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  • Two t-shaped crochet swatches, one green and one blue, pinned to a gridded blocking board.

    How to extend the length of crochet rows without joining new yarn

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  • A close up of the Lark Sweater pattern sample. A fitted crochet sweater made from undyed natural wool double knit harness with bright colourful stripes over the chest and wrists. The colour work uses a modified larks foot crochet stitch.

    How to construct a modified drop crochet sweater

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  • To crochet garment panels are gently pinned out on a blocking board. The piece on the left had a rounded neckline with sloping shoulders and will become the front of the sweater. The crochet panel on the left has a shallow neck drop and will become the back of the sweater.

    Shoulder shaping: how to add a shoulder slope to crochet garments

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  • A landscape view or a crochet cable blanket with different width cables seen on a diagonal.

    Fisherman’s Aran-style Crochet Stitches and Patterns

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  • A mitred square in pink yarn is seen from above pinned to a blocking board.

    How to Crochet a Mitred Square: Step-by-step free tutorial

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  • A close up of the paired extended single crochet stitch made in pink alpaca yarn.

    How to Crochet Paired Extended Single Crochet

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  • A swatch of single crochet in teal yarn with spaced out split single crochets worked in a contrasting cream yarn.

    Split single crochet stitch tutorial (great for fair isle crochet projects)

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  • A small crochet swatch made from cream wool yarn including six textured crochet popcorn stitches.

    How to crochet the popcorn stitch (easy video and photo tutorial)

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  • The right side of a small swatch of 6 puff stitches seen from above.

    How to crochet the puff stitch (step-by-step photo and video tutorial

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  • A swatch of bobble stitches seen from above, crocheted with cream yarn.

    How to crochet the bobble stitch (step-by-step photo and video tutorial)

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  • A top down view of a cream crochet swatch containing 6 crochet bobbles made from double crochet 4 together cluster stitches.

    How to crochet bobbles: Crochet Cluster Stitch Tutorial (photo and video)

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  • A landscape picture of two styles of crochet short rows, worked in small blue and cream wool crochet swatches.

    Crochet Short Rows: What they are, when and how to use them

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  • Two crochet swatches, one showing extended double crochet and the other an extended double crochet decrease are laid next to each other.

    Extended double crochet and extended double 2 together tutorial

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  • A row of single, double and treble crossed crochet stitches worked in a different colour to the rest of the swatch of crochet cables.

    How to crochet crossed cable stitches

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  • A close up of a crochet cable stitch swatch.

    Crochet twisted cable stitch tutorial (with no post stitches!)

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  • Part way through the second row repeat of crochet waffle stitch being demonstrated with blue yarn. The swatch lies on a pink surface

    How to crochet waffle stitch

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  • Two pieces of crochet fabric in blue and grey buttoned together with 2 white wooden buttons

    How to crochet hidden buttonholes in ribbing

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  • close up of a cream crochet cable pattern

    How to crochet Front and back post double crochet stitches (UK Raised sts)

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  • an angled landscape shot of crochet spider stitch made in blue yarn

    Easy Crochet Spider Stitch Tutorial (Single Crochet V-Stitch)

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  • Alpine stitch swatch at an angle crocheted in white cotton

    How to crochet Alpine Stitch – Video, photo and written tutorial

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