I am so happy to see my hard work mentioned on the pages of a magazine. That’s huge! Thank you very much Inside Crochet and Simply Crochet.
Unfortunately, since the new EU VAT changes, my book is no longer available in EU iTunes stores. Crochet fans in the UK, USA and Asia Pacific can still purchase the book here.
If you’ve bought Crochet Pretty, I would love to hear your thoughts on the patterns, and interactiveness of the book.
My living room is quite a bit emptier now that the 17 blankets have gone to the Royal London Hospital. I’ve been crocheting like a hooker possessed the past couple of months. Apart from joining up the blankets for CFK3, I had baby booties and baby blankets to make for colleagues, the ten patterns for Crochet Pretty, something Summery for I Like Crochet Magazine’s June 2015 issue, a design for another magazine due out October 2015, I made a beanie for a friend and today I’ll be working on squares from Shelley Husband’s book More Than a Granny. (I’ll be doing a full review of her book next week.) That’s a lot of hooky action! Oh, and my Crochet Mood Blanket is stuck on 24 June 2014 – there’s a lot of catching up to do with that blanket!
But before I sit down to crochet I wanted to quickly let you know that you can see the 10 accessory patterns from my iBook Crochet Pretty over on Ravelry. Just click here.
Bummer. I just had a look around the living room again. I think a good hoovering is called for. Probably a bit of dusting too. And the laundry basket needs attention rescue. I would love to get going with Shelley’s granny squares but I wouldn’t be able to relax and enjoy the hooky action knowing that I still have to The Housework. Dyson first, PG Tips & Stylecraft Cotton second. Priorities blah blah blah.
This is my crochet ebook! I am so, so, so excited to say that I’ve published a crochet book and it’s ready for you to buy for £4.99 / $7.99 over in the Apple iBooks store!!! Just click here.
The ten accessories that I designed for this book are the drawstring pouch that you see on the cover, a pair of beaded earrings, two pairs of wrist warmers, a scarf, a wrap, flowery ring, necklace, brooch and a headband. The accessories are really pretty, colourful and easy to make.
I loved every minute of writing this book. Everything about it was amazing, thrilling, exciting and so rewarding. It’s such a blessing to be alive in the 21st century where you can publish your own books, and not just any book, a book with five instructional videos, and an interactive quiz built in!
Unfortunately Apple are the only ebook publishers who support such an interactive book, so Crochet Pretty is only available on iPad and Mac. (You won’t be able to purchase Crochet Pretty on Amazon for instance.)
If you are as excited as I am and want to buy my iBook, you have to hop on over to this page on iTunes. If you already have iBooks installed on your iPad, just go ahead and click on the link.
If you don’t have iBooks installed yet, follow these steps to buy Crochet Pretty:
1. Download the iBooks app from the App store for free.
2. Once it’s downloaded tap the “Store” button in the top left corner of the iBooks app.
3. Search for Crochet Pretty in the top-right corner search box.
4. When you tap on the book title you will see screenshots of the book and you can download a sample of the book. Do this by tapping the “Get Sample” button.
5. When you are ready to purchase the book, tap the price. The button will turn green and read “Buy Book”. Tap it again to purchase the book with your iTunes account and password.
6. Crochet Pretty will start to download as soon as you’ve entered your iTunes account password. Once it’s finished, it will appear as a title on our bookshelf in the iBook app.
These screenshots give you an idea of what to expect from the book.
Zig Zag Wrist Warmers
Beadazzling Earrings
The first “page” of the book is a short video to show readers how to navigate through my book. Crochet Pretty is a different kind of book with features that not everyone would be familiar with, so I thought I needed to show off those features a bit. Luckily the video isn’t just inside the book – I uploaded it to YouTube too, so everyone can watch it. In the video you see the first three patterns of the book – it’s a nice sneak peek into my book 😉
When you’ve bought my book I would love, love, love to get your feedback. Please leave me star ratings and reviews on iBooks. I plan on writing at least three more crochet books with iBooks, so your feedback on the first one is crucial.
I hope you are as excited as I am about Crochet Pretty – Ten Accessories To Make You Feel Pretty.
Would you like to see a sneak peek at some of the patterns in my crochet iBook?
Do you?
Oh all right then. Here you go.
Ha-ha! I’m not going to give away the surprise that easily! Blurry, unrecognisable close-ups are all you’re going to get out of me today.
What I can say is that the 10 patterns have successfully been turned into 10 chapters, the basic outlay has been decided on and now I’m just counting down to Sunday for the photo shoot. Oooh, the photos are so important! Don’t you agree? No matter how great the crochet patterns, how great the theme, how great the layout of the book, if the photos don’t make us want to put hook to yarn, we don’t buy the book. No pressure Photographer!
I really can’t wait to hit the Publish button on this book. It’s a totally different type of electronic book. You guys with iPads and Macs are going to love it! It’s fun too and you’ll get the chance to hear my voice and see my hands five times throughout the book….
If you’ll excuse me I need to go triple check my spelling, grammar and ;repeat from * to * bits. Checking, checking and checking again, that’s the name of the editing game.
Oooh, I’m excited! Can’t wait to tell you that the book is “live” and ready for you to buy!
Okay. Now I’m really going to get on with the editing.
So I’ve decided to write a book. Yup. Just like that. Bull by the horns, carpe diem, reach for the stars.
It’s always been a dream of mine to see my name on the cover of a book but why wait on someone else to make my dream come true, when I can go out and Make It Happen thanks to the wonder of self-publishing an electronic book?
My book of 10 pretty crochet accessory patterns will be available in the iBook format. iBooks are available for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Mac.
This book has been a long time coming. I’ve been actively working on the book for three weeks but the patterns have been brewing a very long time. The idea for one pattern came to me during our Scotland road trip back in September, another is inspired by something I saw whilst in France on the crochet retreat and my favourite piece is something I’ve been thinking of since the beginning of the year. Over the past three weeks I’ve had a great time learning about, and designing, the layout of my book, designing the patterns, crocheting the accessories, making videos and seeking inspiration for the styling. It’s a lot of work, but it’s so rewarding.
The photo shoot is arranged for 2 October, the studio booked and the ten pieces have been crocheted. There is still a lot of work to be done, but I’m so excited and motivated that I don’t even mind doing the editing and triple checking everything.
I’m pretty proud of what I’ve designed and I can’t wait to share the book with you all! If you want to be kept in the loop about the publication date of my first book you can join the mailing list by using the form below.
