Crochet: Just What You Need

(Hardback)

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Stylish and super-practical, this introduction to the key skills of crochet has exactly the skills you need to master this perennially popular craft.

For a book this size there's a remarkable amount of useful content:
Introduction
- how to use this book, abbreviations and symbols

Before you start

Basic stitches and techniques
- seven crochet stitches with detailed sbs instructions

More advanced techniques
- seven ways to add decorations, make floral buttonholes, join pieces, etc

The most common stitches
- fifteen more stitches, each with detailed sbs instructions

Flat circles and squares
- fourteen patterns for circles, squares and patches that can be stitched together into blankets

Author Bio

The author of numerous craft books and editor of the technical section of Marie Claire Ides, Marie-Nolle Bayard is an outstanding teacher whose experience enables her to pass on the basics of different needlework techniques simply and precisely.