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|  | Free-Flow Quilts by Vikki Pignatelli
Award-winning quiltmaker Vikki Pignatelli introduces a revolutionary method of quiltmaking that takes the time, trouble, and frustration out of making a perfect quilt. Her easy techniques in Quilting Curves ensure that your designs come together quickly, with beautiful, graceful results--even for beginners. Ideal for machine quilters, Pignatelli shows you how to make wonderful, flowing curves and perfect star points without the tricky needle turn or precise piecing techniques that traditional quiltmaking involves. She demonstrates how to use a variation on her method for creating three-dimensional effects. A chapter on creativity provides you with the tools to start creating quilts of your own design. Fast, fun, and easy quilt tops that would take weeks to piece using conventional methods come together in hours Trouble-free-- quilts appear to be intricately pieced but are easy to topstitch by machine Eight complete patterns help you master the technique before moving on to create quilts of your own design AUTHOR: Vikki Pignatelli
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests 
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 | Power Chess Program Volume 1 by Nigel Davies
The real secret of mastering chess is to blend accurate calculation with good positional understanding, In order to foster these skills, Nigel Davies has developed a unique training program that has enabled many supposedly 'average' club players to improve out of recognition. Tried and tested as correspondence course, The Power Chess Program is now available in book form, In a series of 12 lessons, the student is guided through the essential elements of chess strategy. The key points are then reinforced with a set of thematic test positions for the reader to solve. AUTHOR: Nigel Davies
PUBLISHER: Batsford, B. T. Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Comics Underground Japan by Kevin Quigley
Finally, the manga anthology that goes with all these new Japanese bands. Paroxistic visions and a heavy atmosphere of doom and decay. AUTHOR: Kevin Quigley
PUBLISHER: Blast Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Humor
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 | Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison
Description not available.Offers warm-up exercises and advice on using a rhyming dictionary and thesaurus, using metaphors and similes while avoiding clichaes, and experimentating by following or breaking conventional rules. AUTHOR: Pat Pattison
PUBLISHER: F & W Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Fast & Fun Machine Quilting by Claq
From What You'll Need and Getting Ready boxes to Skill Builders from the pros, this book covers all the basics of machine quilting and many unexpected topics like choosing the right thread and what needles to use. Detailed colour photographs show stipple and meander quilting, beautiful feather designs, echo quilting, trapunto and much more. AUTHOR: Claq
PUBLISHER: Rodale Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Guess Whose Shadow? by Stephen R. Swinburne
Description not available.The author of Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes introduces youngsters to the scientific phenomenon of shadows through simple text, full-color photographs, and a guessing game where readers can figure out whose shadow is represented. Reprint. AUTHOR: Stephen R. Swinburne
PUBLISHER: Boyds Mills Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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