- Hardcover-spiral: 128 pages
- Publisher: Krause Publications (May 24 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1440209073
- ISBN-13: 978-1440209079
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 22 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #349,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Product Description
Take your crochet on the go!
So choose your favorite motif, grab your hook and yarn, and go crochet!
Do your hands itch to crochet while you sit in waiting rooms, on airplanes and at soccer games, but you don?t want to carry along lots of yarn and heavy projects? In Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workbook, you?ll find patterns for 50 interchangeable motifs designed for a range of skill levels that can be easily crocheted while on the go! Author Ellen Gormley provides you with great tips for assembling portable projects, creating fantastic color combinations, and arranging your crocheted motifs in unique and exciting ways.
Inside, you?ll find:
Patterns and stitch diagrams for 50 motifs in 5 different shapes: squares, rectangles, triangles, hexagons and octagons
Recommendations from the author for 5 great mix-and-match options for each interchangeable motif
10 complete afghan patterns using a single motif, 2?3 motifs and multiple motifs
A thorough guide to crochet basics, as well as design techniques for assembling your motifs into one-of-a-kind projects
So choose your favorite motif, grab your hook and yarn, and go crochet!
About the Author
Ellen Gormley is a well-published crochet designer. She has been designing since 2004 and has had approximately 80 projects featured by magazines and yarn companies including Crochet Today and Interweave Crochet. Ellen was nominated for several categories for the 2009 Crochet Awards and came in first in the Best Designer, Home D?cor category.
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4.9 out of 5 stars (20 customer reviews)
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Can't wait to get creative!, May 26 2011
By Kathy - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workshop: 50 Motifs, 10 Projects, 1 of a Kind Results (Hardcover-spiral)
I heard about this book from the Getting Loopy podcast, and I immediately ran here to Amazon to order my copy.I love making afghans, and I've been looking for some ways to get creative (outside of the granny square box). I received my copy last night and eagerly went through every single motif and flagged probably 75% of them as "urgent to-dos."
Now a brief review: The book is beautiful for starters, the glossy look and feel of the cover is great, and then opening it up you're greeted with a spiral bound book that lays flat when opened! What a dream! The pictures of each motif are fantastic, up-close and personal, and the instructions and diagrams are easy to follow. The Afghan designs are beautiful too, I may start with one of those before branching out in my own mix-and-match adventures.
What I LOVE about this book:
1) With each motif Ellen includes several mix-and-match options of other motifs in the book that would couple well.
2) The extensive "encyclopedia" of knowledge at the beginning of this book is great. I'm still relatively new to crochet and really yarn arts in general, and even since last night, I've learned so much more about different crochet stitches, and even yarn types!
3) My absolute favorite part of this book is that at the beginning of each set of motifs, Ellen includes some layout ideas for the motifs of that shape. This is brilliant, especially for me (a complete novice at designing afghans) because I would have struggled to come up with interesting layouts on my own.
Thank you Ellen for a fabulous book!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
not paperback, May 5 2011
By mamamoe "mamamoe" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workshop: 50 Motifs, 10 Projects, 1 of a Kind Results (Hardcover-spiral)
Just got it! It's not paperback! It has hard covers! And the inside is SPIRAL bound! Wonderful! It lays flat while you're using it! I'm just a beginner, so the drawings are valuable to me. I'm loving the whole variety/ mix and match theme. Only problem is chosing which to do first!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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User Friendly and Inspiring, May 18 2011
By Penny - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workshop: 50 Motifs, 10 Projects, 1 of a Kind Results (Hardcover-spiral)
Ellen Gormley's new book has something for every level of crochet expertise. Go Crochet! is well written and user friendly. The technical explanations, instructions and diagrams are easy to follow. The motifs are beautifully photographed and the stitch diagrams are an added benefit. Ms Gormley's commentary on the motifs makes the book come to life. Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workshop is a wonderful source of inspiration. Grab your hooks, gather your yarn, pick a motif or two or more and design your very own afghan masterpiece.
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