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Get ready to crochet an entire construction site full of chunky trucks and marvelous machines

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Gertie's New Book for Better Sewing:: A Modern Guide to Couture-Style Sewing Using Basic Vintage Technique Beading and snakeskin - faux andGretchen Gertie Hirsch is a passionate home seamstress, a sought after sewing teacher, and the creator of one of the webs most popular sewing blogs: Gerties New Blog for Better Sewing. The blog began as a way for readers to follow Hirschs progress as she stitched all 14 fashions from the iconic 1950s sewing book Vogues New Book for Better Sewing (a Julie & Juliaesque experiment for the modern sewist). It quickly became a place for Hirsch to share