Includes index

Part One: Hooking up. Learing to crochet -- Voulez-Vous crohet avec moi? -- Hook, line, and sinker: The tools of crochet -- Get shorty: Making the chain stitch, single crochet, and slip stitch -- Walking tall: Making half-double crochet, double crochet, and triple crochet -- The shape of things to come: Increasing, decreasing, and working in a circle -- Hooked on a feeling: Making fancy stitches -- Picture this: Making images in crochet -- Off the hook: Sewing your pieces together, blocking, and adding decoration -- Part Two: Crochet away: The patterns -- Scarves and shawls -- Hats -- Bags -- Spring & summer -- Fall & winter -- Accessories -- Home, gifts & baby

40 original patterns