February 2013 - Crochet Patterns, How to, Stitches, Guides and more

The Stunning Jewelry of New York Artist Arline Fisch

Last Updated on: August 30, 2023 by Hannah Ege

Arline Fisch is a New York born, California based metal artist who has a body of work that includes crochet jewelry and wearable crochet wire art.

Gantsilyo: Crochet in the Philippines and Trey Ajusto

Last Updated on: September 20, 2023 by Kelsey Mlnarik

I was happy to get a message from Trey Ajusto, a crocheter in the Philippines who shared her work with me.

Ralph Lauren and Crochet Fashion (Our Favorite Collection)

Last Updated on: August 30, 2023 by Hannah Ege

Explore another influential fashion designer, Ralph Lauren – the casual coy culture shaper. We’ve been working our way through a list of 50 famous fashion designers that influenced the way fashion is done today. We’ve been doing it through a lens of crochet and finding in what ways artists still incorporate the craft in today’s …

Crochet Texting Mitts (Review, Interview, Blog Tour and Giveaway!)

Last Updated on: September 20, 2023 by Kathryn

Crochet designer Andee Graves has a new Leisure Arts pattern booklet out called Texting Mitts. It’s filled eight different patterns for fingerless gloves that you can use to stay stylish, warm and still able to use all of the texting devices that require your fingers to be free. Today I’ll tell you a little more about the book, let Andee tell you about in her own words through an interview I did with her and then you can enter below to win your own copy as part of the blog tour for this new publication.

About Texting Mitts

Texting mitts, also known as fingerless gloves or fingerless mitts, are easy to crochet and offer the opportunity to add both function and style to your wardrobe. Andee Graves has designed eight different versions, all made with super fine weight yarn, and they’ve been compiled into her first complete crochet pattern book. The book, published by Leisure Arts, offers patterns for beginners as well as intermediate skill crocheters.

5 things I liked about this book when checking it out:

Crochet Basics: How to SC, HDC, DC and TR

Last Updated on: October 18, 2022 by Kathryn

Early on in the writing of this blog I put together a series of How To posts for the basic crochet stitches, so I thought that today I’d aggregate those all in one space here for people who want them. Below you will find written instructions, images, video tutorials, links and more for the sc, hdc, dc and tr. Enjoy!

How to Single Crochet Stitch

Single crochet looks like this! image source

One of the most basic things that you learn when you first start learning how to crochet is how to single crochet. When looking at crochet patterns, the crochet abbreviation for single crochet is (sc).

Written instructions for how to crochet single crochet

Crochet the length of foundation chain that you want to use.
Turn the piece so that you are ready to start your single crochet.
Insert the crochet hook into the second chain away from the hook.
Yarn over.
Pull through the chain.
Yarn over again.
There will be two loops on the chain at this point. Pull the yarn through both of these loops.

That’s it; that’s single crochet. Of course, those are just the instructions for the first row on a turning chain. The instructions are slightly different if you’re working into another row of single crochet, but they aren’t too different. They are as follows:

Turn your piece so that you are ready to begin your next row of single crochet.
Chain one before doing anything else. This is your turning chain.
Insert the hook into the first stitch of the row (the single crochet that is immediately next to the turning chain you’ve just created).
Yarn over.
Pull through the stitch.
Yarn over.
Pull through both loops on the chain.

Pictures of how to single crochet

Not everyone learns well from written instructions. It might help to look at these pictures of how to single crochet that come from TLC:

Video instructions for how to single crochet