Billed as a resource book
for crocheters at all levels, Crochet: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide
features the basics and over 80 patterns at all skill levels. Visually stunning
thanks to the well done photographs, the book showcases quite a number of possibilities
for gifts, home use, and more.
After a section on the basics of tools, various types of yarn, stitches, and more the book goes on to projects. Some are simple such as “Beaded Necklace” (pages 28-29) or “Cell Phone Covers” (pages 36-37) to the far more complex “Baby Blanket” (pages 148-149) and “Flower Pin Cushion” (pages 184-185) and others. Each of the more than eighty projects has detailed instructions, a recommended skill level, pictures of the finished project, and often a tip to make the item more useful or easier to make.
A two page glossary, an
eight page index, and a one page acknowledgment/ author bio bring this over 300
page book to a close.
While a comprehensive and
interesting book Crochet: The Complete Step-By-Step Guidet suffers from
organization issues. Many of the projects seem to have little rhyme or reason
as to why they are placed here or there and the table of contents is a bit
scattered. The result is a good book that is made more difficult to use than it
should be.
Crochet: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide
DK Editors
DK Publishing
February 2014
ISBN# 978-1-4654-1591-2
Hardback
320 Pages
$40.00
Material
supplied by the good folks of the Plano Texas Public Library System. The annual
book sale is scheduled this year for August 8-10. More details are at the Friends of the Plano Public Library website.
Kevin R.
Tipple ©2014
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