Craft in your Pocket (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Rosie Fletcher | 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 knit, but somehow you always end up in a tangle of knotted yarn and baffled by complicated and conflicting advice. This beginner's handbook goes back to basics, with clear step-by-step illustrations demonstrating how to cast on and how to ace a range of different stitches.

Craft in your Pocket: Knitting provides a simple guide to picking up your knitting needles 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 needles, to all of the basic stitches, decorative stitches 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, Needles & Other Equipment: Yarn weights, Fibre types, Needle types and sizes
- Technique Library: How to read a pattern, Holding your needles and yarn, Casting on
- Stitch Combinations: Ribbing, Moss stitch, Garter stitch
- Colourwork: Slipped stitch patterns, Holding yarn double, Alternating colours
- Troubleshooting: Counting your rows, Dropped stitches, Extra stitches

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