Friday, January 21, 2011

How to treble crochet - January's Creative C continued

The main stitch I used to make this bag was a treble crochet - a new stitch for me but as the fabric was quite thick cotton (from some recycled jogging pants) I wanted a large stitch to go with my large crochet hook.

So here is my how to treble crochet

This is the finished treble crochet.

You can see it creates a large-ish gap then has a smalker gap at the top, bisected by a strand of yarn, when working the next row you work into the smaller gap not the larger.

Start by winding the yarn over the hook twice to give you three loops on the hook





push yarn through the next stitch - you will momentarily have four loops over the hook

pull yarn through the first two loops on the crochet hook - three loops left on the hook and the first part of the stitch completed below the hook

pull yarn through the next two loops on the hook, leaving one worked stitch on the hook and the previous stitch's loop on the hook (two stitches in total left on hook)


pull yarn through the two remaining loops on the hook to join the new stitch to the old stitch and viola - one treble crochet


2 comments:

louisa @ TheReallyGoodLife said...

Is that also known as a double treble in British crochet terms?

Absinthe Fairy said...

a double treble crochet you would start with three loops on the hook rather than two, and is a longer stitch again