Crochet fashionable granny square garments everyone will want to wear!

Create fashionable crocheted clothing while you build your crocheting skills, with Granny Square Fashion!

Crochet guru Cassie Ward's new book offers:

• 15 beginner-to-intermediate projects for crocheted fashion, including sweaters, cardigans, tank tops, vests, bags, t-shirts, dresses, and shawls
• Invaluable tips and techniques including how to join squares in different ways, select colours, and create fabulous combinations for your projects
• Swappable squares, so you can easily substitute your favourite granny square or use a variety of different designs in one project
• Step-by-step instructions for making the basic granny square, half-granny, and diagonal half, and how to change colours while crocheting.

Crochet fashion is hugely popular the world over. From social media to the catwalk, granny squares have even been featured in fashion-house collections including that of Dolce & Gabbana!

In Granny Square Fashion, you'll learn the essential techniques and basic patterns for making a granny square that can be repeated and used in 15 brilliant garments and accessories!

The 15 featured projects are chic garments that you'll want to make and wear, including sweaters and cardigans, a tank top, vests, bags, t-shirts, dresses, and shawls.

Cassie's book is perfect for beginners, with its step-by-step introduction to making the basic granny square, half-granny square, and diagonal half, as well as how to change colours while crocheting. You'll learn how to join squares in different ways, select colours, create fabulous combinations, and more! The patterns begin with simple designs, progressing on to slightly more advanced techniques, so you can build your skills as you crochet.

Cassie Ward is the founder of The Missing Yarn, an online crochet garment retailer. Her designs have appeared in numerous publications including Inside Crochet, Crochet Now, Simply Crochet, and Mollie Makes.

About the Author

Cassie Ward is the founder of The Missing Yarn, an online crochet garment retailer. Many of her designs are born out of her love of fashion and desire to be different. Cassie's designs have appeared in Inside Crochet, Crochet Now, Simply Crochet, Mollie Makes and the Crochet Society Subscription Box. You can find her patterns on her website, www.themissingyarn.co.uk, and on Instagram @themissingyarn. Cassie lives in Cambridgeshire, UK.

Reviews

This book contains essential techniques and patterns for 15 fashion-focused granny square garments and accessories, including cardigans, sweaters, waistcoats, and bags.

Readers learn different ways to join the squares and finish their eye catching garments.

Organised into two parts, the book begins with the beautiful designs and then showcases different joining and finishing methods. Cassie Ward is the founder of The Missing Yarn, an online crochet garment retailer.

We say: Each design and technique is clearly demonstrated with photography and illustrations. Nostalgic, yes. Making a comeback, totally!

* Craft Focus *

In her new book, Cassie reveals her latest collection of fashion-led designs, with the first section devoted to teaching you how to master a classic granny square, followed by variations including the turned, half, diagonal and quarter grannies, all with charts provided to guide you.

Whether you simply love the retro style of granny fashion or were first inspired to take up a hook by the Harry Styles cardigan, this beautifully styled and photographed collection of vibrant projects will inject colour and joy into your must-make list this spring.

-- Inside Crochet * Issue 166 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781800922259
Author Cassie Ward
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Search Press Ltd
Publisher Search Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 482g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 190mm * 10mm