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Alison Smith

    This author is known for her passion for crafting and sewing. Her writing often draws inspiration from these practical skills, offering a unique perspective on the creative process. Readers will appreciate her engaging style and original themes.

    Cabbage and Caviar
    Sew Your Own Wardrobe: More Than 80 Techniques
    The Sewing Book
    Dressmaking
    The Dressmaking Book
    Multiple Barriers
    • Multiple Barriers

      The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada

      • 382 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Focusing on multilevel governance models, this book examines how four major Canadian cities address homelessness and social protection for vulnerable populations. It delves into the complexities of policy-making and the effectiveness of various approaches in providing support to marginalized individuals, highlighting the challenges and successes within each city's framework.

      Multiple Barriers
    • Tailor-make your wardrobe with this essential dressmaking guide.Discover everything you need to know to design, create, and customize your clothes. Guiding you through every stage of clothes-making in a clear, easy-to-understand way, The Dressmaking Book contains everything you need to make timeless wardrobe staples that can be easily adapted to suit your style. Choose the perfect fabrics for any project, try your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques, and put your new-found knowledge to use with 13 downloadable patterns that can be adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments. With step-by-step guides and patterns to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside ideas for refreshing and reinventing your old clothes, The Dressmaking Book has everything you need to ditch fast fashion and create stunning, original clothes to suit your style.

      The Dressmaking Book
    • Perfect for anyone interested in sewing, everything one needs to know to make, alter, and customize clothes. Sewers discover what supplies to buy and how to use them, the best fabrics to choose based on drape and weave, how to understand patterns and alter them, and more.

      Dressmaking
    • Provides comprehensive instruction on sewing, including stitch and finish techniques, mending, and sewing projects for both apparel and household goods.

      The Sewing Book
    • Tailor-make your wardrobe with this essential dressmaking guide.Discover everything you need to know to design, create, and customize your clothes. Guiding you through every stage of clothes-making in a clear, easy-to-understand way, Sew Your Own Wardrobe shows you how to make timeless wardrobe staples that can be easily adapted to suit your style.Choose the perfect fabrics for any project, try your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques, and put your new-found knowledge to use with 13 downloadable patterns that can be adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments.With step-by-step guides and patterns to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside ideas for refreshing and reinventing your old clothes, Sew Your Own Wardrobe has everything you need to ditch fast fashion and create stunning, original clothes to suit your style.

      Sew Your Own Wardrobe: More Than 80 Techniques
    • Sew Step by Step

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      4.1(20)Add rating

      Covers basic hand stitches, sewing with a machine, decorative stitches, fastenings, and finishings.

      Sew Step by Step
    • Name all the animals

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.7(17)Add rating

      As children, Roy and Alison Smith were so close their mother called them by one name: Alroy. But on a cool summer morning when she was fifteen, Alison woke to learn that Roy, three years older, was dead. While her Catholic parents wrestled with their faith and their grief, Alison made the mourners coffee, went to school to be taught by the nuns, and - being all her parents had left - set about coping. But underneath run her private rituals of mourning, her increasing idiosyncrasies, unnoticed by her parents trying to heal themselves and teachers anxious to be kind. Until suddenly, Alison begins to realize something's wrong. This is a book about grief, but it's also a love story, about Alison's love of her brother, of her childhood, and finally of life.

      Name all the animals