You Can Crochet with Bella Coco: A clear & simple course for the beginner

by Sarah-Jayne Fragola

Overview

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

• And ends with a beautiful showstopper blanket incorporating many of the techniques and stitches learned along the crochet journey.

Join more than a million Bella Coco followers in her crochet world!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782219453
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	10/18/2022
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	311,070
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Internet superstar Sarah-Jayne is the creator of Bella Coco Crochet and a leading crochet designer and teacher. She started her blog in 2011, where she shares her passion about teaching people to crochet. In 2013, she started with one tutorial on YouTube and her channel continues to bring beautifully designed crochet projects to her million-plus subscribers. She crochets all types of things from home goods to blankets to wearable items. Universally regarded as the best tutorials to learn to crochet, Sarah-Jayne has written a book that is the clearest way for the absolute beginner to start to crochet and achieve beautiful results.
Bella Coco (Sarah-Jayne) has more than a million subscribers and followers across social media. She lives in Nottingham, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Crochet Hooks 8

Equipment 12

Yarns 14

Colour 20

Getting Started 22

Your first stitches 22

Anatomy of a stitch 43

Making a tension swatch 46

Conversion chart & symbols 47

Abbreviations quick view 48

Blocking 50

Your First Projects 54

How to read a pattern 56

Project: Coasters 58

Colour changes 60

Invisible join 61

Project: Place Mat 62

Project: Infinity Scarf 64

Sewing seams 66

Basic working in the round: foundation ring method and flat circle method 68

Project: Cowl Scarf 70

Advanced working in the round: magic ring method 72

Increasing 74

Project: Face Scrubbies 76

Crochet charts 78

Working a granny square 80

Working a solid hexagon 82

Working a granny triangle 84

Project: Granny Square Baby Blanket 86

Pompoms 90

Project: Granny Hexi Pillow 92

Tassels 96

Project: Cranny Triangle Bunting 98

Project: Yarn Basket 102

Shaping, sizing and adapting patterns 104

Project: Hat & Mittens 106

Hat 108

Decreasing 109

Mittens 110

Colourwork 112

Surface cross stitch 114

Project: Pencil Case 116

Advanced Stitches 122

Showstopper Blanket 136

And There You Go… 142

Stitch Index 144

Editorial Reviews

10/10/2022

YouTube crafting star Fragola has been teaching people how to crochet online for the last seven years, a time in which old-school hobbies such as making bread and clothes have, bolstered in no small part by the pandemic, boomed in popularity. Fragola brings the easygoing expertise of her wildly popular Bella Coco Crochet channel to this appealing book, which offers straightforward instructions to help beginners pick up crochet. After clear, inviting explanations of how to select the appropriate hook, equipment, and yarn, Fragola demonstrates how those new to this art form can make their first stitches and start to work on actual projects.

As on videos like her “How to Crochet for Absolute Beginners” series, which have racked up many millions of views, the book’s great strength is its true accessibility for those who are eager to get started but have never touched a crochet hook in their lives. With easy-to-follow instructions accompanied by illustrations showing the manipulation of hooks and yarn, Fragola all but guarantees that even the most clueless craftspeople will come away with a workable understanding of different types of stitches and when to use them. She also offers a breakdown of common abbreviations to avoid any confusion. This will help aspiring creators feel confident when they delve into projects such as coasters, place mats, scarves, baby blankets, and other functional items.

Helpfully, the projects have been arranged from easiest to most complex, matching Fragola’s goal that anyone who works their way from one item to the next will be able to crochet with confidence by the time they are done. While the book is primarily intended for newbies, those looking to brush up on their skills will also find plenty to appreciate here—and some clever new patterns as well. Fragola has created a charming how-to guide for a craft that can be enjoyed for a lifetime.

Takeaway: Fragola brings her easygoing expertise to a clear, inviting guide for beginners to crochet.

Great for fans of: Shannon and Jason Mullett-Bowlsby’s Complete Crochet Course, Arica Presinal’s Crochet for Beginners.

Production grades Cover: A Design and typography: A Illustrations: A Editing: A Marketing copy: A

BookLife Reviews

YouTube crafting star Fragola has been teaching people how to crochet online for the last seven years, a time in which old-school hobbies such as making bread and clothes have, bolstered in no small part by the pandemic, boomed in popularity. Fragola brings the easygoing expertise of her wildly popular Bella Coco Crochet channel to this appealing book, which offers straightforward instructions to help beginners pick up crochet. After clear, inviting explanations of how to select the appropriate hook, equipment, and yarn, Fragola demonstrates how those new to this art form can make their first stitches and start to work on actual projects.
 
As on videos like her “How to Crochet for Absolute Beginners” series, which have racked up many millions of views, the book’s great strength is its true accessibility for those who are eager to get started but have never touched a crochet hook in their lives. With easy-to-follow instructions accompanied by illustrations showing the manipulation of hooks and yarn, Fragola all but guarantees that even the most clueless craftspeople will come away with a workable understanding of different types of stitches and when to use them. She also offers a breakdown of common abbreviations to avoid any confusion. This will help aspiring creators feel confident when they delve into projects such as coasters, place mats, scarves, baby blankets, and other functional items.
 
Helpfully, the projects have been arranged from easiest to most complex, matching Fragola’s goal that anyone who works their way from one item to the next will be able to crochet with confidence by the time they are done. While the book is primarily intended for newbies, those looking to brush up on their skills will also find plenty to appreciate here—and some clever new patterns as well. Fragola has created a charming how-to guide for a craft that can be enjoyed for a lifetime.
 
Publishers Weekly, BookLife 10/10/22

“A fantastic beginner guide to crochet. The pictures are super clear as is the text and the projects are really fun...something someone will actually want to make..”
The Novel Neighbor Bookstore, St Louis, MO

5 Stars! In the "I REVIEWED 8 New CROCHET BOOKS to Tell You If They Are WORTH It" vlog post.
- Elise Rose Crochet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDoFuVXWxMk&t=2s)

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