Download or read book Bouquet Afghans written by Drg Dynamic Resource and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dimensional flower petals and lacy motifs add elegant details to these 4 crocheted afghans. The lovely colors and floral patterns will keep your home blooming with beauty all year round. 4 floral afghans for intermediate and experienced skill levels to crochet in medium/worsted weight yarn with size G, H, I, and J hooks: Americana Violets by Michael Cates; Texas Rose Afghan and Flower Garlands Afghan by Rena V. Stevens; and Wild Roses by Carolyn Christmas.
Download or read book Floral Afghans written by Leisure Arts and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick any of the five perennial wraps in this Little Book to refresh your home all year 'round. Our flower patch of afghans is blooming with pansies, roses, wildflowers and more that will bring out the warmth and beauty of spring, in and out of season. All use worsted weight yarn.
Download or read book Crochet Bouquet written by Suzann Thompson and published by Lark Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crocheted flowers are cheerful reminders of nature's bounty. Thompson's tips, techniques, and directions make it easy to create lovely blossoms that can be used as embellishments, on greeting cards, or on their own.
Download or read book A Bed of Red Flowers written by Nelofer Pazira and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with compassion, intelligence and insight, A Bed of Red Flowers is a profoundly moving portrait of life under occupation and the unforgettable story of a family, a people and a country. "The picnic of the red flower" is a traditional time of celebration for Afghans. One of Nelofer Pazira's earliest memories is of people gathering in the countryside to admire the tulips and poppies carpeting the landscape. It is the mid-1970s, and her parents are building a future for themselves and their young children in the city of Kabul. But when Nelofer is just five the Communists take power and her father, a respected doctor, is imprisoned along with thousands of other Afghans. The following year, the Russians invade Afghanistan, which becomes a police state and the center of a bloody conflict between the Soviet army and American-backed mujahidin fighters. A climate of violence and fear reigns. For Nelofer, there is no choice but to grow up fast. At eleven, she and her friends throw stones at the Russian tanks that stir up dust and animosity in the streets of Kabul. As a teenager she joins a resistance group, hiding her gun from her parents. Her emotional refuge is her friendship with her classmate Dyana, with whom she shares a passion for poetry, dreams and a better life. After a decade of war, Nelofer's family escapes across the mountains to Pakistan and later to Canada, where she continues to write to Dyana. When her friend suddenly stops writing, Nelofer fears for Dyana's life. With lyrical, narrative prose, A Bed of Red Flowers movingly tells Pazira's haunting story, as well as Afghanistan's story as a nation.
Download or read book A Bouquet of Bernat Afghans to Knit and Crochet in Beautiful Berella written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Afghan Bouquet written by Linda Mershon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heirloom Afghans to Knit and Crochet written by Jean Leinhauser and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafters who wish to showcase their skills, pamper themselves or someone special, or mark an occasion with a one-of-a-kind remembrance, will love knitting or crocheting the luxurious afghans in this new book. All are heirloom-quality afghans--displayed in breathtaking color photos--featuring deluxe yarns such as silk blends, mohair, or cashmere. And it's an anything-but-ordinary collection that includes new takes on classic afghans, afghans with hundreds of bullion stitches, and those that look like the finest lace. You'll be proud to give any one as a gift for a wedding, christening, anniversary, dedication ceremony or whenever you want to show love or appreciation with a gift well worth the time and cost--one that will be cherished for a lifetime!
Download or read book Our Best Baby Afghans written by Leisure Arts, Inc and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 1996 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll love this wonderful collection of favorite Leisure Arts baby afghans, with a variety of styles and colors. Each one of these 54 cover-ups includes step-by-step instructions and radiant full-color photography so you can be confident of success.
Download or read book Hooked on Crochet Afghans written by Annie's and published by Annie's. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six beautiful afghans featured in this book will inspire you to pick up your hook and start crocheting immediately. The designs fill homes with splashes of color and make great gifts for friends, family, and new babies. The afghans are made using light- and worsted-weight yarn, and the designs include Sand & Sea, Jewel Tones, Heirloom, Peacock, Daisy, and Ebb & Flow. The skill level for these projects is easy to intermediate.
Download or read book Flowers from Afghanistan written by Suzy Parish and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weighed down by guilt following the death of his two-year-old son, Mac McCann accepts a year-long position training police officers in Afghanistan. Leaving his wife Sophie to grieve alone, he hopes the life-or-death distractions of his self-imposed exile will build a wall between him and his pain. As camaraderie builds between Mac and the men on base—including a local barber and his precocious little boy—Mac's heart becomes invested in stories beyond his own tragedy and he learns he is not the only one running from loss. But when the hour of attack arrives, will he be able to see past his guilt to believe there's still something—and someone—worth living for? With touching details based on true events, Flowers from Afghanistan is a redemptive journey of healing, a chronicle of hope in crisis, and a testament to the faithfulness of God through it all.
Download or read book Our Favorite Crochet Stitches written by Daisy Farm Crafts and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hello! We're Tiffany and Hannah, the mom and daughter behind Daisy Farm Crafts, and this book is a quick reference guide for our favorite crochet stitches! Since we are often designing baby blankets, we really wanted to create a simple book where we could easily access pictures and instructions of our favorite stitches, and we thought you might enjoy one, too! We did our best to explain these stitches in a way we hope makes sense, but if you do find yourself needing some more visual help, you can find videos for all the stitches in this book on the Daisy Farm Crafts YouTube Channel. All the stitch instructions in this book are also available for free on daisyfarmcrafts.com." --
Download or read book 75 Floral Blocks to Crochet written by Betty Barnden and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming collection of triangular, square, diamond-shaped, hexagonal, and circular blocks, all with a floral theme. There's something here to inspire every crochet fan, and is great for "on-the-go" crafters.
Download or read book Afghans for All Reasons and All Seasons written by Jean Leinhauser and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghans for All Reasons & All Seasons -39 afghans to crochet and give to charities, family, friends, or to create to celebrate an event, holiday, or a change of season.
Download or read book Mile a minute Flower Afghans written by Kathy Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Scrap Afghans written by Bobbie Matela and published by DRG Wholesale. This book was released on 1999 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make room for more yarn when you use up your stash on these irresistible scrap afghans. Offering a contemporary take on the traditional scrappy afghan, each of the 20 designs requires a main color, plus no more than one skein each of the scrap colors.
Download or read book Return of a King written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the bare outline of this infamous battle, and with penetrating, balanced insight illuminates the uncanny similarities between the West’s first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today. He delineates the straightforward facts: Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers; the same cities garrisoned by the British are today garrisoned by foreign troops, attacked from the same rings of hills and high passes from which the British faced attack. Dalryrmple also makes clear the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, the stranglehold they have on the politics of the nation and the ways in which they ensnared both the British in the nineteenth century and NATO forces in the twenty-first. Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality.
Download or read book The Breadwinner Series Bundle written by Deborah Ellis and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Breadwinner The first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. Parvana’s Journey In 2001, a war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana’s father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. Parvana doesn’t know where they are. She just knows she has to find them. Mud City Parvana’s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. But she still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France. This is the dream that has sustained her through the terrible years in Kabul. It is the dream for which she has forsaken family and friends. My Name Is Parvana Parvana, now fifteen, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. One More Mountain It’s 2021, and the Taliban have retaken power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.
