Description

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This riotously colorful book contains illustrated block-by-block guides to creating 10 stunning blankets, with color variations providing twenty further creations.

Amanda Perkins' bold and inspiring use of color and pattern gives stunning results that are deceptively easy to achieve. Each of the 10 blankets is constructed from a series of simple motifs, including squares, hexagons and triangles: creating a large and sumptuous blanket is simply a matter of piecing together colorful motifs into wonderful arrangements.
The book contains:

• basic instruction on yarns and hooks
• explains how to join motifs and sew in ends
• provides a brief guide to using color.
• For each blanket there is an index of motifs used, accompanied by the instructions for how to make them: both in written form and as a chart.
• The blocks include a range of shapes and are accompanied by the 'fillers' needed to fill the gaps between them. Each project has a full color chart and takes the reader block by block through the entire construction process. 

The book is written using US crochet terminology, with a handy conversion chart given on the book's fold-out flap for those outside the US. This book was previously published Rainbow Crocheted Afghans and has been completely redesigned.

About the Author

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Amanda has been obsessed by crochet & color her whole life, her ambition is to produce innovative designs which will excite and inspire her readers to pick up a hook and play Amanda Perkins designs and crochets her own blankets, shawls and scarves, and her patterns can be found on Etsy and Ravelry.

She has her own blog: amandascrochetblog.blogspot.co.uk, and she regularly self-publishes her designs, which she sells via her website and at shows and exhibitions throughout the UK. Until mid-2015, Amanda ran the Natural Dye Studio from her home in Exmoor, North Devon.