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This Tunisian Crochet Earwarmer is an easy way to learn the basic Tunisian crochet stitch and make a quick winter accessory for yourself or for gifting. I bought some of the Red Heart Heat Wave yarn, which is sunlight activated to be even warmer than regular yarn. I wasn’t sure what to do with it […]
I had so much fun stitching up Twinkie Chan’s Crocheted Doughnut Rattle I just had to tell you all about it. The backstory is that one of the girl’s teachers is pregnant, and they were doing a baby shower for her. I thought I had some baby items in reserve and that I could just […]
The waistcoat stitch crochet pattern is sometimes called the crochet knit stitch because it’s the crochet stitch that looks the most like knitting (in this case, stockinette stitch). It can also be known as center post single crochet, because you’re working into the center post of the stitch. It makes a dense fabric of v […]
Crochet waffle stitch is an easy pattern with a lot of texture based on double crochet stitch. It involves working some stitches as post stitches, which causes them to stand out from the fabric. What is Crochet Waffle Stitch? Waffle stitch crochet alternates regular double crochet stitches with front post double crochet, a method by […]
Third loop half double crochet (or HDC in the third loop) is a fun crochet technique that gives your fabric a texture similar to knit ribbing. Once you figure out what the third loop is, it’s pretty easy and fun to do it. What is Third Loop Half Double Crochet? The way you make a […]
Double crochet is probably my favorite of the basic crochet stitches because it’s easy for me to get into a rhythm with it and crochet pretty quickly. It’s a great stitch for relatively quick stitching because it’s twice as tall as single crochet, and it’s a little more open than half double crochet but still […]
When I was teaching myself to crochet, I somehow skipped right over the half double crochet stitch. Like most people I’d guess I learned to chain and single crochet, then I tried double and treble crochet, but it took a long time for me to get back to half double crochet. That’s a shame, because […]