Up and Down (Houndstooth) Crochet Tutorial

Up and Down (Houndstooth) Crochet Tutorial

Stitch of the Week #7: Up and Down (Houndstooth) Stitch Tutorial Welcome back to Stitch of the Week!  This week’s stitch is the Up and Down stitch.  This stitch is more often referred to as the “Houndstooth” stitch.  It really does end up looking like 

Crochet Solid Granny Square Tutorial

Crochet Solid Granny Square Tutorial

Learn How To Crochet The Solid Granny Square in this Tutorial Welcome back to the Tutorial of the Week!  Last week we covered the traditional granny square.  This week, we’re covering the solid granny square. Why Solid? Most people are content with the traditional granny 

DIY Crochet Hook Handles

DIY Crochet Hook Handles

Polymer Clay DIY Crochet Hook Handles Tutorial We all have those plain metal, boring, and VERY uncomfortable to use hooks from when we first started crocheting.  Like this one: Sara asked me to test a pattern with a 3.5mm hook. My smallest comfy grip is 

Extended Half Double Crochet Stitch

Extended Half Double Crochet Stitch

Stitch of the Week #7: Extended Half-Double Crochet This week’s stitch of the week is the Extended Half-Double Crochet (exhdc). This stitch makes a comfy-looking fabric, ideal for blankets, scarves, cowls, and hats.  It also works up in any yarn weight and color. Note: This 

Crochet Granny Square Tutorial

Crochet Granny Square Tutorial

Crochet Granny Square tutorial–the Right Way Welcome to our first in the Crochet Techniques series, the Granny Square Tutorial. Have you ever worked up a large granny square blanket only to realize several rounds later that the middle is no longer in line with the 

Mug Cozy Crochet Pattern

Mug Cozy Crochet Pattern

Mug Cozy Crochet Pattern. Our Pattern of the week featuring the Alternate Stitch We’ve got a great mug cozy crochet pattern for you this week that uses the Stitch of the Week: Alternate Stitch. As you can see in the picture, it’s a nice and 

Stitch of the Week: Alternate Stitch

Stitch of the Week: Alternate Stitch

Welcome back to stitch of the week: Alternate Stitch Welcome back!  This week’s Stitch of the Week is the Alternate Stitch. This stitch is worked by putting 2 single crochets in one stitch.  But there’s a way to keep the stitch count. Different from the 

Stitch of the Week: Staggered Double Crochet Pairs

Stitch of the Week: Staggered Double Crochet Pairs

Welcome back to stitch of the week. #4 in the series is the Staggered DC Pairs.  It looks like a V stitch, but that’s just your eyes playing tricks on you!  It’s actually an upside-down V shape, completed by doing a double crochet two-together (DC2TOG) 

Stitch of the Week: Staggered HDC Pairs

Stitch of the Week: Staggered HDC Pairs

Welcome to Stitch of the Week #3–Staggered HDC Pairs Staggered Half-Double Crochet Pairs, stitch of the week This week, we’re learning about Staggered Half-Double Crochet Pairs. Last time, we talked about Paired HDC, and the time before that, Paired SC.  It seems we’re hung up 

Stitch of the Week: Paired HDC

Stitch of the Week: Paired HDC

Stitch of the week tutorial #2 for the paired half-double crochet Welcome back to stitch of the week! Last week I was supposed to release this stitch–the paired half-double crochet stitch–however, I was going through a lot of prep for hospital procedures and surgeries.  Here’s 

Paired Single Crochet

Paired Single Crochet

Paired Single Crochet–A Stitch of the Week crochet tutorial       Welcome to Stitch of the Week! This week’s tutorial is the paired single crochet stitch. Also known as the interlocking single crochet stitch, this is a quick and easy stitch to do. It 

Farmhouse Dishcloth Tutorial

Farmhouse Dishcloth Tutorial

Farmhouse Dishcloth Tutorial using Paired Single Crochet Today’s tutorial is all about the Farmhouse Dishcloth, using the paired single crochet method. Please note: this post may contain affiliate links to yarns and other materials at no extra cost to you. The paired single crochet is