Customer Reviews

The Portable Crafter: Crochet

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Although the physical size of Carolyn Christmas'(don't you just love her name?)book is small, the content is large, easy beginner items as well as something for the more experienced. What I especially liked was that there were T-shirt tops that even a novice could do, but the expert would be satisfied as well.
A good addition to any crochet library.

Carolyn Christmas comes up with the neatest patterns. This book is a little one but packed with lots of great patterns. I have to admit, the baby hat on the cover is my favorite pattern, but there are plenty of tempting patterns in this book.

Great book, great designer - definitely worth getting

I purchased this book based on the other reviews. While there are a couple of patterns of interest in this book, I would not make the majority of them. Also, I didn't like that the yarn for the patterns is referred to by weight alone, and not by the actual brand used. I find that this makes it difficult to get an accurate gauge. I'm not a big fan of novelty yarns and there seem to be quite a few patterns that use them in this book.

This book sits unused on my bookshelf. Why? There wasnt much in it I would want to make and some of the patterns I could get for free online. I might try the sock pattern sometime, but thats about it. I liked the fact that its a small size book and easy to take along but I dont take it anywyhere.

There are many great small projects in this book. I'm making a list but it keeps growing each time I look through the book.