Stitches

First let us start with the abbreviations:

1. approx = approximate (ly)
2. beg      = begin (ing)
3. ch (s)   = chain (s)
4. dc        = double crochet
5. dec      = decrease (s, ing)
6. dtr       = double treble
7. foll       = follow (s, ing)

Always helps to have all the tools!

8.   ndc     = half double crochet
9.   inc      = increase (s, ing)
10. pat      = pattern
11. rep      = repeat
12. rnd (s) = round (s)
13. sc        = single crochet
14. sl st     = slip stitch

Now you will be able to read a pattern.

15. st (s)    = stitch (es)
16. tog      = together
17. tr        = treble
18. tr tr     = treble treble
19. yo       = yarn over

First you have to know how to make a chain and here is how. But first you need to know how to make a slip knot. You hold your yarn out and fold it over it self, then pull up the long part of it through the hole and wala, a slip knot.

Next you need to know how to make a ring to crochet in. Here is a ring. the nice thing about these stitches is that on the bottom right corner if you look close it shows you what the icon is for the stitch so you can read graph patterns.

Now you know how to make a ring, here is the stitch to put it all together, it is a slip stitch. It will hold that chain that you just made into a ring so that it won't fall a part.

Next is the simplest stitch to make it is a single crochet stitch.

And now lets do it in reverse. This is a reverse single crochet.

Of course if you have a single must be a half double.

And if there is a half double there must be a double!

Of course there is a triple! It is called a treble though, why?

This is called a cluster, seems to be used a lot in basic patterns.

doesn't hurt to know it anyway.