This simple guide will inspire you to pick up a crochet hook and learn to create beautiful accessories, homewares and gifts.

This beginner's guide goes back to basics, with clear step-by-step illustrations demonstrating how to tie a slipknot, chain stitch, increase and decrease your rows, and crochet in the round, plus many more skills and techniques.

Once you've aced the essentials, move on to 15 clear, stylish and straightforward projects, from colorful plant pot covers to a chic crocheted blanket. As the projects get more complex, you'll practice and perfect the skills you've learned, and build your confidence. By the end of the book, you will be able to crochet a range of projects including a mobile phone case, a cuddly toy, a wall hanging, and a bobble.