Broomstick Lace Crochet: A New Look at a Vintage Stitch, with 20 Stylish Designs

by Donna Wolfe

Overview

Discover all 20 finished designs in our exclusive Look Book!Learn an updated take on the vintage art of broomstick lace with easy-to-follow photo tutorials! Made using a super-huge needle (the "broomstick") and a crochet hook, this technique creates a very distinctive cluster lace stitch that's fun and fast to crochet.• Photo tutorial teaches you the basic stitch using single crochet; additional broomstick lace tutorials include how to increase and decrease, work in the round, change color, and work broomstick lace with different stitches• 250 step-by-step color photos walk you through the entire process as you learn this exciting new technique• Includes 20 original designs for broomstick lace, ranging from accessories to baby items to designs for the home

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811716154
Publisher:	Stackpole Books
Publication date:	11/15/2015
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	818,120
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Donna Wolfe has been a "yarnie" for over thirty-five years. Her Naztazia® YouTube craft tutorial channel has grown to almost 200,000 subscribers. Donna's basic crochet video has over 6.5 million views, and her Broomstick Lace videos have more than 1.5 million views. Donna's website, naztazia.com, gets tens of thousands of unique visitors daily. She is a member of Crochet Guild of America (CGOA) and The Knitting Guild Association (TKGA). When she's not working with yarn, she serves as a business consultant as well as an instructor of IT courses at local colleges and universities. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, David, two children Sarah and Shawn, and her puppy, Bella.

Editorial Reviews

Broomstick Lace Crochet: A New Look at a Vintage Stitch with 20 Stylish Designs covers a type of lace crochet made using a huge needle ("broomstick") and a crochet hook—and this means that projects can be completed in hours rather than days. The author's step-by-step discussions of these techniques includes the basics of how to increase and decrease so newcomers to crochet can access the projects, while those seeking a particular focus on the broomstick lace style will find hats, skirts, tops, and more that represent an array of patterns and approaches. The result is a fine survey that offers many new options to crochet workers at all stages of craft.

The Bookwatch, February 2016 - Diane Donovan