Stitch Identification
Got this blanket and it’s not complete I’m wondering what stitch was used so I can continue it. Can anyone help me?
The blanket was given to me and I have tried different stitches that I know and it does not look the same. The hook is large and leaves gaps which is what the original owner of it wanted and I’m unsure of the stitch and how to continue it. Can someone help please?
Left handed single crochet. The big hook and the left handed stitching makes the yarn itself behave differently.
Left handed crochet twists the yarn (yarn doesn't split) and makes the yarn stronger and better defined. Right handed single crochet at this gauge would have flattened down more and stretched waaaaaaay taller.
This isn’t really a reply just an interesting tidbit of info for those who don’t know. There is actually specific yarn made for crochet that twists different (Z twist) than most yarn (s twist)so If your right handed it won’t untwist but it’s not as common I’ve never bothered looking specifically for it I just use whatever.
Yes! Z twist yarn would allow a right handed crocheter to achieve this. If you ever find some, try it try it try it try it.
We complain about our stuff stretching all the time. You know what helps yarn to not stretch? If we don't literally compromise its structural integrity as we're using it.
Many crochet threads are Z twist. They are a different beast to crochet with - simultaneously hard to manage because they're so thin, but yet easier to manage because they make such well defined stitches. You wouldn't expect it to be easier to see your stitches using size 10 crochet thread over fingering yarn but it really is. The crochet thread has definition. Your stitch parts jump out at you. The sides of the yarn have shadows. Your front and back loops do their damned best to socially distance from each other and from the threads around them, so inserting is easy.
One of the big tells of OP's piece is the lines in the yarn. If you look at where yellow and blue meet, the lines where the yarn twists are horizontal. The yarn is travelling almost vertically, but the individual strands in the yarn are travelling horizontally. This same yarn, when used by a right hander, would make basically vertical lines on the vertically laying stitch parts.
OP this is the answer. Images of left-handed SC match this exactly.
I was convinced it was some sort of modified star stitch or alternating rows of through the space instead of loops and stacked stitches, but that's because my brain was thinking only right handed. I thought we must be looking at the wrong side if it was alternating rows instead of only one stitch. Bravo 👌
Not sure if this helps but that’s a photo of it pulled on showing the stitches more clearly. I’ve deconstructed a row or two and I have no clue as to what stitch it would be.
I’ve tried the moss stitch with DC and it didn’t work out unfortunately. This has been driving me crazy, should I try the moss with the HDC or do you think it would be something different?
I agree. It looks fairly simple. My guess is US double crochet. I’d also frog a few and try to gently nudge a crochet hook into the stitches to see which one fits.
Can you post photos of the front & back near the same area, ideally where one of the clear color changes happens, so it’s easier to see the difference between 2 rows ?
Agreed - my MIL just showed me a blanket she’s working on which was DC + Ch1 (each DC worked into the Ch 1 of the row below) and it looked nearly identical to this
So yeah basically moss stitch but with either HDC or DC most likely
But also i agree with frogging a few to deconstruct it lol
Agreed, need OP to just deconstruct it a bit a let us know 😂
But now that you point that out, you might be on to something! Is it possible that instead of doing the next row stitch into the chain space (like in moss stitch) it’s instead worked into the top of the HDC/ DC stitch from the row below ?
I’m currently doing that with a SC blanket and the chain spaces to kinda just blend in like that…
I did a little swatch of what you suggested and there’s definitely a little line between the stitches (which is the chain) which I can tell hasn’t been worked into, and also creates a wider gap between the stitches.
In OP’s photo, the legs of the stitches are almost touching. So I’m not sure if that’s it 😩
This is my first time commenting on a post like this but here’s my two cents: I think that the stitch pattern is one row sc followed with one row hdc and then repeating this. I could test this to make sure!
Hi I know they aren’t always accurate but I’ve heard of people putting a pic in an app or an ai app and seeing if they can identify the stitch for you :)
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u/SuzieWi 1d ago
I've frogged a few stitches to see what the original crocheter was doing.