Crocheters and casual crafters will definitely find something that catches their eye in this book. Well laid out and with good explanations, this is a good excuse to get together (in-person or Zoom) with a group of friends and enjoy being creative!

It was okay....a lot of projects require particular skill sets and are not cheap to make though. I think some people would enjoy this, it just wasn't for me.

I really enjoyed this book, and created a lot of very fun stuff with it! I recommend it for anyone who is looking into getting onto creating, or even someone who just wants to try something new!

A lovely book to spark those creative ideas. Anytime the creative juices are simply not there a quick sit down with this book will have my mind overflowing with ideas.

There were lots of accesible and fun projects to do, I'm looking forward yo try some of these! They were well explained, too, but were also useful to take ideas and apply them tour own way

This book leads you through the idea of a “craft date” with friends and includes many beautiful projects to work on during your craft date. I love this idea. The projects were both beautiful and useful, which is a bonus. I can’t wait to start crafting with my friends!

Being creative brings happiness to self and others . This book gives 25 project ideas and snack recipes for your leisure time......

This was a great book, chock full of lots project and design inspiration. Love the idea of spreading the creativity throughout the year!

I received an arc of this title for an honest review. A Year of Creativity is exactly as it is named. Some really great ideas on how to be creative. Great gift option for the upcoming holiday season.

Thank you Quatro - Quarry and Netgalley for this ARC.

This was a super colourful, fun book with lots of project ideas to help anyone wanting a more creative vibe in their year ahead. This would be a perfect gift for someone who enjoys doing home based crafts.

Everything about this book is inspiring. It's pretty, the projects are usable and simple, the recipes sound amazing. Even the packaging ideas are beautiful.

I loved getting to "meet" these ladies through these pages, and thanks to the great ideas for craft dates, can't wait to gather together some folks for making things, too.

I can't think of a single one of these projects I wouldn't like to make. Crocheted baskets, fabric pattern weights, delicately edged scarves...even a great coat rack. It's a wide variety of useful things, made beautiful and suitable to make with friends.

Definitely worth picking up...and using, repeatedly.

The subtitle of this book states that it is a “craft date planner.” I believe the authors misspoke. When I think of a planner, I think of something that I can write in as I strategize something, whether it's my day or a project. This is really more of a book that introduces the concept of a craft date if you aren't familiar with it and gives some ideas for projects for the group.

The idea of a craft date is to get together with like-minded friends and craft together. Sometimes, the group might work on a single project together, like a gift for a mutual friend. Other times, the group might work individually, each participant making the same project but fashioned for her own likes and dislikes. Another possibility would be to work on a variety of small projects during the craft date time. As you can see, it really depends on what the group wants to do in general and on a particular day.

The bulk of the book is pictures of and directions for a variety of projects that a craft date group could do. In the table of contents, these are color coded to show whether they are short, longer, or cooperative projects. In flipping through the book, none of them looked particularly difficult, which I imagine would be a criteria for a craft date project. The crafts in this book include crochet, knitting, sewing, and even a little straight-up crafting, like making a wooden coat rack or a tool station. When looking at the projects themselves, some were wholly contained within the main portion of the book, while others had directions (partial or complete) in the back of the book. I know this is a long-standing tradition in craft books, but I'm not a particular fan of it, and I don't think it was well done in this book. It made for a very picture-heavy central portion and a very text-heavy end section. There was one project where all it showed were pictures in the main part—four pages worth—and had the directions only in the back. I would have loved to have seen all of the directions integrated into the main part with the photographs scattered throughout the project’s section. It just breaks up the tedium of the pages and helps you to see what a project should look like, from a variety of angles, when the directions and the picture are on the same page.

The book definitely has some projects that look like they are worth doing, either alone or in a group. As someone who has crafted off and on throughout her life, this is just the sort of book to fire up my imagination and make me want to break out my favorite crafting tools and have a go. They would be more fun to do with others, that's for sure, especially if the group is made up of truly like-minded individuals.

I received an advance digital copy of this book from the author, publisher and Netgalley.com. Thanks to all for the opportunity to read and review. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.

A Year of Creativity is a good resource book for anyone who has a basic knowledge of different craft techniques and wants new projects to make with friends. #craftdates have been trending on Instagram for awhile now and here is your launch pad to craft with friends. Clear instructions and beautifully illustrations will get all of your juices flowing!

5 out of 5 stars. Highly recommended.

A fun look at how to create craft play dates to enjoy with friends. The book first describes how the four women who wrote it got started in crafting, and how their craft dates first got going. Then we have suggestions for wrapping the materials for the projects, and lots of fun project ideas. Keep in mind, this isn't really a how-to book; you'll need to bring your own knowledge of basic skills with you, or be prepared to research how to do them. The projects included are a place to start, but they lead to many other ideas that would make for a good afternoon or day-long craft date. Also included are recipes for snacks and light meals, because all that work requires sustenance! There are lovely photos throughout, guaranteed to spark your creativity. I have a friend that I get together with for craft dates, it really is a lot of fun!

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This is a great idea book for setting up craft dates for friend that want to get together and do crafts together. I have a group that does this and will purchase the book for it's ideas on crocheting, sewing, and other crafts.
Thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publications for giving me access to the e-book for a review.

This was n interesting and unique read. It got me thinking about some other hobbies I might be interested in trying in the future, although I wouldn't go about it the way the book has done. I feel hobbies are not necessarily social and this book highlights the opposite.

I received an ARC of this book from Quarto Publishing Group- Quarry via NetGalley, this review is my personal opinion.


I must say when I first heard about craft date I was intrigued, I like crafts and this book represents an opportunity on sharing and bonding with loved ones. With a colorful picture and fullied with different types of projects this books has a bit for everyone. This four authors did a great job, and in the introduction, they explain how they are not just presenting a pretty book with step by steps crafts, but a chance to make something new, and since on each date, the idea is to bring a different project. I think is perfect for those that want ideas and also learn all type of crafts while also building a friendship.

I have never been a very social person, but I like the idea that this book encourages. It is something that was born out of the very idea that it talks about so it is tried and tested. 

It is an odd collection of crochet ideas, food, and other craft ideas to keep the rest of the ideas in order. It gives an approximate method of how (once you have a group of like-minded individuals who are willing to set time aside to help each other sustain the good habits of crochet or the like) to work together in a group in a seamless fashion. It has suggestions of how to record ideas as and when you have them and then to distribute it among the group and work simultaneously on a project all the while working individually. For example, a project could be deciding on an object and colour but the shape and style would be a personal touch. It has the instructions for all four of the authors' input in some of the projects while a few others seem to be specialties of individual authors. None of the food recipes were for me, but some of the crochet ideas are appealing, especially since I recently bought a lot of random yarns.

It is not for uninitiated and only applies to those who like working with their hands and are on the lookout to streamline this habit.

I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers but this review is completely based on my own reading experience (and plans for crochet in the future)

Thank you the NetGalley and the publisher for letting me read this book in exchange for an honest review.

I didn't like this book. I found it odd all the way around. None of the projects really stuck out at me and all in all I don't think it has a year's worth of creativity between it's covers.

Such a fun book to not only get inspired from but also just to flip through an look at all the ideas. I aloe le at there is a mixture of different levels, so that people that don't really craft a lot can still find things and people that do it a lot will also not be bored. I would also guess that a good amount of those ideas are possible for children to do and will be fun for them.
Defiantly worth a look!