List to start a craft library by

Total Price: $197.01

Quilting:

1. The Modern Quilt Workshop: Patterns, Techniques, and Designs from the Funquilts Studio, by Bill Kerr, Weeks Ringle
Price: $15.61
My quilting skills need help and I hear that this book will bring me the answers.

2. Denyse Schmidt Quilts: 30 Colorful Quilt and Patchwork Projects, by Denyse Schmidt, Bethany Lyttle
Price: $16.47
Denyse's patterns and color choices are really inspiring. She also has some good ideas about how to organize the sewing of a quilt to make it manageable.

Embroidery:

3. Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To (Spiral-bound) by Jenny Hart, Alexandra Grablewski (Photographer)
Price: $13.57
Oh Jenny Hart... anyone who embroiders a skateboard is ok in my book (or library?)

For my knitting habit:

4. A Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker (Paperback - May 1998)
Price: $30.00
If faced with no obstacles I would really want the whole set of Barbara Walker stitch pattern books. I often borrow them or check them out of the library but its time I had my own copies!

5. A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker
Price: $30.00

6. Charted Knitting Designs: A Third Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker (Paperback - Jun 1998)
Price: $30.00

7. A Fourth Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker (Paperback - Sep 2000)
Price: $30.00

Last but certainly not least, for my design skills (and maybe my professional development as a scientist?)

8. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte (Hardcover - May 2001)
Price: $31.36
Tufte's books are eye opening and, if I am lucky, they will help make my science day job comprehensible to people other than me!

December 20, 2006

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