Around the Corner Crochet Borders: 150 Colorful, Creative Edging Designs with Charts and Instructions for Turning the Corner Perfectly Every Time
When it comes time to put the finishing touches on the edges of a fiber project, a crochet border is the perfect solution. Edgings are essential adornments to the most popular knit and crochet pieces blankets, scarves, and afghans. But borders can do so much more; they give handmade goods a delightful finishing touch, serve as focal points, tidy uneven edges, and add handcrafted flair to store-bought apparel.
Finishing Techniques for Crochet: Give Your Crochet That Professional Look
Professional and seasoned crocheters know how to make well-crafted garments, and as a knitter, you deserve the same polished look from your designs. Finishing Techniques for Crochet provides enthuasiasts with the technical know-how to create garments which fit as well as they look. From creating a slip knot to slipping your first stitch, from working with colour to joining new yarns, the book provides a one-stop foundation to the most popular techniques and explains how to work each method properly. When you're ready to move on, discover techniques for proper shaping and sizing as well as seaming.
You can learn to paint beautifully using the skills presented in this book--brush loading, blending, floating, and many background finishing tricks and tips.
Elegant projects and detailed instructions for beaded bags, necklaces, brooches, pins and other decorative accessories with emphasis on finishing techniques.
Woodworking and crafting combines skill, artistic technique, and creativity with materials and methods enjoyed by many woodworkers, carvers, and crafters. Within this collection of wood crafting resources you'll find Web sites that explain and illustrate wood working techniques, carving, crafting, and pyrography; and those that share free tips, techniques, project patterns, and tutorials for a variety of creative wood working projects.
