Edward's Menagerie New Edition

Préface
Perfect for beginners with only one main crochet stitch to master - no special equipment needed and less than one ball of yarn per animal.

Auteur

Kerry Lord is the designer and founder of the Toft Alpaca Shop, a modern British knitwear company offering exclusive knitting and crochet patterns, alpaca yarns and workshops. Toft takes British alpaca fleece from their own Alpaca flock and from elsewhere in the UK, and spins superior 100% natural alpaca yarns in lace, fine, double knit, Aran and chunky weights. Their fashion-led designs are available as both 'ready to wear' and 'ready to knit' with comprehensive knitting tutorial videos to help beginners out. Toft studio also hosts a full programme of knitting workshops and other textile courses for people to learn to knit from scratch, but also to develop advanced techniques.

Texte du rabat

Spend some time with a high-flying rhino, a lovesick elephant and a chivalrous tiger... in an updated edition of this crochet classic, with over 250,000 copies sold. These crochet animals are made using simple techniques and a supersoft yarn in natural colours and will become your new best friends as you hook your way through the whole menagerie!

Résumé
Get ready to spend some time with a suave high-flying rhino, a lovesick elephant who knows her way around a kitchen and a seriously chivalrous tiger... in a new and updated edition of this crochet classic! With just two weeks to go before baby Edward's due date, yarn enthusiast and mum-to-be Kerry Lord picked up a crochet hook for the first time and a new obsession began. Over the next 12 months the collection of crochet animals expanded week on week until Edward's Menagerie was complete, and the first edition was published in 2014. Ten years on, the book has sold over a quarter of a milllon copies, while the collection has expanded and improved, prompting a new edition featuring fully updated patterns and a selection of brand new animals. These cute animals with larger-than-life personalities are made using simple crochet techniques and the step-by-step instructions enable a complete beginner to get hooking straight away. Each animal also has a universal pattern where you can change your hook and yarn to create four different sizes, making 200 different possibilities. Be warned that these unlikely characters made using a supersoft yarn in a sumptuous natural colour palette will become your new best friends as you hook your way through the whole menagerie!

Échantillon de lecture
Edward’s Menagerie has now been a part of my life for over a decade, and has taken me on adventures around the world I could never have imagined when writing this book the first time. Along the way I have met tens of thousands of people who have enjoyed crocheting these animals just as much as I do, and with them I have shared in stories of how much these patterns have spread joy, triumph and pride at life’s most challenging moments. With this ten-year edition I have added everything I have learned over that decade teaching more and more people to crochet, and the patterns have become even easier for a beginner crocheter to pick them up and begin making. Step-by-step techniques have been included at the back of the book for the stitches used, so, even if you have never tried crochet before, you will be able to get started straight away. It was shortly before my 40-week due date that I first picked up a crochet hook. Since then, I have shelved my knitting needles and not looked back. In the 14 days in which Edward kept me waiting, 14 animals were made (albeit several were inside out and I still had little idea how to write down what I had done!). In my first six months as a new mum with an expanding yarn business I only managed to add a few more animals to the mantlepiece. It was really only once I was living with a baby who wanted to interact and play with my creations that a new wave of enthusiasm took hold of me. I now live with a pre-teen Edward and a daughter and have gone on to crochet a few stitches very nearly every day since he was born, resulting in far more animals than even the biggest zoo. Bridget the Elephant was the first animal to arrive in Edward’s nursery, and she remains one of the simplest patterns, along with Alexandre the Russian Blue Cat and Emma the Bunny. If you are a beginner, I would recommend working your way up to the likes of the loop stitches on Blake the Orangutan and colour changing on Hamlet the Cheetah, as these patterns are a little more complex. This ten-year edition includes new patterns and techniques for designs I could not have begun to conceive of when I first learned to crochet, but that I know you will love developing your skills with beyond the double crochet stitch. The patterns for Edward’s Menagerie are designed for you and your friends and family to enjoy and are for private use only. I can’t wait to see photos of your menagerie animals; make sure you share them using the hashtag #edsanimals, so myself and the rest of the incredibly creative TOFT community can find them.