How to Stiffen Crochet
Fabric stiffener versus a homemade sugar-water starch solution compared, for holding a crochet ornament’s shape long-term.
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Crochet Hot Air Balloon
A full pattern for a small crocheted hot air balloon, worked start to finish, perfect as an ornament or nursery decoration.
Graph Crochet Pixel Art
How to design your own pixel art graph for a C2C graphghan, from a blank grid to a finished, ready-to-stitch chart.
How to Cast On Crochet
Why crochet doesn’t technically have a cast on like knitting, and what starting a foundation chain looks like instead.
Small Items to Crochet
10 small, fast crochet items that use minimal yarn and finish comfortably in under an hour, perfect for last-minute gifts.
Where Did Crochet Originate
The regions most closely tied to crochet’s early record, and why its exact origin point still stays genuinely fuzzy today.
HDC 2 Tog Crochet
How to work a half double crochet 2 together decrease step by step, shown clearly enough to follow on your first try.
How to Bind Off Crochet
Why bind off is knitting terminology rather than crochet, and exactly how fastening off works instead to finish a piece.
Free Form Crochet
An intro to freeform crochet, the improvisational, pattern-free style also known as scrumbling, and how to start your first piece without a chart.
How to Embroider on Crochet
How to embroider faces and small details onto amigurumi using basic embroidery stitches, so features look neat and stay put through washing.