You’ve been chugging along, working your way through these tutorials, but I’m guessing you’re really curious about starting to work with color. Today’s your lucky day! This tutorial will show you how to change colors in crochet. Of course, there are a few different ways to do colorwork in crochet, but the variations all mainly […]
Last week’s lesson covered how to increase crochet, and this week we’re learning how to triple crochet! This is what I would consider the last of the basic crochet stitches, so good job! You’ve learned so much! If you’re new to crochet or this series, you can start with the first lesson, how to single
Last week we covered how to decrease crochet, and this week we’re talking about how to increase crochet. When you’ve mastered both of these skills, you’re ready to start making all sorts of shaped things – fitted garments, stuffed animals (amigurumi, in the crochet world), hats, etc. Let’s get started!
Once you’ve learned the basic crochet stitches, it’s time to move on to a few more fundamental crochet skills. One of those skills is how to decrease crochet. Increasing and decreasing crochet means changing the number of stitches from one row to the next. Changing the number of stitches will change the shape of the
If you’ve started making hairpin lace, you may have noticed the completely annoying tendency for your strips to twist. Once the strands twist, it’s much harder to make sure your loops all stay straight for you to work into them. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make lace guide strands out
I remember the first time I saw the Jasmine Stitch. I was completely taken in by how beautiful it is. This stitch is a showstopper. It is simply stunning! However, as I learned to do it, I realized that I wasn’t seeing anyone increasing or decreasing the stitch, and I wanted to try making a
If I had to pick one most important stitch to learn in crochet, it would be the double crochet or dc (or DC). This stitch is used allll the time. It’s used in fans, and bobbles, and shells, and the list goes on and on. In this blog post, I’ll teach you how to double
Welcome back! Today we’re learning how to do the Half Double Crochet stitch (abbreviated HDC or hdc). If you’re just joining in and want to start from the beginning, check out the first post in this learn to crochet series, How to Single Crochet. And I hope you had a chance to try out the
Now you’ve got the single crochet and slip stitch under your belt (or if you haven’t, check out the first lesson in this series, How to Single Crochet!), it’s time to learn how to crochet in the front loop or back loop only. Maybe you’re thinking, huh? What does that even mean? Let’s find out!
It’s time to learn to slip stitch! I’ve you’re brand new to crochet and missed our first lesson, hop over to How to Single Crochet to get started from the beginning. In this lesson, I’ll teach you how to slip stitch crochet. Our blanket square for this lesson will be a combination of single crochet