Ellen Baker
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellen Baker is beloved for crafting intimate domestic stories that resonate deeply with readers. In I Gave My Heart to Know This, the award-winning author returns with a sweeping multigenerational saga of the searing power of war, memory, friendship, and family.
In January 1944, Grace Anderson, Lena Maki, and Lena’s mother, Violet, have joined the growing ranks of women working for the war effort. Though they find satisfaction in...
In January 1944, Grace Anderson, Lena Maki, and Lena’s mother, Violet, have joined the growing ranks of women working for the war effort. Though they find satisfaction in...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sewing can be as easy as 1-2-3 with this helpful building-block approach—includes thirty-three projects!
In this creative teaching book, craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker offers a wholly unique approach to sewing: She presents projects in groups of three, each building on the techniques used in the project before. Baker shows, for example, how to sew a glasses case, then build on those skills to create a zippered pouch, and from...
In this creative teaching book, craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker offers a wholly unique approach to sewing: She presents projects in groups of three, each building on the techniques used in the project before. Baker shows, for example, how to sew a glasses case, then build on those skills to create a zippered pouch, and from...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this follow-up to 1,2,3 Sew, expert seamstress and craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker offers her unique building block approach to quilting. She presents 24 projects in groups of three, each group focusing on a different shape and skill set. Readers master the basic shapes of quilting; squares, rectangles, triangles, hexagons, cirlces, flowers, stars and diamonds, and multiply their sewing skills as they go. Each chapter starts with something small...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson's mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she's made enough money to support both Cecily and herself. But she never returns, and shortly after high-spirited Cecily turns seven, she's sold to a traveling circus to perform as the 'little sister' to glamorous bareback rider Isabelle DuMonde. With Isabelle and the rest of the circus, Cecily finally feels she's found the...