Category: Crochet Stitches
Moss stitch crochet is two stitches, alternating, and that’s the whole trick. Single crochet, chain one, repeat. What separates it from plain single crochet is where the hook goes — each stitch drops into a chain space instead of into a stitch below. Do that on every row and the fabric stops looking like stripes.…
Most crochet stitches get you a flat row, then another flat row on top. C2C crochet doesn’t. You start at one corner with a single little block, and the whole piece grows sideways on a diagonal until it’s as wide as you want. Then you shrink it back to a point. A block is three…
You open a pattern, scan the first row, and hit “3 tr in next st.” Now you’re stuck wondering what does tr mean in crochet, and whether you’ve been doing it wrong all along. The abbreviation itself is simple. The trouble is that the same two letters point to two different stitches depending on where…
How to crochet ripple stitch really comes down to one repeating row of double crochet. You add stitches to build the peaks, take stitches away to build the valleys, and then repeat that same row until the piece is as long as you want. Chain a multiple of 12 plus 3, and the waves appear…
Learning how to tr is really just learning the treble crochet stitch. Yarn over twice, put your hook in, pull up a loop, then yarn over and pull through two loops—three times total. That’s the whole stitch. I’ll be honest: the first time someone explained treble crochet to me, my eyes glazed over. Two yarn…
Single crochet is usually the first real stitch anyone learns, and it stays useful long after you’ve moved on to trickier ones. It’s dense, it hides uneven tension better than almost any other stitch, and once your hands know the motion you can work it almost without looking. This covers the basic single crochet stitch…