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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Open up a fresh and stylish story about growing up and keeping hold of your favorite memories. As the year passes, the narrator's favorite dress goes through a series of creative changes, from dress to shirt to tank top to scarf and so on, until all that's left of it is a good memory. Assisted by her patient and crafty mama, the narrator finds that when disaster strikes her favorite things, she doesn't need to make mountains out of molehills-she "makes...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Celebrate thrifted treasures and the power of community and family. When Pawpaw moves in, he shows Dominique a whole new meaning of hand-me-down clothes. When Dominique and Pawpaw embark on a trip to the grocery store, Dominique meets the former owner of each quirky, thrifted find and hears a memory associated with the clothing. Their quick trip to the grocery store becomes much more as they also make stops at the barbershop and the local ice cream...
7) Fancy Nancy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Unlock your closet's potential with simple, stylish wardrobe refashions you can sew at home. DIY-style blogger Suzannah Hamlin Stanley provides her unique blend of basic alterations and step-by-step restyling tutorials to give you a wardrobe you'll truly love! Express your style and save money by embellishing and combining garments into newfound faves. No sloppy shortcuts here-learn how to alter sweaters, pants, and everything in your wardrobe for...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While her parents are out to dinner, a bored Yasmin decides to try on some of her mother's clothes, including her new shalwar kameez, which gets ripped--but with the help of Nana, Nani, and a glue-gun, the garment gets fixed, and Yasmin puts on an impromptu fashion show when her parents get home.
Author
Series
Science Squad volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's summer vacation, but twelve-year-old Raksha isn't doing much relaxing. There is one project left before her Science Squad team earns their last badge (and a trip to Hawai'i on the line!), when she gets an opportunity to attend a highly competitive fashion camp that is too good to pass up. It isn't long before her Science Squad work hunting for zombie bees is taking over her life. She hardly has time to prepare for her fashion camp runway show....
15) Mend it better
Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Don?t hide that patch, make it a bold, beautiful embellishment! Repair holes with bright thread and a creative darning stitch; revive a stained shirt with fun embroidery! In Mend It Better, popular craft blogger Kristin M. Roach puts a new spin on mending by adapting traditional techniques for today?s crafty sewers. With detailed photography to show each step, she teaches a wide range of patching, darning, and repair stitches using both hand and machine...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"This is a comprehensive how-to book about altering commercial patterns to customize the fit to one's own body before cutting out fabric and sewing the garment. Poor fit is the number one reason many sewers get discouraged with garment sewing. Author Sarah Veblen guides the reader through the steps of sewing a muslin test garment, fine-tuning the fit by pinning the garment to mold perfectly to the wearer's body, marking the adjustments, and then transferring...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes a variety of different clothes that children wear, such as a soft sweatshirt, a frilly dress, and a baseball cap.
20) Clothing fibres
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 025 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
A Clothing & Textiles 101 overview of the elements of fabric, this curriculum-based program introduces students to the basic differences between natural and synthetic fibres, the primary types of fibers, and how their qualities - from shape and origin to size and luster - make them unique, influence clothing appearance and factor into comfort. Learn why fibre properties determine how we use particular fabrics. (Learning Seed, USA)
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