A decade after its original publication, Kerry Lord’s Edward’s Menagerie is expanding even further with her most colourful book yet. Taking everything she has learned since 2016 there’s more help for total beginners, expanded technique explanations and eighteen new birds for you to crochet. Be prepared for fifty fine-feathered friends to fly off your hook and put their feet up on your coffee table!

You’ll be happy as a lark as you crochet your way through this colourful collection of birds, including a bashful Flamingo, a lovesick Owl and a swashbuckling Macaw. Read all about these kooky characters, their adorations and aversions, daydreams and delusions, then crochet them for friends and family.

Each bird has a universal pattern which can be crocheted in four different sizes making over 200 different pattern possibilities – so pick your first project and get started! The patterns use basic stitches, are grouped by difficulty and include step-by-step technical guides for beginners, so there’s no excuse to chicken out.

This 2025 edition contains 18 new patterns that are not featured in the original book and a further 15 revised patterns which have been reworked and perfected to explore the biggest ever TOFT palette of 36 colours. The beginner step-by-step techniques have been expanded, and every project has fully listed yarn colours and double knit quantities. These loveable birds are quick to make using a supersoft yarn in a sophisticated colour palette, and will become your best friends as their larger-than-life personalities and easy-to-master techniques get their claws into you.

When you order this Edward’s Menagerie: Birds paperback book by Kerry Lord directly from TOFT you will receive an exclusive FREE .pdf download featuring ten additional bird crochet patterns.

Inside the new edition of Edward’s Menagerie: Birds you will find the patterns to make the following 50 crochet birds:

Ernest the Canary
Dave the Gull
Duke the Mallard
Celine the Dove
Sophia the Flamingo
Vince the Blue-Footed Booby (REVISED)
Dora the Wood Pigeon (REVISED)
Ina the Stork
Desmond the Blue Tit (NEW)
Alan the Magpie (REVISED)
Barney the Barn Owl (REVISED)
Huck the Pelican
Ethel the Kiwi
Jacob the Hoopoe (NEW)
Henry the Raven (REVISED)
Rory the Northern Cardinal (NEW)
Margot the Swan
Hazel the Hen (REVISED)
Arthur the Blue-Winged Teal (NEW)
Orlando the Roseate Spoonbill (NEW)
Pedro the Wine-Throated Hummingbird (NEW)
Ross the Turkey (REVISED)
Elizabeth the Dodo (REVISED)
Florian the Ostrich
Emily the Vulture (REVISED)
Dudley the Red Grouse (NEW)
Zane the Grey Crowned Crane (NEW)
Abraham the Bald Eagle
Kevin the Cassowary
Travis the Pink Robin (NEW)
Tricia the Silkie Chicken
Elvis the Cockatoo
Meghan the Toucan (REVISED)
Robin the Robin
Jorge the Jay (REVISED)
Gareth the Puffin (REVISED)
Ben the Kingfisher
Yolanda the Cockatiel (NEW)
Gianni the Lovebird (REVISED)
Putu the Lesser Bird Of Paradise (NEW)
Jack the Macaw
Renée the Shalow’s Turaco (NEW)
Terence the Budgerigar (NEW)
Enid the Long-Eared Owl (REVISED)
Ezra the Gouldian Finch (NEW)
Rohit the Peacock (REVISED)
Levi the Red And Yellow Barbet (NEW)
Agatha the Vulturine Guinea Fowl (NEW)
Raegan the King Penguin (NEW)
Callahan the Yokohama Cockerel (NEW)

published in April 2025 by David and Charles

toftuk.com