Understand Your Stitches

To fix loose crochet tension without changing hook size, adjust how you wrap yarn around your non-dominant hand and pull up loops closer to the hook throat. Controlling finger tension and lifting the working yarn straight up tightens each stitch naturally. Rethink Your Yarn Wrap Across Your Fingers Today when I sat down to work on a new blanket swatch, my hands felt relaxed, but my stitches were looking sloppy. If your stitches look gappy, you do not need to hunt down a small

Learn how to make crochet Spike Stitches, choose the row where the hook is inserted, and pull each loop up to the correct height.

Learn how to make Front Post and Back Post Double Crochet stitches, where to insert your hook, and how to find the next stitch.

Learn how crochet decreases, cluster stitches and "together" abbreviations work, including sc2tog, hdc2tog and dc2tog.