crochet basics
Aug. 14th, 2006 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sevI'm sure there's a community out there I can post this to -- heck, since I'm looking into edging my knitting, I can probably post to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
knitting. But the fiber artists who read my journal give great advice, and I'm currently not exactly sure what *question* I'm asking, yet.
What I want is, I think, to crochet an edge onto a scarf I'm knitting. I can do the uber-basic single-crochet as trim, and I find that pretty easy. (or, at least, it was perfectly acceptible with the very-forgiving, very-fuzzy yarn I was using.) So, what next?
The instructions I see for crocheting even the most simple of the more interesting edges (say, "three dc shell stitch") confuse me; I just don't know enough of the terminology. I've only barely begun to figure out how to do a double crochet stitch and I'm fuzzy on how to take what little I know and string it together to actually, say, *do* something. And, I only currently own one crochet hook (my tiny one got left at my mom's; I will be retreiving it next month). I have no idea whether the hook I've got (5.5mm) is appropriate for the approximately double-knit weight yarn I'm currently playing with.
So, can anyone recommend a good resource for: crochet-for-knitters? coming up to speed on crochet enough to read patterns? other things to do to the edge of my knit scarf? better questions to ask, given what I'm trying to do?
knitting. But the fiber artists who read my journal give great advice, and I'm currently not exactly sure what *question* I'm asking, yet.What I want is, I think, to crochet an edge onto a scarf I'm knitting. I can do the uber-basic single-crochet as trim, and I find that pretty easy. (or, at least, it was perfectly acceptible with the very-forgiving, very-fuzzy yarn I was using.) So, what next?
The instructions I see for crocheting even the most simple of the more interesting edges (say, "three dc shell stitch") confuse me; I just don't know enough of the terminology. I've only barely begun to figure out how to do a double crochet stitch and I'm fuzzy on how to take what little I know and string it together to actually, say, *do* something. And, I only currently own one crochet hook (my tiny one got left at my mom's; I will be retreiving it next month). I have no idea whether the hook I've got (5.5mm) is appropriate for the approximately double-knit weight yarn I'm currently playing with.
So, can anyone recommend a good resource for: crochet-for-knitters? coming up to speed on crochet enough to read patterns? other things to do to the edge of my knit scarf? better questions to ask, given what I'm trying to do?
my pocket change
on 2006-08-15 05:45 am (UTC)http://community.livejournal.com/crochet/profile
has a bunch of links, including one to a community called
there's a decent book called The Encyclopedia of Crochet by Donna Kooler but it might be more than you want.
a three dc shell stitch is doing three double crochet stitches into the same stitch. oh, i see that the web site mentions that. not sure how to explain it differently.
if the hook fits into the stitches and hooks the yarn, it's good enough. if it feels like a struggle to do either of those things, it's the wrong size. i think 5.5 would probably work ok for double-knit yarn unless you knit very tightly.