Ever wonder what a standing stitch is? I had never heard of this term until last spring, and I am so glad I ran across it. A standing stitch is a stitch is a stitch you can use when changing colours in the round, or…
Ever wondered how to make a magic ring? It was a term I saw here and there (and also reads as magic circle) when I first started diving into the online patterns and blogs of the crochet world. And I wasn’t quite sure what a…
Ready for another tutorial? This week we are going to going to learn how to crochet a treble crochet, also sometimes called a triple crochet. If you mastered the double crochet, you already have the know how for this stitch. The treble crochet (tr in…
Want to learn a new stitch? If you’ve mastered the half double crochet, the double crochet (reads as dc in patterns) is not much harder. Just an extra step. It makes a taller stitch, and this is a stitch you will see used everywhere. If I’m…
It’s time for another Crochet for Beginners tutorial! I wasn’t sure when I started this series that I’d enjoy writing how to posts, but I am excited every time I sit down to write one. Today, I’m going to teach you the half double crochet.…
Today I’m going to show you how to crochet slip stitch. This is an essential stitch in crochet, as it’s used to join rounds, to create a ring, in amigurumi, to create granny squares and about a dozen other things. In crochet, this is…