Time for another installment of NEW CROCHET STITCH! *jazz hands*
No? Yeah ok, we’ll workshop it a little more.
Anyway, let’s learn a new stitch. This one is the half double crochet. That seems kind of a funny name, since we learned a single crochet and a double crochet. This stitch sits somewhere between the two, hence the name of half double crochet.
Let’s get into it.
- With a single loop on your hook, yarn over
- Work into the chain and pick up the two loops from the top of the previous row’s stitch
- Yarn over and pull through those two chain stitch loops
- You should have three loops on your hook at this point
- Yarn over and pull through all three loops
- You should end with a single loop on your hook again
Did you catch how this stitch is different? Instead of only going through two loops at a time, as we have done in previous stitches, we went through all the remaining loops. This is what makes it a half double crochet. We do a lot of the same things as the double crochet, we just eventually do half of the reducing steps to get back to one loop.
Now you know a new stitch! Was this one confusing? I think it can be, since it doesn’t conform exactly to the methods we have learned previously, but it’s really not too bad.