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Crochet: Quilt Blocks: Learn How to Create Beautiful Quilt Inspired Crochet Projects

Includes 2 Free Bonus Books The Crochet Handbook and Ripple Afghans and Crochet Diagrams for Beginners In her latest book, Crochet Quilt Blocks: Learn How to Create Beautiful Quilt Inspired Crochet Projects, Florence Schultz take inspiration from beautiful quilt blocks and translates them into crochet patterns. With the use of basic crochet stitches you can crochet lovely crocheted quilt blocks and create timeless heirloom pieces your family and friends will love for a long time. You don’t need to know any fancy or complicated stitches or techniques to work the patterns in this book. Florence provides a short tutorial of the stitches she uses in this book. • Chain Stitch • Single Crochet • Slip Stitch • Double Crochet • Front Post Double Crochet That is all you need to know to crochet up the patterns in this book. Florence teaches you these stitches with easy to understand instructions and big clear images.

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Colorful Crochet by Marianne Dekkers-Roos

Playing with color, yarn, and crochet stitches & patterns, that’s what this book is all about. It’s a true inspiration for both beginner and advanced crocheters, to create beautiful and one of a kind crochet projects.

New crochet patterns, as well as familiar ones, and sometimes an unexpected mix of both, are used in these 20-plus designs. The book features garments (like shawls, a vest, a cardigan, a children’s poncho), as well as blankets, rugs, bags, and cushions.

A wide range of styles, inspirational photography, clear project descriptions and crochet charts will leave only one question unanswered: where to start first?

Most projects are crocheted using the many pretty colors in the DMC Natura natural fiber range (“XL”, “Medium” and “Just Cotton”) – a wonderfully soft eco-friendly produced yarn. Others are made from DMC’s superwash merino “Woolly”, which is 100% wool, and also lovely soft.

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Crocheted Baby Shoes (Twenty To Make) by Val Pierce

Cuddly, colorful baby shoes make the perfect gift for a new baby – this book is ideal for crafty people looking to give unique and personal presents.

The book contains 20 gorgeous designs, all unique but all equally irresistible, in a range of colors and styles for boys and girls. Choose from red strawberry-style shoes with flowery toes, smiley car shoes, Christmas booties and even shoes shaped like frogs!

As all babies are different, sizes and age suggestions are given for each project, from birth to twelve months, but general advice is also given at the beginning of the book on how to increase or decrease the size of the projects.

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Super Scary Halloween Crochet: 35 gruesome patterns to sink your hook into by Nicki Trench

If you are bored with cute, sick of sweet, and prefer your patterns a little more on the dark side, you will love this gruesome and spooky collection of zombies, witches, aliens, and more. There are five chapters covering characters who have committed all kinds of unforgivable deeds. The first, Scary Families, has creepy relatives who definitely believe that blood is thicker than water. Try making the Queen of the Vampires, complete with felt crown and lace detailing, who is struggling to handle her out-of-control brood, or Mr Alien, who has just landed on Earth, looking to set up a new colony. In Famous Scaries meet classic characters like the Headless Horseman with crocheted blood spurting from his neck, and his horse Redeye, made in jet black yarn. The Invisible Man “appears” here as well, alongside other horror movie favorites such as Bigfoot. The Living Dead is a macabre mix of witches and ghouls, and the Deathly Companions chapter has murderous villains to stitch. As well as crocheting your own cast of scary toys, in Creepy Trinkets you’ll find patterns for essential Halloween accessories, including spider web bunting and a fearsome wolf scarf.

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40 Colorful Afghans to Crochet: A Collection of Eye-Popping Stitch Patterns, Blocks & Projects by Leonie Morgan

Bestselling author Leonie Morgan is back with another wonderful crochet book, showcasing her vibrant color and stitch variations. Featuring both block and stitch patterns, there is plenty here to please both granny-square lovers and row-by-row enthusiasts!

Each of the 40 afghan designs comes with a clear written pattern, an easy-to-follow chart, a skill-level indicator, and a full-color photograph. Instructions and yardage are given, too, for making afghans in three sizes: baby blankets, lap throws, and bedspreads.

Packed with advice on picking color combinations and a selection of edgings to finish your project, 40 Colorful Afghans to Crochet is all you need to create your own unique and colorful afghan.

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350+ Crochet Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets by Jan Eaton

Give a professional finish to your crochet garments and accessories with this indispensable compendium of technical know-how and troubleshooting tips. Techniques are organized in the order that you’d need them as you work through a project, from choosing the right yarn to looking after your finished garment. Step-by-step photographs, diagrams, and clear instructions guide you through each stage of your work, or you can dip in for help with a particular problem.

Discover how to substitute yarns and accurately estimate the amount required, adapt patterns to create tailor-made garments, and lengthen an existing piece with trims and edgings. From basic chain stitches to filet crochet, there’s advice for all kinds of stitches, mixing and matching, and dealing with gauge variations. You’ll also find plenty of inspiration for adding an extra-special touch to your work using beaded embellishments and surface crochet!

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Ripple Afghans and Crochet Diagrams for Beginners: Learn How to Read and Crochet Diagrams and Four Versions of the Ripple Afghan

Ripple Afghans and Crochet Diagrams for Beginners; Learn How to Read and Crochet Diagrams and Four Versions of the Ripple Afghan by Florence Schultz is a primer for anyone who wants to learn how to crochet and learn how to read and crochet from diagrams. In this informative book Florence guides you through the basic stitches and techniques you need to know to learn how to crochet. Each step is explained in easy to understand language and includes large clear images. You will learn how to crochet: • The chain stitch • The single crochet stitch • The double crochet stitch • The treble stitch • The slip stitch • The cluster stitch • Decreases • Increases Not only does Florence teach you basic crochet stitches, but she also includes a complete tutorial beginner crochet techniques. She also includes a chapter on how to figure out the length of a foundation chain to begin a project. Next Florence moves on to reading a crochet diagram. This is a skill every crochet artist should have since it opens up an entire world of new patterns for you to crochet. Once you know how to read and crochet from a diagram, you can crochet from diagrams from all over the world no matter what language the designer may speak.

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Crochet Yourself Calm: 50 Motifs & 15 Projects for Mindful Relaxation

Relax with these 50 repetitive patterns that will keep your hands busy and your mind at ease. It includes 15 complete projects made from the large collection of patterns. The step-by-step photo guides are super helpful, and make this whole collection beginner-friendly!

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Rainbow Crocheted Afghans

This book is a great next step if you’re ready to move beyond the beloved, but basic, granny square!

The book begins with some basic instruction on yarns and hooks, how to join motifs, sewing in ends, blocking, and yarn weight and tension, but no instruction on how to crochet, as this is not a beginner’s book. For each blanket there is an index of motifs used, accompanied by the instructions for how to make them: both in written form and as a chart. The blocks include a range of shapes including circles, triangles, flowers, stars, diamonds and hexagons. Also provided are the various ‘fillers’, designed to fill the little gaps between the motifs in the finished blanket or throw. Each project has a full color chart, and takes the reader step by step through how to construct their blanket, block by block.

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I Like Crochet – New Issue for July 2017!

This summer issue is jam-packed with all your warm-weather patterns (and even a jump start on fall) – and all the latest trends and patterns for crochet! I have a feeling you’ll love what you see! This issue features several hot themes: Easy Being Greenery; Artwork-Inspired; Feels Like Fall; August Abroad; Beat the Heat; and Of Quartz We Love Geodes! See them all at the affiliate link below!

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