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Agnes is senile; her granddaughter Jodie is an oddball. But how did they get that way? With a hurtling plot that moves between Jodiers"s life going forwards and Agnesrs"s life going backwards, welcome to the dark, hilarious world of the mad. Agnes is so far gone that shers"s been carted off and institutionalised. She was a liability with her steaming-hot flat, squashed flies and lifetime collection of sugar lumps and toenail clippings. As her memories play back marriages, wars, affairs and an Edinburgh childhood with seven brothers and sisters - there are plenty of things in her life that she really should say sorry for. Jodiers"s got her own problems shers"s eccentric, the sort of person th...
First-Time Beading on Fabric teaches nine beading techniques in nine easy lessons. Seed stitch, moss stitch, couching, backstitch, bugle beads, stacks, fringe, picot edge and peyote stitch. After practicing the beading stitches and techniques on the quilt sampler or stitch book, you will be ready to create the unique Beaded Garden Quilt to showcase your new skills. Equipment and supplies list, charts, bead shapes, threads, needles, bead mats and trays. Complete, clear and concise step-by-step instructions and how-to. Hundreds of color photographs throughout.
Anne is an artist and tutor who wanders through life recording and collecting inspiration from all around her. On turning each page Anne will give you ideas, mini projects and inspiration to record your own textile wanderings.
Last Seen Wearing is the second Inspector Morse novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. Why now? Why Friday 12th September – two years, three months and two days after Valerie Taylor had left home to return to afternoon school? He frowned. ‘Something’s turned up, I suppose.’ Strange nodded. ‘Yes.’ After leaving her home in Oxford to return to school in London, seventeen-year-old Valerie Taylor completely vanished. Despite the efforts of the police and Chief Inspector Ainley, the trail went cold and she was never found. Two years on, Ainley is dead, and Inspector Morse is handed the case. But now, someone has decided to supply some surprising new evidence . . . Last Seen Wearing is followed by the third Inspector Morse book, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn.
A collection of 16 women's garments to sew, all using 100% of the fabric with no waste.
: Be inspired by the surprising evolution of threads from a device that holds fabrics together to a creative tool that beautifies projects with designs, colors, textures, structure, and ornamentation. Follow along each "step-by-step" technique and create a world of your own Workbook pages. Whether expanding your knowledge of traditional techniques or experimenting with thread painting and molding thread structures, you'll experience threads with new creativity. Full color throughout. Step-by-step photography and illustrations.
A bit of thread can spice up one's art by a good degree. Threads: The Basics & Beyond discusses thread and how to weave into the techniques of quilting, painting, and other artistic mediums. With no shortage of ideas and full color photos throughout, Debbie Bates and Liz Kettle will show you how to use thread in several versatile ways. Be inspired by the surprising evolution of threads into a creative tool that beautifies projects with design, color, texture, structure, and ornamentation. Follow each step-by-step technique in photos and text, then create a world of your own passport pages. Whether expanding your knowledge of traditional techniques or experimenting with thread painting and molding thread structures, you'll experience threads with new creativity and inspiration.
This booklet helps you confidently answer the question, "which needle do I use?", offering insight into 30 of today's most commonly used hand and machine sewing needles.
Lesley Riley is one of the inventors of Transfer Art Paper and an unparalleled expert on how to use TAP for maximum creative effect. She'll teach you how to create unique fabric images from photographs that stay vibrant and colorfast, even after washing. You can use Lesley's photo transfer methods to quickly create your own masterpieces, using your inkjet printer and art supplies you already have at home.
The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on...