Marie's making: Crochet Butterfly Pattern. How To Crochet - updated May 6, 2011. This is an ongoing project for the Craftster Crochet board; as such, it will be updated often!
Our goal is to create a complete "How to Crochet" guide hosted here on Craftster. How YOU can help: If you've heard of a technique that isn't listed here, please suggest it (as a reply to this thread) so that we can add it to the list! If you know how to do any of the techniques listed here and would like to do up a tutorial, please do so, and then post the Craftster link to it in reply to this thread. How to read a crochet pattern. HOW TO READ A Crochet PATTERN The first step in learning how to read a crochet pattern is to learn the terms and abbreviations. I have most of the terms, abbreviations and stitch instructions on my Crochet Basics Page.Once you familiarize yourself with these terms reading patterns will be much easier for you. The following are pattern excerpts that viewers have asked me about.