Sweat Shop Paris: Lessons from a Sewing Café by Martena Duss and Sissi Holleis brings the original Paris “café couture” sewing shop to North America with more than 50 gorgeous DIY fashion and home design projects that are easy to finish and extraordinary to have.
Located in one of Paris’ hottest neighborhoods, Martena and Sissi’s Sweat Shop is part workshop, part living room, where hip and crafty people rent equipment, take knitting and sewing classes, drink coffee,
and share ideas. Translating the communal Sweat Shop experience into book form, Sweat Shop Paris features “master classes” by experts in the Parisian fashion industry—such as Madame Vava Dudu, designer for Lady Gaga—who share their secrets and techniques.
From sewn designer shopping bags to spray-painted shoes, Sweat Shop Paris takes recycling to a whole new level, teaching crafters innovative ways to reinvent and revamp existing items, a huge trend in the fashion and crafting worlds. Sweat Shop Paris also features:
• More than 200 helpful and inspiring full-color photographs
• Recipes for delectable café fare
• Martena and Sissi’s picks for the best paris food, shopping, galleries, craft shops, flea markests, and more
Mixing sophisticated vintage with contemporary style, Sweat Shop Paris, like its namesake, offers crafters of all skill levels a crossroads of
“Known as the Yarn Harlot , authoress Stephanie Pearl-McPhee has been a longtime fan of the sport of Knitting - she even writes her adventures on her site www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/. She has decided to compile all her adventures and misadventures in the world of Knitting into a Memoir called All Wound Up. All Wound Up is a collection of essays from the Knitter’s POV to the How to deal with a Non-Knitter and the sarcastic comments you would like to reply to them when they ask - “Oh, so your’e Knitting ” when obviously you are. Included also is a variety of topics from Parenting , Friendship, Relationships and for those who love Crocheting - their’s even a section written especially for you. As you read through her essays , Stephanie will have you in giggles as she recounts her different knitting experiences from In the Doctor’s Office to on an Aeroplane.It’s clear that the Yarn Harlot aka Stephanie Pearl-McPhee spends most of her time thinking deeply and philosophically about all things yarny and yarn related, and we all get to benefit from her musings.” ––The Phantom Paragrapher http://bit.ly/oE29H0
“All Wound Up is Pearl-McPhee’s third collection of essays. It might be the first, however, that contains a good deal of content about non-knitting life. Pieces like “Ode to a Washer: A Love Story in Three Parts” and “That Sort of Mother” channel a modern-day Canadian Erma Bombeck, as Pearl-McPhee finds the humor in laundry and parenting. In “October,” Pearl-McPhee waxes lyrical about appreciating what we have. These essays exquisitely capture the absurdities of life, no matter your hobby of choice. But there is plenty in All Wound Up for Pearl-McPhee’s core audience, the tens of thousands who hit her blog on a daily basis. She writes about “converting useless time into clothing.” She pens a “Dear John” letter to a wrap cardigan she abandoned without finishing. She rails about what she’d like to say to non-knitters who ask foolish questions like, “You know you can buy socks at Walmart, right?” While the essays are full of advice for knitters, All Wound Up isn’t a how-to or book of patterns. Some of the funniest bits have previously been on the blog, like “A Little Demoralizing,” which is about her husband Joe getting his truck stuck in his parents’ driveway. But that’s not a downside, since Pearl-McPhee has honed them to razor sharpness for publication. Plus, the hardback form makes it easier to shove these gems into other readers’ hands.” ––Baltimore City Paper http://bit.ly/pwC03G
“Should a humorous book filled with essays on knitting and the life of a knitter be life changing? Well, no, no it shouldn’t be… but it was certainly a profound moment in my life. Like discovering your place in the world, finding a kindred spirit, all that sort of thing… All Wound Up is mostly a very light-hearted look at life through the eyes of the knitting obsessed, but also explores the point behind knitting (-30c Canadian winters), basic survival in the snow, raising teens and hiding the level of your yarn addiction (which the reader in me roared with laughter at… smuggle books? Me? Oh, no, never!). … As a sometimes failed knitter, I could relate to the knitting stories (or at least understand them), but it was more the humour, personality and style of writing that really made this book so enjoyable. ––Hippy Habits http://bit.ly/n6oMBQ
To the delight of her fans, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the New York Times best-selling author of Yarn Harlot, Free-Range Knitter, and the passionately followed Yarn Harlot blog, weaves together a new set of tales to engage and amuse in All Wound Up.
In this latest collection, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s witty and ultra-relatable comedic perspective shines in commentary on a wide range of subjects, including motherly love, laundry, being polite, waiting room visits, and her creative constant, knitting.
Memorable essays consider topics such as:
• Ode to a Washer: A Love Story In Three Parts – A heartfelt story about her unalterable adoration for Mr. Washie.
• Personal Filters – A humorous rant about things she wishes she could say (but never will because she is a good person) when non-knitters make stupid comments.
• Things To Learn – An entertaining list of life lessons learned from knitting
• That Sort of Mother – A hilarious tale of the day she became a legend among local moms.
“People honestly don’t know anything about knitting; it looks way trickier than it is, and they don’t think about how many smart things they already do each day and what that likely means for their general ability to manage string with a couple of sticks.”
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is the author of several books, including Yarn Harlot and the New York Times bestseller Free-Range Knitter, as well as the extremely popular blog Yarn Harlot (yarnharlot.ca/blog).
Pearl-McPhee currently lives in Toronto with her husband, children, and wool-filled closet. She avoids doing laundry, observes humor in all things, and knits whenever she gets a spare minute.
All Wound Up
The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin
by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Price: $16.99
ISBN-13: 9780740797576
ISBN-10: 0740797573
Format: Hardcover
Size: 5 x 7 in.
Page Count: 240 Pages
Sweat Shop Paris
Lessons in Couture from the Sewing Cafe
by Martena Duss, Sissi Holleis
Price: $24.99
ISBN-13: 9781449408404
ISBN-10: 1449408400
Format: Paperback
Size: 8 1/4 x 11 in.
Page Count: 160 Pages
Why does your dog chew on your shoe? Bark incessantly? Eat your food? Writer and stand-up comedian Jeremy Greenberg provides the canine response to these compelling questions and many more in Sorry I Pooped in Your Shoe (and Other Heartwarming Letters from Doggie).
With dozens of humorous letters “written” from the dog’s perspective, accompanied by full-color photographs of the dog in question, Sorry I Pooped in Your Shoe provides a laugh-out-loud reference of doggie behaviors and the motives behind them. Dog lovers everywhere will appreciate learning insights as to why a ball must be thrown again and again (and again), the reasons for desperate dodges of bath time, and much more.
Greenberg deftly weaves entertaining and often-surprising observations into human nature in the epistles, suggesting our four-legged friends may know more about the “dominant” species than we might think. Regardless, Sorry I Pooped in Your Shoe readers come away with a new appreciation for repeated attacks on the water sprinkler or barking at the icemaker, and an amused understanding of canine companions.
Jeremy Greenberg is MSN.com’s daily blogger for its popular guide to parenting, The Family Room. He has also contributed to Geek Monthly, Pregnancy Magazine, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes. Additionally, he has authored books such as Relative Discomfort: The Family Survival Guide (Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC) and he is an internationally known stand-up comedian. When Jeremy isn’t writing, performing, or appearing as a guest on TV and radio programs, he spends time at his San Diego home with his wife and young twin sons.
Sorry I Pooped in Your Shoe
(and Other Heartwarming Letters from Doggie)
by Jeremy Greenberg
Price: $9.99
ISBN-13: 9781449407896
ISBN-10: 1449407897
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 6 in.
Page Count: 64 Pages
The National Association of Limited Edition Dealers’s Most Award Winning Artist of the past 25 years, Thomas Kinkade never fails to awe with his gentle and luminous paintings. In the Thomas Kinkade Poster Book, 20 of the artist’s most admired paintings can be enjoyed.
Each poster is standard frame size (14 x 11 inches). Printed in full color on frame-suited paper stock and created with a special gummed binding, each poster can be easily and cleanly removed to ensure a perfect cut for framing.
Fans all over the world have invested nearly $2 billion in Thomas Kinkade artwork in the last 15 years, and his popularity has made him one of the most beloved artists of all time. The Thomas Kinkade Poster Book provides a new opportunity for fans of Thomas Kinkade art to enjoy his famous landscapes at an affordable price.
