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Now available in paperback, this best-selling title is THE essential guide to knitting.Whether you want to knit socks, use sequins and embroidery to embellish knitting, adapt a pattern to fit you beautifully or produce the perfect pocket, you can find out how to do it here. A comprehensive chapter on finishing your projects shows you how to get that really professional look and if you do make a mistake, just flip to the ‘Troubleshooting’ chapter to see how to fix it.Each chapter of this essential guide is devoted to one key area of knitting and provides clear and concise in-depth instructions along with step-by-step instructions for basic principles and more advanced techniques. Learn the basic knit and purl stitches, along with cast ons and cast offs, and in no time you will also be increasing and decreasing with ease. Once you’re comfortable with the basic stitches, explore structure and shaping, texture, colourwork, embellishments, finishing and learn how to design and adapt patterns.This comprehensive guide offers a useful section on crochet for knitting, a glossary of terms, clear instructions and hundreds of illustrations and diagrams showing each stage of the process. It’ll be the one resource that you will turn to time and time again.Over 20,000 copies sold worldwide.

Now available in paperback, this best-selling title is THE essential guide to crochet.Ultimate Crochet Bible is a definitive reference for all aspects of crochet – from the first chain to the care and maintenance of your projects. The first two chapters are packed with useful information such as choosing and using a hook, how to read a pattern, holding the yarn and basic stitches. Once you are armed with the basics, you can go on to learn about a wide range of techniques. Traditional, lace-weight crochet is covered in the Thread Crochet section. The yarn used tends to be fine and the hooks are small, but this allows you to put more detail into a piece of work. Filet and Irish crochet are covered here. The section on Tunisian and Entrelac Crochet shows how elements of crochet and knitting can be combined. Entrelac is a method of creating square shapes in order to make a textured fabric that resembles basket weave.In Working with Colour, the two main techniques of adding colour to a piece of crochet – Intarsia and Jacquard – are explained. And to create some really exciting effects, you can add beads and sequins to your crochet. It’s a relatively easy technique. In addition, there are techniques for edgings, braids, fringes and tassels. Professional Finishing Techniques provides all the know-how you need to take your crochet to a whole new level. But whatever your level of experience, this book will be an invaluable treasure trove of crochet techniques that you will turn to time and time again.Over 35,000 copies sold worldwide.

With almost 1000 illustrated pages of official US Army instruction, this is the biggest, most thorough book of Army skills available. It’s a treasure trove for active soldiers and anyone who wants to know how the US military operates.Here are the most useful and curious tactics for the would-be soldier, historian, movie-maker, writer, or survivalist, including techniques on:First aidSurvival in the hottest or coldest of climatesFinding or building life-saving sheltersSurviving nuclear, biological, and chemical attacksPhysical and mental fitnessHow to find food and water anywhere, anytime.With hundreds of photographs and illustrations showing everything from edible plants to rare skin diseases of the jungle, every page reveals how useful Army knowledge can be.

The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading is a practical guide with nitty-gritty details on everything a homesteader can do, step-by-step with hundreds of color illustrations and pen and ink sketches.You can do it! This book will show you how to:Make your own bread?Grow a garden all winterMake a solar ovenStore food without electricityRaise a water buffaloMake fine linen from stinging nettleMake your own shampooDeliver a babyYes, you, too, can be totally self-sufficient! This massive, full-color book answers all these questions and thousands more and includes checklists, diagrams, and instructions. All the information meets these criteria: It is something that anyone can do, without special training. It can be done with relatively few supplies or with stuff you can make yourself. It has been tried and tested—either by the author, the military, doctors, or other homesteaders.

Looking to turn your interest in guns into a profitable business venture? Whether you are a sportsman, estate heir, or gun collector, this book is what you’ve been searching for. In The Ultimate Guide to Successful Gun Trading, George Knight brings his masterful business sense to the world of firearms trading, explaining many general business concepts, such as insurance, recordkeeping, and security, in plain and simple terms. Follow Knight’s TEK evaluation system, and his numerous other ideas and approaches, and you’ll come out ahead every time.

Have you ever wondered what wine to pair with that scoop of ice cream? Master baker and chef Jan Hedh answers every ice cream–related question you never knew you had in The Ultimate Guide to Homemade Ice Cream. This cookbook contains both basic and complex recipes for cold, creamy treats with flavors ranging from sweet to savory, including mango, avocado, truffle, asparagus, and mint chocolate chip. In addition, Hedh provides recipes for parfaits, semifreddo, cheesecake, and ice cream soufflé. Hedh goes beyond the usual scoop by offering creative ideas for decorating desserts, having fun with sugar art, and even carving your own ice sculpture.

Here Kate Rowinski shares chili recipes featuring pork, turkey, chicken, beef, and wild game, as well as a number of seafood and vegetarian varieties, along with some of the best side dishes to accompany a hot, delicious bowl of chili.In The Ultimate Guide to Making Chili, Kate Rowinski shares her knowledge of this great dish and some of her favorite chili varieties. In a brief introduction to chili, Kate explores the origins of chili and different types of chilies, as well the fundamentals of creating a good ‘bowl of red’. The Table of Contents includes:Introduction to the Chile PepperChili-Making BasicsCompetitive ChiliTraditional ChiliHome-style ChiliChilis Gone WildChile Sauces, Salas, and RubsChili LeftoversAnd more!There is an endearing quality and nostalgia about the thoughts that are conjured up when one contemplates eating a nice, warm bowl of chili during the summer or winter. Chili recipes are often well-guarded secrets, passed down from one cook’s recipe file to another’s for decades, from generation to generation. Some chili cooks go strictly by the book and measure each ingredient, while other cooks add in a dash of this and a dash of that, going by taste and a general feel. Either way, chili recipes always end up delicious.With over seventy-five different recipes, this cookbook will have a dish for anyone who loves chili.

With deer hunting advice from a wide variety of experts, including Leonard Lee Rue, John Weiss, Peter Fiduccia, Kathy Etling, Monte Burch, and Hal Blood, The Ultimate Guide to Deer Hunting Skills, Tactics, and Techniques starts from the ground up, giving you a greater insight into the senses and habits of deer in order to better understand how to successfully hunt them.With chapters on anatomy, glands, hearing, and eyesight, as well as behavior before, during, and after the rut, this ultimate guide teaches beginners and experts alike how to hunt in any terrain and in any weather conditions, with bow, rifle, muzzle loader, and shotgun.Specific tactics such as stand hunting, still hunting, stalking, putting on drives, rattling, and using decoys are all covered in detail. As a bonus, there is also a chapter devoted entirely to venison recipes with step-by-step instructions for cooking stews, chili, roasts, steaks, burgers, and more.Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Tantra is a vital path toward full interior development through sex, love, and meditation. Its origin dates back to ancestral India, and from there has enlightened many generations of lovers who have penetrated the secret that leads to ultimate happiness.The practice of Tantra heightens the energy and creativity levels, in addition to reinforcing the partners’ connection. It is an integral method that permits the growth of the participants in all aspects of their personality: sexuality, intuition, spirituality, and more.Through the words of Guillermo Ferrara, whose teachings on Tantra are known worldwide, the step-by-step exercises and photographs come to life. The Ultimate Guide to Tantric Sex contains, amongst other themes:• Introduction to Tantra and the energies of love• Seduction and sensuality• Yoga for lovers• Sensitive touch and sensual massages• Secret erotic points• Sexual magic, rituals, symbols, and dances• Advanced sexual poses• Tantric exercises for couples• How to achieve a multiple orgasm• Prolonging pleasure• Eighteen lessons of tantric sex