How to Crochet a Standing Double Crochet

How to Crochet a Standing Double Crochet

Cro­chet­ing is an excel­lent craft that offers end­less pos­si­bil­i­ties for cre­at­ing beau­ti­ful and func­tion­al items. One essen­tial tech­nique in cro­chet is the stand­ing dou­ble cro­chet, which is used to start a new row with­out the tra­di­tion­al chain-three and dou­ble cro­chet com­bi­na­tion. In this tuto­r­i­al, we will guide you through cro­chet­ing a stand­ing dou­ble cro­chet, pro­vid­ing step-by-step instruc­tions to help you mas­ter this valu­able skill.

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I will show you how to do a stand­ing dou­ble cro­chet instead of hav­ing a chain three and a dou­ble cro­chet. I will show you how to do just one dou­ble cro­chet stand­ing alone, so you have your stitch here with­out two stitch­es to start each row, just like how these rows start with one stitch. So, instead of the two stitch­es togeth­er, I will show you how to do a stand­ing.

So, you will take your yarn and wrap it around your hook twice. Then, you’re going to insert it into your stitch. You can insert it in this begin­ning stitch or this stitch here. I’m skip­ping each stitch to show you as an exam­ple. It does­n’t mat­ter if it is a straight edge; you can place it right in that begin­ning stitch. It just depends on how you would like to start your stitch.

You’re going to wrap your yarn twice around your hook, and then insert your hook. After that, you grab the yarn and want to keep these ends some­what taut and tight as you do this. Then you’re going to yarn over, pull through two, just like a dou­ble cro­chet – yarn over, pull through two. So you’ve cre­at­ed your stand­ing dou­ble cro­chet and have this tail. You’ll have to take your yarn nee­dle and weave it at the back when you’re fin­ished with your row.

Then, you’re just going to con­tin­ue with your dou­ble cro­chet. So, you yarn over and insert your hook, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two, and just con­tin­ue with a dou­ble cro­chet across each stitch. In the back, you will have this tail; you can take your yarn nee­dle and weave it in. It depends on how you like to weave it in; I would take my yarn nee­dle and then weave it in the back so it can’t be seen and it’s secure. You can do that a few times to get rid of that tail. Then, you just cut that yarn and con­tin­ue until you reach the end.

To start, yarn over twice, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over, and pull through, then yarn over and pull through two. I’m skip­ping this begin­ning and then doing it in the next. You can, of course, go right into that stitch because this is the stitch I skipped, depend­ing on where you would like the dou­ble cro­chet. Hold onto this tail tight­ly, and then go into your next stitch to work your dou­ble cro­chet. Repeat this process.

After that, you can pull this tight­ly, and when you fin­ish your row, you can go back and take your yarn nee­dle to weave in the ends, as I showed you before. You can do a stand­ing cro­chet on your rows, so you don’t have to do two togeth­er. It will look like this instead of two stitch­es.