About Stitch Ledger

What you find here

You can use Stitch Ledger as a crochet companion for practice and for finished items. In Learn the Basics you can study stitches, gauge, pattern reading, hooks and yarn. In Patterns and Back Issues you can review projects from a twelve-issue magazine archive from 2012 to 2014 and you can check free patterns that are still shared today. In Crochet for Charity you can learn about Warm Up America and Project Linus and about chemo caps and preemie hats. Each organisation publishes its own size and fibre requests and you can read those requests before you start. In Watch Lessons and Fixes you can follow video steps to correct tension, edges and counting errors.

How you can read the articles

The Stitch Ledger editorial team edits the site and writes each article from public sources that are named in the article. When an organisation is mentioned, it is described in the third person with its stated purpose and its stated requests. When a pattern or a technique is explained, you see the cited page or organisation, the materials listed there, and the steps you can test on a swatch. If the cited page or organisation leaves a gap on size, yardage or care, the article states that limit so you can check before you buy yarn or start a gift.

Who this site helps

You can use these pages if you are a beginner who needs a clear sequence for chain, single crochet, double crochet and turning rows. You can use them if you are returning to crochet after years away and you need a check on gauge and pattern terms. If you make items for charity, you can compare size charts and fibre notes before you send squares, blankets, caps or hats. If you are a parent or a grandparent, you can select small projects for children and you can adjust width and length with the measuring steps shown.

You can write to contact@crochet1-2-3.com if you spot an error in a reference note or if you need help to locate a reference cited in an article.