Crochet Techniques

The number in parentheses at the end of a round is not an instruction. Here is what every bracket, parenthesis, and asterisk in a crochet pattern is telling you to do.

A US single crochet and a UK double crochet are the same stitch. Here is the full conversion table, plus how to tell which system a pattern is written in before you start.

Crochet is two skills: making stitches and reading patterns. Here is the full path, starting with the free Pattern Trainer in the Yon Crochet app and continuing through nine video lessons from magic ring to finished plushie.

The right side of amigurumi shows neat V shapes, the wrong side shows horizontal bars. Here is the ten second test, why pieces flip inside out around rounds four to eight, and how to fix it.

Rin the Raindrop is live in both right-hand and left-hand video modes. Here is what the lesson teaches: bubble stitch for raised droplet texture, and double crochet for the smooth teardrop curve.