50 eye-catching granny square designs in a stylish card deck, perfect for on-the-go crochet! Innovative and completely visual, this card deck of 50 gorgeous granny squares will help you create successful design combinations every time you pick up your hook. On the front of each 4" square card is a color photograph of the finished granny square, and nothing else. This allows you to lay out the designs and easily mix, match and create your own design combinations. Simply flip the card over to find the instructional crochet chartand joining instructions.

Also in the box is a 32-page booklet, which contains a comprehensive step-by-step guide to reading and understanding crochet charts, with five side-by-side examples of pattern and chart instructions to get you started. You'll also find advice on choosing yarns and hooks, two different methods for joining your squares together, and guidance on color placement and arrangement so that you can achieve color success every time. Each square is made using the same hook and yarn weight and is the same finished size, so that the squares can be joined together in any combination with ease.

Claire Montgomerie is a textiles designer specializing in crochet and knitting. She has written many books on these topics, and also styles and edits the UK craft magazine Inside Crochet. Claire lives in Cambridgeshire. Check out her website at montyknits.blogspot.com and @clairemontyknits.