How to Read Crochet Diagrams 

When you using a diagram, how does one distinguish between making a stitch in a space as opposed to into a stitch?

Thank you so much! Diagrams have looked like a foreign language to me for so long! Now I feel confident to try.

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Thanks for your quick response.

Wow! This is beginning to make sense! Thanks.

How do you know from a chart if you go into the space or the chain?

I’m pretty sure row 5 was HDC

Great tutorial...thank you!!! I’ve been puzzled by diagrams for the longest time!

love the way you teach, Thank you

Thank you I’m seeing reading a chart and understanding symbols clearer thank you

Thank you so much for this! My grandma taught me years ago basic crocheting, but never how to read a chart. Now, I'm teaching myself (and now my kids) how to crochet and this is so helpful. I was very nervous about reading patterns and charts and this has helped explain things so much!

Wow, what a great explanation! Thankyou so much!

Wow, love it.

Thank you for making this video! I have many crochet books and have been crocheting on/off for 10 years but always got super intimidated when looking at crochet diagrams but now I think I'm ready to try them out after watching your vid 😁😁😁

I’ve just watched a few of these explanations, and yours is the easiest to understand, by far. Thanks for this!

Your explanations are very helpful. Thanks 😊

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I've been crocheting for 50+ yrs n never learned how to read charts. What a great help..now I'm ready to try a chart pattern! 😊

This is a great video. You are a great teacher. Thank you

Great! Thank you!

Thank you! You explained this so simply and so beautifully!

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. I am a knitter and am trying to learn how to crochet some edge trim for knitting projects. I found a beautiful book of border, but there are no basic instructions on how to read the charts. This video is the perfect lesson on chart reading. I am still struggling with knowing when to work into the space versus a stitch, but I think that will become more obvious as I practice.

Thank you this was perfectly explained now I feel like I can read the patterns

Thank you for explaining it so simple way..❤

Thank you so much!! I can understand diagrams now!!

Thank you.

Thank you for explaining in terms I can understand. I see now what this craziness means

Thanks so much now these makes so much more sense!

This is amazing thank you so much

Thank you so much !

Amazing tutorial thanks for sharing

God bless you! Thank you so much. ⚘

Here to learn how to read these diagrams. I think it's helpful as the diagram will show how your work will look which you can't do with a written pattern.

Thank you so much for this video!!! I've been crocheting since the 6th grade, I'm now 33 and have struggled with crochet graphs. This helps so much!!!

You’re amazing explaining how to read the charts. Very clear, very easy to understand! I just subscribed to your channel. ❤️

very informative,thankyou

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Thanks.

Thank you 😂

Excellent tutorial... Your an amazing teacher especially for a newbie like me in the crochet world. In my opinion you are one of the handful of icons in the business and some new like me can learn a lot from. So my official thank you for all your teachings. I do have one question I have watched a small amount of "learning to reading diagrams" tutorials and I have yet to find one that tells me how to know if and when to crochet into the chsp or into the CH st itself. Could you by chance give me some pointers on when reading a diagram with no written instructions or non-English instructions how to tell if the st goes into the CH st or chsp?! Again your awesome and thank you

How can you Tell whether to chain to the space or into the stitch ?

Can you do a video tutorial on gauges and measurements when creating our own patterns or altering a garment they may be for a kid, but want to make for an adult?

Thank you so much for this. You made what I thought was the most complicated code appear so easy. I have one question. When you see the chain oval shape, and say you have to work a double crochet into it, if there is a chain space, how do you know if you are meant to go into the chain itself or into the chain space. Thank you.

This is hands down the best tutorial. Your patience in the descriptions is very much appreciated. As a beginner, it's frustrating when people title their videos as beginner friendly and they're not. Thank you so much. This helped!! 🙌🏼💓🤗

Thanks for thus video!!! A big help! I have The Crochet Stitch Bible by Betty Braden. It has all the stitches and the symbol for it.

When do you know if you crochet in the chain stitch or in the gap

i was wondering why it is you have to crochet into the chain space instead of directly into the chain stitch. Is it to make that cross pattern?

I really do appreciate this tutorial and I learned a lot. I have justed starter crocheting from diagram and since I am lefthanded, it makes it à little more complicated. I found a diagram that I have tried to figure out, crocheting back and forth but it has no instructions as to combine the rows so there I am stuck. Do you have any suggestions?

Helloo Ma'am.. I so love your instructions and crochet work... May I please know the name of the book you are using in this s video please?

Ur vids are saving my crujo lmao What book is that with the grannie squers in it it looks handy to own

Slip stitch is sometimes represented by half circle.

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i cant be the only one who thinks she sounds exactly like sarah cameron from outerbanks!! i cant unhear it now

Hello, where can I get dose crochet pattern book?

May I know the name of the book which you showed here

you lost me on the second row.... Oh well, maybe one day I'll come back to crochet. trying to read patterns like this instead of it being written out is very confusing for me. Thank you anyway for explaining this.

Hi Sigone, I bought a crochet skirt and I have some glue but I'm no sure which is connected to which If I sen you a picture will you be willing o explain to me. Thanks you very I don't know any one can crochet I crochet when I was a little bu never graft he pattern I bough has no word is tricky graft only.

To the second row why I work to the chain space and not to the chain itself; The symbol shows that I work in the chain not in the space. At least that is how I would read it. How i can tell the difference; Thank you.

What is the book you referred to with the patterns (you showed us a page with couple of granny squares). Around 12:00 mins into the video. Thx

Hey, if the oval is that thin, what is the line going the same direction as the oval because I thought the line is a chain at least in all the directions I’ve read that’s what means a chain now what about the oval that goes lengthwise from top to bottom, not side to side well maybe I should watch the rest of your video before I comment OK I’m gonna finish watching

May I ask what book is that I think I have it I’m not for sure

I'm having a hard time struggling with this my symbols are different and I don't know why. If I had an email that I could send a picture too since RU-vid won't let me post it here I would appreciate it. Thank you

Mam,please recommend a good book for crochet diagrams, symbols

Is it weird that I taught myself how to read the diagrams I didn’t even really go into like the separate charts explaining what each stitch was. I just kind of knew I mean for me it was super easy but other people it might not be is that weird to you because my mom thought it was really weird that I just knew what each symbol meant without having to really study it. I was like well it’s kind of self-explanatory if an X would be the smaller one the line would be a chain I mean to me that’s super simple to go up from there the only ones I had any issues with was like the big circle well I would say oval and then which one meant like back post or front post but other than that I was OK and I know the difference now in all of them and matter fact, I preferred to use a diagram then written instructions

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What does a slip knot look like in a diagram? Is it the smae as a slip stich?

I don't see any links in your description box.

How do i know is to the area and not into the stick?

Mam Can you please teach how to design our own patterns. Thanks.

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Its amazing! I want to buy you crochet book from online.would you like to sell me this book ?

What was the boook called

The very thing I came here for, was to understand what the the last double crochet goes into but you skipped right over it.

You said to follow the top hat but you are doing it by the bottom of the cross not the top