Crochet Essentials: Handy Guide To All The Basics
Language: English
Published by Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc, 2012
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From selecting the right crochet hook to techniques and instructions, this informative crocheting booklet is the go-to guide for new hook enthusiasts. Learn the different stitches, along with interesting twists and finishing techniques to make your crocheting projects a success.
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- Title
- Crochet Essentials: Handy Guide To All The Basics
- Author
- Margaret Hubert
- Publisher
- Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1589237730
- ISBN 13
- 9781589237735
Need some help as you complete your first crochet projects? Looking to brush up on your stitches and maneuvers? Ready to explore new stitches? Crochet Essentials is the reference to have by your side as you hook. From gathering supplies and mastering basic stitches to expanding your techniques and adding embellishments, this indispensable companion covers it all. Photos and detailed written directions explain every technique, step by step. Get clear guidance on:
- Tools and Materials: Choose the right hook size and type, and gather all the essentials for your crochet kit.
- Basic Stitches: Start strong with slip knots, chains, and stitches from single crochet to double triple crochet. Learn techniques like working through the back loop, plus increasing and decreasing.
- Interesting Twists to Basic Stitches: Build on your foundation with skills such as the no-chain foundation, post stitches, cross stitch, bobbles, puff stitch, chain loop flowers, and more.
- Reading Crochet Instructions: Interpret written instructions, standard abbreviations, US-UK stitch conversions, and crochet diagram symbols with ease.
- Two Ways to Crochet: Explore how to work both in rows and in the round.
- Granny Square Techniques: Learn how to crochet a classic granny square and explore three different methods for beginning one.
- Checking Your Gauge: Ensure perfect results by accurately measuring your gauge.
- Details and Finishing Techniques: Finish your piece by creating buttonholes, joining seams, adding pockets and zippers, finishing edges, and setting in drop-shoulder sleeves.
Distilling everything you need to know to succeed with crochet into just 32 pages, Crochet Essentials is a must-have guide for every crochet enthusiast.
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About the Author
Margaret Hubert is the author of more than 20 crochet and knitting books, including Plus Size Crochet, Knits for Men, Knit or Crochet—Have It Your Way, The Complete Photo Guide to Crochet, The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting, The Granny Square Book, Lacework for Adventurous Crocheters, Runway Crochet, and Customize Your Knitting. She has enjoyed a lifelong career designing both crochet and knit patterns for yarn companies and book and magazine publishers. Hubert also teaches at yarn shops, retreats, and national gatherings, and rarely misses a national conference in the needle-arts field. She lives in Pawling, New York.
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