The Crochet Workbook
Sylvia Cosh
Language: English
Pages: 96
ISBN: 0312040326
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
More than 80 color photographs and 49 line drawings with captions illustrate everything from stitches to garment construction to finished products. A concluding section of practical information explains abbreviations and terms, and every chapter encourages the development of personal creativity and individual style.
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Consequences’ (63). Everybody finds three or four balls of yarn with different textures (but related colour). They sit in a circle and each start their own tiny piece of free-form crochet. After every few minutes, they stop, fasten off and hand their piece to the next person ... and so on. The idea is to add something small, interesting and different each time! As people become quicker and more confident, you can reduce the time allowed. For variety (and to get your own back!), you can reverse.
Spiritual one – an internal search down the corridors of the mind. Sometimes it may involve looking out at the world, seeing new things and finding familiar ones in new contexts. The important thing is always to be aware: once you begin to look, an abundant flow of ideas is guaranteed. The real problems lie more in remembering those fleeting ideas and in finding the time to develop even a small fraction of them. For most mortals it is essential to make notes, sketches and photographs and to.
Have been filled with the sky, landscapes filled with hills, fields, water, trees and hedgerows, beaches and gardens, walls, roofs and old carved stones encrusted with mosses and lichens (82, 83, 84). What will your imagination be working upon? Landscape teaches us that there are millions more hues, tints and shades than you would think at first glance, and that shape, pattern and surface texture in Nature are never repeated absolutely. Where we live the sky is constantly changing in colour and.
Start by working directly around a bangle, curtain or lampshade ring, etc. (22b). Joining rounds Joining base chain rings and rounds is easily done with a slip stitch. It may be wise, however, not to join the base chain ring of a tubular made garment into a ring until after the first round has been completed and any hidden problems have been discovered. The orthodox way of working – joining each round with a slip stitch and then immediately working the starting chain for the next round above.
Will happen on every stitch, but gradually becomes less often, the more rounds you work.) Openwork The simplest form of openwork, called filet, is a regular grid, made by substituting chains for trebles on an alternate basis. Filet patterns, which are generally presented on graph paper like cross-stitch or picture knitting charts, are created by ‘filling in’ some of the chain spaces with trebles. More elaborate patterns are produced by making chain loop arches, groups (several stitches worked.