The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life: How to Sew a Sampler Quilt & 49 Other Pioneer Projects for the Modern Girl - Hardcover

Worick, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1561589861 ISBN 13: 9781561589869

Publisher: Taunton Press, 2007

Synopsis

Frontier fun meets a home-spun touch in this heart-warming mixture of pioneer projects and wistful nostalgia. Jennifer Worick teaches readers how to sew a quilt, master the art of bread-and-butter pickles, speak old-time slang, and much much more. This is for the legions of Laura Ingalls Wilder fans who have dreamed of what a pioneer life out on the prairie would be like.

Combining step-by-step how-to on crafts, with tongue-in-cheek instructions on prairie slang, winning a spelling bee, and singing a lullaby, The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life allows fans to finally act out their childhood dreams or to simply enjoy the vicarious thrill of reading about it one more time. This is a book that will pull at the heart strings of every childhood Laura and also teach us a few prairie-time crafts along the way.

About this title

About the Author:

Jennifer Worick is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex and The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College. In addition, she has co-authored or written more than 20 hilarious and helpful books, including Simple Gifts, Beyond the Family Tree, The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life, Backcountry Betty, The Action Heroine's Handbook, and Nancy Drew's Guide to Life. Jennifer writes a humor blog (thingsiwanttopunchintheface.blogspot.com), is an accomplished public speaker, teaches publishing workshops, assists companies and individuals with social media strategy, and is an all-around crafty gal.

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How to Make Rock Candy

What You Will Need
Clean glass jar
6-inch ice cream sticks
Pencil
Tape
4 cups sugar
1 cup water
Food coloring

In a saucepan, heat (but do not boil) 2 cups of the sugar and the water. Stir slowly until the sugar is completely dissolved. Gradually add a few
drops of food coloring—your choice—and the remaining sugar, stirring
continuously until all the sugar is dissolved.

Pour your colorful sugar water into a clean glass jar. Tape the sticks to a pencil and suspend them across the mouth of the jar so that the ends hang into the liquid.

Crystals suitable to eat will form in an hour and continue to grow for several days to a week. Pieces can be broken off and eaten after the first hour, but try to resist the urge to suck on them. Although you may see modest results quickly, larger rock-candy crystals will take time to form. Good things come to those
who wait, and pretty sticks of candy are yours to be had if you show a bit
of patience. Yields 12 ounces

About this edition

• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1561589861
• ISBN 13: 9781561589869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208