You Can Crochet with Bella Coco

Sarah-Jayne Fragola

Sujets

• Knitting
• Crochet

Informations

• Publié par: Search Press
• Date de parution: 07 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781781269411
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 148 Mo

Extrait

YouCan Crochet with

A clear & simple course for the beginner Sarah-Jayne Fragola

UK stitch

-

-

Double crochet

dc

miss

-

Chart symbol

UK abbreviation

Treble crochet

skip

Treble crochet

tr

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US abbreviation

US stitch

slip stitch

sl st

chain

Half double crochet

hdc

ch

or

sc

SARAH-JAYNE IS THE CREATOR OF BELLA COCO CROCHET and a wellknown crochet designer and instructor. She started her blog in 2011, and combines her love of crochet and teaching to help people learn and improve their crochet skills. SarahJayne has over a million subscribers on YouTube, and on her channel you can find hundreds of crochet video tutorials on stitches, projects, hints and tips, and much more. She lives in Nottingham, UK, with her husband and two daughters.

dtr

Double treble

ttr

Triple treble

Double treble

ch

htr

Half treble crochet

dtr

tr

Double crochet

ss

slip stitch

chain

dc

Single crochet

Only UK crochet terms are used throughout the book. If you prefer to follow the techniques and projects with US crochet terms, use this handy conversion table to help you make the switch easier. Simply fold the flap over the book page, so you can refer to it as you crochet away!

CONVERSION CHART & SYMBOLS

You Can Crochet with

DEDICATION To my husband, Anthony, and daughters, Ella and Everleigh: you are my world. To my parents: thank you for your love, guidance and never-ending support. To my Dad up in heaven: I love you and I miss you. I hope forever to make you proud.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my editors May and Emily – May, for being so understanding and supportive during difficult times, and Emily for really getting my vision and bringing this book to life. Thank you to Nicola White, Emma Carter and Emily Reiter for your various contributions to this book. You are all wildly talented. Thank you to LoveCrafts for offering yarn support for some of these projects. Finally, to each and every one of you who have followed my journey; this book wouldn’t have been possible without your support.

First published in 2023 Search Press Limited Wellwood, North Farm Road Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 3DR, United Kingdom

Text and diagrams copyright © Sarah-Jayne Fragola 2023

Photographs by Heather Carpenter: pages 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 51 (blocking board) Photographs by Mark Davison, at Search Press Studios: pages 31, 35 (swatch), 37 (swatch), 39 (swatch), 41 (swatch), 80 (swatch), 83 (swatch), 84 (swatch), 89, 91 (top right), 127 (swatch), 129 (swatch), 130 (swatch), 131 (swatch), 132 (swatch), 134 (swatch) Photographs by Stacy Grant: pages 1, 4–5, 49, 54–55, 76, 99, 101, 102, 107, 136 Photographs by Quail Studios: pages 3, 59, 63, 65, 71, 77, 87, 93, 94, 108, 111, 113, 117, 119, 138, 140, 141 All remaining photographs are by Nicola White, at Bunny & Blossom Photography Photographs and design copyright © Search Press Ltd. 2023

All rights reserved. No part of this book, text, photographs or illustrations may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche, photocopier, internet, video or in any way known or as yet unknown, or stored in a retrieval system, without written permission obtained beforehand from Search Press.

ISBN: 978-1-78221-945-3 ebook ISBN: 978-1-78126-941-1

The Publishers and author can accept no responsibility for any consequences arising from the information, advice or instructions given in this publication. Readers are permitted to reproduce any of the patterns in this book for their personal use, or for the purposes of selling for charity, free of charge and without the prior permission of the Publishers. Any use of the patterns for commercial purposes is not permitted without the prior permission of the Publishers.

Suppliers All the yarns in this book are available from LoveCrafts: www.lovecrafts.com For details of alternative suppliers, please visit the Search Press website:www.searchpress.com

For further inspiration, visit the author’s website: www.bellacococrochet.com

Publishers’ note All the step-by-step photographs in this book feature the author Sarah-Jayne Fragola demonstrating how to crochet. No models have been used.

Measurements The projects in this book have been made using metric measurements, and the imperial equivalents provided have been calculated following standard conversion practices. The imperial measurements are often rounded to the nearest ⅛in for ease of use except in rare circumstances; however, if you need more exact measurements, there are a number of excellent online converters that you can use. Always use either metric or imperial measurements, not a combination of both.

You Can Crochet with

A clear & simple course for the beginner

Sarah-Jayne Fragola

SEARCH PRESS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION CROCHET HOOKS EQUIPMENT YARNS COLOUR GETTING STARTED Your first stitches Anatomy of a stitch Making a tension swatch Conversion chart & symbols Abbreviations quick view Blocking

YOUR FIRST PROJECTS How to read a pattern Project: Coasters Colour changes Invisible join Project: Place Mat Project: Infinity Scarf Sewing seams Basic working in the round: foundation ring method and flat circle method Project: Cowl Scarf

6 8 12 14 20 22 22 43 46 47 48 50

54 56 58 60 61 62 64 66

68 70

Advanced working in the round: magic ring method Increasing Project: Face Scrubbies Crochet charts Working a granny square Working a solid hexagon Working a granny triangle Project: Granny Square Baby Blanket Pompoms Project: Granny Hexi Pillow Tassels Project: Granny Triangle Bunting Project: Yarn Basket Shaping, sizing and adapting patterns Project: Hat & Mittens  Hat Decreasing  Mittens Colourwork Surface cross stitch Project: Pencil Case

ADVANCED STITCHES SHOWSTOPPER BLANKET AND THERE YOU GO... STITCH INDEX

 72 74 76 78 80 82 84 86 90 92 96 98 102 104 106 108 109 110 112 114 116

122 136 142 144

6

INTRODUCTION

Hello and welcome to my guîde to crocet. My name îs Sara-Jayne, and I’ve been elpîng people buîld teîr crocet skîlls or te last seven years on YouTube. I’m excîted to be brîngîng you my first book, wîc as been a dream o mîne or many years.

Weter you are new to crocet or brusîng up on your skîlls, tîs book as all you need. hrougout tese pages, I’ll be settîng you callenges desîgned to elp you get a good understandîng o te crocet basîcs, as well as elp you dîscover your own crocet style. Wîle you can dîp în and out o te book as you please, î you are an absolute begînner I do suggest you start rom te begînnîng and work your way troug.

For tose o you wo are more advanced, you can use te ‘Gettîng started’ sectîon o tîs book (see pages 22–53) as a reerence, or take a look troug te ‘Stîtc îndex’ on page 144 to searc or specîfic stîtces.

he projects are în order o dîiculty, rom te easîest to te more complex, so you can coose wîc project you start wît and take în te înormatîon as quîckly or slowly as you need. here îs even a old-out conversîon cart on tîs book’s cover flap tat you can reer to quîckly and easîly, wen you are workîng troug your projects.

I ave desîgned te projects so tat new tecnîques are added wît eac one, meanîng you can buîld your skîlls and confidence wîle practîsîng tîs amazîng crat. By te end, you’ll be a pro!

N-15

O-16

P-17

5mm

5.25mm

ANATOMY OF A CROCHET HOOK As you become more familiar with different types of crochet hooks, you may find yourself becoming fond of the attributes of a certain hook. Let’s look at the basic anatomy of a crochet hook.

5.5mm

So why do we need all of these sizes? The simple answer is because there are many different types of yarn available of widely varying thicknesses. We can use our chosen hook size to suit the yarn we are using, our personal tension – more on that later, on page 27 – and the overall look we are going for with a project.

8

9mm

-

-

000

3.75mm

8

-

-

mm

Crochet hooks can start from as small as 0.6mm right up to 30mm. The chart to the right shows some of the most common sizes used in crochet. As you can see, some of the US and UK columns do not have a reference allocated and some letters span multiple sizes. This is why the most accurate measurement for a hook is the metric sizing.

.25mm

.5mm

3mm

3.25mm

2.75mm

2.5mm

I

3

H-8

0

6



2

-

-

5

K-10.5

J-10

-

L-11

J

I-9

CROCHET HOOKS here are a ew tîngs to talk about wen ît comes to crocet ooks. hese înclude sîze, composîtîon and te dîferent types you can find.

2mm

METRIC SIZES

UK SIZES

9

handle

-

6.5mm

C-2

D-3

B-1

-

1

10

11

-

13

12

-

00

9

E-

3.5mm

2.25mm

US SIZES

7

7

F-5

G

G-6

8mm

6mm

7mm

SIZES I feel the best place to start is to understand sizes. Crochet hook sizes, similar to a lot of crochet terms may be seen in a few different forms. You may see them written in metric sizing (millimetres, or ‘mm’) as well as numbers and/or letters, both of which can be found in US and old-style UK sizing.

5.75mm

tapered hook– head protruding

throat

M-13

11mm

12mm

10mm

shaft

head

Head Sometimes referred to as the ‘point’, this is the part of the hook that you use to insert into the stitches. The point needs to be sharp enough to get through the stitch, but not so sharp that it can injure you or split the yarn. You may find that the shape will vary from one brand of hook to another.

grip or thumb rest

inline hook– head aligned with the shaft

Grip or thumb rest, and handle This is where your fingers and thumb will rest when crocheting. How and where your fingers are placed exactly will depend on how you choose to hold your hook (see page 25).

Shaft The shaft of a hook is an important area. This is where your stitches will sit and its diameter determines the size of your stitches. When working stitches, your yarn should be gliding back and forth across the shaft. Use too little of the hook’s shaft, and you’ll find your work may be too tight, but by using too much of it, your work may become too loose. The trick is to find a happy medium.

Throat When it comes to the throat of the hook, there are two different types:taperedandinline. A tapered hook forms a cone-like shape from the shaft to the head and the hook itself will protrude slightly from the shaft, while an inline hook will be a perfect cylinder and the hook, as the name suggests, sits in line with the shaft. I would suggest that a tapered throat is generally easier for an absolute beginner but, ultimately, this comes down to personal preference.