TURNING CHAINS

Use these ‘extra’ stitches to bring the hook up to the height of the next row

After each row of double crochet stitches, you need to turn the fabric and work the turning chain (this is abbreviated as t-ch). The picture (right) shows the work turned and ready to work the t-ch (one chain for double crochet) – the numbers show where to work the dc stitches of the second row. So what’s a turning chain? In crochet, you need to make a t-ch at the start of every row to bring the hook up to the working height of the stitches in the next row. You usually do this at the start of a row, but it was traditionally worked at the end of the row, hence its name. Different stitches need a different length of t-ch. When working dc fabric, you can largely just ignore the…

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