The Skeinsong Crochet Wiki

A plain-language crochet reference, written to travel: every page is a markdown file in a public repository, the whole wiki is downloadable as one archive, and the content is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 so copying and mirroring it is legal and encouraged.

Where a page describes a stitch, it also tells you how the stitch COUNTS: how many stitches it makes and how many it uses up. That arithmetic is what Frogproof checks automatically when it charts a pattern, and it is the key to fixing miscounted rounds by hand too.

Stitches

• Chain (ch)
• Slip stitch (sl st)
• Single crochet (sc)
• Half double crochet (hdc)
• Double crochet (dc)
• Treble crochet (tr)
• Increase (inc)
• Decrease (dec / sc2tog)
• Picot
• Post stitches (FPdc / BPdc)

Techniques

• The magic ring
• Rounds versus rows
• Front loop and back loop (FLO / BLO)
• Oval starts
• Chain spaces and lace
• Reading a written pattern
• Gauge

Reference tables

• Abbreviations: modern US, UK, and antique
• Glossary: every term the app reads, US, UK, and antique
• Pattern anatomy: how written patterns are structured
• Reading charts: symbols and stitch diagrams
• Hook sizes and yarn weights

License: CC BY-SA 4.0. A Skeinsong project, maintained alongside the Frogproof app.