Meet Crafting Queen Diana Rupp, author of Embroider Everything Workshop!

Bring your favorite sewing project and join us for a fun night with Diana Rupp, founder of the Make Workshop in New York City, on tour for the release of the Embroider Everything Workshop! Rupp’s newest book is a spirited guide packed with everything you need to know to embroider like a pro and transform any plain piece of fabric or fabric surface into a work of art. Combining attitude and instruction, projects and inspiration—plus iron-on transfer pattern sheets and a die-cut practice stitch card— Embroider Everything Workshop is a complete how-to. It covers all the major embroidery stitching techniques: freehand embroidery, appliqué, smocking, needlepoint, beadwork, cross-stitch and blackwork. Then come the projects: 40 hip, clever, stylish, and useful patterns that give readers a real taste of embroidery’s possibilities.

Thrusday, Feb. 23 @ 7:00pm, Eastwood

Author talk and booksigning with local author Pam Daugavietis for her new book benefitting Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital 

About the Book: In Through the Eyes of a Child:  The Story of Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, you will read about children and families whose stories reveal what it’s like for a child to be seriously ill or injured and the difference it makes to have quality lifesaving health care, close to home.  You will meet inspiring heroes of all ages -  children, their families, community leaders, donors, physicians, nurses and volunteers.  All profits from the sale of this book will help support Spectrum Health’s Center for Child Protection at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital.

Thrusday, Feb. 23 @ 7:00pm, 28th St.

Girls’ Night Out presents Eleanor Brown, author of the critically acclaimed NYT-bestseller The Weird Sisters

Join us for an exciting Girls’ Night Out event with Eleanor Brown, author of debut novel The Weird Sisters, the  New York Times bestseller that People Magazine called "delightful," and that has earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere — the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much...

The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for their ailing mother, but really to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. See, we love each other. We just don't happen to like each other very much. But the sisters soon discover that everything they've been running from—one another, their small hometown, and themselves—might offer more than they ever expected.
 
Friday, Feb. 24 @ 7:00pm, Eastwood