Double Crochet
Mary Beth TempleDescription
The double crochet stitch is a quite common stitch in crochet patterns and is the basis for hundreds of stitch patterns. You’ll see it used for granny squares and to create easy projects like crocheted baby blankets. In this video, Mary Beth Temple demonstrates how to work the double crochet stitch.
The double crochet is typically abbreviated in patterns as “dc.” Mary Beth is working the double crochet stitches into the next stitch on her swatch, working under both legs of the V on the top of the stitch. She notes that a pattern will indicate where the double crochet stitch should be worked. To create the stitch, she follows these steps:
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- Yarn over, from back to front
- Insert hook into stitch from front to back
- Yarn over and draw through a loop (3 loops on hook)
- Yarn over and draw through two loops (2 loops remain on hook)
- Yarn over and draw through two loops once more (1 loop remains on hook—double crochet stitch is complete)
Mary Beth repeats this process and works several more stitches in double crochet.
This video follows US crochet terminology.
Hi guys, Mary Beth Temple here, and in this video, we're going to take a closer look at the double crochet. Now, the double crochet is a stitch we use in so many different things, oftentimes in granny squares and stuff like that. It's just a really, really common stitch. So let's take a look at how to make it. All right, to make our nice tall doubles, we're going to yarn over from back to front, insert our hook in the stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop. So far, it's very much like a half double crochet. I have one, two, three loops on my hook. I'm going to yarn over, draw that through two. Now I have two loops on my hook, one, two. Yarn over, draw through two. And there is my double. Let's do that a few more times. Yarn over back to front, insert your hook in the next stitch, yarn over back to front, draw up a loop. I have three loops on my hook, one, two, three. Yarn over, draw through two. Two loops on my hook, one, two. Yarn over, draw through two. Yarn over, insert in the stitch, draw up a loop, yarn over, draw through two, yarn over, draw through two. All right, and there are my nice tall doubles. Once again, I'm Mary Beth Temple. That was the double crochet. Enjoy looking around the site and seeing what else there is to see. I'll see you again here real soon.
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