Basic Crocheting: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started

✍ Scribed by Sharon Hernes Silverman

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 120
• Series: How To Basics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fundamental skills and stitches, such as the chain stitch, slip stitch, and single, half double, and double crochet

Techniques include creating an integral fringe, crocheting in the round, and filet crocheting

Create a shadowbox pillow, basketweave blanket, bunny basket, child's cap and mittens, openwork placemats, woven shoulder bag, and more

A heavily illustrated introduction to the skills you need to become a crocheter, Basic Crocheting begins with the yarn, hooks, and other tools you need to get started, and then moves on to cover the skills you need to make a wide variety of home accessories and wearables. Detailed instructions for every step of each project are supplemented with helpful photographs and illustrations.