Craft in Your Pocket: Crochet

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