This wonderful collection of 50 innovative square designs will quickly become a much-used volume in your personal crochet library. Whether you are looking for a colorful square for a child's afghan, a square suitable for your favorite man, or a dramatic flower design, you'll find it here. The squares, ranging from 5 to 12, are all shown crocheted using worsted (medium) weight yarn. However, you may make the squares in any weight yarn or thread you choose, which will of course change the size and appearance. You should also feel free to change colors to suit your own taste and decor. Different colors can completely change the way a square looks. Patterns include Water Lily, Coral Coneflower, Ruffle-Go-Round, Pineapples, Whirligig, and more. 50 Fabulous Crochet Squares (Leisure Arts #4420)

"Crochet these squares using worsted weight yarn, fine baby yarn, or chunky yarn. Depending on your mood, you can give a different look to every creation. There is no limit to what a granny square can become!" --

Following the continuing success of The Granny Square Book, Margaret Hubert presents 50 all-new granny squares with a botanical theme and demonstrates their versatility with 15 new projects.

A collection of forty creative designs for easy and colorful crochet blocks. Not your usual granny squares! Celine Semaan has designed more than contemporary and colorful 6" x 6" blocks to get your creativity flowing. Blocks are the best way to try out new stitches and color combinations, and they can then be used to make four projects, including a blanket, pillow, and wall hanging. There is a basic overview on color theory, more than forty granny square patterns, each with: written instructions, chart, and detailed photos, showing stitch detail.

"Moving beyond the basic granny square to encompass a wide variety of shapes and patterns, the crochet designs featured in this book are surprisingly quick, easy, and simple to master. Twenty six colorful projects are presented here with detailed instructions on how to become proficient in more than 30 new crochet techniques. These "granny squares" might actually be hexagons, triangles, pentagons, or circles and can be fashioned into everything from afghans and potholders to pillows and fingerless gloves using these innovative and colorful designs" --

Want to learn how to crochet? Make a granny square on-the-go, and at only 50 cents a pattern. The simple techniques have lasted for decades and now they are trendier than ever. With endless color and size variations, creating these hip squares is fun and easy. They can be used like building blocks and combined with other squares to make original projects and gifts, or used to embellish larger items. This book will show how to create 20 different squares, including flower patterns, interpreted in different colors and yarns to create a kaleidoscope of effects. Also included are projects that show the reader how to make their squares into a simple baby blanket, arm warmers, a purse, a pin cushion, a mug cozy, and a stylish pair of boot toppers.

From circles to squares and hearts to fans, this book by Jean Leinhauser offers a fabulous collection of 50 individual motifs to crochet. Although the motifs are shown made in size 10 bedspread-weight cotton, you can choose the weight and type of thread that best suits your taste. Use the motifs as appliqués to adorn clothing and linens or join them together to create placemats, bedspreads, or tablecloths. The choice is yours! Motifs include Pineapple Posy, Petal Wheel, Petite Pansy, Frilly Fan, Lacy Cross, My Wild Irish Rose, Popcorn Circles, Lacy Points, Whirligig, Circle in a Square, Starshine, Lattice Square, Loopy Oval, Ruffles and Flourishes, Windmill, Filet Heart, Hexagon Clusters, Coneflower, Prancing Picots, and more. 50 Fabulous Crochet Thread Motifs (Leisure Arts #4421)