Title: The Crocheter’s Skill-Building Workshop: Essential Techniques for Becoming a More Versatile, Adventurous Crocheter
Author: Dora Ohrenstein
Publisher / Year: Storey Publishing, 
Pages / Format: ~255 pages, full-color photos Google Books
Description:
Take your crochet beyond the basics and grow your confidence in shaping, texture, construction, and technique with this comprehensive, hands-on guide. In The Crocheter’s Skill-Building Workshop, Dora Ohrenstein leads you through essential and advanced crochet skills with clarity and depth, using more than 70 stitch-along swatches and five full projects to cement your learning. 
From the first chapters, you’ll find:
 
How to choose yarns wisely: fibre, twist, drape, and suitability for various stitches. The Stitchin Mommy+2Google Books+2
Building a crochet “toolbox” and mastering tension control 
Fundamental stitches and stitch patterns explained with visual aid.s 
Techniques for shaping & construction, including increases, decreases, working in the round, advanced shaping, and colour work. 
Exploration of texture, stitch variety, and playing with colour technique
Finishing techniques: joining, blocking, seaming, unravelling, clean edges, and more
 
Then, the second half of the book helps you apply those skills with five projects, each chosen to reinforce the techniques you’ve practised: a slouchy hat, a Marguerite cowl, a colourwork bag, a lace capelet, and a cabled lace scarf.