Craft in Your Pocket: Crochet (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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From your first stitch to your own complete clothing & homeware projects, this book will guide you from novice to pro.

You want to learn to crochet, but somehow you always end up in a tangle of yarn and baffled by complicated advice. This beginner's guide goes back to basics, with clear step-by-step illustrations demonstrating how to tie a slipknot, chain stitch, increase and decrease your rows, and crochet in the round, plus many more skills and techniques.

Craft in your Pocket: Crochet provides a simple guide to picking up your hooks and getting started, and it helps to build your confidence slowly, as you practise and perfect skills and techniques.

Covering the basics - from yarn types and hooks, to all of the basic and decorative techniques and different ways of working in the round or in a spiral, as well as finishing your work and troubleshooting - this little guide is the ultimate crafter's companion.

Contents include:
- Yarn, Hooks, Other Tools & Equipment: Yarn weights, Fibre types, Hook types and sizes
- Technique Library: How to read a pattern, Holding your hook and yarn, Turning your work
- Decorative Stitches: Waffle, Linen, Star
- Finishing Your Work: Weaving in ends, Blocking work, Adding borders
- Troubleshooting: Counting your chain stiches, Joining a new yarn, Ending your work,

Other title in the series:
Craft in your Pocket: Knitting