I’ve been crocheting for a very long time but I stuck to the nuts for years – single crochet, double crochet – all with a regular old hook. The thing is, it’s nonflexible to unquestionably find new types of crochet considering a lot of the time you don’t plane know what you’re looking at. I follow some incredible German, Japanese, Lithuanian and Spanish crocheters on Instagram does the most gobsmacking work but I often don’t know what techniques they are using considering I don’t speak their language. I’ll see this incredible thing in my insta feed with crochet vaccinate sticking out of it and I’ll be like ‘What the hell is that??? I must make it!’ and then I click through to the unravelment and I’m heartbroken that I can’t read the caption. Such is the eyeful of the internet!
Knitting appears to be the king of the yarn world but crochet has its own techniques and finishes that can’t be achieved with knitting. The origins of crochet are a bit murky but we know it was first seen in early nineteenth-century Europe and was referred to as ‘shepherd’s knitting’.
It was originally invented as an unseemly volitional to ownership expensive lace (crochet is by no ways a quick craft but if you’ve overly seen lace stuff made, you’ll totally get this) but it was Queen Victoria who made it popular by purchasing Irish lace crochet items from people trying to make money without the potato famine in Ireland. She plane learned to crochet herself and popularized the craft (we just need Queen Mary to start crocheting now!). Crochet pulled many poor families out of the potato famine and earned them unbearable money to emigrate to America. It was well-nigh 1900 when swathes of Irish folk landed in the US bringing their crochet skills with them.
In the 50s, crochet was used for practical items during the war, things like nets and under helmet caps for soldiers. It was moreover used to embellish dresses and hats as a way for women to update their squint when money and resources were scarce. In the 60s, crochet fabrics were all the rage with women crocheting their own shift dresses and pantsuits. The 70s saw the rise in popularity of the granny square with jackets, dresses, and hooded sweatshirts made entirely out of the versatile little motifs. The 80s were full of stocky crochet cardigans and fete style toys, crochet was a bit quiet throughout the 90s and now crochet is having a modern comeback with stylish homewares, gorgeous kids toys, and trappy suit items for men and women.
I’ve been crochet obsessed long unbearable now that I can recognize scrutinizingly any kind of crochet so I thought I’d pop together a resource in specimen any of my readers was keen to expand their skills. There are certainly increasingly types of crochet than the ones I’ve one listed but these are a few that you may want to know increasingly about.
1. Amigurumi Crochet
This is a crochet art form that originated in Japan and it refers to the making of small, stuffed toys or creatures made from knitted or crocheted yarn. Ami ways crochet or knit and nuigurumi ways stuffed doll. If you overly see a little doll or toy made from yarn, that’s amigurumi. Hello Kitty, Plants VS Zombies, and Mario Kart are popular themes for amigurumi.
Things to make using the amigurumi type of crochet
– Children’s toys
– Larger novelty cushions and homewares
– Fan items
2. Aran Crochet
Refers to ribbed or cabled crochet. It’s traditionally a Celtic style crochet with interlocking cables and can be used to make stocky beanies, sweaters, and scarves. Aran is moreover a weight of yarn so be wary of that when you read the word ‘aran’ in a pattern. When you see a picture of someone snuggled under a big, cozy-looking wrap – that’s aran.
Things to make using the aran type of crochet
– Blankets
– Lapgans
– Jackets
– Coats
– Scarves
3. Bavarian Crochet
This is a vintage crochet stitch that’s traditionally work in rounds like granny squares. It creates a thick fabric and allows for composite verisimilitude changes rather than sharp verisimilitude changes like with granny square. Each section is worked in two parts – a wiring row of clusters and then a row of shells worked on top. Bavarian crochet looks like really, really fancy granny squares.
Things to make using the Bavarian type of crochet
– Blankets
– Shawls
4. Bosnian Crochet
Bosnian crochet makes a dense, knit-like fabric using just the crochet slip stitch, worked in variegated parts of a stitch from the previous row. You can buy Bosnian crochet hooks but it can moreover be worked with regular crochet hooks. It’s moreover sometimes tabbed Shepherd’s knitting. IT moreover looks quite a lot like knitting. It’s not currently a very popular style and if you see it, you’ll probably think it’s knitted.
Things to make using the Bosnian type of crochet
– Scarves
– Beanies
– Smaller items as it’s quite a time consuming
5. Bullion Crochet
This is a specialized crochet stitch achieved with a combination of multiple wraps of yarn virtually a very long hook, forming a distinctive and unique ‘roll’ stitch. Bullion crochet is usually used for motifs rather than fabric-based projects. It results in a thick, uniform, round motif style piece.
– Stiff items like placemats
– Motifs for decoration
6. Broomstick Crochet
This is a vintage crochet stitch that is moreover sometimes tabbed jiffy lace and it’s made with traditional crochet vaccinate but the stitches are worked virtually something long and wide like a broomstick handle. Most modern crocheters use large crochet hooks or thick dowel to do broomstick lace these days. Broomstick lace is a spanking-new crochet skill to learn and it results in a very trappy and unique final product.
Things to make using the Broomstick type of crochet
– Delicate shawls
– Throw blankets for decoration
This method is used to make Bruges lace – where ‘ribbons’ of crochet are created and then crocheted together to form intricate lace patterns. Most grandmas have some handmade Bruges style crochet items tucked yonder in drawers and wrapped in wounding proof paper.
– Intricate shawls
– Embellishments for clothing
– Tablemats
8. Clothesline Crochet
This is a style of crochet where traditional stitches are worked over a thick rope or clothesline style length of thick twine to make circular mats and baskets that hold their shape. This is often seen as a trial technique and can be traced when to craftspeople in Nepal and Africa.
Things to make using the Clothesline type of crochet
– Baskets
– Mats
– Structural wall hangings
9. Clones Lace Crochet
This style of crochet is heavily linked to Irish lace crochet and was created considering it was much quicker and easier to create than needlepoint lace. The Clones knot is a part of the clones crochet skill set. Clones lace is a very practical crochet style and was used for utilitarian purposes during wars.
Things to make using the clones lace type of crochet
– Openwork scarves
– Delicate dresses and tops
10. Cro-hook Crochet
Cro-hook crochet is worked with a double-ended vaccinate to create double-sided crocheted. It allows the crocheter to work stitches on or off either end of their crochet piece and to have neither a right nor wrong side to what they’re working on. This is moreover sometimes tabbed Cro-knit. This style is similar to Tunisian and results in spanking-new colorwork that’s not performable in other styles of crochet.
Things to make using the Cro-hook type of crochet
– washcloths
– Scarves
– Baby blankets
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