Provides instructions which guide readers through the skills they need to make beautiful blankets and throws, from choosing yarns and basic knitting and crochet stitches to Fair Isle and intarsia techniques, making and piecing blocks and strips, and creating delicate openwork fabrics.

Packed with 25 easy and intermediate projects to teach you a range of skills, this work offers practical advice on learning how to crochet. It features twenty-five fun fashion and home accent designs, some of which are more advanced to continually challenge the crocheter.

If only all first knitting books were as simple to use as this! Organized into three broad chapters, starting with patterns that involve knit only, moving onto knit and purl patterns in Chapter 2 and culminating in simple colour knitting in chapter three, author Luise Roberts looks over the beginner's shoulder and guides her at.

This book focuses on how to embellish simple knitted items with a host of decorative techniques to make them look more beautiful and complex than they really are.

Let's say you want to personalise or embellish an existing knitting pattern. Perhaps it's a plain sweater and you want to add edging to the cuffs or put a sunflower or an aeroplane motif on the pocket of a child's cardigan or incorporate a textured stitch, such as Fair Isle, to the yoke of a knitted jacket...

One of the biggest questions facing any quilter is - what stitch pattern shall I use? With over 500 pages containing over 1,000 motifs, this book provides all the inspiration you'll ever need. The book starts with three key techniques showing how to translate designs to fabric: drawing round a card template, stitching through a trace outline and cutting templates out of stencil plastic. Then, the