The 'Granny Square Fashion' Book Tour with Cassie Ward

Get ready for the ultimate insider look into the fabulous new book from Cassie Ward, Granny Square Fashion!

Starting today, and continuing throughout the month of March, a host of the craft community's best crochet designers and makers will be sharing their versions of the beautiful garments and accessories featured in Cassie's new book on their Instagram accounts. Make sure you're following the participants below to stay up to date!

Granny Square Fashion is fit to burst with bright and colourful garments and accessories, including sweaters and cardigans, a tank top, vests, bags, t-shirts, dresses, and shawls! We can't wait to see what these fabulous creators do with the chic designs on offer. We'll be sharing their makes on the Search Press Instagram as well as sharing a tour round-up when all our makers have shared their pieces.

Granny Square Fashion

Crochet fashionable granny square garments everyone will want to wear!

Crochet guru Cassie Ward's new book offers:

15 beginner-to-intermediate projects for crocheted fashion, including sweaters, cardigans, tank tops, vests, bags, t-shirts, dresses, and shawls
Invaluable tips and techniques including how to join squares in different ways, select colours, and create fabulous combinations for your projects
Swappable squares, so you can easily substitute your favourite granny square or use a variety of different designs in one project
Step-by-step instructions for making the basic granny square, half-granny, and diagonal half, and how to change colours while crocheting.

Crochet fashion is hugely popular the world over. From social media to the catwalk, granny squares have even been featured in fashion-house collections including that of Dolce & Gabbana!

In Granny Square Fashion, you'll learn the essential techniques and basic patterns for making a granny square that can be repeated and used in 15 brilliant garments and accessories! And if you want to substitute your favorite granny square or use a variety of different designs to make the projects, it's easily done.

The 15 featured projects are chic garments that you'll want to make and wear, including sweaters and cardigans, a tank top, vests, bags, t-shirts, dresses, and shawls.

Cassie's book is perfect for beginners, with its step-by-step introduction to making the basic granny square, half-granny square, and diagonal half, as well as how to change colours while crocheting. You'll learn how to join squares in different ways, select colours, create fabulous combinations, and more! The patterns begin with simple designs, progressing on to slightly more advanced techniques, so you can build your skills as you crochet.

Granny Square Fashion (RRP £14.99) is available from Search Press and all good booksellers!

Cassie Ward

Cassie Ward is the founder of The Missing Yarn, an online crochet garment retailer. Many of her designs are born out of her love of fashion and desire to be different. Cassie's designs have appeared in Inside Crochet, Crochet Now, Simply Crochet, Mollie Makes, and the Crochet Society Subscription Box. You can find her patterns on her website, www.themissingyarn.co.uk, and on Instagram @themissingyarn. Cassie lives in Cambridgeshire, UK.