Knitting Loves Crochet: 22 Stylish Designs to Hook Up Your Knitting with a Touch of Crochet
Never have knitting and crochet played so well together as they do in Candi Jensen's charming projects, designed to highlight everything you love about each craft. Sweet clusters of cherries gather on a child's cardigan, sueded granny squares add panache to Fido's sweater, and whimsical crocheted flowers put just the right flair in hats, scarves, bags, and pillows. Put your knitting needles and your favorite hook to work stitching up possibilities you never knew existed!
2010 was a great year! This ebook : free sewing patterns, free knitting patterns, and free crochet patterns, and found all kinds of free crafts to inspire you to create. This eBook features a roundup of the most popular craft projects from the year. You'll find 24 projects to wear, decorate your home with, or give as gifts, from knitting and crocheting to sewing and crafting. If you're an avid FaveCrafts reader, this free eBook will help you rediscover your favorite projects and patterns from the year; if you're new, use this collection as a cheat sheet to find the best projects on the site.
The patterns are a series of knitted rectangles that are formed into garments. Easy techniques turn knitted rectangles into 25 elegant garments and accessories. Shape garments and create beautiful details with simple needle changes! Patterns work for plus sizes.
Knitting is the art of using yarn or thread to make fabric from interlocking loops. Its origin has been traced as far back as the fourth or fifth century B. C.In the past, knitting has been the occupation of shepherds who kept on knitting while watching their flocks, sailors also used to pass their time in the same way while whiling away the hours of long voyages during the age of exploration, apprentices who studied it in 13th and 14th Century knitting guilds and royal knitters in the court of England at the time of King Henry VIII.
