I recently received some free T-shirts from Shirts.com to use to test out their tutorial for How to Make T-Shirt Yarn. Although I’ve made rag rug crochet items before, I’ve never actually used t-shirts and I’ve never made tarn so it was new to me. I followed their tutorial without any problems and easily made my T-shirt yarn. Check out their post for the full instructions. Below you can see my step-by-step process in photos.
US. vs UK. Crochet Terminology
I’ll show you the steps for doing a double treble crochet as well as the info to keep adding yarn-overs to make the triple treble, quadruple treble and quintuple treble crochet stitches.
The V-Stitch is a simple crochet stitch that is created by working two double crochet stitches into the same stitch and separating them with a chain space. This creates a lovely open design that works up quickly and can be used to make a variety of different projects from scarves to blankets.
The single V-Stitch is worked with the following three steps:
Step One: DC into stitch
Step Two: Ch 1
Step Three: DC into same stitch
This creates one V-stitch.
I’m continuing on with my roundup this month highlighting things from each of my Pinterest boards. Today I’m looking at my Crochet Stitches Pinterest Board. When I first started it I pinned my favorite images of crochet stitches there, even if they were just pictures, but now I mostly link to tutorials and instructions for crochet stitches.
Block Stitch Crochet Afghan Tutorial via homemade@myplace
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!
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
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:
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
Wool is one of the most popular fibers for the yarn that knitters and crocheters use in your work. It is great for many reasons, but it is not without its controversy. This article explores wool from many different angles. We’ll look at types of wool and wool yarns, different phrases used in reference to wool, pros and cons of crocheting with wool, wool events and more.
Wool is actually a more confusing term that you might think. In the United States it is generally accepted that when you talk about wool, you are talking about the fiber made from the fur of sheep. However, wool around the world sometimes includes the fur fiber of other animals including cashmere from goats, angora from rabbits, and qiviut from the muskox.
Even when you limit the term wool just to sheep’s wool, there are still many, many types of wool to choose from. Each different type of sheep produces different wool. Just listen in on yarn spinners chatting for a short period and you’ll hear about Merino Wool, Blue Faced Leicester, Finn, Jacob, Cormo, Flakland, Shetland, Corriedale, Romney, Polwarth, Icelandic Leadersheep, Gotland, Wensleydale, Friessian, Cheviot, Clun Forest, and Coopworth sheep wool. Wow!
Each of the wool’s has different thickness or coarseness, which relates (at least in part) to the crimp of the fiber. The crimp refers to the fineness of the wool so a wool like merino, which is very fine, may have 100 crimps per inch and a really coarse wool may have only 5 crimps per inch. The fibers also vary in length and this affects the feel of the yarn, too. You aren’t likely to need to know this as a crocheter, but it’s helpful to know as a spinner!
Things get even more detailed when you talk about wool yarns, because these yarns may be any of those sheep wool fibers but they can also be blends. The blend can be a mixture of different wools or the blend can be any of those wools mixed with another fiber such as silk. Each wool yarn is going to have a different feel, a different drape and possibly a different purpose in your crochet work.
Some of the wool yarns / wool blend yarns I’ve worked with include:
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