Video: Why Learn to Crochet?

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Knowing how to crochet is a useful tool for knitters to finish up garments. Learn to crochet with tips from a knitting teacher in this free video on crocheting basics.

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Knowing how to crochet is a useful tool for any knitter for it's own merits as well as for finishing up knit garments. You can use crochet to crochet edging or around sleeves, shoulders, necklines, your waistbands instead of doing ribbing, you can use crochet to make embellishments. Crochet can be used for making purses. It's great on it's own merits as well as making garments that are knit and crocheted together where you might have a crocheted bottom and the knit top or the contrary, you could knit up to the neckline and have crocheted sleeves, there's a lot of great patterns that's out now for combining both methods. Another thing you can do is crochet embellishments, like flowers, that can adorn basic garments. So you can crochet something like this, like a band of flowers and that could adorn a neckline or hemline. You could make a pin to go onto a garment It can also be used, if you have an error in your knitting and you want to cover it up, you can put a little flower on it and it's a great technique.

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Why Learn to Crochet?

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