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If you’ve ever wanted to create beautiful blankets, clothing, and home accessories by hand, crocheting is the craft for you. Pick up a productive new pastime and impress family and friends with your handiwork by learning how to:

Choose the right yarns, hooks, and other crochet tools
Make all the basic stitches and chains essential to most projects
Read even the most complex crochet patterns

Crochet Basics

Crochet is the craft of using a hook to form interlocking loops of yarn or thread in order to make fabric or lace. This guide will teach you the basics of yarn crocheting, which will enable you to complete most beginner and many intermediate crocheting projects. This guide covers:

Choosing yarn
Selecting crocheting tools
Creating a foundation chain
Basic crochet stitches
Changing yarns or colors
Fixing common crocheting mistakes
Assembling and finishing a project
Reading a crochet pattern

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