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Creative Crocheted Dolls
by Noreen Crone-Findlay Creative Crocheted Dolls is a delightful book, full of ideas, patterns and creativity to super charge you into action. Get ready for crochet fun with designs you can personalize and lots of gift making ideas. There are 50 designs to choose from including people, bears and mystical critters. Once you have made the basic figures, you have gobs of choices for faces, hair, costumes and even backgrounds. I love the face choices. You can crochet a face and then embroider it using thread; make avocado faces with real avocados; make a face with various paper products, pencils and crayons or use a purchased face. Beads can be added for embellishment. Hair styles abound with various fibers or you can add a hat. Clothing ensembles are diverse and fun. You will find instructions for shawls, flowers, dolls within dolls, bags and wings. Noreen starts you out with how to crochet instructions and step-by-step photos showing her hands making the stitches. If you already know how to crochet, you can skip this section. Each pattern includes complete instructions, some with graphs, and others with photos and illustrations. Her creations are great for gifts dolls, can be worn as jewelry, and added to quilts and wearables. You can make the dolls with thinner threads following the same instructions, or with thicker yarn, for a variety of sizes. I highly recommend Creative Crocheted Dolls, a great addition to your library and crochet enjoyment. Review by Lydia F Borin |
