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Series
Sewing Bras Construction and Fit volume 5
Language
English
Description
You can make your bras fit your unique curves smoothly and comfortably with Beverly's simple instructions for tweaking your pattern. You'll learn how to adjust strap length, fix a gaping or too-snug band and alter the bridge between the cups.
Author
Series
Sewing Bras Construction and Fit volume 4
Language
English
Description
Finish up your bra with topstitched channeling, back straps with sliders, and a hook-and-eye closure. Beverly discusses underwire options and shows how to insert them. Your new bra is ready to wear or be used as a fitting model so you can adjust your pattern.
Author
Series
Sewing Bras Construction and Fit volume 3
Language
English
Description
Elastic is the key to your bra's effectiveness in providing comfortable support. Beverly walks you through the application of elastic to the bottom and top bands and demonstrates how to add trim to the neckline. You'll also learn how to add bar tacks to the end of the channeling to keep an underwire in place and away from the skin.
Author
Series
Sewing Bras Construction and Fit volume 6
Language
English
Description
Cup fit issues are the trickiest part of bra making, so once you get your pattern adjusted with Beverly's guidance, you'll have a pattern that fits you just the way you want. Learn about adjusting the strap position or altering the neckline to get a better cup fit, and see how to round the cup crown, shift the apex or fix a too-flat lower cup. You'll be amazed by how even a tiny adjustment will create just the right fit.
Author
Series
Sewing Bras Construction and Fit volume 2
Language
English
Description
Get started with your bra sewing by laying out your pattern pieces and cutting out your fabric according to the direction of greatest stretch. Beverly shares tips for marking the pieces, then shows how to sew the cups, attach the straps, sew the side seams, attach the cups to the frame and add channeling for optional underwires.
Author
Series
Sewing Bras Construction and Fit volume 1
Language
English
Description
Meet your "fairy bra mother," Beverly Johnson, and learn about the construction of a classic, full-band bra suitable for all bust sizes. Beverly will show you how to measure yourself to choose the correct size, what to look for in a pattern and the best fabrics to start with.
Author
Series
Sewing Bras Construction and Fit volume 7
Language
English
Description
With a basic bra in your repertoire, you can start branching out with fun embellishments such as ribbons and lace. Beverly explains how to choose lace and shows you how to make a stunning butterfly bra or add lace to the sides and back of your bra. Feast your eyes on the endless possibilities for embellishment as Beverly shares samples from her collection of beautiful bras. You'll be inspired to get sewing and round out your own collection!
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In her revelatory and redemptive memoir, Beverly Johnson, the first African American supermodel to grace the cover of Vogue, recounts her career in her own passionate and deeply honest voice. She chronicles her childhood as a studious, and sometimes bullied, bookworm during the sixties. She left college to pursue modeling and a successful three-decade career followed. Amid glamorous tales of the hard partying of the 1970s and Hollywood during the...
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 1
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Max and her CMI friends attempt to use their smarts to find solutions to a water crisis, while a greedy corporation with an eye on capturing Max seems to know their every move.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Astranthia volume 1
Publisher
Mango & Marigold Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It all begins on the night Rea turns twelve. After a big fight with her twin brother Rohan on their birthday, Rea's life in the small village of Darjeeling, India, gets turned on its head. It's four in the morning and Rohan is nowhere to be found. It hasn't even been a day and Amma acts like Rohan's gone forever. Her grandmother, too, is behaving strangely. Unwilling to give up on her brother, Rea and her friend Leela meet Mishti Daadi, a wrinkly...
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 2
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Max Einstein and a group of international geniuses use their creativity and curiosity to help solve some of the world's toughest problems with science.--
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finds Max on the run from Corporation thugs before the Change Maker kids begin working on a plan to end world hunger, a challenging goal that is complicated by mysterious clues about Max's unknown family.
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: What does an Irish town and a village in India have in common? A water crisis that only a group of kid geniuses can fix! Max and her CMI friends attempt to use their smarts to find solutions, but it's hard to save the world when you're trying not to be kidnapped! A greedy corporation with an eye on capturing Max seems to know their every move.
15) Emmett and Jez
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the piglet Emmett arrives in Fosterland, he relies on a three-legged kitten named Jez to show him the ropes.--
16) Harley at Bat!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's no laughing matter when jokester Harley Quinn arrives in Gotham City intent on stealing precious jewels and having some laughs--but Batman is determined to stop her.
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
What Harry Potter did for magic, Max Einstein does for kids' imaginations! Max leads a group of kid geniuses in this #1 New York Times bestseller officially approved by the Albert Einstein archives.
Max Einstein is not your typical genius. She . . .Hacks the computer system at NYU to attend classes Builds inventions to help the homeless And talks to Albert Einstein! (Okay, that's just in her imagination)
But...
Max Einstein is not your typical genius. She . . .
But...
18) The Baron
Author
Language
English
Description
A strong cast brings a special electricity to this Blaxploitation thriller. It's all about a black actor who borrows money from the Mafia in order to finance his own movie production, but no one gets involved with the mob without a few hitches! Calvin Lockhart, Vicki Baltimore, and Beverly Johnson give solid performances under the direction of Phillip Fenty, the screenwriter behind the seventies classic Super Fly.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari reunite decades later at a church bingo hall-and what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and courage. This Jackpot Edition contains over FIFTY PAGES of bonus material, including the talents of MARGUERITE BENNETT (Batwoman) and newcomer BEVERLY JOHNSON, SHAWN PRYOR (Cash and Carrie) and...