50 Sunflowers to Knit, Crochet & Felt

Description

Patterns and projects packed with lush and vibrant color that you will love to make Grab your needles and hooks and create your very own garden to decorate your home, your clothing, and your world, with this delightful book of sunflowers to knit, crochet, and felt. With 50 original designs to choose from, including a host of colorful sunflower blooms and buds in many sizes, as well as leaves, vines, and little sunflower-loving critters, you'll find many ideas to spark your creativity. Each beautiful design is displayed in an eye-catching directory at the front of the book, and cross-referenced to a complete pattern and, for the crochet designs, a chart. Useful information on knitting, crochet, and felting techniques, is also provided, and author Kristin Nicholas includes an inspirational chapter on how to work with color to create bold, bright, and beautiful sunflowers that will impress. You'll also find a mixture of attractive ideas for using your sunflowers in a range of ways, from customizing clothing and accessories to creating elegant gifts and homewares.

Kristin Nicholas is a knitwear designer and decorative artist. She was named one of Vogue Knitting's Master Knitters of the '90s and has designed knitwear for Vogue Knitting, Family Circle Knitting, and other other major magazines. Kristin lives in western Massachusetts.

June 13 Let's bring on the sun! This delightful book is packed with sunflowers to knit, crochet and felt. There's a host of blooms, buds, birds, butterflies and bees to spark creativity. There are ideas for using sunflowers in lots of different ways, to create elegant gifts plus items for the home. * Machine Knitting Monthly * June 13 As summer (by rights) should be upon us now, this is a very timely book to be making something to create a little bit more sunshine, or remind us what it's like if it is lacking in the weather. These flowers are either knitted, crocheted or felted, and there is a colourful directory at the beginning to show you what choice there is. In addition to a great array of sunflowers, there are other `sunny' flowers in a variety of colours, as well as some wildlife (butterflies, bees and ladybirds included) and they make for a bright and jolly book. About 30 designs are knitted and 24 are crocheted, with notes about felting particular flowers given in the instructions (with photos so you can see how they look). The projects vary in difficulty and would be easily adapted to embellish a design, needle-felt into a piece of work, or use in any of the 15 projects provided. It is bright and colourful and for those drizzly summer days (hopefully not too many), just looking will give you a lift. * Workshop On The Web * Feb 13 It all started with van Gogh didn't it and ever since his painting became famous, we've loved sunflowers. Here Kristin has designed many sunflowers of all sizes,shapes and colours for you to knit, crochet and felt. In this book you'll find brief notes on all three, plus embellishment and colour. The sunflowers are all photographed on colour pages, then the instructions follow. besides the sunflowers there are some insects and a robin too. There are 14 projects for ideas on how to use the sunflowers you have made. The front cover gives a good idea of what is in the book. * Karen Platt Yarnsandfabrics.co.uk/crafts *