Crochet Boutique

Last time, I promised you a little review of this new book, Crochet Boutique by Rachael Oglesby.  Well, the time has come to take a glimpse under the cover.  The first thing you'll notice about this book is that there's a nice array of projects.

Lots of lovely hats and lots of lovely scarfs.  If you are a hat lover, then there is bound to be one in here for you.  As someone who likes hats but generally looks terrible in them, there's possibly a couple too many in this book for my requirements but others may have more use for them.

At first glance I feared that this book would be a little too simplistic for my liking.  Most of the patterns seem pretty simple and straight forward and I didn't think there would be much to tempt me.  Looking through it again later though, I find lots I like.  The hat above is a favourite, as is this lovely chunky scarf below.

I think, in fact, that this book would be a great buy for beginners.  There's plenty of projects that someone new to crochet could tackle and there's enough to keep the intermediates interested too I would say.  Sometimes everyone just wants something simple to work on anyway, don't they?

There's a nice range of projects to tackle.  From the smallest, quickest little ones...

To the largest, which will keep you busy considerably longer...

Even a couple you can use around the home...

Not sure I'll be whipping this one up but, I am about to go and check my stash to see what can be done for the patterns that did catch my eye.  There's a pair of leg warmers I'm quite keen on...

S x

For those that like to know:  I was sent a free copy of this book by the publisher.  However I was not under any obligation to provide a review, or to promote the book in any way.