Best-selling material expanded with new projects. Clear knitting and crochet patterns show how to knit/crochet and assemble a garden-full of beautiful flowers. Expert knitting and crochet designers use their talents to create flowers with real impact that readers will want to make for themselves. Each pattern is accompanied by a list of the materials and tools needed, step by step advice on how to assemble the flowers, and a stunning styled photograph. There are 28 knitted flowers, including a zinnia, anemone, hibiscus, daffodil, poppy, rose, arum lily and cherry blossom; and 28 crochet patterns including a Tudor rose, foxgloves, camellia, freesias and African violets.

Author Biography

Susie Johns is an experienced crafter, specialising in papercrafts and embroidery. She contributes regularly to a number of craft magazines and is the author of a range of books on practical subjects, such as collage, painting, drawing, papier-mache, crochet and embroidery. She also teaches craft workshops. Jan Ollis comes from a family of crafters and cannot remember a time when she was not creating something. Great Aunt Mabel taught her to crochet more years ago than she cares to remember, making `granny square' blankets for a local hospital. After completing a degree in Fashion and Textile Design and working in a range of textile and non-textile related jobs, Jan started Chi-Chi Moi - a small business making accessories in hand knitting and crochet. One successful early product was a flower corsage, which was so popular Jan made and sold 800 (with help from her family and friends). Jan lives in Somerset, UK with her partner Ben and has two grown-up children, Dominic and Milly.