Linked Half Double Crochet Stitch Tutorial with Video – Day 17 of Advent Calendar MCAL 2024
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Learn how to use the linked half double crochet stitch. This tutorial includes step-by-step photo tutorial, written instructions, and a video tutorial.
Are you ready for today’s crochet stitch tutorial? Welcome back to this year’s Advent Calendar Mystery Crochet Along. As you already know, each day, from today until December 24th, I am releasing one stitch tutorial on all odd days and 1 free pattern on all even days for Christmas gifts right here on my blog. Each day will be a fun holiday surprise for yarn lovers!
If you’re just joining us, in the last stitch tutorial, you learned treble filet crochet, but today you will be learning the linked half double crochet stitch. This gives a lovely dense texture with minimal gaps compared to the basic half double crochet stitch. It will create a smooth and sturdy fabric no matter what the project is.
It’s important to practice this technique of linked half double crochet stitch, especially when tomorrow’s Advent Calendar Mystery CAL pattern is revealed. You’ll either get free-to-view access to the Reindeer Tissue Box Holder and Poinsettia Flower Pot Coaster Set. If you want BOTH, grab the ebook here to get all 24 patterns with the 12-stitch tutorials instantly.
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Now let’s start this linked half double crochet stitch tutorial with a video tutorial, written instructions and step-by-step pictures.
Video Tutorial of the Linked Half Double Crochet Stitch
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Linked Half Double Crochet Stitch Written Tutorial
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Instructions for the Linked Half Double Crochet Stitch
Before you start crocheting the Reindeer Tissue Box Holder and Poinsettia Flowerpot Coaster Set, (only ONE of these two will get published for FREE tomorrow via the Advent Calendar MCAL), let’s first go through the stitch tutorial and learn how to crochet this stitch.
Instructions:
To make a swatch to practice this stitch, make any number chain, start from the 2nd chain from the hook, crochet 1 hdc.
Now check out your just made hdc stitch. You will see that it’s made with 3 loops.
*Focus on the loop that is in the center of the 3 loops (that is the first yarn over you made for that stitch). That is the loop you will insert your hook now, THEN do the yarn over for the hdc stitch (you now linked them together) – it is the Insert your hook into the next stitch and pull up a loop. You now have 3 loops on your hook, yarn over and pull through all 3 loops. You finished your first linked half double crochet stitch (lhdc).
Now repeat from * for the rest of the row.
Check out the next image, as I added an arrow on the last stitch (as an example) I made focusing on that MIDDLE loop to show the loop you would use to link the next stitch with the previous stitch.
For the following rows (or rounds (no turning) after you made a slip stitch or go in continuous rounds depending on the pattern), you can start 2 different ways
First method
Make a chain of 2, insert hook into the 2nd ch of the hook and pull up a loop (that is your yarn over for the lhdc), insert the hook into the next stitch and pull up a loop (3 loops on your hook), yarn over and pull through all 3 loops. You made an lhdc attached to a turning chain, now continue lhdc stitches you did before.
Second method
Crochet an hdc in the first stitch, without a turning chain, and then link the next stitch by going through the middle loop of that hdc you just made, then pull up a loop, go into the next stitch, pull up a loop (3 loops on your hook), yarn over and pull through all 3 loops to make an lhdc connected to an hdc. Continue the rest of the ldhc as normal.
Get practicing this linked half double crochet stitch and you will be ready to crochet one of these patterns (get both in the ebook here) published for free as part of the Advent Calendar Mystery CAL.
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