Crochet tip guides

Short, practical guides for the parts of crochet that trip people up. Each one links to free tools and patterns you can practise on.

• How to count crochet stitches, rows and rounds
  How to count chains, stitches in a row, rows and amigurumi rounds, what counts as a stitch, and simple habits that catch a wrong count early.
• How to fix crochet mistakes
  When to rip back (frog) and when to fix in place. How to unravel cleanly, get the loop back on the hook, correct a wrong stitch count and even out wavy edges.
• How to make a magic ring in crochet
  Learn the crochet magic ring (magic circle): the loop, the lock chain, working stitches over both strands, closing it, and fixes for a ring that will not close.

More short tutorials are on the blog, and the free tools include a gauge calculator and a hook converter.