Creative Modern Crochet for the Home

Brighten up your home with 12 inspiring modern crochet projects from popular crafter Lucy Djevdet (@craftingbylucy).

Featuring fresh designs and contemporary textures, this book contains design-led, sustainable projects that will help you ‘make do’ rather than ‘buy new’.

These 12 practical projects, made from a range of contemporary textures including raffia, jute and macramé cord as well as yarn, will spruce up your home and your mood! Fresh, bold and functional, there are homeware patterns for all crochet abilities, and every technique needed is shown clearly step by step.

• Get organized with a stylish and practical hanging fruit basket, created from macramé cord and designed to keep your produce fresh;
• Snuggle up with a cozy blanket and comfy pillow, made with chunky feather stitch for a trendy geometric finish;
• Use sturdy raffia yarn to create on-trend storage baskets in four different sizes perfect for use in any room of the house;
• Create a decorative doormat using jute twine for a practical, hard-wearing finish;
• Update an old vase with a contemporary cover, create a new shade for an old lamp and transform used tins into colourful hanging herb planters.

For a stunningly textured, multi-craft finish, several of the projects incorporate touches of weaving and macramé, both of which are also clearly explained.

Lucy's stylish designs support a sustainable lifestyle and will inject colour and joy into any home setting.

Book Contents

Introduction 6
Materials 8
Tools 12
Getting started 16
Stitches 20
Special stitches 26 
Techniques 38

PROJECTS 46
Lampshade 48, Pillow 52, Garden storage 56, Hanging planters 62, Blanket 66, Storage baskets 70, Vase 78, Fruit baskets 82, Market bag 86, Wall hanging 92, Mirror 102, Rug 106