Description By Jane Crowfoot This is a must-have guide for all crocheters to create that professional final product! Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced crocheter, you will find handy techniques and tips to give a polished finish to garments, homewares, and accessories. For the beginner – there are easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions with clear photographs, you’ll learn about what type of hook to get, how to choose the right yarn for a project, and essential crocheting techniques, like how to hold the yarn, gauge tension in the yarn, and reading a pattern, and create different crochet fabrics. Intermediate and advanced crocheters can hone their shape and stitching skills in the more advanced sections on finishing a piece with joining blocks and sewing techniques like the back stitch, oversew, and mattress stitch. You’ll also learn how to include decorative stitches, mosaic and intarsia, beading, borders, edging, and embellishments, such as fringes and crochet flowers, to help create a professional finish to your work. This book also includes sections on fixing common mistakes, how to remember which side of the piece is the “right” side, keeping the yarn from stretching and more, along with tips for left-handed crocheters. US Terminology 144 Pages
