Around the Corner Crochet Borders: 150 Colorful, Creative Edging Designs with Charts and Instructions for Turning the Corner Perfectly Every Time
A crochet border is the perfect finishing touch on the edges of any fiber project, but creating one often means shaping the edging around an unforgiving 90-degree angle. It’s no easy task, but Edie Eckman guides you through it with style and poise. This collection includes 150 vibrant crochet frames to suit every fiber need,
A crochet border is the perfect finishing touch on the edges of any fiber project, but creating one often means shaping the edging around an unforgiving 90-degree angle. It’s no easy task, but Edie Eckman guides you through it with style and poise. This collection includes 150 vibrant crochet frames to suit every fiber need, with color photographs by John Polak that showcase the beautiful details of each technique. Now painless, marvelous crochet borders are just around the corner!
HUGE collection of borders that INCLUDE corners First, this book is a pleasure to browse. It has nice colors, good type, and great schematics. There are truly 150 borders, and if you see one on the cover you like, it will be in the book (I checked four of my favorites, and they were all there). Unfortunately, the border you like may not be easy to find. This book would have been improved with a picture index of the borders available collected on a few pages at the beginning OR a numerical index of which borders are found where on the…
Pick it up, you won’t regret it! Really good book – I got the Kindle version. It was on my wish list, and Amazon sent me an email telling me it was on special, so I picked it up. There’s a great variety of borders/edgings in this book, along with really helpful information… especially for newbies to crochet, but even bits of information for very experienced users. I really like the charts, and unusually, this book includes both charts for in-the-round as well as back and forth versions of the edgings. Of course, there…
A must have resource I wouldn’t be without this book and I know many others in the crochet community (ravelry, in particular) who feel the same way. Someone will post that they used border #51 from “the book” and we all know what they mean.There is a border style for every person and project and, as already mentioned, the corners are addressed. I always look to this book first when I need a border or edging. Yes, there are no names for the patterns, only numbers, but I cannot imagine trying to…