to be vastly easier to understand. If I see a long, long paragraph with "row 1 ... row 77" or some such, forget it.
In the 1970's I bought a book I call The Hippie Dippie Book of Crochet. It's real title is "Contemporary Crochet", copyright 1972. It starts with very clear line drawings of how to crochet, starting with how to hold the hook, how to make the slip not, how to chain, and so on. Back then crochet books did not have such good drawings. Anyway, it goes on and in plain language explains how to make shapes, then how to combine them to make various things. There's even a section on how to make garments. Again, everything is in plain, easy-to-understand language.
After I'd read this book and made a few things from it, I discovered I could look at various crocheted items and figure out how to reproduce them on my own. It was wonderfully liberating.
I'm sure it's no longer in print, but if you could possibly find it in a used book store or on line, it would be worth getting. It's extremely dated, no surprise, but would still be a useful resource.
One of these years I'm going to once again make some hand puppets they have in the book.
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