In this definitive guide to resources, aspiring artists and serious amateurs devoted to their art will find scores of time-tested strategies to help them set up and work safely from a home studio; learn where and how to acquire appropriate art materials; develop their abilities with others as well as create art alone; explore opportunities for education in a wide variety of forms; overcome mental blocks; mat, frame, pack, and ship works of art; and much more. Artists looking to show and sell their work will find no-fail ideas for marketing, exhibiting, and entering the world of galleries.
As the first text of its kind, THE SPEAKER'S HANDBOOK has established itself as both an invaluable reference for the individual speaker and an excellent textbook for use in the public speaking course. Sprague and Stuart give careful consideration to key cultural, educational, and technology trends to provide not only exceptionally efficient blocks of text that reflect the most recent research, but also abundant examples-including a new collection of sample speeches.
101 Log Cabin Blocks: With Full-Size Patterns for Paper or Foundation Piecing
Everyone who loves Log Cabin blocks will love owning this book! Not only does it include the traditional Log Cabin Block (in four sizes), it takes the Log Cabin out of the past and into a new creative realm of innovative block design. We've twisted the logs and changed the usual rectangular strip shape-making this the most exciting collection of Log Cabin blocks ever! We've included new pictorial blocks where the logs become flowers, houses, hearts, birdhouses, baskets, a cat, a bunny, a tree and even an ornament. We've definitely stretched the definition of a Log Cabin block being strips (or logs)
Needles & Notions: Paper-Pieced Patterns With a Sewing-Room Theme
Create paper-pieced quilts for yourself or a favorite stitching pal and showcase a subject you both love--sewing! Delightful pictorial sewing-room blocks in both 4" and 6" sizes are provided, along with a larger block depicting a traditional Sunbonnet Sue busy at work on her latest quilt. Turn blocks into small wall quilts with multiple borders, or make a sewing room sampler quilt using all 13 block designs.
