Crochet Techniques & Tips

I really like this little book! It's so easy to understand, and has pictures to help you understand the material. It is slim, and can easily fit into a backpack. Crochet is hard to understand sometimes, but this book helped me understand the material better. I would recommend this to anyone who is new to crochet. 10/10.

This book is great! As someone who struggles to learn without an in person teacher, I absolutely love this book. The directions are clear and simple, and the graphics are easy to understand. I plan on sharing with my kids too.

I like this book gave me a lot of good tips for learning to crochet, has helped me on advancing and learning to do new projects, I would recommend to someone else

If you want to learn how to crochet or are still a novice, this book would be a good place to begin or expand your learning journey.This book is spiral bound, a definite plus as it will always lay flat. It is well organized with a Table of Contents up front instead of an alphabetical index in the back. There are excellent color photos of each sample swatch followed with step by step color photos of each stitch. There are red arrows pointing out precisely where your hook must be inserted for each step of the stitch. The written instructions are clearly worded and placed directly below the picture of each step.It covers simple but helpful supplies. Hook sizes are shown. There is an overview of yarn types and weights. Th “Tips” are easily identified by outlined dashes. And finally, a number of finishing techniques are demonstrated.My only disappointment with this book is that some of the yarn used for the sample swatches looks like it is poor quality. The strands are loosely twisted, are more subject to splitting - your hook doesn’t catch all the strands for a neat stitch. These splits are often difficult to pull out when they are finally noticed a row or two later. Careful pulling (aka: frogging) is the way to correct the split stitch.I’ve been a “Happy Hooker” for more than 50 years. I’ve made hundreds of slippers, dozens of scarfs, some sweaters, a few leg and knee warmers, rugs and more blankets for charity, friends, children, cats and dogs than I can recall. Welcome to the club! I hope your journey is also a happy one.

Really needed this since I m such a newbie to this craft.

Great for beginners

Easy to use, easy to understand. I love this book. It's great for beginners.

The book explains various stitches but it doesn’t explain basic techniques like how to make a magic circle.