Download or read book Clues in the Calico written by Barbara Brackman and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Clues in the Calico Barbara Brackman unveils a much-needed system for dating America's heirloom quilts. She tells how, by collecting and observing quilts and finally analyzing her computer file on close to 900 date-inscribed specimens, she arrived at the system. And through this telling she also imparts a colorful, stunningly illustrated history of quiltmaking along with a good bit of entertaining social history and the newest findings in textile research.
Download or read book Calico Horses and the Patchwork Trail written by Lorraine Turner and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Spirit of Horse speaks to a ten-year-old girl through her dreams and calico patches magically appear as if from nowhere, the residents of Saddlecrest, Nevada have a genuine mystery on their hands. It's the story of how a girl ripped apart by divorce helps the wild mustangs torn from the range. Together they face uncertainties brought on by the decisions of others. Carrie's mom decides to uproot her from their familiar Jersey Shore home and move to the dusty deserts of Nevada. The move is as prickly to Carrie as the cactus beside her new home. But something mysterious greets her when she closes her eyes each night--like a winding path, her dreams guide her to the horses of the Calico Mountains. Are her developing psychic abilities bringing visits from horse spirits or is her troubled mind playing tricks on her? Her new friend Milla has nightmares of her own--she's the daughter of a government official known as "The Horse Killer." How can a few children make a difference to the plight of the foals snatched from their homes without warning? Like the tiny patches of cloth that adorn a calico quilt the clues draw them all together. Follow the Calico Horses as they lead us down the trail of adversity to the peaceful pastures found by helping one another.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Brackman's classic quilter's resource, the "Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns," is fully modernized, updated with over 160 new blocks, and presented in full color for the first time in this third edition! All of the 4,000+ pieced quilt block patterns found in this book are illustrated with both a line drawing and sample color suggestions to ensure that you will never run out of inspiration! Quilters, quilt historians, and textile enthusiasts will love the detailed information on pattern names and publication sources included with each block pattern.The book is easy to use in a multitude of ways: look up block designs by name to find a perfectly themed pattern, search by layout and construction information to find the name of the pattern in a historic quilt, or just browse the pages until your next quilting project catches your eye! Combine the book with "BlockBase" software (sold separately) to easily design and print custom templates, rotary charts, or foundation patterns for any of the blocks in the book.As a one-stop-shop for quilt pattern identification and ideas for your next quilting project, this fabulous book should be in every quilter's library!
Download or read book Dating Fabrics written by Eileen Jahnke Trestain and published by American Quilter's Society. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of fabric swatches presented in this guide book can help determine a date of manufacture and something about the fabric piece. Samples represent fabics made in the Americas from 1800-1960.
Download or read book Amish Quilts written by Janneken Smucker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By thoroughly examining all of these aspects, Amish Quilts is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of these beautiful works.--Roderick Kiracofe, author of The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort, 1750-1950 "Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies"
Download or read book Making History written by Barbara Brackman and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging book shows how to create quilts with an authentic antique look, collect period textiles, while revealing the history of American fabrics. Learn the fascinating true story of fabrics in America and make your own period quilts with this comprehensive guide to fabrics and their influence on American quilts, from the machine age to the atomic age. From quilt historian Barbara Brackman, author of America's Printed Fabrics 1770–1890,Making History not only includes 9 quilt projects inspired by vintage quilt designs and fabrics, but is packed with historic photos, stories, and insights into the role of fabrics in everyday life.
Download or read book Storm Warning written by Linda Sue Park and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy and Dan dodge the shadow of a man in black as they search for the 39 clues.
Download or read book Backyard Visionaries written by Barbara Brackman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic chronicle of backyard art, with essays that examine various aspects of the work of grassroots artists.
Download or read book Easter Clues written by Sago Mini and published by BuzzPop. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hop along with everyone's favorite Sago Mini characters as they follow a trail of clues that lead them to a surprise Easter treat in this fun board book! It's Easter season and the Sago Mini characters are having a hopping good time as they try and find out who could be leaving all kinds of Easter clues along their favorite trail in the woods. Readers will love accompanying Harvey, Jinja, Robin, and other friends as they travel on the path, being prompted to hop over streams, rocks, and other elements along the way. Who could the Easter Bunny be? It's Jack of course! He's prepared a special tea party with Easter treats for all his friends! This 6x6 board book is the perfect size for young ones looking to join a fun Sago Mini journey.
Download or read book Civil War Women written by Barbara Brackman and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North and South, black and white - the story of the War Between the States is embedded in the soul of every American. In her second book on quilts and the Civil War, Barbara Brackman introduces 9 women who lived during those turbulent times, matching each woman to a quilt that she might have made herself. 9 projects adapted from period quilts, with patterns and instructions. Excellent reference book for Civil War re-enactors; offers creative activities related to each woman’s story. Fascinating information about 9 real-life American women and their experiences during the Civil War, from abolitionist speaker Lucy Stone to freed slave Susie Taylor King to Confederate spy Belle Edmondson. Make a reproduction quilt and forge a personal link to the women of the Civil War!
Download or read book Count with Blue Blue s Clues You written by Random House and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn numbers and counting with the characters from Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues & You! With this full-color board book, boys and girls ages 0 to 3 will love learning to count with Blue, Josh, and the whole gang from the new Nickelodeon show Blue's Clues & You!
Download or read book American Quilts in the Modern Age 1870 1940 written by Marin F. Hanson and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, “Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles rather than pens.” This book, part of the multivolume series of the International Quilt Study Center collections, recovers a swath of that lost history and shows us some of America’s treasured material culture as it was pieced and stitched into place. American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870–1940 examines the period’s quilts from both an artistic and a historical perspective. From pieced block to Crazy style to Colonial Revival examples, as well as one-of-a-kind creations, the full array of style and design appears in this book covering seven decades of quiltmaking. The contributing authors provide critical information regarding the modern and anti-modern tensions that persisted throughout this era of America’s coming of age, from the Civil War to World War II. They also address the textile technology and cultural context of the times in which the quilts were created, with an eye to the role that industrialization and modernization played in the evolution of techniques, materials, and designs. With full-color photographs of over 587 quilts, American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940 offers a new visual and tactile understanding of American culture and society, bridging the transition from traditional folk culture to the age of mass production and consumption.
Download or read book Off to School with Periwinkle and Blue Blue s Clues written by Nickelodeon Publishing and published by Nickelodeon. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Blue's Clues' Blue and Joe as they go with Periwinkle to his first day of preschool. At first he's a little nervous, but Blue shows him that there's nothing to be afraid of! School is cool!
Download or read book Clues to the Universe written by Christina Li and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stellar debut about losing and finding family, forging unlikely friendships, and searching for answers to big questions will resonate with fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Rebecca Stead. The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn’t like science, but he can’t get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he’s thrilled. Too bad his dad walked out years ago, and Benji has no way to contact him. Though Ro and Benji were only supposed to be science class partners, the pair become unlikely friends, and Ro even figures out a way to reunite Benji and his dad. But Benji hesitates, which infuriates Ro. Doesn’t he realize how much Ro wishes she could be in his place? As the two face bullying, grief, and their own differences, Benji and Ro try to piece together clues to some of the biggest questions in the universe. A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club selection * A Junior Library Guild Selection * A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
Download or read book Waste and Want written by Susan Strasser and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life--throwing things out--and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture--the trash it produces--and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change--the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale. Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.
Download or read book The 39 Clues 4 Beyond the Grave written by Jude Watson and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Clue found in Japan has Amy and Dan jetting off to Egypt to find out just what's behind the fierce rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of the Cahill family. Was a Clue stolen from the Tomas branch? Where is it now? And most important, can Amy and Dan get their hands on it before their rivals do? It's a wild race that will take Amy and Dan deep down into the tombs of Egypt . . . and right into the hands of the enemy.
Download or read book Clues in Calico written by Elizabeth Ashby and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling authors Gin Jones & Elizabeth Ashby... For quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild, the opportunity to appraise more than a hundred quilts feels almost too good to be true. And then she learns the bad news: the quiltmaker was murdered and the police have no leads. Keely suspects that the quilts hold the key to the dead woman's death as well as to her life. While looking for answers in the quilts, Keely uncovers a variety of suspects, including the greedy heir, a smarmy used-car salesman, a feuding neighbor, and even a rival quiltmaker. As if this project weren't enough to complicate Keely's quiet life, she's also under a short deadline to find new meeting space for the quilters' guild and she's running out of time to decide whether to let charming local reporter Matt Viera into her life. Of course, those other problems may not matter if the quiltmaker's killer strikes again, this time to prevent Keely from finding the clues in the calico. Note: This novel was previously published under the title Robbing Peter to Kill Paul "I am a frequent visitor to Danger Cove, and eager to stay for a long time. Clever and Engaging Fun!" Kings River Life Magazine The Danger Cove books: Secret of the Painted Lady (book #1) Murder & Mai Tais (book#2) Death by Scones (book #3) Patchwork of Death (book #4) Deadly Dye & a Soy Chai (book #5) Killer Clue at the Ocean View (book #6) A Christmas Quilt to Die For (book #7) A Killing in the Market (short story in the "Killer Beach Reads" collection) Killer Colada (book #8) Passion, Poison & Puppy Dogs (book #9) A Novel Death (book #10) Clues in Calico (book #11) Sinister Snickerdoodles (book #12) Hurricanes & Heroes (book #13) A Death in the Flower Garden (book #14) Divas, Diamonds & Death (book #15) A Slaying in the Orchard (book #16) A Secret in the Pumpkin Patch (book #17) Deadly Dirty Martinis (book #18) A Poison Manicure & Peach Liqueur (book #19) Not-So-Bright Hopes (short story in the "Pushing Up Daisies" collection) Tequila Trouble (book #20) Deadly Thanksgiving Sampler (book #21) Killer Eyeshadow & a Cold Espresso (book #22) Two Sleuths Are Better Than One (book #23) Dark Rum Revenge (book #24) Cozy Room With a Killer View (book #25) Rating: This book does not contain any graphic sex, violence or swearing. It's rating is similar to a PG-13 movie or network television show.
