This work contains crochet bouquets of nearly 50 wonderful flowers in a variety of shapes sizes & colours! Created in ribbon chenille & silk this contemporary garden will get intermediate-level crocheters grasping their hooks. Some of the flora looks realistic; others are beautifully fanciful pure products of the imagination. A simple well-photographed basics section explains how to create them all: specialty techniques include felting stacking the flowers stiffening the petals & linking the flowers together. ' Grow' daffodils dahlias ferns primroses sunflowers & violets
- or even a fantastic blossom with layers of scalloped petals radiating out in increasing size from a crystal button centre. For added inspiration a series of showcase projects incorporates the blossoms including hats backpacks pillows & cards.