Crochet Kid Stuff: 20 Fun Projects

by Phyllis Sandford, Phyllis Sandford

20 easy crochet projects for girl and boy apparel and accessoriesCrochet is cool in elementary school. The kids love the beanies, the retro sweaters, the chunky scarves, the backpack dangles. Moms, grandmothers, and aunts are furiously crocheting for this age group, but they're having trouble finding current patterns, especially for boys. Here are the quick, colorful, fun projects they're looking for. While there are more and more books of hip knitting and crochet for women, this book offers a unique collection of crochet patterns for this special underserved age group. Girls will love the cute hats, sweaters, mini-bags, and hair flair; boys will actually wear the hoody, rugged sweater, skateboarder beanie, and fingerless gloves; and everybody will show off backpack danglies, pencil buddies, and hacky sacks. All the projects featured use the latest yarns, including popular and fun super-soft and very textural yarns in bright in energetic colors. Patterns, with simple stitches, mostly single and double crochet, provide three levels of sizing and classic styles perfect for this age range. Each project includes creative touches that kids will love.

Genres: Nonfiction, Crochet

96 pages, Spiral-bound

First published May 1, 2007

Reviews

[Judi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The originality of these projects depends a lot on the use of novelty yarns. It would be difficult to make many of the projects without. Some good sweater patterns, but the section on non wearables has the most promise although the requirements for the hack sack pattern has me stymied. It calls for size 10 crochet cotton and then lists the item used as "double strand", so I'm guessing if you don't want to buy the specific product mentioned you use two strands? The directions should clearly make that statement if it is the case. Some fun and easy projects for beginners.