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Gwen Blakeley Kinsler

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Connection to Illinois: Kinsler is currently residing in Illinois.

Biography: Gwen Blakeley Kinsler is the founder and past president of the Crochet Guild of America. She is the owner of Fiber Impressions and has always pursued unique and extraordinary crochet designs. A Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras in 1971, she learned to crochet form co-workers. Ms. Kinsler has lived in various cities in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Mexico and is currently residing in Illinois.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Blog: http://crochetqueen-royalramblings.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crochetkween
Gwen Blakeley Kinsler on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=gwen+blakeley+kinsler


Selected Titles

Crocheting /
ISBN: 1553371771 OCLC: 49796415

Kids Can Press, Toronto : c2003.

Demonstrates the techniques of basic crochet, and uses step-by-step illustrated instructions to create six different projects.

The fine art of crochet :
ISBN: 1481731866 OCLC: 851430260

"Fiber artists around the world have embraced crochet as an inventive medium like never before. Expanding on the creative possibilities, using sculpture, immense site-specific installations, performance and mixed media objects, they have used crochet techniques to explore feminine craft and heritage, to explore gender codes and to show the primal creative expression represented by crochet. In The Fine Art of Crochet, Gwen Blakley Kinsler looks at the art crochet movement from 1915 onward to the Crochet Revolution of the 1960s by profiling twenty of the most innovative practitioners working today. ... The works featured in this book represent the diverse styles, unusual shapes, and exquisite textures that characterize crocheted art today"--Page 4 of cover.

The jumbo book of needlecrafts /
ISBN: 1553377931 OCLC: 56318730

Kids Can Press, Toronto : c2005.

This is the ultimate book for anyone who's ever seen a beautiful needlecraft design and dreamed of making their own. The Jumbo Book of Needlecrafts is divided into five sections -- knitting, crocheting, embroidery, quilting and sewing -- for easy reference. Each section has an introduction and all the information needed to learn a craft quickly. Includes more than fifty easy projects. Features materials, patterns, stitches, tips, tools and techniques ... and much more!

 

 

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