What does a simple crochet stitch mean? Crochet half-column: video with step-by-step diagrams and photos

Crochet lessons for beginners, part 4

All the variety of patterns crocheted, obtained from a combination of air loops and columns different types. Sometimes, in translated literature, the columns are called loops.

Single crochets

Single crochets are perhaps the most commonly used and can be considered as a starting point for further learning to crochet.

Single crochet stitches are low and form a dense fabric. At the top of the column you will notice a loop in which the front (closer to you) and back walls are distinguished. You can knit the front, back or both walls of the loop, but the appearance of the fabric will be different. The main method is to knit stitches on both sides of the loop. When reading crochet patterns and descriptions, this method is assumed unless otherwise stated.

So, let’s knit a sample using single crochets.

Knit a chain of 20 chain stitches plus 1 instep stitch. We knit the first stitch into the second chain stitch from the hook. We move the hook under the two walls of the loop, pick up the thread and pull it through the loop: two loops have formed on the hook:

Now we pick up the thread again and pull it through both loops. There is one loop left on the hook. We knitted a single crochet.

We turn the work over, knit one lifting loop, and then a row of stitches, picking up the loops on both walls.

In order for the edge of the fabric to be smooth, it is important to knit the first and last loops of the row correctly. Often, especially if they are knitted with thin threads, they skip the first loop of the row and the stitches of the next row are knitted directly into the second loop, or they forget to knit the last loop of the row. Be careful and count the bars while you study. You should always end up with 20 columns ( air loops lifting is not included in this number).

You will get a canvas like this:

As mentioned above, a stitch can also be knitted behind the front or back wall of the loop.

Important: The first stitch in a row is always knitted on both sides of the loop so that the edge is even and quite dense.

Continue knitting the pattern: knit a few rows on the front wall of the loop, and a few on the back wall. Don't forget to knit the lifting loop. Look at the result: in all three cases it will be different. In the photo: at the bottom - several rows with single crochets behind both walls of the loop, in the middle - behind the front wall and at the top - behind the back.

Connecting posts (half-columns)

Connecting stitches (or half-stitches) are the lowest and form a very dense and rigid fabric, so these stitches alone are rarely knitted. However, they are very often used when knitting patterns, knitting in the round and for connecting fragments of lace fabrics.

It is difficult to knit half stitches starting from a chain of chain stitches, so cast on 20 chain stitches plus 1 lifting loop and knit several rows with single crochets on both sides of the loop. Next, we will connect several rows of connecting posts. As we have already said, a lifting loop is not required in this case. Therefore, having knitted a row of single crochets, we turn the work over and immediately knit a half-dome into the first loop. We insert the hook under both walls of the loop, pick up the thread and pull it through the loop and then immediately into the loop that is on the hook. If we knitted a single crochet in two steps, then a half-crochet - in one step. We knit like this until the end of the row. Turn the work over and knit the next row in the same way. To make knitting easier, do not tighten the loops, make them wide enough, especially for the first and last loops of the row.

The sample shows how the canvas narrows: the connecting posts (above) are the densest, shortest and tightest of all the posts.

Double crochets

The next stitches that we will learn to knit are double crochets. We also start knitting with a chain of air loops: we cast on 20 loops plus 2 lifting loops. We knit the column into the 3rd loop of the chain. Performing a double crochet stitch can be divided into 4 stages. First we put the thread on the hook:

Insert the hook into the next loop, grab the thread and pull it through the loop. There are 3 loops on the hook:

We grab the thread with the hook again and pull it through the first 2 loops on the hook. There are 2 loops left on the hook:

Once again, grab the thread with your hook and pull it through the two remaining loops. We knitted a double crochet:

We continue knitting until the end of the row, turn the work over, knit 2 chain stitches, then knit 20 double crochets and so on.

Don't forget to knit the lifting loops

In addition to the already discussed methods of crocheting columns, there is a method of crocheting columns “in an arch” or “under an arch”. Look carefully at the double crochet: you can clearly see that it has a “leg”, and on top of the double crochet there is a loop into which we inserted the hook. But you can insert the hook not into the loop, but between the posts: then not one, not two, but three threads of the loop will be caught.

In the photo: below - double crochets for both walls of the loop, above - double crochets “in the arch”. Appearance In this case, the fabric differs slightly: when knitting “in a loop,” the fabric turns out to be a little denser.

Friends, there are not so many basic techniques in crocheting... This is a loop, a half-column and columns on the basis of which various elements are crocheted from which the patterns are made. Today I propose to figure out how to crochet a half double crochet, it is also sometimes called a tight double crochet.

A half double crochet is a cross between a single crochet and a double crochet, which we have already looked at earlier. For those who missed this moment, I suggest you read the relevant articles “” and “”.

It is important to remember that in fact, a half-column is nothing more than an ordinary one, but in everyday life, in various patterns and descriptions, the technique that you and I will now learn to crochet is most often called a half-column, namely, a half-crochet...

Let's get started...

How to crochet a half double crochet - step by step guide

To begin, knit, for example, 15 loops. Pinch the last loop with your fingers.
Now we’ll make lifting loops – 2 loops.

For information: for a half double crochet, as well as for a single crochet, two lifting loops are made at the beginning of each row.

Note: The working thread is the thread from the ball

We pull the working thread through the loop of the chain - there are three loops on the hook

For those who like to see the process visually - a short video

We knit all the loops of the initial chain in this way, and then several rows.

Attention! Do not forget to make two lifting loops at the beginning of each row, and at the end of the row, knit a stitch into the second lifting loop of the previous row.

Starting from the second row, we knit half double crochets under both loops of the bottom row.

By the way, pay attention to the structure of these loops

There are not two of them, as when knitting single crochets or double crochets, but three... In the future, we will look at an interesting pattern using this very third loop...

In the meantime, we knit the sample to the desired size and evaluate what we got.
As I said earlier, the half double crochet is a kind of hybrid between the single crochet and the double crochet.

Look! Here the yarn over is made, as in a double crochet, and all the loops on the hook are knitted at one time, i.e. in one step, as when knitting a single crochet.

Half double crochet in crocheted items and patterns

Now let's talk about what can be connected using this element.

Actually, it should be noted that this technique is not used very often. by the broad masses knitters... at least for me personally, it’s quite rare to see a half double crochet in patterns for various products or in descriptions in knitting magazines...

I don’t know what this is connected with...

The half double crochet is a wonderful technique... It is taller and “thicker” than a regular single crochet and can easily compete with the latter, for example, in knitting toys. You just have to take a thinner hook to make the fabric more dense...

Or most interesting patterns which can be knitted from half-columns...for example, the pattern that I hinted at earlier -
Sometimes it makes sense to replace double crochets with half double crochets. different patterns or motifs to make the canvas denser and smaller in size... I did this, experimenting with the “” motif
And in clothes, knitting this element is quite possible... At least, knitting with double crochet is faster than with single crochet

By the way, you may come across such a half-column under the name “double crochet in/or “for” one move.”

But, once again, I want to remind you that most often the half double crochet in magazines is hidden under the name simply “half double crochet”.

And also, a half double crochet can be knitted in two steps - and it will not be a double crochet in the usual sense, but will be, for which, unfortunately, I don’t know the correct name. In short, I feel like I confused you with the names.

For your information: on my blog, under the name half-double crochet, I will always mean the crochet technique of half-double crochet

Friends, this concludes my story about how to crochet a half double crochet and where it can be used... I'm waiting for your comments!

Performing a half-column

1. For a half single crochet, pick up the loop of the initial or previous row with your hook.

2. Now pull the thread - there are two loops on the hook.

3. Pull the loop coming from the ball in the direction of the arrow through both loops on the hook. This means knitting “single crochet”.

4. A half single crochet is knitted.

Row of half double crochets
1. When knitting in rows, the height of the first loop should be one or two inches. p. (One ch will be enough to make only a turn - the second loop, accordingly, is knitted additionally).

If, after the initial chain of air loops, a series of half double crochets is knitted, then the first loop is knitted from the second ch. off the hook. In all subsequent rows, a new half single crochet is knitted from each single crochet of the previous row.

If at the beginning 2 chain stitches are knitted. (in this case, the instructions say “turn with 2 chain loops”), then the first loop is knitted from ch. loops of the initial chain. In the next row, skip the first loop of the previous row.

At the end of the row, knit the last half single crochet from the uppermost of both “pivot stitches”.

Relief patterns due to different hook insertions
Depending on whether you hook the entire loop of the previous row or just the front or back wall of the loop, different relief patterns will appear on the knitted fabric. The figure shows single crochets, knitted in the front and back rows. At the same time, in the front row the hook grabbed only the back wall of the loop, and in the back row only the front wall of the loop of the previous row.

In the following figure, the hook captured the back wall of the loop in the front rows, and in the purl rows the hook completely captured the entire loop of the previous row.

Loop option: single crochet
For each single crochet, the thread from the ball is pulled through 2 loops: the first loop is pulled from the previous hook insertion, and the second from the next hook insertion. The thread is pulled through two loops in one step. In the first row, the thread is pulled through the third and fourth chain loops of the initial chain.

At the end of the row, an additional single crochet is knitted from the penultimate place where the hook is inserted and turned with two chain stitches. At the beginning of the row, the first ch. knit from a half single crochet, the second from the next double loop. (As in the first row, an additional single crochet is knitted).

The initial chain of v.p. for a pattern of single crochets it should be very loose (it is useful to crochet it 2 numbers larger). The picture below shows a pattern knitted with single crochets.

Figured details, connected by columns without crochet

Circle
When knitting in the round, the desired shape is knitted by adding or subtracting stitches in a certain order in certain places within the circular rows. Each circular row ends with a connecting stitch knitted from the first loop.

When knitting in the round, the starting element is either a thread loop or a chain ring. For the latter, the number of air loops specified in the instructions is connected into a ring with a half single crochet.

Single crochets are knitted from a thread loop or from a ring of air loops. This circle and all subsequent circles of loops are connected into a ring with a connecting stitch, knitted from the first half single crochet. After the first row, the ring of thread is pulled tightly together.

To move to the next circular row, knit 1 or 2 air loops. If only one chain stitch is knitted for the transition, then the connecting stitch is knitted from the first half single crochet of this row. If two air loops are knitted for the transition, then the circle is closed with a connecting post knitted from the second of these “transition” air loops.

Start with 8 single crochets, which are knitted either from a 6-ch ring or from a thread ring. Make sure that the additions are made exactly in the places where they were made in the previous circular row. From the fourth round row, on the contrary, it is necessary to ensure that the additions are not made over the places where the additions were made in the previous row. For control, the work is placed on a flat surface from time to time. If any edge curves upward, then there were too many additions. If the edge is wavy, then too few stitches have been added. It has spiral circular rows, that is, transitions from one row to another are invisible in the pattern. In the example shown in the figure, the loops were knitted behind the back wall of the loop.

Square
A square, like a circle, begins to be knitted from a thread ring or a chain ring.

One of the options for knitting a square: in the first circular row, alternately knit a half single crochet and a chain stitch 4 times. In the second and each subsequent circular row, add loops at the corners: each time 1 single crochet, 2 ch. and 1 half double crochet is knitted around the vp. the previous circular row.

The square can also be knitted in straight rows. Around a ring of v.p. in the first row, knit 2 half-dcs, 2 ch. and 2 half double crochets. In each subsequent row, from each half single crochet, knit a half single crochet, 2 ch. and half single crochet.

Hexagon

The hexagon begins to be knitted with 6 single crochets, knitted from a ring of thread. In the second circular row, 2 loops are knitted from each loop, in the third circular row, 2 half double crochets are knitted only from every second loop, in the fourth circular row, from every third loop of the previous circular row. Using the same principle, loops are added in all subsequent circular rows.

Octagon
Begin knitting in the same way as a hexagon. Start with 8 single crochets, which are knitted either from a ring of 6 chain stitches or from a ring of thread. Make sure that the additions are made exactly in the places where they were made in the previous circular row.

All lesson photos enlarge when you click on them.

1. By knitting a chain of air loops desired length, insert the hook into the second loop from the end of the chain (from the hook). Do not forget that a loop hanging on a hook does not count.

2. The working thread is located above the hook.

3. Hook up the working thread with index finger and pull it through two loops at once: through the loop of the chain and through the loop on the hook.

4. The first half-stitch is knitted.

5. To knit the second half-column, insert the hook into the next loop of the chain and under the working thread on the index finger.

6. Hook up the working thread.

7. And let’s pull it through two loops at the same time: the loop of the chain and the loop on the hook.

8. Half-stitch knitted.

This is what a row connected by half-columns looks like. It looks like a lace. Actually, this is how you can knit laces.

Half columns are the lowest of all crocheted columns. They have almost no height, so they are widely used where an inconspicuous transition along the canvas from columns to columns is needed.

Often, a half-column is used to connect parts of a product and to close the first and last columns of the fabric, for example, in knitting in the round and in knitting figured elements.

Good afternoon, dear needlewomen!

Today we will talk about crochet for beginners, look at the basic aspects of crochet, and show you crochet patterns for beginners.

What is a hook

Hook- This is a tool that is used to knit products. On one side of the hook there is a head. It can be thick or very thin. The hook number depends on its thickness. If the thickness of the head is 1 mm, then this is hook number 1. You can see the hook number on the long part of the hook; the long part of the hook is called the shank.

The material from which hooks are made can be different - metal, plastic, wood...

threads for crocheting use wool, half-wool, cotton, synthetic.

How to crochet? Much easier than it seems. Let's train. We take threads of medium thickness, preferably single ones. And the hook is twice as thick as the threads. We sit down more comfortably, study the photographs and repeat.

How to crochet chain stitches.

Air loop:

Continue to crochet air loops in the same way. Make sure that thumb left hand was always near the loop on the hook through which the thread is pulled. In this way you will get a chain of air loops. Air loops- This is the basis of all crocheted products.

What is a crochet yarn over?

Yarn over- this is a term without which crocheting will not work. When you put thread on a hook after there is already a loop on it, you are making a yarn over. Each yarn over forms a loop after you knit it.

Working thread- this is a thread coming from a ball.

We crochet a half stitch with double crochet.

To crochet a half-column, do this:

When starting to knit the first row of your product, you need to make several air loops of the chain, they are also called lifting loops. They replace the first column of a new row. Thus, a half-column corresponds to one air loop, a single crochet corresponds to two air loops, a single crochet corresponds to three air loops, a double crochet corresponds to four air loops.

How to crochet single crochet

Let's figure out how to knit a single crochet.

How to knit a double crochet stitch.

Dear craftswomen, let's learn how to knit double crochets.

We knit a double crochet stitch.

Now we know how to knit a stitch with one crochet, let's learn how to knit a stitch with two crochets.

Lush crochet post

Let's learn how to crochet a lush column.

We pull several loops (4-6) 1 cm long from one loop. To do this, we make a yarn over, insert the hook into the chain of the previous row and pull out a loop, repeat this manipulation 4-6 times
After you make the last yarn over, pull the yarn through all the loops and yarn overs on your hook.
In order to secure the lush column, we put the thread on the hook.
We knit a loop on the hook.

More details about lush column look in the video

Crochet picot pattern

The picot crochet pattern is beautiful and very simple, crocheted this way:

We knit three air loops
Insert a hook into the last column
We knit a single crochet.

Pico pattern crochet video

Text prepared by: Veronica