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A review by devoted_bookworm
Unofficial Taylor Swift Crochet: 20+ Projects Inspired by the Music and Style Icon by Lee Sartori
2.0
I was excited to read this book and try out some of the patterns, but this book was a disappointment.
The images in this book did a horrible job representing the crocheted items that the patterns were for. I know that they were going for a specific vibe with the illustrated girls, but when you’re going to take the time to crochet an item of clothing, you need to see what it’s actually going to look like on a real person. I wanted to see the cardigans, the halter top, the hood, the shawl all on a real person. I needed to see how they hung and what I could anticipate my creation looking like, if I decided to attempt crocheting it.
The blankets weren’t spread out evenly for the pictures. The picture of the granny square blanket, in particular, looked horrible. I would never make that pattern just because the picture was so awful.
The graphs needed for several of the projects were way too small to be usable. There was a QR code to scan that gave you access to the graphs on your phone. You could zoom in, but they just felt hard to use and difficult to follow. Plus, when I have a book with a pattern in it, I expect to be able to use the pattern in the book and not have to go off somewhere else to make the pattern usable.
The Reputation doll was pretty cool looking.
I made the headband and it turned out pretty cute. After I got used to the pattern writer’s style, the pattern was easy to follow. There was a small mistake in the numbering of the rows (it has rows 1-3, then row 4, then rows 3-16, instead of rows 5-16), but other than that, the pattern seemed correct. I did 24 rows for the even section because it was looking kind of small. When I put the headband on, it immediately starts to slide off. That always happens to me with this type of headband. I guess I’ll have to use hairpins to keep it in.
In the end, this is not a book that I would recommend.
Thank you to Netgalley, Quarry Books, and Lee Sartori for providing me with a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
The images in this book did a horrible job representing the crocheted items that the patterns were for. I know that they were going for a specific vibe with the illustrated girls, but when you’re going to take the time to crochet an item of clothing, you need to see what it’s actually going to look like on a real person. I wanted to see the cardigans, the halter top, the hood, the shawl all on a real person. I needed to see how they hung and what I could anticipate my creation looking like, if I decided to attempt crocheting it.
The blankets weren’t spread out evenly for the pictures. The picture of the granny square blanket, in particular, looked horrible. I would never make that pattern just because the picture was so awful.
The graphs needed for several of the projects were way too small to be usable. There was a QR code to scan that gave you access to the graphs on your phone. You could zoom in, but they just felt hard to use and difficult to follow. Plus, when I have a book with a pattern in it, I expect to be able to use the pattern in the book and not have to go off somewhere else to make the pattern usable.
The Reputation doll was pretty cool looking.
I made the headband and it turned out pretty cute. After I got used to the pattern writer’s style, the pattern was easy to follow. There was a small mistake in the numbering of the rows (it has rows 1-3, then row 4, then rows 3-16, instead of rows 5-16), but other than that, the pattern seemed correct. I did 24 rows for the even section because it was looking kind of small. When I put the headband on, it immediately starts to slide off. That always happens to me with this type of headband. I guess I’ll have to use hairpins to keep it in.
In the end, this is not a book that I would recommend.
Thank you to Netgalley, Quarry Books, and Lee Sartori for providing me with a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.