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The Crocheter's Skill-Building Workshop

Essential Techniques for Becoming a More Versatile, Adventurous Crocheter
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The Crocheter's Skill-Building Workshop by Dora Ohrenstein is a practical guide that elevates your crochet skills from basic to sophisticated. It covers selecting yarns, shapes, and styles, and finishing projects with flair. The book features over 70 stitch-along swatches to teach specific techniques, along with five projectsβ€”including a hat, shawl, neck warmer, bag, and scarfβ€”that apply these new skills, encouraging you to develop your own original designs.
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This book is ideal for crocheters looking to enhance their technique and creativity, suitable for intermediate crafters eager to explore varied stitch patterns and project shaping.

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Starting with how to choose yarns and ending with finishing techniques, this book covers the basics. Suitable for every fibre aficionado's library, it features over 70 stitch-along swatches that teach a particular crochet technique as well as five basic projects (hat, shawl, neck warmer, bag, and scarf) that put those techniques to use.

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From choosing yarns, shapes, and styles to finishing off your project with flair, Dora Ohrenstein shows you how to take your crocheted creations to the next level.

This fun guide includes more than 70 stitch-along swatches that teach specific crochet techniques and five projects: a hat, shawl, neck warmer, bag, and scarf that put your new skills to use.

With a variety of stitch patterns and shaping types explained, you’ll be inspired to build upon Ohrenstein’s creations and develop your own sophisticated designs.

The Crocheter's Skill-Building Workshop is the perfect resource for anyone looking to refine and enhance their crochet skills.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781612122465

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 November 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 740g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Dora Ohrenstein is a leading crochet designer, author, and teacher. She is the author of Top-Down Crochet Sweaters and The Crocheter s Skill-Building Workshop, which is being hailed as a must-have resource by the crochet community. Ohrenstein s chic and innovative designs appear regularly in Interweave Crochet, Crochet!, Crochet World, Vogue Knitting Crochet, and many other print and online magazines. She is the co-editor of Crochet World's Talking Crochet column, and she has written for various other publications about crochet history, international traditions, and techniques.

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