Explains how to create everything from openwork and lace through to woven and hairpin crochet. Useful for both the highly experienced and the absolute beginner, this book takes you through the basic techniques to a project section that provides guidance for making colourful and stylish garments for you to wear.

Offers a way to use up scraps of yarn or practice using novelty yarns to decorate clothing, hats, bags and belts, embellish home accessories, or make a beautiful bouquet as an unusual display piece. This work allows you to choose from simple spiral roses, pretty poppies, elaborate layered blooms, and fabulous felted flowers.

Presents twenty hand-knitted cakes. This title includes a selection of muffins, fairy cakes, carrot cake, scrumptious gateaux and more.

From bunnies and bears to Russian dolls and robots, this book helps you discover a range of 20 knitted characters.

Whether you want to make a lovely quilt to pass down through generations or a fireside blanket for winter nights, this work offers the information with charts and detailed instructions for 25 projects, and 10 extra ideas for ways of using the same instructions to make larger or smaller items.

Stuffed animals have never been cuter or put to better use. This title features six different stuffed animals that hug their own fleece blankets in an appealing manner. It includes blankets that are made from fleece and are trimmed with crochet stitches.

With 40 stylish patterns, this guide aims to show young knitters how to get started, how to make it fun and how to make the hip clothes they want. Step-by-step instructions illustrate every technique.

Features a diverse range of home accessory projects, from knitted pictures, pillows, throws and pet blankets, to smaller and more delicate egg cosies and decorations. This book is suitable for homemakers looking for contemporary and stylish knitted projects to brighten up their home.

Teaches beginners how to knit in plain English, using a line of 'knit' translated into a line of English, so that knitters will feel confident about taking that next big step into the world of knitting patterns on their own.

Choose from 200 beautiful block designs and learn different ways of joining them to make blankets and throws that are both functional and decorative. From Art Deco geometric patterns to traditional chequer-board stripes and elaborate motifs, discover new ways to combine colour, pattern and texture. Crochet is one of the oldest and most fascinating ways of creating a fabric out of yarn. Find out ..

A handbook for knitters at all levels covers key information on materials and techniques, providing a reference library of stitch patterns, color charts for a variety of creative options, and more than twenty-five illustrated projects for clothes, accessories, and home furnishings. Original.

Offers tips and hints, which is aimed at both new knitters who want a quick reference guide to the basics of the craft, and more experienced knitters who want to improve their techniques and begin to create their own ideas. This title provides photography and simple illustrations that guides you through the processes step by step.

Includes projects featuring vibrant stripes, zigzags, and geometric motifs. This title helps knitters learn: different uses of color and color patterns; how to combine lightweight yarns together to create fresh textures and colors; and, how to find inspiration in various landscapes, wildlife, textiles, and even the pottery of the high Andes.

A project book that focus on crochet. It features 19 designs by various crochet stars such as Doris Chan, Kathy Merrick, Robyn Chachula, and Annie Modesitt. It includes innovative and imaginative designs for all crochet tastes. It also includes stylish photography and step-by-step crochet instructions for various projects.

Offers 20 patterns that explore a variety of ways to play with color and build color confidence. This work encourages knitters to design outside the color wheel, and make unique color combinations work. It also explains how to change colors in crochet, stranding techniques, and how to work over yarn tails.

Features small projects designed for manageable amounts of handspun yarn. This book offers a variety of projects for advanced beginning knitters and spinners. It includes designs that make the most of a few hundred yards of handspun. It includes patterns such as hats, mittens, scarves, socks, bags, children's items, wraps, and home decor options.

Includes 20 projects and ideas for environmentally conscious knitting. This title explores green avenues and product options, including organically-farmed fibers, non-animal yarns, alternative or recycled fibers and yarns, fair work and fair trade companies and programs, buying local, sustainable farming and energy in yarn production, and more.

Offers more than 30 projects for any occasion: birthday, anniversary, thank-you, get well, bon voyage, a new baby, Christmas, and more.

Explains the process of picking the right pattern and modifying it to the individual body's advantage. Whether a beginning or experienced knitter, young or mature, an hourglass or a triangle, this title features 30 customisable garments including a slimming Camelot coat and a flirty top that enhances feminine curves.

Shows knitters a simple approach to making socks. This title features more than 20 patterns, with a sock for every foot and a pattern for every knitter. It includes how-tos, tips and techniques, as well as the pros and cons behind the options.