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 […]