Crochet Workshop
"Beginners are taken through the basic steps of crocheting and are given advice on coping successfully with traditional pattern instructions, materials and equipment. Crochet workshop goes on to give detailed advice on planning, sketching and adapting for yourself, including hard information on alternative stitches, devising stitch patterns and the basic structure and shaping of two-and three- dimensional fabrics. Lavish use is made throughout of drawings, diagrams and photographs. Motifs, patchwork, crochet lace, jacquard and colour work, surface and woven crochet, free-working and finger crochet are covered. There is a section on decorations and accessories and another on making-up, finishing and after care, as well as general hints on such things as grafting, unpicking and recycling yarn. The appendices include tables of crochet abbreviations and diagram symbols, ISR hook sizes, basic equipment and conversion tables"--from front jacket flap.