From Something Under The Bed:

The idea behind this series was to provide easy to read and follow instructions for a wide spectrum of hand crafts having to do with wardrobe and decorating your home. Each issue would add another "How To" chapter to build on the previous ones until you were an expert at a given craft. There are various projects sprinkled throughout the series for you to practice your newly acquired skills. The chapters and projects are not directly attributed to specific designers.

If you're looking for hip fashions from the 70's, then this is a great resource. Ditto for basic info on various skills, though they concentrated primarily on Sewing Clothes, Embroidery, Knitting and Crochet. The other disciplines were sort of sprinkled across the entire run with no real rhyme or reason why a particular discipline would be featured every once in a while.

From A Bluestocking Knits:

"Golden Hands" was a serial published by Marshall Cavendish in the early 1970s, not technically a book but a series of magazines, essentially, that you would buy as they came out.  (My mom got hers at the grocery store.  You could send away for binders to keep the issues in order -- "$1.75 plus 25¢ shipping and handling" -- and the index.)  It was kind of like a home-study thing, a little "chapter" of two to four pages per issue on knitting, crochet, embroidery, needlepoint, dressmaking, beading, patchwork, tatting, and so on, and finishing and care techniques for the resulting projects.  If you were a complete beginner, you could start at the "Knitting Know-How 1" chapter, for instance, which gives basics on yarn types, gauge, and abbreviations, then goes on to casting on and off, the knit stitch and the purl, with increasingly advanced techniques throughout the 74 chapters. 

Many of the projects are more than a bit dated now, of course -- macramé vests, ponchos the first time around -- but the lace doilies, Shetland shawls, floral needlepoint handbags (with a chapter on mounting the needlepoint piece on a metal bag frame), ganseys, and such, are as timeless as they were in the 1970s.  Some of the knitting techniques are a bit dated, too -- psso instead of the now more usual ssk, for instance -- but nothing that would really hold you back.