How long does it take to read Granny Square Flowers?
50 Botanical Crochet Motifs and 15 Original Projects
Granny Square Flowers by Margaret Hubert takes about 2 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2013. 144 pages, about 39,600 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Don't you just love granny squares! Popular mainstay of crochet, these lovely motifs are fun, convenient, and versatile. With unlimited yarn choices and color combinations, crocheters can turn granny squares into blankets, pillows, garments, accessories, and so much more. Don’t you just love flowers! What would our lives be like without them? They brighten the earth with their rainbow of colors and intriguing shapes. Enamored with the beauty of flowers, artisans everywhere strive to capture them in paintings, sculptures, tapestries, and fabric prints. Now Granny Square Flowers brings together two of your favorites in one book. Margaret Hubert provides you with fifty unique granny squares inspired by flowers and other plant life. You will find flowers for each month, garden flowers, and wild flowers, with a showy weed or two thrown in for good measure. There are even granny squares designed from fruits, berries, and veggies. Photos of the squares are accompanied by written instructions and stitch symbol diagrams. Fifteen original projects incorporate some of these floral grannies into sweaters, scarves, handbags, kids’ clothes, and home décor items. Once you try a few of the projects, you’ll soon see how easy it is to design projects of your own. --BACK COVER
Subjects: Crocheting, Patterns
