Block by Block Crochet: Quilt-inspired patchwork blocks to mix and match

by Leonie Morgan

Overview

Follow 49 crochet block patterns to create beautiful home accessories—from cushions and shoulder bags to lap and baby blankets!

Explore visual illusion, exciting color contrasts, and geometric design in this guidebook for crocheters, yarn lovers, and quilters of all skill levels.

Using patchwork as her inspiration, this is a brand new, specially designed crochet block collection from the wonderfully talented Leonie Morgan. In these 49 patterns, Leonie explores visual illusion, contrast in light and shade, and beautiful geometry—and all can be assembled into larger designs. Whether you are building up patterns with leftover yarn or setting out with a specific color scheme in mind, this is a wonderfully creative process of creating a larger design from lots of smaller units.
 
This book includes:

• 49 patchwork crochet patterns which can be used as the basis for yarn quilts
• 4 beautiful projects: shoulder bag, baby blanket, geometric cushion, lap blanket
• Tips on crochet techniques: stitches, colorwork, reading patterns and charts
• Advice on assembling and edging your crochet blocks
 
And what’s more, you can use the lovely blocks as inspiration to create your own lovely, crocheted block pieces!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782219255
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	06/08/2021
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Leonie Morgan is a freelance crochet designer who runs her own craft business, WoolnHook. A self-taught crocheter with a love of colour and design, she is the author of Beautiful Blankets, Afghans and Throws, 100 Bright & Colourful Granny Squares to Mix and Match, 100 Colourful Ripples to Crochet and 75 Colourful Hexagons to Crochet. Leonie lives in Wales, UK, where she spends her time walking in the mountains and playing with wool. She blogs at www.leoniemorgan.com.

Table of Contents

Welcome 4

About this book 4

The Blocks

Basic Block 6

Circle and Quarters 8

Dainty Diamonds 10

Dainty Diamonds Half Motif 12

Diamond Squared 14

Equilateral Triangle 16

Flying Geese 18

Half Square triangle 20

Hourglass 22

Isosceles Triangle 24

Half Isosceles Triangle 26

Log-Cabin 28

Maypole 30

Mitred 32

Tumbling Blocks 34

Rainbow Mitre 36

Big Star 38

Block of Four 42

Corner Star 44

Disappearing Nine Square 48

Fading Arrows 50

Flock of Birds 52

Honeycomb 54

Nine Square 56

Paper-Pieced Hexie 58

Swiss 60

Arrows 62

Colourwheel 64

Cottage 66

Four Square 68

Half Square Triangle in Rows 70

Half and Halved Again 72

Hot and Cold 74

Jelly Stripes 76

Mirror 78

Neat Stripes 80

Steps 82

Tribal 84

Lazy Log Cabin 88

Half Honeycomb 90

Duck and Ducklings 92

Disappearing Nine-Patches 94

Bordered-Half Square Triangle 98

Block-in a Block 100

Three in a Row 102

Ribbons 104

Plus 106

Pinwheel 108

Two in a Row 112

Projects

Boho Hobo Bag 114

Stellar Nursery Blanket 115

This Way Up Cushion 116

Ups and Downs Blanket 118

Materials and Notions 120

Starting and Finishing 121

Basic Stitches 122

Simple Stitch Variations 123

Special Stitches 123

Colourwork 124

Reading Patterns and Charts 124

Tension and Blocking 126

Joining and Edging 127

UK/US terminology 128

Index and credits 128

Editorial Reviews

YARN SUB
Block by Block Crochet is full of colorful squares made using stripes, intarsia crochet (where a different ball of yarn is used for each area of color) and tapestry crochet (where unused colors are carried along the row until needed). The book also shows techniques for joining the squares together, including the crochet join (shown on the left below), which is one I've not used before. My go-to join for knitted squares is mattress stitch (on the right below), so I decided to make some squares from the book and see how the two methods compared. I found that the crochet join was easier to do and gave a neater finish than the mattress stitch. The crochet join is slightly bulkier, but that just helped to hide the messy edge. Being impressed with the results on crochet, I wondered how knitted squares would look with a crochet join.
If you're already a crocheter, then there are some lovely squares to make in Block by Block Crochet. If you're a knitter, you never know what helpful stuff you might learn from a crochet book!

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