Books like Hook, stitch & give by Kat Goldin

Explore over 150 unique cuff, collar, edge, and neckline patterns that seamlessly integrate into the garment itself, offering simple to complex designs for knitters seeking bold, finished looks.

A practical guide featuring 140+ crochet patterns for gifts that suit any occasion, from birthdays and Christmas to baby showers and house‑warming parties.

Original and modern designs for hats, toys, and accessories for your child. Each piece is intended to take no longer than a weekend to complete, so you can have as much fun making the projects as your child will have wearing it.

As makers, we tend to learn different stitches over time without thinking much about how they relate to one another. But when Natalie Chanin and her Alabama Chanin and The School of Making teams began to look at needlework closely, they realized all stitches are based on geometric grid systems--and by using grids as guides, they could make learning stitches, even seemingly elaborate ones, as easy as child's play. In The Geometry of Hand-Sewing, Chanin presents their breakthrough method, featuring illustrated instructions (for both right- and left-handed stitchers) for more than 100 stitches--from the most basic straight and chain to the more fanciful feather and herringbone; photos of both right and wrong sides; and guidelines for modifying stitches to increase one's repertoire further. To simplify learning, the book also includes two plastic stitching cards die-cut with the grids on which every stitch in the book is based. These reusable cards can be stitched through for practicing (just as children use lacing cards to learn to tie shoes) or used as stencils for transferring grids to fabric.