Sensory baby book

Touch and feel are crucial to a young child’s development, and this colourful crocheted book by

HEATHER GIBBS will keep a curious youngster engaged for hours. Discover fun stitches like popcorn and loop stitch which help to add interesting textures to the pages. This project can be made with any kit as the colours are not important, just be sure to go for maximum contrast on pages with more than one colour.

YARN

DK, shades Red, Dark Blue, Yellow, Turquoise, Orange, Pale Pink, Light Blue, Lime Green

PLUS

3.5mm needles, stitch markers, tapestry needle

SIZE

13cm x 15cm

SENSORY BABY BOOK popcorn page

Note: 3ch at start

of row counts as st throughout Using 3.5mm hook and Purple make 26ch

Row 1: starting in fourth ch from hook, 1tr in each st to end, turn. 24 sts

Row 2: 3ch, 1tr in each st across, turn

Note: colour in

brackets foll instruction indicates which yarn to use

Row 3: 3ch, 3tr (Purple), PC (see Skill Up) (Dark Blue), (4tr [Purple], PC [Dark Blue]) three times, 4tr (Purple), turn

Rows 4-11: rep Rows 2-3 four times

Rows 12-13: rep Row 2 twice Fasten off

waffle stitch page

Using 3.5mm hook and Yellow make 26ch

Row 1: starting in fourth ch from hook, 1tr in each st to end, turn. 24 sts

Row 2: 2ch, 3tr, 1fptr (see Skill Up), (4tr, 1fptr) three times, 4tr, turn

Row 3: 2ch, 3fptr, 1bptr (see Skill Up), (4fptr, 1bptr) three times, 3fptr, 1htr, turn

Row 4: 2ch, 3tr, 1fptr, (4tr, 1fptr) three times, 4tr, turn

Rows 5-16: rep Rows 3-4 six times Fasten off

loop stitch page

Note: 1ch at start of row does not count as st throughout Using 3.5mm hook and Lime Green make 25ch

Row 1: starting in second ch from hook, 1dc in each st to end, turn. 24 sts

Rows 2-7: 1ch, 1dc in each st to end, turn

Row 8: 1ch, 4dc, 16 loop sts (see Skill Up), 4dc, turn

Row 9: 1ch, 1dc in each st to end, turn

Rows 10-21: rep Rows 8-9 six times

Rows 22-27: rep Row 9 six times Fasten off

basketweave page

Using 3.5mm hook and Orange make 26ch

Row 1: starting in fourth ch from hook, 1tr in each st to end, turn. 24 sts

Rows 2-4: 3ch, 3fptr, (4bptr, 4fptr) twice, 3bptr, 1tr in last st, turn

Rows 5-7: 3ch, 3bptr, (4fptr, 4bptr) twice, 3fptr, 1tr in last st, turn

Rows 8-13: rep Rows 2-7 Change to

GREAT ADVICE BLOCKING

Before adding your pages to the book, block them to make sure they are all the same size. Completely soak each page in cold water, then gently squeeze (without wringing it) out some of the excess water. Using a tape measure and pins, carefully pin each page on a blocking board. Leave to d