Download or read book A Quilting Life written by Sherri McConnell and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With its diverse selection of fabrics and designs, A Quilting Life is a fine pick for any quilter looking to produce family-oriented keepsake results.” —The Needlecraft Shelf Bring the handmade tradition home with these charming quilts and home accessories. Inspired by a grandmother who loved to sew for her family, quilter and blogger Sherri McConnell gives traditional patterns like hexagons, stars, snowballs, and Dresden Plates a new look featuring fabrics by some of today’s most popular designers. Nineteen cozy projects include pillows, tote bags, table runners, and larger quilts—quick and easy designs that make great gifts. “Sherri’s book is a treasure! It’s full of fun and straight-forward patterns for quilts, table toppers, pillows, bags and more—all the goodies to make a cozy home.” —Thimbleanna “Would you like the opportunity to make tomorrow’s heirlooms in today’s vast selection of prints? . . . If so, this could be the reference book that will get you started. There are 19 projects, mainly focusing on handmade household items but including some larger quilts too.” —Fabrications Quilting for You “Beautiful inspiration if you are a seasoned quilter, but also a great resource with clear and in some cases, simple patterns for newbies as well.” —Diary of a Quilter “Color photos of finished needlework projects accompany step-by-step diagrams and assembly patterns, while at-a-glance sidebars covering materials and cutting allow needleworkers to gauge the complexity of each project.” —The Needlecraft Shelf

Download or read book Protecting the Future of Work written by Barry Colfer and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting the Future of Work analyses the changes that worker protection institutions have undergone with the decline of traditional measures such as trade unions, mapping out the new systems and approaches to protect wages, conditions and job security.

Download or read book Patchwork USA written by Heidi Staples and published by Lucky Spool. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning a sewing getaway? Heidi Staples of sewing blog Fabric Mutt presents everything needed to have a successful trip, including helpful packing and organizing tips. Each section of this fun, colorful book is organized with travel in mind, offering small, medium, and large projects to be achieved while on the perfect sewing retreat: --Daytrips: Small projects include a Bookmobile Sleeve, Road Trip Pillow, Snapshot Needlebook, Sewing Bee Pincushion, and Coffee Shop Coasters --Weekend Retreats: Bigger projects include a Patio Pillow, Beachcomber Pouch, Kitchenette Set, Scout's Honor Pouch, and a Color Book --Summer Vacations: Extended projects include a Big Bear Cabin Quilt and Palm Springs Bag Get ready to have a fabulous sewing retreat!

Download or read book Histories of the Future written by Susan Harding and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual toolkit for thinking about the forms and functions that the future takes. Exploring links between panic and nostalgia, waiting and utopia, technology and messianism, prophecy and trauma, it brings together critical meditations on the social, cultural, and intellectual forces that create narratives and practices of the future. The prognosticators, speculators, prophets, and visionaries have their say here, but the emphasis is on small narratives and forgotten conjunctures, on the connections between expectation and experience in everyday life. In tightly linked studies, the contributors excavate forgotten and emergent futures of art, religion, technology, economics, and politics. They trace hidden histories of science fiction, futurism, and millennialism and break down barriers between far-flung cultural spheres. From the boardrooms of Silicon Valley to the forests of Java and from the literary salons of Tokyo to the roadside cafés of the Nevada desert, the authors stitch together the disparate images and stories of futures past and present. Histories of the Future is further punctuated by three interludes: a thought-provoking game that invites players to fashion future narratives of their own, a metafiction by renowned novelist Jonathan Lethem, and a remarkable graphic research tool: a timeline of timelines. Contributors. Sasha Archibald, Susan Harding, Jamer Hunt, Pamela Jackson, Susan Lepselter, Jonathan Lethem, Joseph Masco, Christopher Newfield, Elizabeth Pollman, Vicente Rafael, Daniel Rosenberg, Miryam Sas, Kathleen Stewart, Anna Tsing

Download or read book Our Patchwork Nation written by Dante Chinni and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative counterargument to the blue/red divide that illuminates our country's multidimensional political spectrum. In a climate of culture wars and economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red and blue states. In response to that oversimplification, journalist Dante Chinni teamed up with political geographer James Gimpel, using on-the-ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations and probe American communities in depth. Looking at the data, they recognized that the country breaks into twelve distinct types of communities, whose differences and specific concerns shed light on the subtle distinctions in how Americans vote, shop, and otherwise behave. Showcasing personal interviews, combined with facts and statistics, Our Patchwork Nation offers a brilliant new way to examine the issues that matter most to our communities, and to our nation.

Download or read book The Future of Coaching written by Hetty Einzig and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, in which our work and lives are constantly disrupted and changing. But coaches and leaders are still trained to operate within stable models with a uni-focus on performance. Coaches are starting to question the remit of ‘raising performance’ within existing systems, many of which are outdated, dysfunctional and even toxic. The role of the coach today must evolve to become fit for purpose in challenging times and coaching must re-articulate its values, as the essential compass for navigating turbulent waters. In The Future of Coaching, Hetty Einzig examines the role of coaching and leadership in the twenty-first century, and sets out a compelling vision for its future. Drawing on experience gained over twenty-five years of coaching leaders in the corporate and public sectors, in the UK and globally, she challenges the tenet of coaching neutrality. Rather than simply following the client agenda, she encourages coaches to see themselves as partners in courageous leadership and to work towards building an ethical, holistic and networked coaching approach to help create businesses that serve society and our globalised world. The book asks essential questions of coaches working today: how can leaders and coaches become ‘positive deviants’ and transform the rules of the game within cultures where denial and group-think are rife? How can coaches work with the anxious and depressed, embracing the dark as well as the light? Are coaches prepared for the rise of Millennials, women leaders and those over sixty (the Third Acters)? Einzig challenges the model of the Strong Leader in favour of Respons-able leadership based on authentic strength, distributed power and responsive thinking. And she shows how this vision of a transformed workplace is essential for the transformations society must undertake to reclaim a positive future. This thought provoking collection of essays, designed to be read in any order, is enlightening and inspiring reading for coaches in practice and in training, HR and L&D professionals and for leaders everywhere.

Download or read book The Patchwork of Our Lives written by Peggy Foutch and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Patchwork of Our Lives is a Christian fiction book reveal- ing the story of Katies love for her grandparents house, her dreams of falling in love with a Christian prince charming, and raising their family in the old home place. Nick, a charming man, leads Katie to believe he may become her dream fulfi ller, but at times proves to be diffi cult to un- derstand and very secretive, causing Katie much distress. As Katie tenderly sews the pieces of her grandmothers quilt together, she wonders whether her life will ever be pieced together in a peaceful and orderly fashion.

Download or read book A Patchwork of Life written by Debi Vietri and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a journal from the heart to let people know that life is a challenge even on the best of days but attitude will determine how we cope with each challenge and opportunity.

Download or read book Our Future Highway i e the Euphrates Valley With Plates Illustrations and a Map written by Verney Lovett Cameron and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1880 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Patchwork written by Frederick Locker-Lampson and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commonplace book, prose and verse original and selected.

Download or read book The Patchwork Human written by Peter Luykx and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life began about four billion years ago on our planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of ancient species now long extinct. Like any species, humans have hundreds or even thousands of traits that have been passed down through time. The evolutionary age of our different traits can be told from how widely distributed they are among today's living creatures. The book aims to explain some human traits and how we--as social, sexual, language-obsessed technological apes--evolved into our own modern species. Combining hard science with philosophical thought, this work aims to explain where humans have come from, and where we are going. Free of complicated jargon, it breaks down the concept of evolution starting with the human body's most basic component--our cells. Building from there, chapters explore which traits became inherited over evolutionary time, ultimately projecting what could be next for our species.

Download or read book Jelly Filled 18 Quilts from 2 1 2 Strips written by Vanessa Goertzen and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open a sweet new range of possibilities with rolls of precut strips and these eighteen quilting projects. Raid your fabric pantry! The bestselling author of Charm School is back with eighteen innovative projects using precut 2 1/2” strips. Vanessa Goertzen’s fabric recipes will help you cook up basic, beginner-friendly strip-pieced blocks and more advanced designs: triangles, stars, log cabins, hexagons, and even curves. Use convenient fabric rolls, or create your own stunning strips from yardage. Whether you are newer to quilting or have lots of experience, you’ll spend less time cutting, and more time creating. • Sweet and simple! Sew eighteen jelly-rific quilts made from 2 1/2” precut fabric strips • Learn precut shortcuts with bestselling Charm School author Vanessa Goertzen • Start with basic quilt blocks, and build your skills to piece triangles, hexagons, curves, and more

Download or read book The Patchwork Girls written by Elaine Everest and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Patchwork Girls by Elaine Everest is a moving story about the ties of friends and family, set during the turbulence of the Second World War. 1939. After the sudden and tragic loss of her husband, Helen is returning home to her mother’s house in Biggin Hill, Kent – the one place she vowed she’d never go back to again. Alone and not knowing where to turn, Helen finds herself joining the local women’s sewing circle despite being hopeless with a needle and thread. These resourceful women can not only make do and mend clothes, quilts and woolly hats, but their friendship mends something deeper in Helen too. Lizzie is a natural leader, always ready to lend a helping hand or a listening ear. Effie has uprooted her life from London to keep her two little girls away from the bombing raids, and the sewing circle is a welcome distraction from worries about how to keep a roof over their heads and about her husband too, now serving in active duty overseas. When the reason for Helen's husband's death comes to light, her world is turned upside down yet again. The investigating officer on the case, Richard, will leave no stone unturned, but it’s not long before his interest in Helen goes beyond the professional. As she pieces together old fabrics into a beautiful quilt, will Helen patch up the rifts in her own life?

Download or read book Safeguarding Our Future written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Patchwork Path written by ,LoisRuth and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life for me began at age forty, when I became a believer in Jesus. I had been "churched" as a child, but with little understanding of how the Old and New Testaments fit together, let alone how God connected to me. But on January 22, 1983, my husband and I walked into a new church. When the pastor, Ron Mehl, said, "My words mean nothing unless the Holy Spirit is here and runs you through with his sword." We both felt the Holy Spirit doing his work in us, and in one hour, we left the church totally different people. We didn't even know what had happened, only that it had. Finally, we gained sufficient knowledge to know we had both been "Born Again." I began to recognize God's quiet voice nudging me toward new directions. How do I recognize his voice? Well, it never goes against his word; it's always smarter than I am; his requests are always out of my comfort zone, and something I would never consider doing. When I faithfully follow his directions, doors fly open, and I have only to work through them. The Patchwork Path was written from one of his promptings. My friend of over thirty years lives two thousand miles away; she had never read the Bible. We spoke frequently on the phone. Whenever she expressed an interest in the Lord, I'd send her increasingly easy Bibles. Finally, in April 2016, she said she'd never understand it, and was giving up. I placed the phone down and whispered, "What now, Father?" The answer was immediate. "You write her a Bible she can understand." "What? Have you seen how thick it is?" "Just begin," he replied""and I did. He guided me to patch together all the pieces of the Old Testament where Jesus is found, and how it all connects to the New Testament. This left out large chunks of history and many wonderful people who are in the Bible, but are not in the genealogy of Jesus. This eliminated a lot of "begots." God guided me each day into the next portion I was to include. Often, I'd ask, Where do I find that? And when I'd open the Bible he led me to it, I'd either be on the exact page, or one or two pages away. What emerged one year later was a tool anyone can use to gain knowledge of the point of the Bible, how it all fits together, and even clarifies today's current events. So, who was this written for? I thought it was for my friend. But when God prompted me to have Patchwork Path published, the target reader greatly expanded to include anyone who is a skeptic; new believers who have never read the Bible; believers who have faithfully gone to church, but still haven't read through the Old Testament; home-schoolers teaching their children to be more comfortable with reading the Bible so they can easily understand it. But most of all, this book was written because God had you in mind and wanted to give you a hand. If you begin on the first page of the Patchwork Path and read it through, you will gain some valuable insights, and a new familiarity with your own Bible. God bless you as you begin this journey.

Download or read book The Patchwork Torah written by Allison Ofanansky and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! As a child, David watches his grandfather, a Torah scribe or sofer, finish a Torah scroll for the synagogue. "A Torah is not something to be thrown away," his Grandfather explains. David's grandfather carefully stores the old Torah his new one has replaced in his cabinet, hoping to one day repair the letters so the Torah can be used again. David grows up and becomes a sofer just like his grandfather. Through the years, people bring him damaged Torahs they have saved from danger and disaster - one damaged by Nazi soldiers during World War II, one damaged in a fire in a synagogue, and one in flooding during Hurricane Katrina. David stores each of these precious Torahs in his cabinet, until his granddaughter Leah gives him the idea to make a recycled Torah from the salvaged Torah scrolls.

Download or read book The Future of Federal Farm Commodity Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: