Review: I won't be using this book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2013
Oh how I hate writing negative reviews.  I feel bad for the people who put the book together.  However, I feel I owe it to my fellow reader to let them know exactly what they're getting.  Especially if they're spending their hard earned money on the book.  In my opinion, this is a nice but pretty much an unusable book.Yes, there are 99 crochet flowers (I'm assuming because I didn't count them all), but there is neither a table of contents in the front (I looked in a couple times in case I missed it there in the front) nor is there one in the pop up menu when you touch the middle of the screen.  So if I saw one I liked, then tried to go back to it later when I wanted to embellish something, I would have to look through all the 99 flowers to find the one I was thinking of.  What makes it worse is that there is no order to the flowers.  They have them listed randomly.  You will find one that is a circle (no petals), then one with lots of petals, then one with just a few, then another random kind. If you are going to publish a book of crochet flowers, make it easy to find what we want.  I won't be using this book again because I don't want to waste my time looking through the flowers to find exactly what I want.  Especially when it's so easy to Google the kind of crochet flower you want.Also, pictures were unclear.  Some were a bit fuzzy and others were the fault of the yarn.  I'm guessing they used a cheap yarn and a very tight stitch because you couldn't tell what stitch was used when you looked at the pictures.  Many crocheters want to look at the picture to see the type of stitch used along side or in lieu of the written pattern.  Besides that, the pictures themselves were uninspiring.  The cover picture is adorable, but the pictures inside were very boring.  They didn't inspire my creative side at all.  However, the patterns were clearly written and easy to do.There was so much potential for this book, but the pictures brought the book down as well as the fact that the book wasn't easy to navigate.  Most of us have busy lives and want efficiency in all that we do.  This book doesn't help with that. I'm guessing a lot of people won't be using this book for a reference.Even with the lack of quality pictures, I believe this book can be a good crochet book (maybe a 4-star book) if they find an easy way for readers to navigate the book.  I'm talking about a Table of Contents in the front of the book with some kind of order to it (not just what they named the flowers and where to find it), such as grouping the 3-petals together, the ruffled flowers together, and so on.