The sub-title of this new book by Sandra Eng, Shifting Shapes and Shades across 100 Motifs, caught my attention! While reading her bio, I found that she is a color enthusiast and a practicing psychologist who is a proponent of the therapeutic benefits of crochet and other fiber arts. To me, anyone who can live through the brutal winters of Minneapolis and still create such a colorful array of motifs like these has got to be a hearty spirit! For all these reasons, I heartily recommend this book!
Another love of Sandra's is geometry. and she believes that the versatility of working with individual motifs is unparalleled. "The possibilities are only limited by your imagination," she.proclaims.
"Not only will you have a fantastic compendium of motifs of various shapes and sizes, but also a compilation of alternative ways of working with the colors in motifs to achieve a variety of effects." If you have ever needed a confidence booster for your crochet color choices, this is the place to find it!
The book's title, Crochet Kaleidoscope, is very aptly named as Sandra set out "to create shapes the could highlight the ways in which different combinations of colors, whether across a single motif or an entire project, could shift the appearance of the motif or project. In the same way that a twist of a kaleidoscope shifts what you see through the eyepiece, changing up yarn colors or the order in which you use them can alter the look of a crocheted piece.
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| Solstice Pillow |
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| Solstice Pillow, Alternate Colors |
Starting off with a tutorial on color, the author offers invaluable information to apply to the colors chosen for crochet. The 100 motifs are divided into sections: Circles; Squares; Hexagons; Triangles and Other Shapes. The last section provides project patterns in vibrant colors with encouragement for you to launch into color choices of your own with new-found color-savvy!
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| Squares |
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| Triangles & Other Shapes |
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