Cool Crocheted Hats, 40 Contemporary Designs by Linda Kopp

Lark Books, A Division of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York / London
isbn 13: 978-1-60059-407-6 (paperback)
Copyright 2006

Very nice photos. Patterns look clear and are easy to read. Basic stitches and techniques are at the back of the book.
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my notes:
title page
quotes about hats
Table of contents
Introduction

Crochet Basics;

• Tools; hooks, other tools
• World of Yarn; types of yarn, substituting & how to substitute yarns, yarn weights & sizes
• Pattern Components; experience level, materials & tools, stitch list, gauge, pattern notes, & graphs, finishing & assembly, 2 keys to success, how to read a pattern
• gauging importance, why, how large a sample, what to do with the sample, what if sample doesn't measure up?

Projects; simple cloche, sunny day bucket, jazz beret, square hat, widow's peak hat, textured tiers beret, ribbed mohair pageboy (brim made from plastic form cut from water jug), houndstooth lidcap, open diamond shell, champagne-taste confetti shell, julia's cobalt blues, florence hooded scarf, town & country felted bucket, fuzzy kitty hat, ruffled pill box, glam lame beanie, divine simplicity, retro rasta, classic beret, denim deco ribbon cloche, velvet cables beanie, luxurious hooded cowl, zigzag hat, brilliant moroccan kufi, peruvian stocking cap, scalloped touring scarf, solange striped boarder cap, sky high beanie, sawtooth beret, flight of fancy skullie, festive ole pillbox, embroidered trellis cap, groovin' granny square cloche, chenille chapka, ragg yarn watch cap, waffle weave shell, partial to pallettes beanie, amelia's desire earflap hat, gatsby hairpin lace cloche, mr. wander's top hat,

Stitches and techniques

• crochet stitches, holding hook making slipknot, holding yarn, making chain, counting chain stitches
• sc, turning your work, right vs. wrong side, counting stitches
• dc, hdc, tc, dtr (double treble) slip stitch
• specialty stitches; cluster, hairpin lace, puff, reverse single crochet

crochet anatomy
stitch structure; front & back loops, front & back posts
changing yarn or color, carrying the yarn
shaping techniques, incr, decr, round,
finishing touches, weaving in end(s), putting it together (slip stitching)

designer bios
abbreviations, hook sizes
Aknowledgements
metric conversion chart
index