas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Simply Modern Christmas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-06
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  • Publisher: Martingale

You'll love these crisp, eye-catching quilts rooted in tradition but with a refreshingly updated style. In a departure from her much-admired floral patterns, Cindy Lammon demonstrates her range with pretty pieced quilts, stockings, a tree skirt, and much more--all composed of simple shapes. Select from 14 cheery projects that lend themselves to both modern and traditional fabrics Enjoy these quilt patterns year-round; patterns can be used to produce stunning quilts for any season Find easy, confidence-building designs for beginning and intermediate quilters and sewists

Allie Aller's Stained Glass Quilts Reimagined
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Allie Aller's Stained Glass Quilts Reimagined

The author of Crazy Quilting shares new techniques for capturing the style of stained glass in cozy quilts, bedcovers, wallhangings, and more. Quilt designer Allie Aller spent years developing her own techniques for mimicking the look of stained glass. Surprisingly simple and endlessly inspiring, her methods produce stunningly beautiful results. In Allie Aller’s Stained Glass Quilts, she shares her secrets—from design sources and strategies to step-by-step instruction in various “glass and leading” techniques. Allie also includes six stained glass style quilt projects to get you started.

Start Your Own Small Jigsaw Puzzle Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

Start Your Own Small Jigsaw Puzzle Business

Start your own jigsaw puzzle business or hobby venture in your home--like it did! This 104 page book is packed with information and over 60 photographs. From equipment and supply requirements, to marketing strategies, to cost and profits potential, plus ideas for various associated product lines; it will inspire your entrepreneurial spirit. Kevin Poorman has actually done what this book is about--started a success business making jigsaw puzzles. Whether you're an artist or photographer looking for a unique way to market your work, or just someone interested in making jigsaw puzzles as a hobby-business, this book provides in-depth information to help you on your way. For examples of Kevin's puzzle making venture, see his website at www.puzzlecuts.com.