num_pages: 128
description: Sunflowers are bold and bright flowers that have inspired painters and designers for years. Master knitter and designer Kristin Nicholas grows her own field of colorful sunflowers and now brings the iconic sunflower to fiber life using knitting crochet felting and embroidery. Included are designs for over thirty different sunflower blooms and buds in a variety of sizes plus eight different leaf and vine designs and a host of critters who live in a sunflower fieldfrom birds and honeybees to butterflies and caterpillarsa total of fifty items.Laid out like the previous books in the series the book includes all the useful information you need for making the flowerswhich needles crochet hooks embroidery needles and types of yarns to use plus a special explanation of how to choose yarn that felts well. In the How to Work with Color section photographs of actual sunflowers are translated into stitched samples that give the reader visual cues on how to combine colors in their crafting. Organized into knitted and crocheted items with additional instructions incorporated for felting the How-To section includes full step-by-step pattern instructions and charts where appropriate. The last part of the book features over fifteen projects for using the sunflowers in many and varied ways from embellishing mittens to decorating a grapevine wreath to a felted potholder to making a childs toy and more!
language: English
title: 50 Sunflowers to Knit, Crochet & Felt: Patterns and Projects Packed with Lush and Vibrant Colors That You Will Love to Make
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin