- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Collins & Brown; American ed edition (1 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1855856395
- ISBN-13: 978-1855856394
- Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 20.6 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,100,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Harmony Guides are a series of highly practical, illustrated guides to hand knitting and crochet, explaining basic techniques from start to finish. This volume offers 220 crochet stitches, and includes all-over patterns, edgings and trimmings, motifs, and Irish style crochet.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (15 customer reviews)
46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worth Buying!, 18 July 2000
By Happy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 220 More Crochet Stitches: 7 (The Harmony Guides, V. 7) (Paperback)
Get this together with "300 Crochet Stitches..." if you can. But lest you think you need to have "300 Crochet Stitches..." first before enjoying "220 More Crochet Stitches...", let me say that the latter is a beauty in itself. Comes complete with instructions, diagrams, and chain multiples necessary to accomplish the piece. The chapters in this full-color, instruction-laden book are:Introduction - gives basic crochet instructions (how to hold the hook, making crochet fabric, changing colors, etc.)
All-Over Patterns (76 patterns) - 76 lovely stitches that you'll be proud to display
Filet Charts (26 patterns) - all fine-looking crochet pieces!
Motifs (35 patterns) - all beautiful medallions plus instructions on how to join
Irish Style Crochet (26 patterns) - shows beautiful, lacy works
Edgings and trimmings (35 patterns) - easy to make, but produces lovely effects in the end
Afghan (Tunisian) Crochet (31 patterns) - shows unusual stitches
Do the math and you'll have more than 220 stitches there!
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Skip this unless you prefer openwork crochet., 15 Sep 2006
By A. Niebruegge "Selune" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 220 More Crochet Stitches: 7 (The Harmony Guides, V. 7) (Paperback)
I bought this hoping for some new and interesting all-over patterns. What I found was a book that was really focused on openwork and motifs. If you prefer that sort of thing, this book has a lot of designs, but a lot of them are in the Readers Digest Ultimate Sourcebook (also published by Harmony, but in a softcover and more expensive!!). They've even used the exact same pictures. And, for the price, you're better off getting the Ultimate Sourcebook.
Now, that said, this has possible THE best illustrations of basic stitches that I've ever seen. You can clearly see where the hook should go, including how many threads are over where you insert (for instance, when I was learning, I never could figure out if I was supposed to put the hook under the top two loops or just the top one). I wish they used such detailed visuals in every other crochet book!!! Also, they include very easy to read diagrams, which I just love. I wish every crochet stitch book had diagrams as well, because it just makes it so much easier to figure out what you are doing wrong. :) Anyway, I might get the 300 Crochet stitches book to see if that one has any more of the basic stitches, because while all of these seem to be in the Ultimate Sourcebook, the Sourcebook doesn't contain any diagrams. Makes me wonder if there are diagrams in the Harmony softcover version of the book. Hmmm. The binding on this book sucks, as it is simple glue (more like a large magazine than a book. Likely to fall apart if you use it often. One other issue, they don't tell you if patterns are beginner, intermediate, or expert, which would be nice to glance at and figure out.
Bottom line, unless you want a book dedicated almost exclusively to complicated openwork patterns, skip this book. Definitely not for a beginner or intermediate worker.
37 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
mostly re-hashed stitches, 22 Mar 2002
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 220 More Crochet Stitches: 7 (The Harmony Guides, V. 7) (Paperback)
I purchased this book, sight unseen, based on the glowing reviews given here. I'm very disappointed and would send the book back if the hassle of doing so wasn't greater than the cost of the book.I have the very first Harmony book of crochet stitches, which is decades old... the one put out before they started numbering them and telling you how many stitches they contain. I thought this book was a sequel to that original one, but it is not.
It appears that they simply tore apart the original book and made it into two seperate books. This one, vol. 7, contains very few stitches that are not in the original. For instance, in the first section "All over Patterns" there are only 18 stitches that are solid fabrics suitable for clothing (versus openwork, filet, edges or motif patterns) and only two of those are new to this book. If you're new to crochet and want open work stitches this book would be great. But if you've been around awhile or want stitches that make solid fabrics suitable for clothing or warm afghans, skip this book.
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