Twinkie Chan’s Crochet Goodies for Fashion Foodies: 20 Yummy Treats to Wear
Twinkie Chan’s Crochet Goodies for Fashion Foodies: 20 Yummy Treats to Wear
- ISBN13: 9780740797583
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With Twinkie Chan’s Crochet Goodies for Fashion Foodies, crocheters can have their cupcakes and wear them, too. The founder of her own popular line of food-inspired fashions, Twinkie Chan has whipped up a feast of head-turning scarves, mittens, hats, and more so that her many fans can learn to make her culinary creations at home.
You’ll find recipes for food-themed scarves that feature sushi, salad, gingerbread men, buttered toast, eggs and bacon, ice-cream cones, popcorn boxes, and more. You’ll also learn how to make a pair of strawberry fingerless mittens, a chocolate cupcake hat complete with a cherry on top, and even a coconut-lemon cake tissue box cozy. Twinkie Chan’s Crochet Goodies for Fashion Foodies is divided into three chapters–Sweet Things, Fruits and Veggies, and Savory Stuff–and comes complete with an illustrated how-to section, lists of “ingredients” for each project, easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions, and full-color photos and illustrations. Beginning and experienced crafters alike will go wild for these quirky, colorful, wearable confections.
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Tons of Patterns Really creative,
I pre ordered this about two months before it came out. I was expecting to just see a few of some of Twinkie Chan’s awesome items, but there are tons of her signature items. There are 20 patterns, most of them being scarfs that are made from small pieces that are crocheted together.
It includes three sections: Sweets things, Fruits and Veggies, and Savory stuff.
The patterns it includes are
Cupcake Scarf
Candy Button Scarf
Gingerbread Man Scarf (My favorite)
Lemon Coconut Cake Tissue Cozy
Rocket Popsicle Scarf
Soft Serve Ice Cream Scarf
Cupcake Hat with Frosting
Green Salad Scarf
Pink Grapefruit Scarf
Baby Raddish Lariat Scarf
Pear Scarf
Giant Carrot Scar
Strawberry Fingerless Mittens
Bacon and Eggs Scarf
Buttered Toast Scarf
Sushi Scarf
Pepperoni Pizza Scarf
Popcorn Scarf
Spaghetti n Meatballs Scarf
Twinkie’s patterns are fairly simple to follow so any advanced beginner or intermediate should be able to follow them without problems, but beginners might need some help. Her designs are abit out there and not for everyone’s taste but they can easily be adapted to suit most everyone’s taste. The food motifs could be made into coasters, pot holders, purses or many other things. The Spaghetti Scarf is a simple fun way for someone to start felting. The popsicle scarf could easily be a regular scarf and is a nice simple crocheted cable scarf. The Cupcake hat is worked flat and produces a beautiful textured piece that makes diagonal stripes. I loved that one and I think I’ll be using that technique for many different things.
It’s a beautiful high quality book with tons of creative patterns that every crocheter should try.
It doesn’t have crochet charts for patterns but she does have tons of pictures and diagrams for how to sew pieces together or arrange them. Most crochet books are bogged down with pages of beginner how tos but Twinkie’s is not. It does include basic images on how to do you basic stitches and decreases. She lists well recognized resource websites for people to learn and get more patterns. (Many of which I use and was where I learned) There’s information on yarn weights and what tools are needed.
The tone of the book is very friendly and encouraging similar to a way a friend might be teaching you. Lots of creative and unique designs that are perfect to get your own creative bug going, to learn a few new techniques or ways to use simple stitches to make something special.
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This book is PERFECT! Patterns are creative and well written, even has row count if its multiple rows! I started counting the number of rows out, took another glance at the pattern, and it was already printed right there! Makes everything so easy :D. I know what EVERYONE is getting for Christmas this year!
Twinkie Chan is a rock star; I’m so inspired by her and will certainly be looking for more of her books in the future! Great buy for beginners and experienced crocheters alike. Her version of the popcorn stitch is just one example of how she makes everything super easy! Her down to earth attitude towards crocheting matches my own, especially the part where she explains how gauge for these types of projects is not important. I’ve NEVER looked at the gauge in a project, but then again I really only crochet amigurumi.
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|Twinkie Chan’s Crochet Goodies for Fashion Foodies 20 Yummy Treats to Wear,
This is a great book cute photos , love the helpful charts and crystal clear instruction.Twinkie included many of my favorite things.If you like making cute crochet food you can’t go wrong with this book!
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