Now you can outfit your deck, patio, and yard with sturdy, attractive wood furniture that you can build yourself. And all you need is a handful of tools, lumber and this book.

Outdoor Furniture for the Backyard Builder

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hylton, Bill

Gardening & Landscape Design

Design Originals

Now it's easier than ever for woodworkers to get a perfect finish on every project! This book dispels the myths about wood finishing and explains exactly how and why every finish behaves the way it does.

Understanding Wood Finishing

Flexner, Bob

Bain, Donald

Crafts & Hobbies

Fast and accurate patchwork, formula uses a 4 or 8 inch block and gives the structure for any size quilt. Clear diagrams and step-by-step directions. Color and block suggestions. Time and fabric efficient techniques.

Sew a Row Quilts (Landauer) Make Your Own Quilts with the 'Sew-a-Row' Magic Formula

Karin Hellaby

Open a pillow to magically reveal a spectacular quilt! Learn to create three kinds of magical quilt pillows: a slip-in pillow, a wrap-around pillow, and a quillow. Mix and match patchwork block designs—from snowballs and attic windows to pineapples and picture frame blocks—to create endless combinations and your own unique style using the most up-to-date machine sewing techniques.
With 20 step-by-step projects to try and helpful full-color diagrams, these special quilt pillows make for unique home accents and gifts everyone will love! Also included are directions on how to rotary cut, as well as hints and tips on sewing, chain piecing, fussy cutting, and much more.

Magic Pillows, Hidden Quilts: Fun, Fast and Sew Addictive (Landauer)

Unique patterns using the quick and easy Sew a Row magic formula. 15 unique projects including quilts, table runners and tote bags. Exciting variations in color and design!

Sew a Row Projects: A Companion Book to Sew a Row Quilts (Landauer)

Let your imagination and creativity take flight! Karin Hellaby's Fast Flying Geese Quilts will teach you 25 different goose techniques, from traditional to 3D, that are easy to accomplish and will lead you to explore new designs in your future quilts.
With step-by-step instructions, coordinating illustrations, and helpful tips and charts throughout, complete 10 projects of quilts, bags, table runners, and pillows. Find inspiration in the 8 additional quilt plans with pattern templates to try with your newfound skills! Also included is a gallery of stunning finished quilt projects.

Fast Flying Geese Quilts (Landauer)

Create dramatic pineapple blocks quickly!
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Step-by-step instructions and diagrams for cutting pineapple chunks, adding pineapple layers, and binding the quilt</li>
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Expert advice, ideas, tips, and techniques for quilters on any skill level</li>
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Unique technique to build stunning quilts, Karin Hellaby's "Exploding Pineapple" method</li>
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Inspirational gallery of completed pineapple quilts to encourage your creativity</li>
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Learn to create dramatic pineapple blocks using Karin Hellaby's unique "Exploding Pineapple" technique to quickly build stunning quilts.
Begin with a fabric square and keep adding more squares until your quilt is bursting with dimensional colors!
With easy-to-follow instructions, coordinating full-color diagrams, and suggestions throughout, you'll be able to achieve this easy, fun, no waste patchwork method—then experiment on your own quilt projects!

Sew Simple Pineapple: Patchwork Techniques for the 21st Century (Karin Hellaby) Unique Method Creates Pineapple Blocks Quickly; Step-by-Step Instructions & Diagrams, Tips, and an Inspirational Gallery

Open the windows and let in the fresh ideas! Sew Simple Attic Windows will show you three techniques to creating attic windows with the easiest mitres author Karin Hellaby has to offer. One method doesn't even require mitred seams at all!
With step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations, helpful tips, and 3 full-size quilt projects to practice each method, you'll see there's no reason to be afraid! Also included are additional ideas and examples of full-size quilts to give you all the help and inspiration you need to keep making quilts with a view.

Sew Simple Attic Windows: Patchwork Techniques for the 21st Century (Landauer)

This is the fourth title in Karin's popular "Sew Simple" techniques series. Pineapple Plus take the best-selling, popular title Sew Simple Pineapple to another level where she has explored the use of fabric triangles to replace some of the squares. Her new triangle methods give more color, more variety, more choice, and more fun. 'Quilt as you go' is very popular, so she has included a pineapple version which incorporates the triangles and squares, quilting each block as it increases in size, an ideal for those who do not enjoy working with a large quilt. Three new pineapple techniques. Diagrams and example quilts for even more ideas. Detailed instructions for making three featured quilts.

Pineapple Plus: Sew Simple Techniques for the 21st Century (Landauer)

Hellaby, Karin

Karin Hellaby does it again with Sew Simple Pinwheels. In this insightful guide, you'll learn how to make pinwheels and how to add variations for endless possibilities. Create simple pinwheels, no corners pinwheels, curved pinwheels, spools, Suffolk puffs, and yo-yos. 
Karin even provides quilt patterns to put it all together so you can make full-size pinwheel masterpieces, as well as modern finishing techniques to bind your quilt in just 30 minutes. Become inspired from the 4 additional quilt design ideas and gain online access to even more!

Sew Simple Pinwheels: Patchwork Techniques for the 21st Century (Landauer)

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