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Abbreviations and slang abound in the crochet/crafting world. Designers mostly use abbreviations and if you look at e.g. Instagram feeds you can easily get puzzled – especially if you’re new to both crochet and social media. So I decided to dedicate a page especially to explaining some of these crochet terms – and it also saves me from writing guidelines to the abbreviations used in my patterns in all my posts.

For some reason (which I haven’t researched yet, but one day will) there are different terms for the stitches in the UK and the US. I work in UK terms as this is where I live, but I can actually see the logic behind the US terms better when you look at what you actually do when making the stitch. As you can see below some of the stitches are called the same, but are different stitches, which can change the outcome of a pattern quite a bit if you get them mixed up! All my patterns are written out in UK terms unless otherwise stated. See here for a guide on how to make the stitches.

UK term abbreviations:

ss – slip stitch

st/sts – stitch/stitches

ch – chain

ch sp – chain space

dc – double crochet (US: single crochet)

htr – half treble crochet (US: half double crochet)

tr – treble crochet (US: double crochet)

dtr – double treble crochet (US: treble crochet)

trtr – trible treble crochet

US term abbreviations:

ss – slip stitch

st/sts – stitch/stitches

ch – chain

ch sp – chain space

sc – singe crochet

hdc – half double crochet

dc – double crochet

tr – treble crochet

dtr – double treble crochet

trtr – trible treble crochet

UK to US Terms:

dc: double crochet = US: single crochet (sc)

htr: half treble crochet = US: half double crochet (hdc)

tr: treble crochet = US: double crochet (dc)

dtr: double treble crochet = US: treble crochet (tr)

trtr: trible treble crochet =US: double treble crochet (dtr)

OTHER CROCHET/KNITTING TERMS OR SLANG:

Afghan: basically a blanket

Frog/frogging: to unravel or rip back what you have done

CAL: crochet along – a project by a group or designer which is released in stages and where people ‘crochet along’ with the releases

C2C: corner to corner crochet

FOTH: fresh off the hook

HOTH: hot off the hook

LYS: local or little yarn store

STASH: yarn collection – have seen it as “special treasure all secretly hidden”

TIA: thank you in advance

UFO: unfinished project

USO: unstarted project

WIP: work in progress

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