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You’ve probably heard of the front loop and the back loop of crochet stitches. But what about the 3rd loop? As a refresher, the front loop and back loop are the two loops at the top of the stitch. The…
Crochet is often worked in rounds, or rows that end in the same place they start. The standard way to start a round of double crochet (dc) stitches is to make 3 chains. Then, when you come back around to…
The standard way to start a row of double crochet (dc) stitches is to make 3 chains at the end of the previous row, and then turn. This “turning ch-3” is then meant to be the first dc of the…
The longer I crochet, the more I find myself trying to avoid making a foundation chain to start a project. They are kinda boring, easy to miscount, and they end up being too tight and can distort your project. Plus,…
Last year, I wrote a pattern for a Christmas Tree Afghan that was made with different types of granny squares. One of the granny squares is the 5-point star that sits on top of the decorated tree. Fitting a 5-point…
In crochet, a group of 3 or more stitches (usually double crochet) in the same stitch or space is often called a Shell. When multiple stitches go into the same spot, it looks like a seashell — at least I…
I was playing around with yarn one day, looking for a way to make a raised ridge texture that was more interesting than the Ridge Stitch (single crochet in the back loop only). And then I found it — A…
Love the look of crochet cables on the front side, but hate how the back looks? When you make cables using front- and back-post double crochet stitches, you crochet around the post of a stitch and skip the top of…
Don’t you love a stitch that looks beautiful and complicated, but is really deceptively simple? Then you will love the Spatter Stitch. The Spatter Stitch creates a lacy mesh that looks like interconnected wheels, flowers, stars, or as the name…
Do you like the look of the crab stitch border, but have trouble making it look neat, or it goes too slowly? The crab stitch is also called the reverse single crochet stitch, because you crochet backwards, in the opposite…