Crochet VISUAL Quick Tips (Paperback)

~ Cecily Keim (Author), (Author)

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Product Description

Solutions to common crochet quandaries are at your fingertips—anywhere you go

Crochet VISUAL Quick Tips has the answers you need—fast. With detailed color photos and concise instructions, plus time-saving tips, it covers:

• Selecting tools and yarn
• Working basic stitches
• Increasing and decreasing
• Working in rounds and colors
• Making puffs, bobbles, clusters, and knots
• Working Tunisian crochet, filet crochet, and lace
• Crocheting with beads
• Finishing
• Inter- preting patterns
• Diagnosing problems and fixing mistakes

About the Author

Cecily Keim documents her adventures in life, crocheting, and other creative endeavors at SuchSweetHands.com. Throughout her life, regardless of the type of study or type of job, making things has always fascinated Cecily. Her great-grandmother, Mama Mac, taught her to crochet at age 9. Since hen crochet has become a favorite technique in her crafty arsenal. Cecily is mesmerized by the endless possibilities of crochet and loves passing on her enthusiasm as a writer, designer, and teacher. She teaches crochet classes and contributes her designs to magazines and books. She has also demonstrated her designs on the DIY channel's Knitty Gritty and Uncommon Threads.
Cecily lives in Los Angeles, watches too much television, and loves candy, her cats, and her boyfriend.

Kim P. Werker is the editor of Interweave Crochet magazine,. She is also the founder and Creative Director of CrochetMe.com, the online crochet community of innovative patterns, tips, and tutorials, and a playground for meeting crocheters from all over the world. After a couple of earlier flings, Kim got back into crochet in 2004. She is a professional member of the Crochet Guild of America and the National NeedleArts Association, and travels throughout North America to teach about crochet and to meet enthusiastic crocheters. She has appeared on the television show Uncommon Threads and will appear on the PBS shows Shay Pendray's Needle Arts Studio and Knit & Crochet Today. She was thrilled to work again with Cecily on this follow-up to their first book, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crocheting. Kim's other books include Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel the Crochet Revolution (Interwave Press, 2007), Get Hooked, and Get Hooked Again (Watson-Guptil 2006 and 2007, respectively).
Originally from New York State, Kim lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband and their dog. When she's not crocheting, writing, editing, or traveling, she enjoys reading, hiking, knitting, and playing in the garden.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Visual (September 11, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470097418
• ISBN-13: 978-0470097410
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #385,785 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible photos, and great book to learn & reference, October 27, 2007

By	R. K. Miske (Monument, co USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The photos are just wonderful, and I wish I had this book when I was first learning to crochet. It is nice and small, so I keep it in my bag for reference now. It covers just about every crochet topic you need.

Thing to note...this book is the same content as the larger version(Teach yourself visually to crochet)...just in a smaller size. I wish I had known that because I purchased both. As far as I can tell, they are the same book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Resource!, October 21, 2007

By	Barbara Greco "Goldpawz" (Washington Township, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This book is a must for someone like me who is new to crochet. I love the fact that it is compact and that I can take it along with me when I'm working on different projects. I highly recommend it!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This made learning soooo easy!, May 7, 2008

By	Christine Dickson (Jackson, MS) - See all my reviews

I'd tried other books but the diagrams were never good enough, or they didn't word the instructions well or in a detailed manner, and I gave up trying to learn crochet for a LONG time. Once I picked up this book, I had some little stuffed animals (amigurumi) made in about a week and less than a month later I had a beautiful baby blanket done and you'd NEVER know that I have JUST learned how to do this. This book seriously made me love crochet and I don't plan to go back to knitting now that I know how much more fun and easy this is.