Yarn Whirled: Fairy Tales, Fables and Folklore

Filled with stunning, colorful photographs of finished yarn dolls, this delightful read provides inspiration for crafters and doll makers. Not sure what to do with that extra yarn? Make a soft doll out of it! Step-by-step photos, a list of materials, and helpful tips for creating your masterpieces are included. While this book features well-known and lesser-known fairy tale figures you'll be able to adapt your dolls to make any character of your choosing. We especially enjoyed seeing options for making Nutcrackers Suite dolls. Too cute!

Yarn Whirled: Fairy Tales, Fables and Folklore is another crafty book that I was looking forward to reading. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the formatting for it 100% correct to be able to read everything, but it seems like these characters may be a better start for me before diving into learning something like crochet. These are more made of folded yarn. I loved seeing all the fairies and the other folklore characters that were created. With my limited hand-eye coordination I think that these types of creations are more my style. The outcome is really adorable too. There are humans as well as other characters shown in the book, like adorable little brown bears and characters from the nutcracker too. The details on the tutus of the ballerinas and the wings of the fairies are absolutely amazing. If you're looking to make some characters in a way that might be a little bit easier than with crocheting, this is the book for you.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.

Loved every page in this book! The illustrations are well done, the instructions are well written, and my kids can't wait for mommy to make them ALL these adorable fairy tale items.

This is an interesting way of making dolls. It will be a good book for a library. I can see it being fun to make with your kids. The instructions are a little daunting, but once the kids make one, I think they’ll pick up the idea pretty quickly.

A brilliant addition to the craft section. Step by step easy to follow patterns with great colour photographs in high detail so you could really see what to do with no problems. I think my favourites would be Prince Charming and the fairy. Beautifully illustrated.

Yarn Whirled by Pat Olski is a wonderful step by step book on making fairy tale, fable, or folklore yarn dolls. There are lots of instructions and load of pictures. The first basic doll is step by step with close up pictures and instructions. The rest have instructions and pictures. There are so many, what a variety! I am always looking for new crafts I can try and this is something I think I can actually do and wouldn't cost a fortune. Great book! Thanks NetGalley for letting me read this book.