GET HOOKED – Crochet for Tweens

Here’s another book I ran across at the library.  Get Hooked

You’ve probably seen it too.  It’s aimed at ‘tweens’ beginning crocheters.  It’s a brightly illustrated book with lots of appealing photos.

Up front, the book contains useful information on hooks, yarns, fiber content, color selection, and pattern reading.  All that in just a few pages!  Whew!  There are also clear photos and illustrations of basic stitches and hand positions, rows, gauge, and finishing off.

The book contains a nice selection of simple projects that create appealing wearables and accessories – a belt, a kerchief, a chunky scarf, crocheted bracelets.  There’s even a cute skirt, a felted purse, and some of the ever-popular fingerless mitts (herein called punk gloves).  That’s quite a lot of goodies packed into a relatively small book.

I believe author Kim Werker has hit her mark with this book.  While the book was published in 2004. I still see a lot of the same projects pictured in more recently published books and magazines, proving that good designs will stand the test of time – even in a trendy market.  The range of projects in this book, coupled with the well-delivered technical information, make this a good reference for beginners from about age 9 through the teen years.  There are even a couple that I’ll likely make.  Can’t have too many of those punk gloves – which my grown kids loving call ‘biker chick gloves’ when mom wears them!

Specs:

Watson-Guptill Publisher

96 pages

ISBN 10:0823050920