The basics of knitting are quick to master, but learning to create a stylish, professional finish usually takes much longer. This book contains over 200 professional fixes, insider tips, and secrets arranged by topic to enable any crafter to achieve a great fit and finish when knitting garments and accessories. You will also learn how to dye yarns easily in an ordinary kitchen to get the color combinations you want, and how to embellish garments with surface decoration and beads to express your own personality. unlike most other knitting books, 200 KNITTING TIPS, TECHNIQUES &amp; TRADE SECRETS shows you how to adapt and design garments to suit your own size, shape, and preferences, and the book is packed with a wealth of informative and inspirational ideas.
 Wach topic, self-contained in a one- or two-page section, is fully explained and illustrated with specially commissioned step-by-step photographs and detailed artwork. For ease of use, every topic is cross-referenced to allow the reader to dip in and out for help and advice. Aimed at all knitters from beginners to the more experienced 200 KNITTING TIPS, TECHNIQUES &amp; TRADE SECRETS contains a wealth of essential technical information and handy tips.

200 Knitting Tips, Techniques & Trade Secrets: An Indispensable Reference of Technical Know-How and Troubleshooting Tips (200 Tips, Techniques & Trade Secrets)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Barnden, Betty

Crafts & Hobbies

St.Martin's Press

Filet crochet produces delightful designs and motifs on an open mesh background, perfect for incorporating into garments and accessories, or for making blankets, cushions, and scarves. -Choose from over 70 designs: pictorial motifs such as hearts, flowers, and butterflies; numbers, letters, and geometric patterns; repeat designs for borders and larger items. -Each design includes an easy-to-follow chart, clear swatch photograph and working instructions, as well as inspiring ideas for mixing and matching the designs in the book. -Key techniques are clearly demonstrated from basic stitches to blocking and joining finished pieces, and a handy fold-out flap reminds you how to use the charts as you work.

Filet Crochet: More than 70 Designs with Easy-to-Follow Charts

St. Martin's: Griffin

Almost done crocheting your latest project and not sure how to finish it? Need a refresher course on how to assemble the pieces, make a buttonhole, or just looking for inspiration for the perfect finishing touch? No matter whether you're just learning to crochet or are more experienced, you'll find the simple techniques needed for creating beautifully finished items―as well as pick up new techniques to hone your skills and help push you to the next level―in Super Finishing Techniques for Crocheters. 
With Betty Barnden's valuable expertise, clear step-by-step photographs and instructions, and a host of rules and tips, you'll perfect your abilities while learning all about: 
• Construction: seams, joining, borders, and much more 
• Different fastenings and closings: zippers, buttonholes, ties, and cords 
• Embellishment ideas: decorative techniques including needlefelt, free-form crochet, and more You'll also find a useful section on crochet basics and ten fun projects, with plenty of how-to tips to adapt them to your own style. No matter what your next project is, whether it's felted slippers, a pretty scarf, or a baby sweater, here is the book to help you complete it perfectly.

Super Finishing Techniques for Crocheters: Inspiration, Projects, and More for Finishing Crochet Patterns with Style (Knit & Crochet)

An accessible reference to transforming fabric scraps into ten patchwork projects includes several options that can be completed in a few hours using a sewing machine, in a guide that demonstrates basic and advanced techniques while providing coverage of a range of hand-stitching effects.

Very Easy Crazy Patchwork

Readers' Digest

A step-by-step guide to making asymmetrical patchwork crafts features ten projects that can be created with a machine or by hand, in an instructional reference that features such options as a simple potholder, a strip-piece tote bag, and an embroidered evening purse. Reprint.

Very Easy Crazy Patchwork: Simple Techniques * Beautiful Projects

This is a complete, full-color reference covering every form of cross-stitch and related counted-thread technique, from ancient traditional work to modern pictorial designs rendered in vivid hues. A wonderful array of stitches from around the world is described in detail, and clearly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and charts. A trove of ideas and inspiration for beginners and experts alike, this comprehensive volume presents essential information on materials, equipment, planning, finishing, display, and care.

The Encyclopedia Of Cross-stitch Techniques

Running Press

Knitting is fun, practical, therapeutic, and a great way to produce wonderful things to wear and use. A leading English textile designer shows home knitters how to create good-looking items knitted in wool, cotton, silk, mohair, and synthetic yarns. She describes all the needed yarns, needles, and accessories, then instructs in basic skills that include knit, purl, changing colors, and casting off. The largest part of this profusely illustrated book is devoted to twelve original projects, and presents clear directions on how to master the techniques required for each project. They include a striped garter-stitch scarf, an afghan blanket, a tank top, a pullover sweater, a buttoned sweater with matching hat, and several attractive items of clothing for children and babies. More than 250 full-color illustrations are clear enough for beginners to follow, though all projects are imaginative enough to appeal to experienced knitters as well.

Knitting Basics: All You Need to Know to Take Up Your Needles & Get Knitting

Barrons Educational Series. Inc.

This beautifully produced guide to embroidery teaches beginners everything they need to know to produce wonderfully decorative needlework. Author and needlecraft designer Betty Barnden starts by describing different threads and fabrics to work with, then instructs on mastering more than 30 stitches, from cross-stitch to appliquï¿½. She presents clear explanations of all the tools, materials, and techniques needed for fine embroidery, then offers twelve inspired projects that encourage needlecraft beginners to practice their growing skills as they create personalized garments, pillows, table linen, kitchen accessories, and many other items. All recommended designs are presented as charts or as easy-to-copy outline drawings. The full repertory of stitches is described and explained in detail in a special section titled Stitch Library. Betty Barnden introduces a wide range of beautiful embroidered items that needlecraft enthusiasts can create for themselves, their home, and their friends. More than 150 color illustrations.

Embroidery Basics: All You Need to Know to Start Stitching

The Crochet Stitch Bible contains over 200 stitches, explained in full, and is a perfect starter guide for beginners, with advanced projects and details for experts. The handy spiral bound design allows this book to be laid open on a work surface for easy reference, and makes a wonderful addition to the library of any crafter, crocheter, or knitter. This comprehensive guide includes step-by-step instructions for basic stitches, textured stitches, fans and shells stitches, mesh and filet stitches, openwork and lace stitches, trims and edgings, clusters, puffs, bobbles, spike, relief, tunisian, multi-color, squares, and special stitches. Each crochet stitch is accompanied by a photograph sample, row-by-row instructions, and easy-to-follow symbol charts.
Crochet is the technique of making a looped fabric from a continuous length of yarn, using a single hook. The word "crochet" itself derives from the French "croc," meaning a hook (or crook); an old scottish name for crochet is "shepherd's knitting." It is one of the most portable and flexible of crafts, requiring only a hook and some yarn. Once you have mastered the basic techniques, you can create a fascinating variety of effects.

The Crochet Stitch Bible: The Essential Illustrated Reference Over 200 Traditional and Contemporary Stitches (Volume 6) (Artist/Craft Bible Series, 6)

Chartwell Books

The photographed samples are shown full-size. Each stitch is fully described and illustrated with numbered figures and accompanied by a list of its main uses, with helpful notes on the working method. Many stitches have alternative names; these are also listed, and included in the index as a useful reference aid.
The Embroidery Essentials chapter will help you choose appropriate materials and equipment for whatever technique you intend to use. Here you will find general information applicable to all types of embroidery
The Working Practice chapter is divided into sections each one of the techniques sections includes general working guidelines, followed by specific working methods for various types of embroidery: how to choose and use suitable fabrics, threads, and stitches for a wide variety of effects, from dramatic blackwork to intricate three-dimensional techniques.

The Embroidery Stitch Bible: Over 200 Stitches Photographed with Easy to Follow Charts (Artist/Craft Bible Series, 7)

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