Mabel: 208 books

Napa Valley is one of the most beautiful wine growing areas in Northern California and is known as a world famous wine growing region. It is not only the main wine growing region of USA, but one of the major wine producing areas in the world. It boasts about 45 000 acres of vineyards, and has over 300 wineries all producing excellent wines.

Have you ever tried to keep a couple of children busy during school vacation or on weekends when they’re in the “I’m bored” mode? What ever you might suggest is shot down, and they just get under your feet and don’t feel like going out to play. Then this is the time to introduce them to...

Maxie was a beautiful brown and white puppy with soft floppy ears and big gentle eyes. His proud owner, Jake, loved nothing better than to be out in the woods running and playing with him. This is where Maxie met Mister Gorf - a green-colored frog, who also became his friend.

Anyone who enjoys sewing their own clothing and décor items, is an avid quilter, or is involved in various crafting hobbies, will automatically accumulate a large fabric stash. Your fabric stash could eventually become a storage problem, if you don’t start a few new projects to utilize some of...

To make a crazy patchwork quilt heirloom is a lot of work – yes – but it’s also a tremendous amount of fun. It’s very appealing to be able to make each block unique and not to have to duplicate blocks. You can enjoy using your imagination in each block. In this book I show you the details...

Recycling clothing has become an accepted thing to do, so we no longer discard garments and trash them like we used to do; instead we find new ways of using the good parts of the fabric. Worn denim jeans are most likely the most popular recycled garments on the planet. There are so many creative ways...

As Christmas draws closer you might be interested in augmenting your supply of decorations for the Christmas tree. Here are a few ideas to make your own baubles for the Christmas tree, and you can of course rope the family in to help you. Children enjoy any project pertaining to Christmas.

This little book is one of those few listed as a "Rare Book" by the U. S. Library of Congress, which means that finding an original printed copy would be very difficult and equally expensive. Nonetheless, Elisabeth F. Bonsall produced beautiful illustrations of cats in all kinds of poses,...

Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or leather using any type of thread or yarn that can fit through the eye of a needle. It is not as complicated as it often looks. The stitches are mostly straight stitches placed in various positions to form patterns and are very easy to master. You will...

Smocking is a craft that can easily be learned. It only looks complicated, but believe me it’s very easy once you try it yourself. If you know how to use a needle and thread you will be able to smock in no time at all. Because of its simplicity, smocking became, and remains a very popular form of decorative embroidery - it’s an inexpensive, creative and relaxing hobby.

Pouches and small purses are always handy to keep your handbag organized – no more scratching around in your bag to find small items. These handy little pouches and purses are very easy to make from your stash of fabric and small lengths of biased binding and lengths of cord.

Making your own jewelry is fun and very easy and by crocheting bracelets and necklaces with wire it gives you a new medium to work with. If you have never learned the art of crochet before, then it would be wise to first learn the basic stitches like slip stitch, chain stitch, double crochet and single...

Making fabric roses and flowers are so easy and fun to make. Most fabrics can be used with success to create beautiful flowers for embellishing anything you like. Use to decorate hats, purses, to pin on a belt or slippers. Sew fabric roses on the hem of a sheer curtain to give an exotic finish or display a glass bowl of satin and silk roses in your bedroom for a luxurious look.

Mabel Quiller-Couch (1866-1924) was a Cornish writer. She was the the sister of Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, and her sister Lilian M. Quiller- Couch was an author as well. She wrote Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall with her sister in 1894. Other works include Martha's Trial (1895), One Good...