From Needles to Hook: Complete Guide to Converting Knit Patterns to Crochet

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Summary: Helpful info
Review: I bought the book with a limited knowledge of crocheting with no experience in knitting. The patterns provided gave me hope for all the knitting patterns I find (it seems there are more knitting than crocheting patterns available) and creating a similar look. This is a good reference for crocheting fans with lots of cute projects provided.

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I found it to be another crochet book. It could have had more knitting patterns to show how to convert them and diagrams as well. The title suggested more than I felt the book contained.

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Summary: Not as good as I thought
Review: I have to agree with the person who said it's basically another crochet book. The patterns aren't as exciting and the instructions for transferring the patterns from one genre to another aren't too clear. I will use it, but it's not what I thought it would be.

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Summary: Helpful info
Review: The cover states "Complete Guide to Converting Knit Patterns to Crochet." This led me to believe I would find step-by-step instructions for taking a knit pattern and converting it to crochet. Not so. The only really helpful advice for converting is the recommendation for substituting yarns to obtain the correct gauge. Then there is a page and a half devoted to the importance of gauge and suggestions for what to do with all your gauge swatches. The rest of the book contains crochet patterns using stitches that resemble popular knit stitches. Any experienced crocheter could figure that out on their own, or just open a crochet stitch guide. To truly live up to the title and description of the book, it should have contained several complete knit patterns, with detailed step-by-step instructions for converting the pattern and the completely converted crochet instructions. Basically, it's just another crochet pattern book.

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Summary: This book is very helpful to designers...
Review: This book is helpful to people who want to design their own items..I liked it because it does show equivalent stitches (how to do a stitch that looks like popcorn in crochet and knit eg) and then you do the math...stitches per inch, rows per inch and figure out how to transfer the look of the knit item to the crochet item. It's not a "stitch for stitch" pattern. The reason for 4 instead of 5 stars is the title does sound like it give you a means to directly tranfer knit to crochet and you as a crocheter, have to do the math...not the book.