How To : Crochet

Using Blocking Wires To Block A Lace Shawl

KD Sandi — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:11:00 GMT

How to Block A Lace Shawl Using Blocking Wires You can always use pins to block any lace project. But for generations, women have used thin wires, or even strong lengths of cotton thread, in place of pins to shape their lace shawls. This tutorial shows...(read more)

How Insert Thrums in Your Knitting

KD Sandi — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:36:00 GMT

How to Thrum a Mitten: Knitted Instructions Patterns: Knitted Thrummed Mittens by Jennifer Appleby available in our pattern store Crocheted Thrummed Mittens by Marlaina Bird from Interweave Crochet , Winter 2009 Related information: What is a thrum and...(read more)

About Knitting Daily

Kat — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:53:00 GMT

An online knitting guild meeting with everything but the brownies, Sandi Wiseheart's writings from the knitting side of life offer stories, posts, patterns, and techniques from a life-long knitter, general all-around yarn addict, and former managing...(read more)

Abbreviations used in our patterns

Kat — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:25:00 GMT

Unfamiliar with an abbreviation you've seen in a Kniting Daily pattern? Use the chart below for an explaination. Can't find the knitting term or abbreviation you're looking for? Contact Knitting Daily with your questions! beg beginning; begin;...(read more)

Treble Crochet (tr)

Kat — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:11:00 GMT

Crochet *Wrap yarn around hook two times, insert hook into a stitch, yarn over hook and draw a loop through (four loops on hook; Figure 1), yarn over hook and draw it through two loops (Figure 2), yarn over hook and draw it through the next two loops...(read more)

Slip Stitch Crochet (sl st)

Kat — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:09:00 GMT

Crochet Insert hook into stitch, yarn over hook and draw loop through stitch and loop on hook....(read more)

Single Crochet (sc)

Kat — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:07:00 GMT

Crochet Insert hook into a stitch, yarn over hook and draw a loop through stitch, yarn over hook (Figure 1) ... and draw it through both loops on hook (Figure 2)....(read more)

Reverse Single Crochet (rev sc)

Kat — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:05:00 GMT

Crochet Working from left to right, insert crochet hook into a knit edge stitch, draw up a loop, bring yarn over hook, and draw this loop through the first one. *Insert hook into next stitch to right (Figure 1), ...draw up a loop, bring yarn over hook...(read more)

Crochet Chain (ch)

Kat — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:58:00 GMT

Crochet Make a slipknot on hook. Yarn over hook and draw it through loop of slipknot. Repeat, drawing yarn through the last loop formed....(read more)

Double Crochet (dc)

Kat — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:58:00 GMT

Crochet *Yarn over hook, insert hook into a stitch, yarn over hook and draw a loop through stitch (three loops on hook; Figure 1), yarn over hook and draw it through two loops (Figure 2), yarn over hook and draw it through the re-maining two loops (Figure...(read more)

Crochet Chain (Provisional) Cast-On

Kat — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:55:00 GMT

Cast-on With waste yarn and crochet hook, make a loose chain of about four stitches more than you need to cast on. With needle, working yarn, and beginning two stitches from end of chain, pick up and knit one stitch through the back loop of each crochet...(read more)