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Easy techniques and 8 fun projects by Claire Montgomerie
Get your crochet off to a flying start with 8 simple projects and multiple techniques.
In this complete course, crochet expert Claire Montgomerie covers everything you need to get started: essential tools and materials, how to hold your hook, make your first stitches, fasten off and read a pattern. Clear step-by-step photographs and a handy fold-out flap with crochet abbreviations make it accessible for all, whether you are hooking your first stitch or revisiting the basics.
Take small steps and familiarize yourself with the terminology and techniques to master the essentials of crochet in no time at all. Claire combines helpful, friendly guidance with 8 colourful modern projects, each one teaching and consolidating a new technique from increasing and decreasing to changing colour and joining seams. Choose from:
Embark on your crochet journey and have fun creating your own crocheted wearable accessories and home décor items with all things bright and woolly.
Introduction6 Tools and materials8 Getting started16
Techniques and projects34 Washcloths40 Make-up Pads56 Scarf64 Beanie74 Chevron Blanket82 Mesh Bag88 Flowers98 Granny Square coasters, Blanket and Pillow108 Teddy120
Moving on125 Index128
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Claire Montgomerie is a textiles designer specializing in crochet and knitting. She has written many books on these topics, and also styles and edits the UK craft magazine Inside Crochet. Claire lives in Cambridgeshire. Check out her website: montyknits.blogspot.com and Insta: @clairemontyknits
If 2024 is the year you plan to get started on crochet, or you'd like to inspire a friend to take up this craft, Claire Montgomerie's brilliant new guide for beginners provides a complete short course. Claire is an experienced textiles designer, author and teacher and provides friendly, expert guidance throughout, using clear step-by-step photography. [...]
This well-crafted, useful and inspiring book is perfect for those looking to refresh their crochet skills or learn ones from scratch, with projects that are gorgeous to make and use.
The handbook Beginner's Guide to Crochet is very well-developed, clear, and inspiring. It contains all the information needed to start crocheting, from the simplest stitches and projects to more advanced patterns and designs. (...) The clarity and simplicity, the beautiful and inspiring illustrations, and the varying difficulty levels of the projects make this a useful handbook for all beginners, regardless of age.
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