Articles and Interviews

Learn more about the craft you love with these crochet articles and interviews.


Lovable Amigurumi Toys: 15 Doll Crochet Projects by Lilleliis

Create your own adorable toys using this collection of charming crochet dolls. Including 15 darling dolls for babies, toddlers and school children, readers can choose from a mix of designs including Baby Leo, Rag Doll Annie, Ronja the Troll Girl, The Almighty Robot, and many more. Each doll features its own unique details and charming

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Beginner’s Guide to Tunisian Crochet

Tunisian crochet doesn’t have to be intimidating. With this handy beginners’ guide, learn to master this beautiful crochet technique to create a variety of stunning crochet tapestries. Once you feel confident, enjoy the book’s more advanced offerings that combine stitches with color changes to create exciting new textures. Featuring 13 beautiful patterns, including a chunky

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Clever Crochet Squares: Artistic Ways to Create Grannies and Dramatic Designs

You can’t go wrong with granny squares: they’re colorful, easy to make and whip up in practically no time at all. But have you ever tried combining squares to create dramatic results? Here, author Maria Gullberg explores new possibilities with the popular granny square, showing crocheters how to make fresh and inspiring projects by joining

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Modern Crochet Bible: Over 100 Techniques for Contemporary Crochet

Looking to add a contemporary touch to your crochet? Don’t miss this new release featuring a complete guide to every technique you’d need to know to create contemporary masterpieces. Once you’ve got the hang of the basics, choose from more than ten patterns featuring cutting-edge design work. These include a cowl, blanket, wrap, bag, a

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Tis the Season Christmas Crochet

Get ready for the holidays with this charming selection of 23 festive patterns including designs for ornaments, garlands, afghans, pillows, angels, snowmen, gift-card holders and more. Comprised of mostly worsted-weight yarn, this book is also great for busting through some of that medium-weight yarn stash.

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3D Granny Squares: 100 Crochet Patterns for Pop-up Granny Squares

The vintage charm of the granny square is something every crocheter can appreciate. In this new release, the granny gets a fresh look! Featuring a collection of 100 3D granny square crochet patterns, crocheters can pick their favorite motifs to create the granny square project of their dreams. From gorgeous flowers and charming animals to

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Article Excerpt from Modern Crochet

Modern Crochet: Patterns and Designs for the Minimalist Maker by DeBrosse, Paige Tate and Co. RRP $24.95

The following is an excerpt from the book, Modern Crochet: Patterns and Designs for the Minimalist Maker, and is republished with permission. This excerpt features information about yarn colors, and learning how to increase and decrease in crochet. Be

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Read Now: Crochet and Cauldrons

by Nancy Warren

Every family has annoying relatives; mine just happen to be undead.

My Grandmother, Agnes Bartlett, used to own Cardinal Woolsey’s knitting shop in Oxford then died and left her shop to me, without informing me that she wasn’t actually dead. She’s a vampire and part of the world’s strangest craft circle – the Vampire

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Amigurumi Treasures

by Erinna Lee

For every year of my school life (and I am sure it was the same for most of you), the end of the school year meant a report card that you had to bring home to mum and dad. My reports were typically un­memorable – average grades, mundane comments about needing to live

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