To everyone who is checking out my blog for the first time – welcome! I hope you enjoy my post and will come back again.

I want to thank Amy Shelton and Donna Hulka, the co-owners of Crochetville. They put in a tremendous amount of time putting the blog tour together and I am truly grateful for all their efforts. If you aren’t familiar with their site, I highly suggest you check it out. It is a great resource for information and crochet friendship.

I am blessed to receive samples of many books. I enjoy reading through them, sharing my thoughts on them with my readership, and then I give them away! For my blog tour day, I have another great book review and give-away.

And now without further delay, my book review. This post – Crochet Bouquet: Easy Designs for Dozens of Flowers from Suzann Thompson.

I love small projects. Scarves, small household items, you name it. I especially love when I can add some type of embellishment to it. That’s where Crochet Bouquet comes in.

This book has something for every crochet level and style. It begins with a introduction from Suzann. It talks about her love of flowers since childhood. After she discovered the use of flowers in Irish crochet, she learned how to combine her love of flowers and her love of crochet.

Something I especially love is that the book shows these beautiful flowers used on non-crochet and non-knit items, like jeans and backpacks. Another reason I think these flowers are great is that they can be used in free form projects. If you aren’t familiar with free form, I highly suggest you check out four of my favorite free form fiber artists: Prudence Mapstone, Margaret Hubert, Myra Wood, and the original James Walters. These small pieces, mixed with some scrumbles here and there and poof! An awesome free form project!

I always try to pick a favorite project in each book I review, but I have to say it was really hard this time. I really like the Mumsy and the Sunflower. The foliage at the end of the book also can add a nice finishing touch to the flower patterns. What I think is great is that Suzann provides the “basic” pattern, and then shows how to “embellish” the embellishment. Brilliant!

Ultimately, any crocheter would love this book. I plan on purchasing one for myself.

And now you can win this book! Again, the rules are simple:

1. Make sure you “like” my Facebook page.

2. Make sure you “like” the book review post on Facebook.

3. I pick a winner!

I’ll pick a winner on Friday, March 25th. Make sure to check back on my Facebook page to see if you are the lucky winner!