{Book Reviews} Heart Felt Holidays and Crochet Garden

We have two fabulous titles for felt and yarn lovers this week.

Heart-Felt Holidays: 40 Festive Felt Projects to Celebrate the Seasons by Kathy Sheldon and Amanda Carestio, is bought to you by the authors of the highly popular Fa la la la Felt. It contains 40 Festive Felt Projects to celebrate the seasons, and has lots if inspiring and fresh projects to use for holidays throughout the year. It includes projects for Chinese New Year, St Patrick’s Day. Easter, Valentines Day, Father’s Day, Baby Shower’s, Halloween, Christmas and more. The projects include: bunting; ornaments; brooches; bags; softies;finger puppets; mobile; and gift bags. Each project includes helpful instructions, photo’s, and templates (most need to be enlarged) to guide you through. Many of the projects would be suitable for beginners/kids.

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If you love to make gifts/projects for the Holidays, then Heart Felt Holidays will provide lots of great project ideas made from versatile felt.

Book Details:
ISBN             1454702818
Format:          Paperback, 132 Pages
Publisher:       Lark Crafts
RRP:             $16.99

Heart Felt Holidays is available from  Fishpond, Can Do Books, and Booktopia.

Crochet Garden: Bunches of Flowers, Leaves, and Other Delights by Suzann Thompson contains a colourful collection of garden inspired crochet designs. You will find patterns for flowers, leaves, butterflies, peacocks and more. All of the motifs use very little yarn so they are a great way to use up your yarn stash. The book also includes a range of projects to show how you can incorporate the motifs as embellishments in lots of different ways. These projects include a scarf, pincushion, placemat, key fob and more.

This book does not include instructions on how to crochet for the absolute beginner. You will need to have a basic knowledge before attempting these designs. It does explain how to choose the best yarn for each project, how to block your project, and other tips and tricks.

If you have a love of crochet and want to put your left over yarn to good use, you will find plenty of inspiration here. There is a free pattern of the crochet roses (pictured above) on the lark website – here.

Book Details:
ISBN        1600599273
Format:     Paperback, 132 Pages
Publisher:  Lark Books
RRP:         $19.99

Crochet Garden is available from  Fishpond, Can Do Books,  and Booktopia.

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