200 Crochet Stitches by Sarah Hazell

A practical guide with actual-size swatches, charts, and instructions. 200 Crochet Stitches is designed to get crochet fans discovering new stitches and creative ways of working crochet. It contains a wealth of stitch patterns and how-to techniques.

Stitches are introduced and accompanied by clear photographic step-by-step instructions, charts, and examples of the stitches as well as feature spreads that explore ideas for yarns and colourways and how to use the stitches in garments, accessories and homewares.

This collection includes crochet's most popular stitch styles: nubbly textured stitches, delicate lacy ones, technically challenging Tunisian, colourful, graphic and endlessly adaptable chevrons and ripples, and finishing techniques. Stitches include ridges, cables, crossed, spikes, filet, mesh-like, trellis, shells, picots, fans, Tunisian, openwork, chevrons, ripples, bobbles and puffs.