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West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the US state of Iowa.

As of the 2010 census, the city population was 56,609.

West Des Moines is the second-largest city in the Des Moines metropolitan area and the tenth-largest city in Iowa.

It ranked 94th in Money magazine's list of the "100 Best Places to Live and Launch" in 2008, 77th and 57th on the 100 Best Places to Live in 2014 and 2015, respectively, and 18th on the Hipster Cities of 2015.

Crochet is a process of creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials using a crochet hook.

The name is derived from the French term "crochet", meaning small hook.

These are made of materials such as metal, wood, or plastic and are manufactured commercially and produced in artisan workshops.

The salient difference between crochet and knitting, beyond the implements used for their production, is that each stitch in crochet is completed before proceeding with the next one, while knitting keeps a large number of stitches open at a time.

(Variant forms such as Tunisian crochet and broomstick lace keep multiple crochet stitches open at a time).

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, and ropemaking.

Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine.

Modern manufactured sewing threads may be finished with wax or other lubricants to withstand the stresses involved in sewing.

Embroidery threads are yarns specifically designed for hand or machine embroidery.

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

Other methods are knitting, felting, and braiding or plaiting.

The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling.

(Weft or woof is an old English word meaning "that which is woven") The method in which these threads are inter woven affects the characteristics of the cloth.

A craft is a pastime or a profession that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work.

In a historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small-scale production of goods, or their maintenance, for example by tinkers.

The traditional terms craftsman and craftswoman are nowadays often replaced by artisan and rarely by craftsperson (craftspeople).