Fire up your crochet hooks and get your granny on! This accessible guide includes clear instructions and a photo of each finished project.

Adapted from the best-selling The Granny Square Book, Second Edition, Granny Square Crochet for Beginnersgives you everything you need to get started with crochet and to start making and creating projects with granny squares.

Granny Squares for Beginners shows you how the easy technique of crocheting square by square is not only portable and convenient but is also amazingly versatile and can be interpreted in countless ways with different yarns. You'll find:

Easy essentials. Learn about basic supplies and stitches, easy techniques for making granny squares, and adding simple details and finishing.A rich collection of granny square patterns. Explore a wide range of designs, from classic geometrics to fun florals.Easy, beginner-level projects. The simple projects for accessories, garments, and gifts prove that granny squares can be used to make almost anything.

Learn to crochet granny squares and create your own unique projects with Granny Square Crochet for Beginners.

This is a comprehensive reference book on all aspects of crochet.

The Complete Photo Guide to Crochet, 2nd Edition provides a reference for all methods, including Tunisian, intermeshing, broomstick lace, hairpin lace, and freeform crochet. Includes step-by-step instructions for all the basic stitches and swatches of 100s of stitch patterns with complete instructions. Now with:

• All new projects
• 20 new stitch patterns
• Expanded basics

This updated second edition of The Granny Square Book offers crocheters at all skill levels even more to love about granny squares--featuring 25 brand new squares, and 25 all-new projects.

Since it was first published in 2011, The Granny Square Book has instructed and inspired more than 70,000 crocheters to make and create beautiful, stylish projects with these classic motifs. Now designer and author Margaret Hubert has updated her best-selling and beloved book to include 25 additional crochet squares (for a total of 100!) and 25 all-new projects to make, wear, and give.

Margaret shows the evolution of this portable and convenient technique of crocheting square by square as well as its amazing versatility and variety--how it can be used to make almost anything and interpreted in countless ways with different yarns. Among the designs are:

• Accessories (headbands, bags, and jewelry)
• Garments (vests, jackets, and tops)
• Decorative items and gifts (afghans, pillows, and a sweater set for baby)

Fire up your crochet hooks! The Granny Square Book, Second Edition offers unlimited possibilities for creating with this timeless technique.

If you're a fan of both knitting and crocheting, then Tunisian crochet is for you! Tunisian crochet is a needlework technique that borrows elements from both knitting and crocheting and is often referred to as Afghan crochet or Afghan stitch. A special hook called an Afghan hook is used for this method of crochet. First Time Tunisian Crochet is an informative crochet booklet that teaches different stitches, from easy (Tunisian simple stitch) to intermediate (seed stitch, knit stitch, and purl stitch) to experienced (rib stitch, clusters stitch, cable stitch). The booklet includes five fun projects: a throw, bag, wristlet, blanket, and vest.

Review and enhance your crochet skills with this information-packed booklet featuring step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions.

Need some help as you complete your first crochet projects? Looking to brush up on your stitches and maneuvers? Ready to explore new stitches? Crochet Essentials is the reference to have by your side as you hook. From gathering supplies and mastering basic stitches to expanding your techniques and adding embellishments, this indispensable companion covers it all. Photos and detailed written directions explain every technique, step by step. Get clear guidance on:

• Tools and Materials: Choose the right hook size and type, and gather all the essentials for your crochet kit.
• Basic Stitches: Start strong with slip knots, chains, and stitches from single crochet to double triple crochet. Learn techniques like working through the back loop, plus increasing and decreasing.
• Interesting Twists to Basic Stitches: Build on your foundation with skills such as the no-chain foundation, post stitches, cross stitch, bobbles, puff stitch, chain loop flowers, and more.
• Reading Crochet Instructions: Interpret written instructions, standard abbreviations, US-UK stitch conversions, and crochet diagram symbols with ease.
• Two Ways to Crochet: Explore how to work both in rows and in the round.
• Granny Square Techniques: Learn how to crochet a classic granny square and explore three different methods for beginning one.
• Checking Your Gauge: Ensure perfect results by accurately measuring your gauge.
• Details and Finishing Techniques: Finish your piece by creating buttonholes, joining seams, adding pockets and zippers, finishing edges, and setting in drop-shoulder sleeves.

Distilling everything you need to know to succeed with crochet into just 32 pages, Crochet Essentials is a must-have guide for every crochet enthusiast.

Crochet up to 30 creative blankets that start from just 10 granny squares!

The granny square is the perfect foundation for countless projects and is unparalleled for its portability, versatility, and endless variety. Using only 10 granny squares selected from The Granny Square Book and Granny Square Flowers, Margaret Hubert shows how you can crochet 30 completely different blankets. Each square is used three times with different yarns, color schemes, motif arrangements, and edge finishes.

You'll be amazed at the versatility of these squares! You can crochet blankets that are perfect for babies, boys, girls, college kids, and grown-ups. Some are crazy, colorful, and fun; others are serene, classic, and sophisticated. Crochet them for bedrooms, family rooms, or dorms. 10 Granny Squares 30 Blankets provides enough designs to keep you crocheting blankets for everyone and every reason for years to come!

Personalize any knitting pattern for a perfect fit and style all your own, with expert help from Margaret Hubert!

Designers have to create knitting patterns in standard sizes, but very few people actually match up to those average measurements. Body shapes vary, weight fluctuates, and good fit means different things to different people; so what is a knitter to do?

Customize Your Knitting teaches you how to adjust standard patterns to fit your unique measurements. Through techniques that Margaret Hubert has used for years to teach classes on custom fitting, you can learn to adjust patterns for a perfect fit for yourself or someone else. Yarn shop instructors can use the book to teach classes for their customers.

However, fit is just one part of customizing a garment. Maybe you'd like that neckline a little higher, or you'd like a little flare to the sleeves. How about adding subtle shaping to the waist on a boxy but otherwise perfect sweater pattern? How about adding a polo-style button placket to that plain crew-neck sweater? Or add a sporty buttoned pocket to a sleeve for carrying your iPhone. It's easy to add your personal style with Margaret's tips.

Diagrams and illustrations throughout the book will help you understand body shapes and easily compare measurements. Garment construction, specific increases, decreases, and other shaping methods, as well as finishing techniques and embellishments are all explained and photographed clearly. Make every project perfectly tailored to you!

Looking for the perfect book on knitting? It's right here in The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting, 2nd Edition. This stitch guide is the ultimate knitting reference! A comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of knitting, you'll be making scarves, hats, socks, mittens, sweaters, and other projects in no time! Inside this ultimate knitting guide you will find expanded basics for all knitting techniques, from cast-on to bind-off and every step in between. Learn to knit row by row and in the round; understand knitting jargon and how to follow a pattern; learn all the methods for increasing and decreasing stitches, seaming, and adding details like pockets and zippers. With twenty new stitch patterns, this section expands to 220 in all, arranged in style categories for easy reference. Projects at the end of each section give you opportunities to try some of the new techniques you've learned while making knitted items you can use or gift to others. Margaret Hubert will guide you through special knitting topics like cables, intarsia, entrelac, Fair Isle knitting, and lace knitting. With the updated information and all new projects, even if you have the first edition you are sure to want the second edition to complete your collection.

Identical projects to knit or crochet. Choose one method or try them both.

Knitters who don't know how to crochet often see crochet patterns and wish there was a way to convert them. The same is true for crocheters who don't know how to knit. Those who know how to do both like to choose one over the other for the inherent look that each offers. This book gives them the option, as instructions for each project are given in both knit and crochet.