Design Your Own Crochet Projects

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. The companion online calculator helps create your customized patterns even more quickly! With Sara Delaney's clear, detailed 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.
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. Expert Guidance + Customizable Templates = Perfectly Fitting Accessories

Creating customized crochet wearables is easier than you think. Designer Sara Delaney walks you through the entire process, from choosing the most appropriate yarns to developing your own unique patterns.

Flexible formulas and fill-in-the-blank templates show you exactly what you need to make one-of-a-kind scarves, cowls, fingerless mitts, mittens, gloves, hats, and socks. If you're new to designing, build your confidence with 18 practice patterns for head-to-toe garments that use Delaney's customizable formulas.

This first-of-its-kind crochet book — complete with a stitch dictionary featuring 31 classic stitches — gives you everything you need to make flawless and singular crocheted accessories. Introduction

1 Scarves

Hitchcock Scarf

Shepherd's Hollow Scarf

2 Cowls

Leyden Cowl

Wild Leek Cowl

3 Hats

Ashmere Beanie

Greylock Glen Hat

Cady Brook Hat

Ashuwillticook Beret

4 Fingerless Mitts

Stafford Mitts

Day Mountain Mitts

5 Mittens

Hutchinson Mittens

Windsor Brook Mittens

6 Gloves

Volvo Gloves

Knights Pond Gloves

7 Socks

Hoosac Range Socks

Cleveland Reservoir Socks

Allendale Socks

Notchview Slippers

Appendix

Stitch Dictionary

Stitch Abbreviations & Definitions

Metric Conversion Chart

Acknowledgments

Index