Index
This tutorial is too large to show on 1 page, so it is spread over multiple pages. Use the links in the index below to go to the page where you want to be.
- Introduction, abbreviations and symbols, and start tutorial 1: click here
- Start tutorial 1, setup and first rows: click here
- tutorial 1: slanted lines, open structures, part 1: click here
- tutorial 1: slanted lines, open structures, part 2: click here
- tutorial 1: slanted lines, open structures, part 3, working at the back side: that is this page
- tutorial 1: slanted lines, closed structures, part 1, with triangles pointing upwards: click here
- tutorial 2: slanted lines, closed structures, part 2, with triangles pointing downwards: click here
- combining structures and summary: click here
- tutorial 3: click here
Video
For the basics with open structures you can watch this video: https://youtu.be/HXDFq8Cg82U.
The instruction chart
This is the next part of the instruction chart. In this part of the tutorial we are going to focus on rows 6b and 7a. It’s not that much different than the previous rows where we made the diagonal lines. We’re basically making the same thing, but working from the back, so the instructions look a little different.
Row 6a
Row 6a is just solid squares. If you look at the instruction chart you will see the diagonal lines, but you can ‘forget’ them here, that will be discussed in the next row.
Row 6b
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Notation: Row 6b – back: b, f 2x, *([br+f], f)* 2x, [br+f+bl], *(f, [f+bl])* 2x, f 3x In this round you will see more or less the same thing as in round 3b, except everything is reversed, because you are now working on the back of the piece. The ‘[br+f]‘ is again a combined stitch that you start at the back of the work, but which you work to the right, in the previous grid stitch: back right. This is an extended double crochet, which you do not complete, because you will then crochet the ‘f’ in the next grid stitch. Same for ‘[f+bl]‘. Here you start with a front stitch, which you do not complete, followed by a back stitch that you work to the left, in the next grid stitch: back left. Remember that you have worked ahead, so the next stitch you make must be made where the ‘bl’ was inserted, because this mesh stitch still needs to be made. |
Here are some more screenshots from the video.
This is the start of the row.
The start of the ‘[br+f]‘. After the in-between chain, the stitch is inserted into the same mesh stitch where you just made the previous stitch, at the back of the red, so that the diagonal line will run to the right. You make an extended dc, but you don’t finish it.
Here is where the ‘f’ of the ‘[br+f]‘ is made. This is the next grid stitch.
Here both stitches have been made and joined into 1 stitch.
This is the start of the ‘[br+f+bl]‘. The ‘br’ has been created, an extended dc. This is inserted into the previous mesh stitch.
Now the ‘f’ of the ‘[br+f+bl]‘. A dc. This is the mesh stitch you would have crocheted without diagonal lines.
And finally the ‘bl’ of the ‘[br+f+bl]‘. An extended dc. This is inserted into the next mesh stitch. Don’t forget to finish this mesh stitch with the next stitch.
All 3 parts are now on the crochet hook.
And the stitch is then completed with a yarn over and pull through all 4 loops on the hook.
Here is another example of a ‘[f+bl]’.
And here is the result of the row.
Row 7a
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Notation: Row 7a – front: color 2 to front, side st, 4f & f{ir}, *(2f & f{ir})* 2x, *(f{il} & 2f)* 2x, f{il} & 4f, side st In this row you will see more or less the same thing as in round 4a, except everything is reversed, because you are now working on the front of the piece. The f{ir} this time is a double crochet that you make at the front of the work, and in this case you insert on the right side of the diagonal line. At the f{il} you insert into the mesh stitch, but on the left side of the diagonal line. |
Here are some screenshots from the video.
Here the 4th dc of the 4f has been made in the chain space and we are about to make the f{ir}.
Insert into the mesh stitch on the right side of the diagonal line.
The f{ir} has been created. Just click on the photo to see it clearly.
This is the first place we need to do a f{il}, to the left of the left diagonal line.
Insert on the left side of the diagonal line. Look closely at the mesh stitches!
The stitch is now made. You can also clearly see the chain opening where the next stitch should be made.
And this is the result of row 7a.
Closed structures
The next part of the tutorial is about closed structures. Both triangles pointing up and down. Go to the next page for the next part: click here.