#croknit

[feral-space-faerie]

Hello I didn't stop 🧶❤️

My basement craft room has shit lighting but I wanted to post my first spun yarn (left) and my second (right) next to each other!

[yarnbabey]

being a crocheter/knitter with sensitive skin and skin asthma is like:

touching yarn before you buy it vigorously to make sure it won’t irritate you. getting weird looks from other shopgoers

frogging yarn and wheezing at all the stray fibers in the air

using sheddy yarn and wheezing at all the stray fibers in the air

asking online sellers if the yarn they’re selling is soft. checks reviews that complain of scratchiness

playing with yarn to ignore the itchiness. you’re still very itchy but at least you’re being productive, hey?

“i should put cream on now for the dryness. but if i put it on now, then my hands will be too slippery to hold the needles/hook. but if i don’t put it on now, then i will be very itchy”

bringing your wip bag to doctors’ appointments

crying when you accidentally set your wip down on a dusty surface and the dust gets into everywhere and you can’t work on it but you can’t clean it either

*coughs while knitting and resumes immediately* “”wow you’re just like a grandma!!!!”

makes your own stuffed toys because you can’t have the normal ones

[hololover]

I'm happily hookin' for some extra change...and not doing something extra strange. 😁 #croknit #crohooking #tunisiancrochet #callmeahooker #wearitwell #littlehustle

[mimidublinagassizbc]

Two very different #crochet #WIP right by each other. As with books, I almost always have more than one WIP (work in progress). I found two #crochetintheround hook sets, & it takes some getting used to. Handy for bigger pieces, though, & for #Tunisian or #croknitting. The other piece that I shared earlier is my #C2C (#cornertocorner) crochet baby blanket. So far it's a pale yellow & a grey, but I'll also add smaller sections of white so that the colours the mom-to-be told me she wantwd will all be in there.

[knittingbordado]

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[nyalisa-landale]

a bit about crochet entrelac

s2g, half the reason I rarely post long posts is because this stupid hellsite and its frankensteined chimera of an app EAT THEM BEFORE I CAN FINISH WRITING THEM.

but anyway. ANYWAY. let's talk a bit about crochet entrelac. (take two.)

entrelac is some fancy fuckin french word that means interlocked/interlocking/some such bullshit. knitted entrelac, which came first, usually looks something like this:

cool. this is stockinette entrelac, which most entrelac usually is because it looks fucking rad. (fun fact: the reason it looks like that is because of stockinette stitch's tendency to curl in on the sides. since in entrelac the sides are all connected to something else, this makes the rest of each section sit a little bit higher.) you can also knit entrelac in garter stitch, which looks like this:

which is significantly less rad. (garter stitch is a Balanced Stitch, whereas stockinette is Unbalanced, but we're talking about crochet today so let's not get into that. all it means for our purposes is that garter stitch lies flat.)

"but azu, I thought we were talking about CROCHET entrelac."

yes, we are. but it's important to know the kind of look that crochet entrelac is trying to mimic - or at least the type of construction that it's trying to mimic, since crochet entrelac actually looks like this:

visually it's more similar to garter entrelac than stockinette entrelac, which is why I showed y'all garter entrelac in the first place. although the reverse side looks like the reverse side of stockinette entrelac (that is, reverse stockinette stitch). it has something else in common with stockinette, too: it curls like a motherfucker. observe:

this is more of a problem in the beginning, when you have less fabric; the joined edges don't curl like in stockinette entrelac, as we've seen. the above sample pinned out:

(I'm using a slow color-change yarn; you can see it a little, but it'll be more obvious the more I go.)

afaik this technique is usually used in blankets; it makes for really nice ones, because the fabric is pretty dense. and unlike knitted entrelac, with crochet entrelac you can start on a center square and go around and around, building your piece out from the center, which means you can make it basically whatever size you want. (actually you can start with more than one center square; in the piece above, the top three squares are my center.) knitted entrelac is, imo, more suited to accessories (like scarves) or accents (like a panel on a sweater or sock cuffs or smt).

so how do we create this ~*~miracle fabric~*~? well, you may have noticed that it doesn't really look like any kind of traditional crochet stitch.

that's because it's not. (surprise!) it's actually tunisian crochet, which is a completely different can of snakes, and is something like a cross between knitting and crochet (not crohooking/croknitting, which is also a cross between knitting and crochet but is something else totally different). however, crochet entrelac is actually a pretty good introduction to tunisian crochet, because it only uses the easiest stitch (appropriately called the tunisian simple stitch) and because you'll never* have more than seven stitches on your hook at one time, which means you don't need a fancy tunisian crochet hook to do it.

(*unless you want to. the above sample I'm doing actually has nine max. it still fits on my basic bitch aluminum crochet hook just fine.)

other than the fundamental fucking way that it works, the other difference between tunisian crochet and regular crochet is that you need a much bigger hook than your yarn calls for, to do tunisian.

this was my practice piece, done with the same size hook I'd been using on the yarn for regular crochet. it's one block smaller than the other piece, but it's also comparatively tiny. (part of that is because I did the "traditional" seven stitch five row block in this sample, but still.) for tunisian you really need to go up two hook sizes at least. I actually only went up one hook size between the two pieces because I couldn't find a goddamn J hook (more accurately I didn't have one in my hook case; long story) but it probably looks about the same size as if I had, because I also made bigger squares.

part of the reason you want to use a bigger hook is to mitigate the curl a little; tunisian crochet results in a relatively dense fabric and the looser gauge that the bigger hook results in... I mean, you're never gonna kill the curl completely (until you add in edge triangles, but that's another post), but it helps. the other reason is... also because of the dense fabric; the looser gauge makes it slightly less ridiculously dense. also makes it go faster, because looser gauge = bigger stitches = bigger squares. I may yet start over again with the 6mm hook I wanted to use, just because it's probably going to be better for the blanket.

(or maybe not, because those middle three squares felt like they took fucking forever.)

oh, final note: while I can't give you the magic formula for number of center squares vs the size of blanket you're trying to make (Mikey from the crochet crowd has you covered, and also if I'm making a blanket it's gonna end up being whatever fuckin size it ends up being, and hopefully b i g), I CAN give you the secret formula for how long your starting chain needs to be. you could in theory get away with six chains if you only want one center square (aka a square blanket) but that doesn't work with this formula.

for your basic bitch seven stitch five row squares, you'll need a multiple of ten chains plus one. (11 for one square, 21 for two squares, 31 for three squares... you get the idea.) for every stitch that you add to the width of your square (in my limited experimentation) you're going to need to add an extra row as well, so you increase that base multiple by two. an eight stitch six row square would be a multiple of twelve plus one. a nine stitch seven row square, like I'm doing, is a multiple of fourteen plus one. (for me that meant 42! ...plus one.)

I haven't tested this extensively, because I've got shit to do, but I'm pretty sure it scales.

anyway that's a bit about crochet entrelac, thanks for attending my ted talk, etc etc etc

[stardustgoldcrochet]

Lyra Beanie | Free Crochet Pattern Tutorial | All Sizes

Lyra Beanie | Free Crochet Pattern Tutorial | Instructions for All Sizes The Lyra Beanie is a great pattern for beginners with a full video tutorial too!

I was sick last week with the funk that is going around ☹.  I don’t know what the weather does where you are, but in Memphis, it’s up and down.  We tell visitors, “If you don’t like the weather, wait a day!”  Yesterday it was 33 degrees and today its 65 😉. 

So, while I was laid up, I decided to play around with my new yarn.  I found it Hobby Lobby, it’s called Sweet Divinity by Yarn Bee.  I…

[anasilvaphoto]

Finally catching up with my 365 photo project. Since I can do both, I'm crocheting and knitting hats. SO day 26 and 27 are #croknitting days!😂😂 Sorry for the corny joke lol. Today I've actually been in pain (I know my husband was the one in an accident not me!) My neck and shoulder hurt so bad. So to my therapy is #croknitting 😁 * * * * * #suebryceeducation #womencan #nikonian #philadelphiaphotographer #nycphotographer #nycportraits #life_portraits #portraitphotographer #portrait #fineartphotographer #fineartphotography #womansphotographer #top_portaits #fabric #makeportraits #newyorkphotographer #portrait_perfection #philadelphia #portraits_ig #portraitstudioNewYorkNY #365project #photography #365 #iphonenography #crochet #knitting #crochetersofinstagram #knittersofinstagram #mandala #wooleasethickandquick #yarnspirations

[yarnbabey]

currently designing croknit works with varying levels of shaping and if the maths don't make me die blocking the fo will

[stardustgoldcrochet]

Country Hearts Chunky Beanie - Free Crochet Pattern

Pattern Release for the Country Hearts Chunky Beanie is live! Just in time for Valentine's Day - Free Crochet Pattern, show some love, make for a friend

It’s that time of year again, hearts everywhere in all forms. I’m not immune to it, I absolutely LOVE hearts, and Valentine’s Day. When I was single and my daughter was little, I’d shower the Valentine’s stuffed animals and chocolate hearts on her. 🙂

She has a little one of her own now, and I recently made him one of these beanies in toddler size, he ❤ ‘s it.

The Country Hearts beanie…

[stardustgoldcrochet]

Ice Crystals Chunky Beanie - Wool-Ease Free Crochet Pattern

Ice Crystals Chunky Beanie - Wool-Ease Free Crochet Pattern. This is a fun, warm, and easy pattern to work up. Wool-Ease thick n' quick makes it that way! Happy Crocheting!

Welcome fellow makers! I’m so excited to share this free crochet pattern with with you today!

You can probably tell, I’ve fallen in love with graphing beanies. I’ve created quite a few by now, and it’s becoming a bit of an obsession. I want to make *all* the beanies with *all* the patterns 😃.

This one is inspired by winter of course, and Lion Brand (my favorite yarn – but I’m not…