Design Your Own Crochet Projects: Magic Formulas for Creating Custom Scarves, Cowls, Hats, Socks, Mittens & Gloves

by Sara Delaney

Overview

You love to crochet, but you’re tired of the granny square and other predictable projects. Let celebrated crochet teacher Sara Delaney help you expand your skills while showing you how to create custom-fit wearable accessories. Delaney’s unique, flexible formulas let crocheters of all levels easily design scarves, cowls, fingerless mitts, mittens, gloves, hats, and socks. With fill-in-the-blank templates and a stitch dictionary, you can use your favorite yarn and stitch pattern, and make accessories that fit perfectly. Delaney offers a starter course in the technique with 18 of her own original patterns, along with the formulas she used to create them. The companion online calculator helps create your customized patterns even more quickly!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612126586
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	10/31/2017
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,002,061
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sara Delaney is the author of Design Your Own Crochet Projects and How to Crochet. She has been designing and writing her own patterns for more than 10 years. She teaches crochet classes online at Craftsy, and she lives in western Massachusetts. 

Table of Contents

Introduction
1  Scarves
    Hitchcock Scarf
    Shepherd's Hollow Scarf
2  Cowls
    Leyden Cowl
    Wild Leek Cowl
3  Hats
    Ashmere Beanie
    Greylock Glen Hat
    Cady Brook Hat
    Ashuwillticook Beret
4  Fingerless Mitts
    Stafford Mitts
    Day Mountain Mitts
5  Mittens
    Hutchinson Mittens
    Windsor Brook Mittens
6  Gloves
    Volvo Gloves
    Knights Pond Gloves
7  Socks
    Hoosac Range Socks
    Cleveland Reservoir Socks
    Allendale Socks
    Notchview Slippers
Appendix
    Stitch Dictionary
    Stitch Abbreviations & Definitions
    Metric Conversion Chart
    Acknowledgments
Index

Editorial Reviews

Whether you are newly tip-toeing into design or are experienced in the try-and-try-again design method, Delaney’s formulaic approach will save you time and tears while ensuring great predictable results every time.” — Edie Eckman, best-selling knit and crochet author and designer
 
“Perfectly pair yarn and pattern to create custom-fit accessories with Delaney’s simple fill-in-the-blank formulas. If you just want to crochet, 18 classic designs show the formulas in action.” — Linda Permann, crochet designer

From the Publisher

09/15/2017
In this guide, Delaney (How To Crochet) explores crochet design using accessories such as scarves, cowls, hats, and mittens as jumping-off points for budding designers. The process centers on a template based on gauge, stitch details, and style preferences, which serve as the basis for each unique, custom-fit piece. A variety of predesigned patterns that can be used as-is or adapted are provided, as well as the template for each pattern, give crocheters insight into Delaney's creativity. The result is similar to Amy Herzog's popular knitting books, which build confidence and design skills simultaneously. VERDICT Crocheters interested in exploring the design process or customizing their own small accessories will appreciate Delaney's well-explained, straightforward method, as well as the abundance of examples of design templates in use.

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