Signings Every Hour!
Saturday
12:00 - 1:00: Cakespy
1:00 - 2:00: Lisa Taylor
2:00 - 3:00: Leeanne Prain
Sunday
12:00 - 1:00: Marie LeBaron
1:00 - 2:00: Cakespy
2:00 - 3:00: Beth Barnett
Crafty Author Book Signings
Check out all the great authors who will be signing books for you at our winter show! Schedule coming soon...
Marie LeBaron :: Make and Takes for Kids
Highlighting the best of each month of the year, Make and Takes for Kids offers 50 projects to make with kids, each centered around an upcoming holiday or season.
The ideas are unique and simple to produce, and each project is thoughtfully constructed and designed to create an ideal environment and setting for crafting. Each craft requires little preparation, few supplies, and almost everything can be readily found at home or at a local craft supply store.
Beth A. Barnett :: Rabbit Food Cookbook
Practical Vegan Recipes, Food History, and Other Miscellany
Packed with 90 delicious vegan recipes like Special Chocolate Cake, Hearty Black-Eyed Pea Good Luck Soup, and Tex-Mex Tofu Fajitas. This isn’t just a vegan and vegetarian cookbook, though; it’s a thoughtful and accessible guide to eating well to benefit your body and the world. Barnett writes about “The Food Supply in Perspective,” “Health & Nutrition Considerations,” and a fascinating history of the industrialization of food in America—from indigenous cultures to present day. This D.I.Y. crafty read also includes tips on everything from how to plant your first garden to how to sew your own reusable grocery bag.
Lisa Taylor :: Your Farm in the City
Imagine your front yard with herbs and blueberries, grape vines growing over the carport, beds bursting with salad greens, a sunflower fence along a boundary line, and an herb spiral filled with vegetables. Maybe your backyard has a vegetable garden, chicken coop and a bee hive tucked back in a corner. In place of the blocks of cement or patchy grass is an abundant, productive landscape that provides good food and healthy activities for you and your family. At the end of each season, your cupboards are filled with beautifully canned food and your freezer loaded with ready to eat veggies from the garden. This, my friends, is the dream of city farming. Learn how to turn your city lot into a thriving urban farm with Lisa Taylor from Seattle Tilth. Explore growing your own vegetables, integrating edibles into your landscape and keeping urban livestock.
Leanne Prain :: Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti is the definitive guidebook to covert textile street art. This full-color DIY book features 20 kick-ass patterns that range from hanging shoes and knitted picture frames to balaclavas and gauntlets, teaching readers how to create fuzzy adornments for lonely street furniture.
Along the way, it provides tips on how to be as stealthy as a ninja, demonstrates how to orchestrate a large-scale textile project, and offers revealing information necessary to design your own yarn graffiti tags.
The book also includes interviews with members of the international community of textile artists and yarn bombers, and provides resources to help readers join the movement; it’s also chock full of beautiful photographs and easy step-by-step instructions for knit and crochet installations and garments.
Leanne Prain :: Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery
Hoopla, by the co-author of 2009′s bestselling Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti, showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where it’s never gone before, in an astonishing, full-color display of embroidered art. Hoopla rebels against the quaint and familiar embroidery motifs of flowers and swashes, and focuses instead on innovative stitch artists who specialize in unusual, guerrilla-style patterns such as needlepoint nipple doilies and a ransom note pillow; it demonstrates that modern embroidery artists are as sharp as the needles with which they work.
Full-colour throughout and bursting with history, technique, and sass, Hoopla will teach readers how to stitch a mythical jackalope, needlepoint nipple doilies, a ransom note pillow, and mean and dainty knuckle-tattoo church gloves, and encourage them to create their own innovative embroidery projects. If you like anarchistic DIY craft and the idea of deviating from the rules, Hoopla will inspire you to wield a needle with flair!
