A pocket-sized guide offering bite-size information at a great price, 101 Essential Tips makes learning quick and easy, offering speedy answers to key questions. 101 Essential Tips: Crochet takes you through everything you need to know to start crocheting, from choosing yarn and making your first slip knot, this book takes you step-by-step through stiches and techniques so you can master crochet patterns. Enjoy making a phone cover, a friendship bracelet or even a baby's hat. With clear explanations of crochet charts and abbreviations, it has all you need to get the best results. Summarizing the essential tips needed to crochet, this guide is perfect for the absolute beginner, giving fully illustrated top tips that can be grasped in an instant.

Whether knitted flat or in the round, entrelac is a great way to produce intriguing knitted pieces with a seemingly woven look. With clear step-by-step tutorials and illustrative images, this book explains the anatomy of entrelac and how to build up rows of nested triangles and squares. Practise the technique with the different swatch instructions before following one of the book's four patterns, which can be further customized through variations and embellishments. Once you have mastered the technique, there is plenty to inspire your next entrelac project as well as advice on creating your own original designs.

These 60 fabulous designs are must-haves for the many knitters who prefer cotton, whether it's because they're allergic to wool, opposed to using animal fibres, or just looking for a lighter material. A wide range of quick, creative and on-trend projects - from sweaters and shawls to hats and bags - will entice knitters with their beauty and practicality.

Making things is fun, but making things with friends is even better. So grab some yarn, a few crochet hooks and some crafty pals - there's no end to what you can create together. With projects ranging from coasters to turbans to lampshades, plus loads of information and inspiration, this new booklet from the Super+Super series has it all. With 13 projects to get your creative teeth into, this quirky step-by-step guide to crochet is full of fun with a little bit of an edge! Projects include a flower garland, chunky pouffe, wrist warmers and a tablet case.

An adorable collection of knits for baby including a romper suit, socks, blanket, sweater, jacket and joggers. Designed using Rowan Yarns Baby Cashsoft Merino yarn.

Enter into the whimsical, crocheted world of Eleonore & Maurice, a talented designer who blends pastel yarns with delicate floral fabric to make truly adorable amigurumi creations: plush animals with little accessories, as well as sweet cushions. The combination of the calming pastel cotton yarn and the delicate floral designs give beautiful results. These cute creations include a cat cushion, a bird family, a hedgehog, a rabbit and a reindeer. The crochet patterns are clear and easy to follow and the sewing element is minimal, including items such as fabric bows, belts, ears, tails and collars. Make them for yourself or as gifts for family and friends. Everyone is sure to love these beautiful crocheted creatures. The soft colours and splashes of floral fabric make them perfect companions that children will love.

Now available in paperback, this best-selling title is THE essential guide to knitting. Whether you want to knit socks, use sequins and embroidery to embellish knitting, adapt a pattern to fit you beautifully or produce the perfect pocket, you can find out how to do it here. A comprehensive chapter on finishing your projects shows you how to get that really professional look and if you do make a mistake, just flip to the 'Troubleshooting' chapter to see how to fix it. Each chapter of this essential guide is devoted to one key area of knitting and provides clear and concise in-depth instructions along with step-by-step instructions for basic principles and more advanced techniques. Learn the basic knit and purl stitches, along with cast ons and cast offs, and in no time you will also be increasing and decreasing with ease. Once you're comfortable with the basic stitches, explore structure and shaping, texture, colourwork, embellishments, finishing and learn how to design and adapt patterns. This comprehensive guide offers a useful section on crochet for knitting, a glossary of terms, clear instructions and hundreds of illustrations and diagrams showing each stage of the process. It'll be the one resource that you will turn to time and time again. Over 20,000 copies sold worldwide.

Filled with a wide array of classic knitting patterns, this book is, in essence, the ultimate mitten book. The patterns are organised from simple to difficult and their origins range from traditional Scandinavian and Canadian Maritime patterns to more contemporary sewn and windblock patterns from right here in Maine. Rounding out the patterns is useful information on caring for and repairing woolens; tips for adding details such as buttons, straps, or leather palms to mittens; and a list of yarn suppliers.