Product Description

Following on the success of the best-selling Nicky Epsteins Knitted Flowers, Epstein gives crocheters a special gift: an equally exquisite collection of over 40 flowers - plus patterns for garments embellished with her floral designs. Featuring a beautiful layout and magnificent photography, this keepsake volume features stitch pattern flowers, petal constructed flowers, cord flowers, and the extremely popular felted flowers. Some make fanciful pieces of jewellery; others can adorn handicrafts for a fabulous finishing touch. Epstein offers yarn suggestions and colors, and encourages crocheters to experiment with all the interesting choices in the market today to create breathtaking corsages and bouquets. Among the pretty garden blossoms: a calla lily, blue and purple pansies, a delicate and lacy white wedding boutonniere, complete with a pearl centre; and a selection of floral corkscrews.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25165 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 136 pages

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Customer Reviews

Very floral
This book has a really good selection of flower projects, not only individual flowers but also larger project such as a bag, hat and scarfs. It also contains a really quite unique pattern for a calla lily bridal bouquet.

The book is divided into sections for;
Layered petal flowers
One-piece flowers
twisted technique flowers
felted flowers
chain stitch & ball flowers & leaves

Each pattern also has the line stitch drawings to describe the pattern, I find these very helpful when it is difficult to visualise the pattern from the text alone.

The book also contains many beaded projects, however only those that are named as "beaded" actually contain the express instructions on how many beads to use and when enter them into the work ... many of the other projects use pre-beaded yarns such as Artyarns or Tilli Tomas which don't appear to be available readily in the UK (hence the 4 rather than 5 stars)- however the projects look like they would be achievable using standard yarn and adding your own beads.

Don't
I don't quite understand who this book is for. The patterns and even the charts are too badly/sloppy written for a beginner. I am reasonable experienced and found it incredibly boring. Nothing new, nothing exiting, nothing you couldn't make up yourself. It hasn't got many patterns and some of them are even repeated several times.
There are more, nicer, better explained patterns on the internet. For free!