Bella Coco specialises in using simple and structured methods to teach people to crochet on YouTube, and this book for beginners is a comprehensive guide to everything from choosing the right hook and yarns to using different stitches and finishing your work. New crocheters are advised to progress chronologically through the book, starting with easy projects such as an infinity scarf or coasters and advancing to a hat and mitten set and finally a showstopper blanket.
* Inside Crochet *
Perfect for beginners who'd love to crochet. Shows everything you need to know about stitches and wool. Highly recommend for small projects. -- Michaela Davies * Amazon Customer Review *
An amazing book for either beginners or those who have crochet experience. I highly recommend purchasing this book and checking out Bella Coco on social media and YouTube.
-- Margaret Baker * Amazon Customer Review *
Join over a million Bella Coco fans and learn to crochet with her sure and simple method and learn to make beautiful items along the way!
Fragola has created a charming how-to guide for a craft that can be enjoyed for a lifetime - Publishers Weekly EDITOR'S PICK
Let the creator of Bella Coco Crochet, Sarah-Jayne Fragola, teach you how to crochet using her wildly popular methodical and simple method. Join almost one million YouTube subscribers and hundreds of thousands of social media followers in learning from this comprehensive guide for beginners including complete novices. It will also benefit competent crocheters with its wide range of patterns.
This beautifully laid out book: Starts with a section on yarn and hook types; shows you how to work the basic stitches with clear step-by-step instructions and photographs; the projects start with easy patterns and progress to more complicated ones, with each pattern practicing a skill learned; a section on advanced stitches encourages you to progress to more complex work; ends with a beautiful showstopper blanket incorporating many of the techniques and stitches learned along the crochet journey.
-- Crochet Envy * CrochetEnvy.com *
The best crochet books to find inspiration for your next favourite project. Crochet queen Sarah-Jayne Fragola is behind Bella Coco Crochet, a gorgeous crochet brand and YouTube channel that has over 1 million subscribers who adore her stylish crochet projects for all skill levels. Her new book contains 12 beautiful projects in her unique aesthetic of using soft colours to create comfy designs.
-- Momtaz Begum-Hossain * Prima *
Sarah-Jayne specialises in teaching people to crochet, using simple and structured methods so anyone can learn how to start. If you're looking for a comprehensive beginner's guide to crochet, this is the book for you.
* Machine Knitting Monthly, January 2023 *
Sarah-Jayne Fragola is the creator of Bella Coco Crochet, which she started in 2011. She specialises in teaching people to crochet, using simple and structured methods so that anyone can learn how to start! If you're looking for a comprehensive, beginner's guide to crochet, this is a great book for you. Starting with a section on hook types, your essential crochet kit and the yarns you'll need, you're guided by Sarah-Jayne through the key crochet stitches you'll need before you get stuck in. Each stitch described using UK terms is accompanied by clear step-by-step instructions and photographs, and handy quick-stitch boxes that include key stitch details as well as the US equivalents.
Once you've conquered your stitches, get stuck into your first projects, starting from the easiest designs to the more complex ones to crochet. These 12 projects range from sweet and simple coasters and scarves, to a stunning hexie pillow and hat 'n' mitten set. With each new project, learn a new technique to gradually build your knowledge and familiarity with crocheting. To reward your efforts, Sarah-Jayne then treats you to a section on advanced stitches that you can use to crochet her 'Showstopper Blanket' a beautiful, textured blanket that you'd be proud to drape on your bed or sofa.
We say: These gorgeous patterns will inspire crochet novices and more confident crocheters alike.
* Craft Focus, December/ January issue *
Over the last few years, Sarah-Jayne Fragola has built up an enviable online reputation as a crochet expert with her YouTube tutorials under the name Bella Coco. With this book, she has created a well-laid-out guide for the complete beginner.
The first sections cover the basics such as the 'anatomy of a crochet hook'. There is a table of the different sizing schemes with the recommendations that 'the most accurate measurements for a hook is the metric sizing'. The types of hooks now available are described. After a brief look at other useful equipment, there is a section on the different ways yarns are presented (balls, skeins, hanks, etc.) and how to interpret both yarn weights and types. The following section on colour presents an easy-to-follow look at the colour wheel theory.
The book then moves on to giving step-by-step instructions on the basic crochet stitches - all well illustrated by clear photographs [...] Useful information is then given on swatching, the different terminology and abbreviations used within UK and USA patterns, and the international symbols for charting patterns. This general information part of the book covers the various blocking techniques.
The remaining part of the book is taken up with the nine projects which are 'arranged in order of difficulty, from the easiest to the more complex'. Sarah-Jayne has 'designed the projects so that new techniques are added with each one'.
This book has been very well produced and will be of great benefit to anyone wanting to start on this wonderful craft. It would also be good for anyone wanting to increase their confidence and skill.
-- LInde Merrick * Slip Knot *
