The Big Book of Granny Squares: 365 Crochet Motifs

There are a variety of blocks they are extremely similar to others with color changes. I strongly disagree with their rating system, but I am not a beginner.The colors are a little dated and haphazard, but that’s also just a personal taste thing, to some extent…The thing that really bugs me is the “organization” of the squares. It’s like they put them all on cards and drew them randomly out of a hat… it would be much more easily navigated if it were in sections by the books rating system… having them all really mixed together is frustrating to ME let alone a beginner.

As others have mentioned, this book has lots of errors. I bought it for a project where I'm using a large variety of square motif designs, and every pattern I've followed so far has multiple issues, mostly with miscalcuating the number of stitches per row. These errors aren't so catastrophic that an experienced crocheter wouldn't be able to figure out what was supposed to be written, but it's still really frustrating to realize that something you were told to do two rows ago was incorrect and having to either frog everything you've done since then or awkwardly try to correct it. That said, if you have the patience and skill and are short on inspiration, it's not a bad book to draw from. There are some really great designs. I just wish the patterns had been tested properly.

Great visuals, easy to read patterns and so many my daughters and I had never seen that we want to do. This book gives you just what it says, tons of squares and their patterns. There isn’t any blankets with the combos but that makes for great imagination skills. We are getting blocking mats/boards and getting started with our own blankets ASAP!

The Big Book of Granny Squares has a nice collection of granny squares, but the binding could use some redesigning. I first checked this book out at our local library to dive into the world of granny squares. I liked the book and the interesting patterns in it so much that I decided to buy the book. I like the variety of granny square patterns this book contains. The patterns have different difficulty ratings from one (*) stars to four (****) stars which helps when you to pick out which granny squares you want to work with in a project. I wish that the patterns in this book would mention how many stitches you should have at the end of each row like many of the other patterns I have worked from other sources. To a beginner in crocheting granny squares some of the patterns can be a bit confusing, but with some crochet common sense and ingenuity it's not too hard to figure out the difficult/confusing parts in the patterns. I'm giving this book four stars for that reason and the fact that spiral binding is only threaded through thick card stock which contributed to my book arriving with some minor damage to the holes in the thick card stock which holds the spiral binding in place. I would suggest to anyone else who orders this book to reinforce the holes in the card stock both in the front and back.

I love this book of motifs. I use it often for a visual guide for stitch patterns as well as color ideas. It's very well written with easy to understand instructions. It's an all around great tool to have and keep handy....like the Good Housekeeping cookbook we all got from our grandmother's when we first started out.