{"product_id":"craft-in-your-pocket-crochet","title":"Craft in Your Pocket: Crochet","description":"From your first stitch to your own complete clothing \u0026amp; homeware projects, this book will guide you from novice to pro.   You want to learn to crochet, but somehow you always end up in a tangle of yarn and baffled by complicated advice. This beginner's guide goes back to basics, with clear step-by-step illustrations demonstrating how to tie a slipknot, chain stitch, increase and decrease your rows, and crochet in the round, plus many more skills and techniques.   Craft in your Pocket: Crochet provides a simple guide to picking up your hooks and getting started, and it helps to build your confidence slowly, as you practise and perfect skills and techniques.   Covering the basics - from yarn types and hooks, to all of the basic and decorative techniques and different ways of working in the round or in a spiral, as well as finishing your work and troubleshooting - this little guide is the ultimate crafter's companion.   Contents include:-              Yarn, Hooks, Other Tools \u0026amp; Equipment: Yarn weights, Fibre types, Hook types and sizes-              Technique Library: How to read a pattern, Holding your hook and yarn, Turning your work-              Decorative Stitches: Waffle, Linen, Star-              Finishing Your Work: Weaving in ends, Blocking work, Adding borders-              Troubleshooting: Counting your chain stiches, Joining a new yarn, Ending your work,Other title in the series:Craft in your Pocket: Knitting","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510248087925,"sku":"9781846018930","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/craft-in-your-pocket-crochet","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}