Beginner's Guide to Crochet - UK (2019-10)

SHAPING CROCHET

Decreases like the tr2tog or tr3tog use part-stitches, where

you start the tr stitch but stop before the last ‘yrh and pull

through all loops’. Part-stitches are also used in crochet to

make clusters and bobbles. For example, you work a 3-tr

cluster just like a tr3tog (above), but each part-stitch is

worked into the same stitch on the row below, instead of

three separate stitches. To make a bobble, work 5-7

part-stitches into the same stitch, then finish them all

together to create a raised bump. Experiment and see what

you can make!

How to create texture with more

part-worked stitches

CLUSTER STITCHES

1

Start a tr stitch as usual: yrh, insert hook

into next stitch, yrh, pull loop through, yrh,

pull through first 2 loops. Stop here. Start a 2nd

tr in next stitch: yrh, insert hook, yrh, pull loop

through, yrh, pull through first 2 loops (3 loops

on hook). Stop here.

3

Now complete all the part-worked tr

stitches together by working yrh and pull

this loop through all the loops on the hook.

2

Without finishing the 1st or 2nd tr, begin a

3rd tr in the next stitch: yrh, insert hook, yrh,

pull loop through, yrh, pull through first 2 loops

(4 loops on hook). (For a tr4tog, start a 4th tr in

the next stitch in the same way.)

4

This is how your finished tr3tog should

look. You will have decreased 2 stitches. On

subsequent rows, just work a stitch into the top

of the tr3tog stitch as usual.

If you’re left-handed, follow these steps to work a tr3tog...

LEFT-HAND

Clusters

Bobbles