Crochet: Just What You Need

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

About the Author:

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