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Can anyone tell me how to do a single crochet?  I am getting confused between that and a slip stitch.  What is the difference?  I have looked at some illustrations and what I thought was a double crochet is being labelled a single crochet.  That can’t be right.  For a double crochet I have always had one loop on the hook, put the hook through the next stitch, drawn the loop through and then drawn the working yarn through both loops on the hook.  However, looking at said technique photos that is being described as a single crochet.  Is that right?  Have I been doing it wrong all this time? 

Any help would be much appreciated - I want to try some of the patterns out of the free crochet book with this month’s LK. 

Many thanks

S

Are you looking at an American pattern???? They call dbl crochet, single crochet.
The difference between American and English seems to be causing a lot of confusion lately.

Hi Gill!

The pattern is one of the ones in the free crochet book we recently had from LK with the crochet hooks.  The pattern says to use “single crochet” as well as double crochet, but the instruction at the back only show how to do double crochet and slip stitch.  To me, slip stitch and single crochet seem to be the same - what’s the difference?

ta

S

The patterns in the free booklet are confusing because they have a mixture of english and american terms. You will need to work out whether the pattern you want to do is english/american. Look for terms like bind off (US) rather than cast off (UK).

Hope this helps. You might have to look online for how to crochet for any stitches not mentioned.

Thank you - i’ll have another bash at it!

gotta go now - work, work, work!

sc in english is slip stitch in US and double in english is sc in US.  It is all very confusing, so yes and no to you having done it wrong I only ever use American if I can help it as it makes more sense to me.  But I’m just like that - lazy!!

It hadn’t occurred to me that the patterns in the booklet would be a mix of US and UK - that’s something to look out for, there are a couple of things in there that I want to make. Thanks for the heads up!

Glyn xx

Ha! Got it sorted!

Thank you to all that replied - it is indeed an American pattern.  What there are referring to as “double crochet” is in fact our “treble crochet” and so that makes a “single crochet” one of our “double crochets”!  I had another look at the photo with the pattern and the light (finally!) dawned.  I thought it was coming out a little small! So it has been frogged and restarted and I have to say, it looks a lot more like the picture now!!!

Would have been helpful if the booklet had included a “translation” - never has the saying that America and England are “two countries divided by a shared language” felt more true.  Will post picture when I have (finally) managed to do a whole motif.

Thank you all again.

Sash