Adorn anything and everything in sight with these beautiful knitted and crocheted flowers.   As the cover shows in glorious color, a vast array of flowers can be created to decorate holiday items, clothing, furnishings, presents and more.

Not only flowers, but a few leaves, butterflies and vegetables too, as well as mistletoe and acorns.  This is not a primer aimed at teaching the beginner to knit and crochet, but a book aimed at those who can already do these things to a reasonable standard.  To jog the memory however there are useful tables of abbreviations, laundering symbols and some diagrams going swiftly through some stitches.  The crochet patterns are shown with charts, so anybody not sure how to use these might be well advised to learn how to read them elsewhere, although the symbols used are given and explained.  Knitting patterns are written out in the traditional manner.  All the flowers are shown full size and looking their best on a series of pages first so you can choose easily what you want to make, then there is a section on knitted ones and a section on crocheted ones.  These are arranged in skill levels, basic, intermediate and advanced.  At the back is another section of projects to display your blooms, although sadly these are just shown and briefly described and you have to make up the patterns yourself or buy blanks.  Decorate a peg bag with a fresh daisy to cheer up washdays, adorn a gift box with a poinsettia or crochet some forget-me-nots to use as buttons and trim for a baby’s cardigan.  This is a good example of a Search Press book—lovely photos, plenty of direction as to what to buy, instructions for making up and a gallery of master works. Also, an unusual and interesting subject not covered elsewhere.  One for the keeper shelf.

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