Books

A lot has changed at Rankin’s General. Valerie becomes the new manager, while her cousin Rollie opens a B&B with his librarian lady friend, Catherine. The Gasper’s Cove Crafters eagerly plan a weeklong sewing and crafting retreat at the new B&B, only to discover a disastrous double-booking with a food truck rally, a corporate getaway,...

Valerie Rankin is back in Gasper’s Cove as a mayoral election brings chaos to the small town. A corrupt political scheme controls the town, and Valerie’s cousin, Darlene, an ex-hairdresser, decides to run for mayor. With the help of Valerie and the Gasper’s crafters, the group crafts a successful campaign. However, false rumors quickly spread...

On the Canadian coast, a sleuthing seamstress teams up with some resourceful friends to sew up a murder case . . .

At the Crafter’s Co-op in Nova Scotia, seamstress Valerie Rankin sells locally made treasures to tourists, from quilted jackets to stained-glass creations. She also puts in time at the Recreate and Recycle Depot, accepting...

Beware! A crafty killer lurks in Gasper’s Cove. First in a cozy mystery series set in a fictional Nova Scotia town where crafting and community collide.

Seamstress, crafter, and empty-nester Valerie Rankin has plans to open a crafter’s co-op that will put Gasper’s Cove, Nova Scotia on the map. One month before opening day, she still has to pin...

The snow’s gone. It’s springtime in Nova Scotia. It’s house selling, bulb planting, and transplant buying time. Stay at home mom and canning aficionado Krista Willett is happy to be out of the house. But her new job at the garden center is challenging. After all she knows nothing about gardening, her boss is AWOL, and her best customers turn out...

What do a Nova Scotia building inspector, a Tupperware lady, and a Valley bulldog have in common? A family scandal, a long-lost relative, and a thirty-year-old crime. When a summer construction project unearths old secrets, Kenny, Annette, and Max find that no matter how close the connection, the one thing that no one can bury is the truth.

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Colleen’s mother and the tea party ladies at Seaview Manor in Gasper’s Cove have secrets to keep. When the ladies start talking witches, right before Halloween, Colleen begins to worry. Unsettled by an explosive death in the community, and the reappearance of a black cat called Maybelline, Colleen knows she has no choice but to use the tea party...

The year is almost over and the citizens of Gasper’s Cove, Nova Scotia are looking forward to the holiday concert. Krista Willett, Harry Sutherland, Kenny MacQuarrie, and the tea party ladies of Seaview Manor all have their own reasons to celebrate. But before they can do this a dark force none of them understands arrives to break hearts, ruin...

Say goodbye to sewing F.A.I.L.s (followed-all-instructions letdowns)! Perfect your professional handmade style with garment-making sewist Barbara Emodi by learning methods to understand common missteps and how to avoid frustrating mistakes. Plus, salvage your sewing “oops” with tips and tricks to recognize and rescue immediate errors with easy...

Experienced sewing instructor and blogger Barbara Emodi shares her sewing wisdom to help readers get started, get started back up, or hone their existing garment-sewing skills. Not a sewing reference book as much as a book of experience, this is a book that will make a novice sewist say, “Oh, so that’s why you do that,” make a practiced sewist...

This book is a how-to guide to the sewing machine attachments widely used on domestic sewing machines between 1920 and 1965. These beautifully built, designed, and ingenious tools are still useful in the construction of the clothes we wear today.

Panic in the Pansies

It's springtime in Nova Scotia- house selling, bulb planting, transplant buying time. Stay at home mom and canning aficionado Krista Willett is happy to be out of the house and working at a garden center. However, she knows nothing about gardening, her boss is AWOL, and her best customers are dead or crooked, or both. Can she...