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!
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)
Sarah-Jayne is the creator of Bella Coco Crochet. She started her blog, bellacoco.co.uk, in 2011 where she shares her loves, including crochet. In 2013 she created her first YouTube tutorial on how to crochet a granny square. Since then, she has been producing a tutorial every week to help crocheters build their skills. In 2017 she joined forces with lovecrochet.com, who host the Bella Coco Store, where you can purchase Sarah-Jayne’s favourite yarns, as well as exclusive colour packs. Sarah-Jayne’s aim is to make her website a one-stop-shop for everything Bella Coco – from new patterns, to free projects and the latest tutorials. She also features guest posts from some of her favourite makers.
The Bella Coco Crochet Society, a subscription-based online club, was set up in 2019. Subscribers receive a box each month filled with exclusive crochet patterns, high-quality yarn and extra crochet ‘goodies’. Subscribers also have access to free patterns and videos. Sarah-Jayne has 953k subscribers to her YouTube channel, 121k followers on Instagram and over 48k on Facebook. She lives in Nottingham, UK.
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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!
Praise
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)
Sarah-Jayne is the creator of Bella Coco Crochet. She started her blog, bellacoco.co.uk, in 2011 where she shares her loves, including crochet. In 2013 she created her first YouTube tutorial on how to crochet a granny square. Since then, she has been producing a tutorial every week to help crocheters build their skills. In 2017 she joined forces with lovecrochet.com, who host the Bella Coco Store, where you can purchase Sarah-Jayne’s favourite yarns, as well as exclusive colour packs. Sarah-Jayne’s aim is to make her website a one-stop-shop for everything Bella Coco – from new patterns, to free projects and the latest tutorials. She also features guest posts from some of her favourite makers.
The Bella Coco Crochet Society, a subscription-based online club, was set up in 2019. Subscribers receive a box each month filled with exclusive crochet patterns, high-quality yarn and extra crochet ‘goodies’. Subscribers also have access to free patterns and videos. Sarah-Jayne has 953k subscribers to her YouTube channel, 121k followers on Instagram and over 48k on Facebook. She lives in Nottingham, UK.
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