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Twisted Single Crochet- Written Instructions, tutorial with step by step pictures & link to video file. Love the look of the crab stitch, but hate working in the wrong/reverse direction?

Twisted Single Crochet- Written Instructions, tutorial with step by step pictures & link to video file

Extended Single Crochet Stitches (exsc) By Rachel Choi – 27 Comments Below is the step by step, picture tutorial that will walk you through how to make an extended single crochet stitch.

Extended Single Crochet Stitches (exsc)

This tutorial is for both right and left handed people. For left handed pictures, roll your mouse over the image and it will change for you. Starting with a swatch to practice on, pull up a loop in the next stitch. To do so, insert your hook into the next stitch, yarning over (wrap the yarn around your hook) and pulling through the stitch on your hook.

Yarn over (wrap the yarn around your hook). Pull the strand of yarn though 1 loop on your hook. Pull the strand of yarn through 2 loops on your hook. How To Crochet: Blanket Stitch. By Robin Beers – 209 Comments The photo above is a baby blanket I am working on for charity.

How To Crochet: Blanket Stitch

I am using a J-hook for this with worsted yarn. Decide how wide you want your blanket to be and chain the proper number in multiples of 3. How to Crochet the Fan & V Stitch. Crochet Corner: Mattress Stitch. ★★☆ - Improver This is another way of sewing motifs together and it's a favourite joining method of mine.

Crochet Corner: Mattress Stitch

Partly because it's so invisible, but also because I just love the way the corners pull in together so neatly and the squares butt so closely up next to each other. I've made this tutorial an 'Improver' tutorial as it is a little bit tricky to get going with and possibly not as fast as some of the other joining methods. But for me, the end look of the squares is well worth a little extra time. If you'd like more help with making the square motif, please have a look at my Classic Granny Square tutorial.

This join is best worked with the wrong sides together and the right sides facing outwards. Begin by threading your joining thread onto a yarn needle (a blunt or round ended needle is best so you don't split the yarn of the squares.) Split Single Crochet (Ssc) Stitch. The Walker Treasury Project. Treble Cluster - tr cl. Trinity Stitch. The Trinity Stitch is a basic stitch pattern, made up of single crochet clusters.

Trinity Stitch

It’s easily memorized, and makes great baby blankets, afghans, and washcloths. It’s simple, works up fast, and has lots of texture. Triple Treble Crochet (trtr) 2 Color Catherine Wheel Stitch. This video crochet tutorial will help you learn how to crochet the 2 Color Catherine Wheel stitch.

2 Color Catherine Wheel Stitch

This visually appealing stitch creates small pinweels of alternating colors. The 2 Color Catherine Wheel is great for afghans and gift projects. This yarn is exceptionally soft and 100% organic. It has been manufactured to GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standards) and has an Organic Tilth certification. All of their wool is organically dyed and spun in the USA. Developed with comfort in mind, the handle is constructed of two plastics: one colorful and soft, and the other, white and firm.

Chain Stitch – chSingle Crochet – scDouble Crochet – dc Special Abbreviation : CL (Cluster) = work [yo, insert hook, yo, draw loop through, yo, draw through 2 loops] over the number of sts indicated, yo, draw all loops on hook. V Double Crochet Stitch Tutorial. So the other day I got a ginormous box of yarn with 15 different colors in it.

V Double Crochet Stitch Tutorial

How awesome is that? It all started because I wanted this one color in particular (peacock which you can see in the very bottom of this pic at the top and in most of the DIY photos) and couldn’t find. So I ordered directly from the Red Heart website. But to get free shipping it needed to total so much and I didn’t see the point in spending money on shipping when I could instead spend $30 more than I had intended but have 15 amazing colors of yarn to play with. V-Stitch (V st) Vintage Fan Ripple Stitch by Janis Cortese. This pattern came about as a result of this thread, which I figured out from the photo linked in the first post.

Vintage Fan Ripple Stitch by Janis Cortese

It would make a great afghan in DK-or-heavier yarn, and this sample that I’m working up in fingering is going to be a nice scarf. Done widthways, it’d be a nice stole. The sample piece in the photos is 10.5” (eight fans) wide. Six fans would be ideal for a scarf. It was done with a size E hook and KP Stroll Tonal in Foliage. UPDATE: I’m defining a trtr as a 4-tuple stitch here. BTW, if you’d like to sell items made from this pattern, that’s fine by me, but I’d rather you didn’t sell the pattern. Waistcoat stitch - wst. Wavy Puff-Stitch Sprays. Which Foundation Stitch? and Why? Window Boxes. Woven Basket Stitch Dishcloth pattern by Chris Silker.

Woven Cables Stitch

Woven Stitch video tutorial. Woven Stitch in Crochet is such a versatile stitch, and one of my very favorites.

Woven Stitch video tutorial

A great stitch for the novice crocheter, it only uses chain stitch and single crochet. I've shown many examples of Crocheted Woven Stitch here, and one of them you see every time you visit Hooked On Needles. It's that scrumptious baby blanket in all those delicious colors on my website header! The afghans I made for my two younger children, shown HERE, were also crocheted in Woven Stitch. I made a crocheted scarf for the Special Olympics using the Woven Stitch, crocheting the length of the scarf instead of the width for a very interesting effect. Zipped Ladder Stitch. Let’s talk about crochet techniques, baby.

Zipped Ladder Stitch

All 3 of these tutorials are so very useful in all areas of crochet. I found these to be wonderfully written out and the pictures are a great aid in helping you get through it. I have always had a hard time finding a way to join squares. This is becoming a problem with my ever growing obsession passion for crocheting motifs. I just hate the way they look once I’ve joined them together. Here is another crochet technique that I just adore… the invisible join.