Crochet essentials

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Over the next few pages, you’ll find simple step-by-step guides to many useful s

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Simply Crochet Magazine

13 June, 2023

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The Knitter

Be a confident chart knitter

READING KNITTING CHARTS is like riding a bike - once you’ve learned, there’s no going back. Many of the patterns we feature in The Knitter rely heavily on charts, and recently we have received a few l

The Knitter

Information

alt alternate approx approximately beg beginning ch chain cn cable needle cont continue dc double crochet (US single crochet) dec decrease (work two stitches together) DK double knitting DPN double-po

Simply Knitting

Musical make

Notes Wind off a smaller ball of Yarn A before you begin (or locate the other end of the ball). Use a separate end of yarn for each colour section (intarsia method) and cross yarns at colour changes t

Simply Crochet

Brew for two

YOU WILL NEED ■ Any DK yarn in 3 colours ■ A 3mm (US C/2 or D/3) hook ■ 4 buttons, 10mm ■ 2 straight-sided mugs TENSION 5½ spike clusters and 14 rows in spike granny st measure 10x10cm (4x4in) 4 shell

The People's Friend

Merry & bright

Of Caron Simply Soft,1x 170.1 g ball each in White (9701) A, Harvest Red (9763) B, and 4 balls in Autumn Red (9730) C; 5.5 mm crochet hook. This yarn is available from your local Caron stockist or you