Crochet Loom Blooms: 30 Fabulous Crochet Flowers & Projects

This soft, lustrous yarn is currently on sale, just in time for holiday gift making!

Bellatrista's Misto Worsted is super soft blend of 50% milk protein fiber and 50% bamboo. Due to its extra softness and thickness, it's an excellent choice for baby blankets, scarves, mitts and hats. Plus, it's 100% sustainably sourced.

Misto comes in both DK and worsted weights.

This soft, lustrous yarn is currently on sale, just in time for holiday gift making!

Bellatrista's Misto DK is a super soft blend of 50% milk protein fiber and 50% bamboo. Not only is it an excellent choice for elegant, drapey shawls, wraps, and other garments, but it's a 100% sustainably sourced yarn as well.

Misto comes in both DK and worsted weights.

From expert weaver Anne Dixon, The Weaver's Inkle Pattern Directory is the ultimate resource for inkle weavers...and this hardcover, spiral-bound edition makes following the included patterns exceptionally easy. No more frustrating flopping pages as you work!

Inkle weaving is a simple technique that offers ample opportunity for experimentation by beginners and experienced weavers. This book provides 400 patterns for loom enthusiasts and is the most comprehensive tool available to weavers.

You'll discover:

• An overview of inkle weaving's history and traditions.

• Instructions for loom set-up and simple techniques.

• An astonishing 400 woven patterns--some making their first debut.

• Illustrated samples and charts.

• Drafts provided throughout the entire guide.

An incomparable guide, Anne Dixon offers all of the tips, tricks, and techniques to these traditional and modern patterns and introduces a bounty of new, innovative designs as well. Inkles can be used for a variety of projects ranging from belts and braces to trims and neckpieces. They can be stitched together to make bags, mobile-phone purses, cushion-covers, table-mats, and much more.

Also included is a foreword by Madelyn van der Hoogt, the editor of Handwoven magazine and the author of The Complete Book of Drafting and The Weaver's Companion (Interweave). She opened the Weaver's School in 1984 and teaches weaving workshops throughout the United States and Canada.

Harcover, spiral-bound, 176 pages, F+WMedia (August 21, 2012), full color, 8.2 x 1.2 x 7.5 inches

Hello bug lovers and crochet adventurers!

Grab your research equipment (magnifying glass, flask of tea, crochet hook, scissors and yarn) and follow us into a world full of magic and science, a microcosm of tiny creatures and big dreams! In this book you will find not only a charming selection of crochet patterns to create scrabbling beetles, beautiful bugs and fluttering butterfly crochet amigurumi, but also a wonderful story to read out loud and ponder on: a tale about growing up; accepting change and the power of dreams.

Watch tiny creatures hatching from their eggs, look on as they munch through a green world, and be astonished at their marvelous transformations when they finally slip out of their cocoons. The wings and hats are interchangeable so you can use the patterns in this book to create new outfits for your little insect friends. Give your caterpillar a new set of wings for every day of the week or cover your beetle in the most colourful wing suits. Be inspired by nature to make creatures of your own creation. It's a great little world full of possibilities. We wish you lots of fun on your journey of discovery and learning!

Hardcover, 128 pages, F+W Media (November 3, 2017), full color, 8.4 x 0.6 x 9.4 inches