Get hooked on crochet and bring handcrafted charm to your home and wardrobe. Sara Delaney provides easy-to-follow illustrated instructions for joining, fastening off, selecting color schemes, and much more. Learn how to read crochet patterns and work a basic chain with single or double stitches. You’ll quickly be on your way to crafting your own pretty potholders and delicate scarves.
Sara Delaney is the author ofDesign Your Own Crochet Projectsand How to Crochet.She has been designing and writing her own patterns for more than 10 years. She teaches crochet classes online at Craftsy, and she lives in western Massachusetts.
Introduction: Getting Started in Crochet
Chapter 1: Getting to Know Your Materials
The One Essential: A Hook - The Yarns We Love to Use - Becoming a Crocheter
Chapter 2: Getting Started: Forget the Chain!
Easing into Single Crochet - Why a Turning Chain? - Crocheting into Existing Stitches - Practice Makes Perfect
Chapter 3: Chains: Your Foundation
Evaluating Your Chain - Counting Chain Stitches
Chapter 4: Basic Crochet Stitches
Beginning to Work from a Foundation Chain - Half Double Crochet - Double Crochet - Treble Crochet
Chapter 5: Gauge
Swatching for Gauge: Getting Started - Why Does Gauge Matter? - Making Good Use of Your Swatch - Check and Double-Check
Chapter 6: Working in the Round
Get the Stitch Height and Count Right - Joined Rounds - Spiral Rounds
Chapter 7: Perfecting Techniques
Changing Yarns - Hiding Your Tails by Working Over Them - Adding an Edge - Finishing
Chapter 8: Pattern Reading
Patterns for Rows - Patterns for Rounds
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
Exactly What You Need to Know
Crocheting for the first time is fun, inspiring, and easy with Sara Delaney as your guidelƒ
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