Did I mention that I'm crochet obsessed?! I wasn't going to blog about this this week. In fact I had a plan for the next month. But I fell over it in my 1981 Batsford Book of Crochet, by Ann Stearns and got entirely distracted.
You might remember that we looked at a variation of the Double Crochet (SC- USA), in the Humble Dc part 2. Well this HalfTreble (HDC-USA) is very similar in constructuion but the result is much more interesting. So lets play!
We'll start making it in the way the book suggests.
Let's start with a length of Double Crochet (Sc), then turn and Chain2 to start the new row.
Here's the bit that makes all the difference. Take the yarn in front of the hook, yarn over from front to back. I find it helps to hold the yarn behind your hook with a spare finger.
Put the hook in the next stitch, yarn over normally and pull up a loop.
Yarn over and pull thru all three loops on hook.
Continue to the end of the row.
Alternate rows of Dc and Slanting Htr. (I've just decided to call it that!) I think the front should be the nobbly side.
Here's what it looks like with just Slanting HTr (no Dc) worked to and fro.
This one is slanting HTr worked from the front only.
Just for the hell of it I thought I'd have a go and see what happened if I did the same thing with a Treble st. (Double crochet-USA)
It's these idiosyncrasies that keep me hooked to crochet! I don't understand how wrapping the yarn the wrong way round the hook can make this much difference. I don't have a very good brain for physics so I don't understand, for instance, why the Earth doesn't fall into the Sun. I've had people wave bits of fruit at me but it's no clearer.😕So there's no chance that I'll ever understand this! Never-the-less I do hope you'll give it a go and get a chance to use it somewhere!!
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