Crochet Blocks in a Box: 50 Great Designs at Your Fingertips (Cards)

by Luise Roberts (Author)
Key Phrases: yarn over hook, foundation chain, next stitch, Double Dimensions, Overhang Dimensions (more...)

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Product Description

Love to create afghans and blankets? Here is a fabulous array of 50 blocks to choose from---ranging from beginner to expert---each on a handy individual card. It's easy to mix and match the patterns as all the blocks measure 6" square. In addition to the cards, there is a handy booklet with a refresher course on basic crochet techniques, color, and design tips and a complete visual index of all the blocks---with 10 recipes for putting them together to create a deilghtful afghan or throw. -Choose from a wide range of block designs---lacy to figurative, medallions and rosettes to chevrons and ripples, some with beaded effects.-Cards feature full-color photos on the front with complete directions and charts on the back---some blocks even have alternate color or stitch variations.-At-a-glance icons on each card indicate skill level, direction of work, and best applications---from baby blankets to larger afghans. Great for crocheters on the go!

Product Details

• Cards: 30 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (August 7, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312371500
• ISBN-13: 978-0312371500
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,044,565 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not my idea of great design, November 2, 2007

By	Jean Leinhauser "Rapid Reader" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I think of crocheted blocks as something usually worked from the center out, but that's too narrow a definition here. 21 of these are just stitch patterns that are worked in rows into a square shape. Many of them are pretty boring. Some have beaded accents.

Eight are filet type squares, most not very special but one is a nice heart design.

The best are two animal heads, one a cat, the other a dog, worked in single crochet from a chart. There is an accompanying "rear end" view to use with either, which doesn't look much like the posterior of any cat or dog of my acquaintance. The dog has a pearl color and the cat has a bell. There is also a wierd looking rooster, said to be a motif from a folk painting.

There is a nice log cabin house, worked in sc rows; and several flowers that aren't too bad. Several of the motifs have huge openings in the design, making them unsuitable for afghans, and others have strange
corners that are big loops with no obvious purpose.

One block has me completely baffled. Called "Inspired Plumbing," it has vertical rows of stitches alternating with vertical rows of metallic silver yarn (I guess these are supposed to be plumbing pipes), and you are to decorate it with inserted metal washers which you must buy from a plumbing department. Maybe it's an English thing.

The concept of the individual cards is a good one, they are a nice sturdy weight and the photography is
good. The best thing about it is a nice little booklet on crochet basics, how to read the patterns, designing
afghans, color, etc. The package design is excellent. This was published originally in England, and maybe the English look at design differently than we do, but I was not impressed.