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Hints on Crochet

By Bella La Coste, New Kits on the Block

• Learning to work with an even tension is essential to the correct sizing of your garment.

• Always test a sample and adjust the hook size up or down to achieve the required gauge.

• Hold yarn and hook in a manner comfortable for you and let yarn flow freely.

• Never count the loop on the hook.

• The appropriate number of chains must be formed at the beginning of each row so that you are at the right height for the next row. This turning chain forms the first stitch of the next row unless otherwise indicated.

• Always pick up 2 loops from the stitch in the previous row unless the pattern instructs the front or back loop.

• A space is the gap between each stitch, sometimes enlarged to a one or two chain space, etc.

• Never work a slip stitch into the first stitch.

• After completing work, draw through loop on hook once more. Cut yarn and draw end through.

• To begin your chain form a slip knot in yarn.

 

Abbreviations:

CH = CHAIN

SS = SLIP STITCH

SC = SINGLE CROCHET

DC = DOUBLE CROCHET

HD = HALF DOUBLES

TR = TRIPLE

HLF TR = HALF TRIPLE

DBL TR = DOUBLE TRIPLE

BASIC STITCHES

• chain -- with slip knot on hook, pass the hook under yarn, catch the yarn and draw yarn through loop on hook.

• slip stitch -- insert hook into stitch to left of hook, catch yarn with hook and draw through stitch and loop on hook.

• single crochet -- insert hook into stitch to left of hook, catch yarn with hook, draw through stitch, catch yarn and draw through stitch and loop on hook

• double crochet -- wrap yarn around hook once. Insert hook into 2nd stitch to left of hook, catch yarn with hook and draw through stitch, catch yarn and draw through 2 loops on hook, catch yarn and draw through remaining 2 loops on hook.

• half double crochet -- wrap yarn around hook once. Insert hook into 2nd stitch to left of hook and draw through stitch, catch yarn and draw through remaining loops on hook

• triple crochet -- wrap yarn twice around hook. Insert hook into 3rd stitch to left of hook and draw though stitch, catch yarn and draw through 2 loops, catch yarn and draw through 2 loops, catch yarn and draw through remaining 2 loops on hook.

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