To double crochet you yarn over your hook, insert your hooke into the stitch and yarn over again. Pull it back through the stitch, you will have 3 loops on your hook. Yarn over again and pull that through the next two loops on your hook. This will leave you with two loops on your hook. Yarn over once more and pull through the last two loops on your hook. This will leave you with a single loop on your hook and this completes the double crochet.
If you want to work double crochet as the first row of your work,
chain x amount, yarn over (written as yo in patterns), insert hook into fourth chain from hook. The loop ON your hook does NOT count. There are different ways to insert your hook into the chain. You can insert hook under the top loop, under the top two loops, or in the back loop. You should do it the same way across the chain.
To begin your double crochet, Yarn over and pull yarn through the chain. You will have three loops on hook at this point. Yarn over, and pull yarn through two loops, yarn over and pull through remaining two loops on hook. You will have one loop left on the hook when you are done. Then repeat the procedure for the next chain and so forth.
If you already have a row of stitches, then the procedure for making the double crochet is the same, but you would chain 2 or 3 at the end of your row to give height to your stitch to match the double crochets you will be making. Then insert your hook into the second stitch of the row because the first chains count as a stitch. Continue working double crochets using the procedure above.
When you do a double crochet increase, you crochet 2 double crochets into the same stitch.
Here you go: 1) Slip Stitch 2) Single Crochet 3) Half Double Crochet 4) Double Crochet 5) Treble Crochet 6) Single crochet increase 7) Single Crochet decrease 8) Double Crochet increase 9) Double crochet decrease 10) Treble Crochet increase
Here you go: 1) Slip Stitch 2) Single Crochet 3) Half Double Crochet 4) Double Crochet 5) Treble Crochet 6) Single crochet increase 7) Single Crochet decrease 8) Double Crochet increase 9) Double crochet decrease 10) Treble Crochet increase
Work one double crochet in the chain after the one you've just used. Then work another double crochet into the SAME chain where you worked that first double crochet.
The basic stitches used to crochet are: slip stitch chain single crochet half double crochet double crochet treble crochet double treble shell pop corn
It means alternate between front post double crochet and back post double crochet.
The single crochet, double crochet, half double crochet, chain, slip knot. They can all be explained at the related link below, which has tutorials.
There are about 6 basic crochet stitches them being: ch~chain stitch sc~single crochet dc~double crochet hdc~half double crochet treble ss~slip stitch most patterns will use one of these stitches or a combo of some of them. .
To make a 2 dc shell: Work two double crochet stitches all in one place. Instructions to learn how to make the easy 2 DC Shell pattern shown above: (Abbreviations: dc = double crochet, st = stitch) Work a foundation row in stitch of your choice (such as single crochet or double crochet). Pattern Row: Chain 3 (counts as first double crochet), 1 dc in same st, * skip 1 st, 2 dc in next st; repeat from * across.
Yes they do. Usually in darker or neutral colors and with tighter, simpler stitches like single crochet and half double crochet.
It means "single crochet". The stitch is the shortest of the crochet stitches and makes a very compact garment. Other notations can be double crochet, half double crochet, and even double triple crochet.Always read the whole pattern thoroughly before you begin your work.To sc in sc means to place your next single crochet stitch into the next single crochet stitch from the previous row. If your next stitch is a chain, for example, you would skip it and go to the next single crochet. Be aware that sometimes there will be a typographical error in a pattern, so be alert to how the stitch works in the pattern you are using.
you crochet a towel by doing any stitch you would like. you could use a single crochet, double crochet, half double crochet, or triple or treble crochet. you would chain stitch how ever long you want you towels length to be, then use what ever stitch you would like back and forth across.