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The essential beginner's guide to granny squares, with 8 simple, inspiring projects from crochet designer and best-selling author of the Granny Square Card DecksTM, Claire Montgomerie (@clairemontgomerie).
This fully illustrated, explain-all guide to granny squares contains all the necessary stitches and techniques you need, whether you’re a total beginner or simply looking for fresh ideas.
In this complete course, crochet expert Claire Montgomerie covers everything you need to get started making stylish accessories, wearables and home décor, with the techniques and projects building up gradually in complexity.
Claire combines helpful, friendly guidance with 8 colourful modern projects, each one teaching and consolidating new techniques. Choose from: simple granny square bunting; a stylish top made from one large granny square; a vibrant bucket hat; a snuggly scarf; a handy triangle shopper; a chic pillow made from hexagon granny squares; a stunning multicoloured cardigan; and an heirloom patchwork quilt.
Embark on your crochet journey and have fun creating your own granny square wearables, accessories and home décor items with ease!
Introduction 6 Tools and materials 8 Getting started 18
TECHNIQUES AND PROJECTS 44 Making a granny square 46 Joining with a chain 51 Bunting 52
Zipper join 56 Joining the four squares 58 Joining the crown square 58 Edging with double crochet 59 Bucket Hat 60
Making a basic granny square larger 66 Double crochet join 68 Top 70
Making a solid granny square 76 Joining seams 80 Joining sets of motifs 83 Scarf 84
Making a granny triangle 88 Joining motifs as you go 91 Attaching the handles 93 Triangle Shopper 94
Cluster stitches 98 Making a granny hexagon 99 Buttonholes 101 Pillow 102
Puff stitch 106 Popcorn stitch 107 Bobble stitch 108 Raised stitches 109 Zigzag join 110 Cardigan 112
Making a half-and-half solid granny square 118 Blanket 122
Index 128
Claire Montgomerie is a textiles designer specializing in crochet and knitting. She has written many best-selling books on these topics, and is a craft stylist of publications such as the UK magazine Inside Crochet.
Claire lives in Cambridgeshire.Check out her website: clairemontgomerie.com and Instagram: @clairemontyknits
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