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Welcome to Part 3 of my Crochet for Beginners Today we're going to cover changing colours in straight crochet and how to follow a basic pattern. For now, we'll stick with text-based patterns as they are the most common ones crocheters use. There are diagram based patterns as well but they are a bit more challenging for beginners to use, so we'll cover them at a later date. Changing Colours Changing colours is quite straightforward when crocheting on a straight line. Once you reach the end of the row before the colour change, before you make the chains to start the next row, cut off the yarn you've been using, leaving around a 10cm (4") tail. Then use the new colour to make your chains to start the next row, again leaving a 10cm tail on the new yarn. I find it helps to hold the two tails while making the chain and first stitches to ensure you don't accidentally unravel your work. Once you've done the first couple of stitches, you should be good to ke...

  Crochet Basics Part 2 Hi, welcome back. This is part 2 of my crochet basics series introducing crochet and teaching you how to get started. In the first part we went over the basics of beginning a piece of crochet, the slipknot, the chain stitch, double crochet (single crochet in the US) and how to fasten off at the end. Today we're going to cover a couple of new stitches you can use for different textures. The half-treble and treble crochet stitches are fairly easy to work. These stitches are taller than the double crochet. You'll see what I mean.  Half-Treble Crochet (htr) Half-treble is between double and treble crochet in height. It is worked very similarly to a double crochet, the difference is you wrap the yarn around your hook before pushing it into the next stitch, then you pull the yarn through, pulling up another loop. This leaves three loops on your hook instead of two. You wrap the yarn around the hook again and pull it through all three loops together. That's...

Crochet Basics Welcome to the first part of my first series of blog posts on the basics of crochet for beginners. I will cover what you need to get started and some tutorials so you can learn the basic stitches and get started on a few easy projects. This is perfect for crochet beginners who want to learn how to crochet and get into this amazing hobby. Word of warning: it is addictive! Once you start and you realise just how flexible crochet is and what you can make, it's going to take over your life. It's not an expensive hobby to start, but it can become so when you see the variety of yarns and projects available to you. So, a little about my background with crochet. It's something my mum does, and has done for years. I have a couple of blankets that she made when I was a baby, and I still have them. I got into crochet by a kind of circuitous route - when I started getting into cosplay I learned how to knit to make legwarmers and began collecting magazines on knitting and...