Learn how to get started with crochet in The Crochet Workshop. Emma Osmond has three basic lessons to explain to you: starting from a circle, a granny square and a straight edge. If you’re still struggling with how to choose yarn or hold the hook in your hands comfortable, Emma has tips and advice for that, too. There’s a basic stitch library with both right and left handed instructions as well as a guide to charts that includes the chart symbols needed for every stitch. At the end of all of this instruction are eight simple patterns for you to get started on to practice the basics you’ve just learned.

Paperback, 64 Pages, $12.95, 978-1782212201

From the October 2015 issue