Crocheting on the Edge

Crocheting on the Edge

Nicky Epstein has a special gift. She can take things we’ve seen many times before and make them fresh and exciting. She makes two repetitions of a pattern look like a precious jewel. It’s the eye of an artist. Nicky’s feminine and romantic sensibility stays up to date due to her great sense of color, proportion and texture. Her color and yarn choices always clothe the stitches in a special new light. This book rivals the beauty of Sasha Kagen’s “Crochet Inspirations” published last year. The crochet scarf and wrap (see below) are to die for.  I also admire the book’s design -- wide pages with lots of white space, popping color photos with swatches floating right on the page and multi-color diagrams almost as pretty as the swatches they illustrate. This is a hardcoverbook -- we don’t see that often enough in crochet! It makes for a luxurious look and feel that suits the quality of the work.