Crochet Abbreviations (US Terms)

This is not a complete list and may not use the same terms/abbreviations as your pattern. If you don't see the term you're looking for, most patterns should have a list of special stitches/abbreviations. This list is the most common stitches and abbreviations used on Stuck with Ewe and compiled from my own knowledge.

Feel free to print this out and keep it in your project bag. I made an easy, ink-and-paper-friendly PDF for just that purpose: Click HERE for the Printable PDF
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* ... * Repeat these instructions

{ } or [ ] Repeat these instructions

( ) Work these stitches in the same stitch/space

Alt Alternate

Aprox Approximately

Beg Begin/beginning

BLO Back loops only

BP Back post (usually combined with a stitch, eg. BPsc)

CC Contrasting color

ch Chain

ch-_ Refers to chain/space already made, eg. ch-1 space

ch-sp Chain space

dc Double crochet

dc2tog Double crochet two together

dec decrease

dtr Double treble

FLO Front loops only

FO Fasten off OR finished object

FP Front post (usually combined with a stitch, eg. FPsc)

hdc Half double crochet

hdc2tog Half double crochet two together

HOTH Hot off the hook

inc Increase

inv dec: Invisible decrease

lp Loop

MC Main color OR Magic circle

MR Magic ring (aka magic circle)

prev Previous

rep Repeat

rnd Round

RS Right side

sc Single crochet

sc2tog Single crochet two together

sk Skip

sl st Slip Stitch

sp Space

st Stitch

tog Together

UFO Unfinished object

WIP Work in progress

WS Wrong side

YO or YOH Yarn over [hook]

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(Some of) My Favorite Crochet Bloggers

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This was a difficult list to compile. I have so many crochet bloggers who have inspired me and am always adding new ones to the list. If I were to name all of them, it would take me days. With that in mind, I decided to tell you about eight of them, in no particular order. Now we can ooh and awe and pin all their patterns together.

Click on the name of the designer to visit their blog.

1. Tamara Kelly of Moogly. Tamara releases a new pattern almost every week, complete with left and right-hand video tutorials and charts. She covers almost everything crochet and organizes a yearlong CAL running for its 5th year in a row. She's a super crochet lady for sure.

2. Sarah Zimmerman of Repeat Crafter Me. Sarah has a unique way of writing patterns that just makes them so much easier to understand. She has lots of patterns, particularly colorwork ones, all of which are lovely. Always well written, always beautiful, and often with video/photo tutorials.

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Free Crochet Pattern: Flower Scrubbie

I haven't posted anything in a long time but I'm finally back with a simple flower scrubbie. It's a mere three rounds, requires little counting, and takes about ten minutes to make. You can make a bunch in a single sitting, making them perfect for Croflixing (Crochet+Netflix). They're also versatile-- I've been using mine as face scrubbies but they would be just as good in the kitchen.

I included some round-by-round photos to help with construction. It's such an easy, straightforward pattern it probably doesn't need a photo tutorial but now it's got one anyway. I've been working on better photos and hope to eventually take good photos myself. I don't know if I'm improved much but I certainly have been having fun.

But enough about photos. Let get right into the pattern.
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Abbreviations: Ch: Chain Sl st: Slip stitch Dc: Double crochet Shell: 5 dc in the same st Sk: Skip
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Abigail Flip-flop Doll ~ Free Crochet Pattern

I wanted to make something for my younger sister's birthday but didn't stop to think about the particulars until less than two days before. I needed something quick that required minimal stuffing. Enter Abigail.

She's no ordinary doll. Flip her dress over her head and you have a tulip-like flower. Flip the flower part back down over the stem and she's a pretty princess again. Neat, right?

Despite her cool turns-into-a-flower trick, the construction isn't all that difficult. Both her head and dress are made in one piece, with some back loops only definition at the waist. The arms, flower stem, and leaf are made separately and stitched on afterward. Her hair is made by making a pink cap with two small pompoms stitched to it and then the whole thing is sewn to the head. If you'd rather buy pompoms than make them, that's fine too.(I owe a special thank-you to my brother Jack for once again working his pompom wizardry. I suffer from an inability to make pompoms s…

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