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The Little Book of Incredibly Useful Knots
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The Little Book of Incredibly Useful Knots: 200 Practical Knots for Sailors, Climbers, Campers & Other Adventurers
Know-tying is an important skill, even essential if you are a boater, sailor, hiker, climber, or fishermen. Here in full color are the knots you need to know.
The fundamental skill of tying knots is useful in countless situations, both indoors and out. The Little Book of Incredibly Useful Knots teaches you which knot to choose and exactly how to tie it, whether you’re constructing a trout fly, repairing a hammock, mooring a boat, securing a load to a car roof rack, or engaging in a rescue or survival situation.
Compiled and written by two experts on the subject, this is an invaluable manual that explains through clear line diagrams and step-by-step descriptions how to tie more than two hundred practical knots, grouped by construction and tying method. Every entry contains a brief introduction to the history and development of the knot, its alternative names, and information on its uses and special features. Types of knots detailed include:
Wagoner’s hitch
Englishman’s loop
Scaffold knot
Cordelette anchor
Trident loop
Lobster buoy hitch
The book also contains a comprehensive glossary of terms to guide you through the complexities of different rope types. It helps you choose the right rope for every task.
Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Type PDF Size 37 MB
Print length 497 pages
Language English
Publication date April 5, 2016
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Make your own Tree of Life Wall Hanging. Choose your favorite yarn to make a tree that suits one of the hoops (25, 20 or 15 cm). In this pattern, tension is important because the tree should fit the indicated hoop diameter.
This pattern is made and described with macramé yarn from Durable, which suits a 25 cm hoop. You can also use cotton yarn, you could possibly take several threads together to get a good tension.
All information and the table for the yarns used, tension, and the hoop diameter can be found in the pattern.
Materials: Yarn: Durable macrame 100 g 90 m Hook: 4 mm Other: hoop 25 cm, wooden beads, hook 2 mm, scissors, needle. other sizes: 20 cm made with Yarnart Macrame, 15 cm made with Scheepjes Catona.
Skill Level: intermediate till advanced
This pattern includes:
graph / chart, written instructions, very detailed step-by-step pictures, written instructions are given in the English language (American terminology), graph symbols using US crochet terminology Pattern notes:
The tree is crocheted in rows, you turn your work after each row and work on the right and wrong side. Start crocheting with single crochet stitches around the hoop, then you crochet the crown with branches. The trunk of the tree is fastened around the hoop. Your tree must be smaller than the hoop itself to fit a hoop. Used and Special stitches The used stitches: sc, hdc, dc, and some special stitches: hdc2tog, dc2tog, FPdc, BPdc, FPtr, BPtr, FPtr2tog, FPtr3tog. There is a Photo Tutorial for some of the special stitches in the pattern included.
Using beads The beads are added while crocheting. For this method, you need the beads with a slightly larger hole and an additional crochet hook in a smaller size. There is a Photo Tutorial for using beads in the pattern included.