Monday, February 20, 2012

Quick Update: Crochet Ribbing Comparisons & More


Naturally biases!
Alternating rows of slip stitch
and single crochet.
Hdc in lower third loop;
simply alternate the colors!
I'm buffing and polishing this blog a bit. Isn't the new color scheme refreshing? It's as if I spritzed some tangerine-vanilla room spray.

I'm also trying to figure out how to reproduce my newsletters here. In the meantime I've created a special tab for them (see tabs above this post). Importing the content, especially with the newsletter columns preserved, is surprisingly complicated.

So: crochet ribbing. I have more photos of ribbed crochet stitches that I didn't have room to include in the latest Crochet Inspirations Newsletter issue (#36)

Another slanter.
Half double crochet (hdc; UK: htc
or htr) rows in different loops.
Good to know about ribbings that
 bias, no?
Here's the photo set I've created for them so far. 

UPDATE: See the follow up newsletter issue #37: "When Stitches Lean."
Isn't slip stitch ribbing amazing?

5 comments:

  1. Very refreshing!

    I feel almost treasonous saying this, but I've never found a crochet ribbing I like as well as the knitted variety. I'll have to mess around some more with the slip stitch version and see if I can change that view. :)

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  2. I took a slipstitch crochet class from Vashti and the TBL stitch produces a ribbing that is almost indistinguishable from a knit ribbing. It has the same stretch and almost the same appearance as a knit ribbing - amazing!

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  3. It is very refreshing! I love the ribbing pictures.

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  4. I feel refreshed! It really does look great. And I'm looking forward to seeing your newsletters on the blog. I just came out with my first crochet newsletter yesterday and have been thinking about ways to add the content to the blog in archive format in the future.

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  5. Thanks Marie and Kathryn :-)
    So Valerie -- sounds like you're experiencing it the way I am! Hope to see you at the next class.

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