How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew (33 page)

E
RIN
B
RIED
is a senior staff writer at
SELF
magazine.
She lives with her better half in Brooklyn, New York,
where she grows tomatoes on her fire escape, knits
crooked scarves for loved ones, and eats homemade
pie for breakfast as often as possible.

A Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Original

Copyright © 2009 by Erin Bried
Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Simon M. Sullivan

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Bried, Erin.
How to sew a button: and other nifty things your grandmother
knew / Erin Bried.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52014-2
1. Home economics—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Handicraft—
Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Life skills—Handbooks, manuals, etc.
I. Title.
TX145.B726 2009
640—dc22        2009036046

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