How to Crochet: Front Post Double Crochet (fpdc)
By Rachel – 11 CommentsAre you ready to start making texture in your crochet work? If so, then lets get stared with the basics! Front post double crochet is also known as front raised double crochet. Front post can be done using many stitches, but for this tutorial we will focus on the popular double crochet stitch. You will need to know the basics of crocheting before attempting this tutorial. Visit the Crochet Tutorials Section for more help.
The only thing that is different in a front post double crochet compared to a regular double crochet is the location you insert your hook to make your stitch.
This tutorial is for both right and left handed people. For left handed pictures, roll your mouse over the image and it will change for you.
To make a front post double crochet, follow the instructions below:
Yarn over (wrap the yarn around your hook)
Insert your hook into the front of your work, behind the indicated stitch, and then through your work such that your hook is now at the front of your work again.
Yarn over (wrap the yarn around your hook)
Pull up a loop
Yarn over (wrap the yarn around your hook)
Pull through 2 loops on your hook.
Yarn over (wrap the yarn around your hook)
Pull through final 2 loops on your hook.
You just completed one front post double crochet! The stitch should look just like a regular double crochet but is slightly raised forward compared to the rest of your work.
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Thanks so much for all your HELP!!!!! Im going to give it a try, wish me luck!!!! (hee hee)
I love your crochet tutorials! I sooo wish I could go back in time and learn from these instead of struggling with ancient library books I checked out as a kid. Oh well. =)
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Which stitch do you form this stitch around – is it the one you just made or one in the previous row? Or would the pattern say?
Got to say, love your photographs, so well focused and framed compared with some sites, or even published books!
Hey Caroline,
You normally make it around a stitch on the previous row. But if you’re working with a pattern, it should tell you where to make it.
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Hi Rachel
I was hoping for a bit of advice, it’s not on one of your patterns but I’m hoping you might be able to help me anyway. I’m doing the Moss Stitch Afghan from the Lion Brand website and I’ve been stumped by one of the lines.
“Row 3 Ch 1, sc in first st, *sc around front of next st, sc around back of next st; repeat
from * across, sc in last st (turning ch)”
I was thinking that they mean alternating between front and back post sc, but I’m not sure and was wondering what you thought. Thanks.
Hi Bookworm, my guess is as good as yours. I’d recommend sending an email to the Lion Brand folks. They would know more about the pattern than me.
…I didn’t even know I could do that
I’ll go do that now.
Thanks for the suggestion. I emailed them and got a response, now I’m on my way. Turns out it was what I thought.
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