Surface crochet on knitting

A quick video tutorial that shows you how to surface crochet or slip stitch a design into a flat crochet project.

Fake Latvian Braid: Today's post: a form of horizontal surface decoration added with a crochet hook, a trick I call Fake Latvian Braid (FLB). Here is a photo of an easy little 3-row high teaser, but this barely scratches the surface: FLB can be used for many far more intricate braid patterns as shown lower in this post. Background: Real Latvian Braid Real Latvian Braid is a distinctive decorative element instantly associated with the famous and intricate Latvian mittens. (Want to see 4500…

Video showing how to do surface crochet on knitted fabric ...

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Use surface crochet to embellish your crochet fabrics with an extra layer of colour, texture or pattern

In my previous update, I’ve shown you my custom colour selection and the start of this beautiful wrap. It all started with a lot of bobbles! I had to complete a few more rows to finish part one of the Hygge CAL… And here is the finished status of part one: After my initial fiddling around with the bobbles, I’ve found a way that works best for me (which is not to crochet over the base yarn and make the bobbles pop by pushing them to the front with the back of a crochet hook). I really like…

I've really been getting into surface crochet, it all started when I did the Scheepjes 2017 CAL and Kirsten Ballering's fab Hygge Shawl. Here is an example of the diamond surface crochet on the Rainbow colourway, looks so effective! It was the first time I had done surface crochet 'properly'. I had tried in the past and ended up with an ugly wonky line and then given up pretty quickly, thinking its not really for me. However during this CAL I really learnt how to master it and can't believe…

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