Guide to 2017 Crochet Books to Put On Your Wishlist Today!

Here is a look at the crochet books coming out in 2017 that you want to be sure not to miss.

Stitch Dictionaries and How to Crochet Books

Learn to Crochet: 25 quick and easy crochet projects to get you started

Heritage Crochet in a New Light: Enriching Your Designs with Antique Lace Techniques is a book that shares the history of crochet while teaching you how to craft a number of niche lace techniques including filet crochet, broomstick lace and more. The book shows how to move between the different techniques and how to create your own designs without patterns.

200 Crochet Designs teaches you all of the basics of crochet through a variety of projects

350+ Crochet Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets, an updated version with even more information than before

Crochet Clothing and Accessories Books

Step Into Crochet: Crocheted Sock Techniques–from Basic to Beyond! This book includes 19 crochet sock patterns

Crocheted Animal Hats: 35 super simple hats to make for babies, kids, and kidults too!

Books of Crochet Squares, Blankets and Edgings

40 Colorful Afghans to Crochet: A Collection of Eye-Popping Stitch Patterns, Blocks & Projects worked in both rounds and rows, with written instructions as well as charts

The Granny Square Book, Second Edition: “designer and author Margaret Hubert has updated her bestselling and beloved book to include 25 additional crochet squares (for a total of 100!) and 25 all-new projects to make, wear, and give”

Every Which Way Crochet Borders: 139 Patterns for Customized Edgings by Edie Eckman; this looks like a great follow-up to her Around the Corner Crochet Borders, which is a terrific resource that I use regularly

Books with Crochet Patterns for the Home

Home Decoration in Crochet features nearly twenty crochet projects worked in bright cotton yarn to bring fun into your home

Crochet Baskets: 30 Stylish and Easy-to-Make Projects for Every Room in the House

Mini Christmas Crochet: 20 On-the-Go Projects is filled with adorable ideas for decorating your home for the holidays

Crocheted Mandalas, part of the Twenty to Make pattern series

Amigurumi Crochet Books

Crochet Stories: L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the next up in Dover’s Crochet Stories series, books that tell popular tales while sharing amigurumi patterns to make the characters.

Literary Yarns: Crochet Patterns Inspired by Classic Books features “22 crocheted dolls drawn from 16 beloved novels and plays”

Edward’s Crochet Imaginarium: Flip the Pages to Make Over a Million Mix-and-Match Monsters – a stunning follow-up to Edward’s Menagerie

Dumpling Cats: Crochet and Collect Them All! is a book inspired by a Japanese game. It features 25 crochet cat character patterns, each with their own names and personalities.

AmiguruME Pets by Allison Hoffman includes more than 60 crochet patterns with a variety of each type of pet (different dog breeds, for example)

Crocheted Bears and Other Animals: 25 Toys to Crochet

Zootopia Crochet – a complete kit of instructions and yarn for making one dozen characters from the popular film.

Star Wars Even More Crochet – the second Star Wars crochet kit featuring new character patterns

Super Scary Halloween Crochet: 35 gruesome patterns to sink your hook into is a new book by Nicki Trench who always makes adorable amigurumi patterns

General Crochet Pattern Books

Super Size Crochet by Sarah Shrimpton has 20 patterns that all use bulky yarn and large hooks to work up quickly for instant gratification and cozy style

Simple Chic Crochet: 35 stylish patterns to crochet in no time including both wearables and home decor

Bold Baby Crochet: 30 Modern & Colorful Projects for Baby by Dedri Uys

Colorful Crochet by Marianne Dekkers-Roos “encourages crafters to play with color, yarn, patterns, and stitches to create one of a kind crochet projects. Included are a mix of both familiar and new stitches and patterns with clear project descriptions and crochet charts to guide the reader in creating garments, blankets, baskets, rugs, bags, and cushions.”

Great Tunisian Crochet Projects with instructions for the basic stitches in this technique and twenty patterns for wearables and totable

Crochet Fiction

Betty Hechtman is coming out with a new yarn mystery book. A Tangled Yarn is about a yarn retreat that includes arm knitting and finger crochet.