Design Your Own Crochet Projects: Magic Formulas for Creating Custom Scarves, Cowls, Hats, Socks, Mittens, and Gloves

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With Sara Delaney's magic formulas and fill-in-the-blank templates, crocheters of all levels will discover how simple it is to create their own custom patterns for perfectly fitting head-to-toe accessories using any yarn or stitch pattern. You love to crochet, but you're tired of the granny square and other predictable projects. Let celebrated crochet teacher Sara Delaney help you expand your skills while showing you how to create custom-fit wearable accessories. Delaney's unique, flexible formulas let crocheters of all levels easily design scarves, cowls, fingerless mitts, mittens, gloves, hats, and socks. With fill-in-the-blank templates and a stitch dictionary, you can use your favorite yarn and stitch pattern, and make accessories that fit perfectly. Delaney offers a starter course in the technique with 18 of her own original patterns, along with the formulas she used to create them. AUTHOR: Sara Delaney is the author of Design Your Own Crochet Projects and How to Crochet. She has been designing and writing her own patterns for more than 10 years. She teaches crochet classes online at Craftsy, and she lives in western Massachusetts. SELLING POINTS: . A unique and accessible approach to design for crocheters of all levels . Features popular wearables not often featured in crochet patterns . Includes 18 sample patterns

Sara Delaney is the author of How to Crochet (Storey, 2015) and the marketing manager at WEBS yarn store in Northampton, MA. She has been designing and writing her own patterns for more than 10 years. She teachers crochet classes at WEBS and online at Craftsy. She lives in western Massachusetts.

"Whether you are newly tip-toeing into design or are experienced in the try-and-try-again design method, Delaney's formulaic approach will save you time and tears while ensuring great predictable results every time." -- Edie Eckman, best-selling knit and crochet author and designer "Perfectly pair yarn and pattern to create custom-fit accessories with Delaney's simple fill-in-the-blank formulas. If you just want to crochet, 18 classic designs show the formulas in action." -- Linda Permann, crochet designer