Rev Up Your Hand or Machine Quilting With Fresh Versions of Favorite Motifs. Recharge the old favorites with 250 playful new continuous-line variations on 5 classic quilting motifs. Add style to individual blocks, sashings, and borders, or use as overall quilting designs. All motifs work for both hand and machine quilting, and for long-arm as well as short-arm machines. Make your quilt sing with these exuberant new variations on 5 classic quilting motifs. Master quilter Laura Lee Fritz shows you dozens of fresh takes on clamshells, waves, serpentines, Baptist fans, and feathers. Helpful tips show you how to make the most of each pattern.

Thirty-one illustrations by Norman Rockwell appear in all their heartwarming glory in this classic and collectible coloring book, handpicked from hundreds of covers that the artist created for The Saturday Evening Post.

This Element shows classical translation as inherently creative in practice with new approaches shaping dialogue and genres.

Instructions for 86 great designs (geometric, garden, and other motifs) without complicated starts and stops. Includes helpful suggestions for choosing and combining patterns, fitting designs on projects, resizing, selecting materials, and basting. Patterns appear on a background grid for easy resizing, and repeat units and separate sewing paths are clearly indicated.

Rosi Robinson shows how to create beautiful batik designs and pictures, teaching all the techniques required through 9 step-by-step projects. From making simple marks and drawing with wax to dipping and painting with dyes, etching, cracking, discharging and more, this book contains all you need to create beautiful batik. A history of batik sets the scene and then there is detailed advice on all the materials and preparations required. There is artistic advice on using colour and on how to use hard wax, stamps, brushes and cantings (tjantings) through a series of appealing projects. Skills are built with each project and all templates are provided. A gallery of beautiful batik artworks provides inspiration for beginners and experienced artists alike.

Sixteen-year-old Pete relates how his twelve-year-old cousin's hero worship turns to hatred.

Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides: not only the creativity of invention and of imagination but also that of perception and of discovery. This is a remarkable and life-affirming book by one of the most far-sighted thinkers of modern times.