Contents

Introduction

Author’s Note

Pattern Abbreviations

Part One

Decorative Wristlets

A Brief (and By No Means Complete)
History of Crochet

If It Exists, It Must Be Covered in Crochet

Doily Mania

Crocheting for a Cause

Afghans

Edging Your Way Along

Everything Old Is New Again—
the Toilet Paper Roll Cover

How to Get Gauge

Crochet and Beverages—Mix with Caution!

Felting

Scrumble Fever

Amigurumi

Part Two

Links in the Chain Scarf

Greetings from Mount Yarn

Speaking in Tongues

Crocheting in Public

Crochet on the Runway

The Crochet Time Warp

How Small Is Too Small?

No Brain Cells Required

Crocheting and Babies—
You Can’t Have One without the Other

The Great Finishing Fake-Out

The Day I Ran Out of Yarn: A Horror Story

It’s Possible I Might Sort Of Be a Yarn Snob

Crocheter vs. Stash

Too Much Yarn

The Secret Life of a Crochet Designer

Passing On the Yarn Gene

Part Three

Goth Princess Toilet Paper Doll

Crocheters, the Silent Majority

Ten Things Crocheters Would Like to Say to the Rest of the
World, but Most Times Are Far Too Polite To

Crochet Needs a Good PR Agency

Granny Gets a Makeover

I Am Not a Hooker

New Ideas for Enterprising Yarn Store Owners

The Center-Pull Skein—
Modern Convenience or Urban Legend?

Attention, Prop People Everywhere: Crocheting and
Knitting Are NOT THE SAME THING!

Crocheting in the Closet

The World Wide Web of Crocheters

Too Pretty to Use

There Is No Wrong Way to Crochet

Finish or Frog, or the Fine Line between
WIP and UFO

What’s That Again?

The Real Crochet Olympics

The New Crochet Reality Show

Dishcloths—Fancy, Fad, or Failure of Imagination?

You’ll Never Walk (or Crochet) Alone

Proudly Multicraftual

Acknowledgments