Comments on: How to Crochet: Double Crochet Stitches (dc)

By: Candace

Candace — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:57:29 +0000

Lea, Rachel, it does look like you’re both doing the same thing, maybe just worded differently.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:16:37 +0000

Hmmm maybe the stitch you learned is a variation of the single crochet? The stitch tutorials on this site are the standard stitches, so feel free to use these tutorials to learn the stitches.

By: Lea

Lea — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:30:09 +0000

No, it’s not your single crotchet either. That’d be: Insert hook, yo, pull through first loop, yo, pull through both loops. But mine is: Yo, insert hook, pull through 2 loops, yo, pull through 2 remainung loops.

Sorry, accidentally posted that under How to crotchet… :-/

By: Lea

Lea — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:29:03 +0000

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:00:07 +0000

Lea, it sounds like your double crochet is my single crochet. All the patterns and tutorials on this site are written in U.S. terms and abbreviations. It seems like you learned the stitches with the UK names. There is a conversion table that you can look at to see the differences in stitch names, here's a post that has it: Reading Vintage and UK patterns

By: Lea

Lea — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:15:38 +0000

Hey Rachel,
I’m confused. I already know how to crochet and I learned the double crochet differently. My single crochet is also different… I do the double crochet like this: Yo, insert hook into stitch, yo, pull through two loops, yo, pull through two loops. Is that basically the same thing? I’m doing one of you patterns and I just wanted to make sure it will turn out the same way yours did. It’ll probably work anyways, but will it look differently?

By: Asprin

Asprin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:28:48 +0000

I thought practice might well be the main thing, but I will see if anywhere near has a larger hook.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:25:12 +0000

Hi Asprin, practice is the key factor. But you can also try crocheting slower or with a larger crochet hook. Good luck with it!

By: Asprin

Asprin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:10:50 +0000

Hi,

I have found this website really helpful, I had wanted to learn for a while and my Mum was going to help but she realised she has forgotten a lot of it. So I decided to use the net to help me and found this site and a few video tutorials very helpful.

I find that I seem to ‘puncture’ the wool I am using more when doing treble crochet (as it is called in the UK) as opposed to double crochet (US single). Is there anyway to avoid this apart from more practice?

I am using a 5mm hook and the wool is 3 ply (it was from a charity shop so I don’t know much about it). I really only started last night and have managed to make a small scarf for a teddy bear in double crochet and the fast flower book mark so far.

Sorry for using the UK terms but I have a book in front of me in UK terms and it is possible to convert the patterns off the net by putting them in to Word and replacing the terms.

Asprin

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:31:49 +0000

Hi Tiffany, here’s a post that may help – How to Read Crochet Patterns
See the second example, since it is similar to what you are asking.