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Jul. 13th, 2010 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreSo, I finished my current crochet project last night - which was this thing - and I'm quite pleased with it. The weather has turned a bit cooler again so I can't wear it quite yet but I think it will be lovely when I do get to.
Of course, now I need a new project. I have a skirt in mind - this one - so I'm window shopping for yarn and making sure that my extreme overconfidence when it comes to crochet patterns doesn't come back to bite me. (I have a tendency to assume that I can crochet anything and so don't always read through the pattern before I start it. It is a stupid tendency and I'm trying to curb it. I can crochet anything, but sometimes I need a bit of practice on new techniques first.) And this pattern is British, which fortunately I caught before I started because British crochet patterns are confusing.
Seriously, British crocheters, why is an American single crochet called a double crochet over there? I just...that doesn't make any sense. You've put the hook through the fabric, you yarn over and return, two loops on your hook. You yarn over again, go through both loops, and that is one crochet. Double crochet, you end up with three loops on the hook, you go through two, you go through two again, thus you have done it twice and it's a double crochet. Et cetera ad infinitum. That's just logical. I don't understand why the first one would be called a double crochet. Is it because there are two loops on the hook before you go through and finish the stitch?
I think I will retype the pattern before I start it.
Of course, now I need a new project. I have a skirt in mind - this one - so I'm window shopping for yarn and making sure that my extreme overconfidence when it comes to crochet patterns doesn't come back to bite me. (I have a tendency to assume that I can crochet anything and so don't always read through the pattern before I start it. It is a stupid tendency and I'm trying to curb it. I can crochet anything, but sometimes I need a bit of practice on new techniques first.) And this pattern is British, which fortunately I caught before I started because British crochet patterns are confusing.
Seriously, British crocheters, why is an American single crochet called a double crochet over there? I just...that doesn't make any sense. You've put the hook through the fabric, you yarn over and return, two loops on your hook. You yarn over again, go through both loops, and that is one crochet. Double crochet, you end up with three loops on the hook, you go through two, you go through two again, thus you have done it twice and it's a double crochet. Et cetera ad infinitum. That's just logical. I don't understand why the first one would be called a double crochet. Is it because there are two loops on the hook before you go through and finish the stitch?
I think I will retype the pattern before I start it.
