The claim that crocheting is easier than knitting is highly controversial. However, there is no doubt that the hook opens up many more possibilities. For many knitters, owning crochet skills makes it much easier to do more scheduled work.
Dense patterns
Despite the fact that crocheting is primarily associated with airy openwork, there are situations when you can not do without a continuous fabric. In such cases, it turns out that finding dense crochet patterns with patterns is not so simple.
If you need to perform opaque knitted elements, you can use knitting needles, but this option is not always suitable. The canvas made with knitting needles is thinner and more elastic. In addition, tightly knit a thin thread with this tool is very inconvenient and long.
What are dense ornaments for?
Based on practice, you can specify the scope of the solid patterns designed for crocheting:
- Making warm garments. Winter hats, mittens, sweaters, dresses - all this should be connected without extra holes and lace.
- Scarves This clothing is made as a separate item, since scarves need double-sided tight crochet patterns (the schemes are proposed below).
- Interior items. Blankets, blankets, rugs, some models of pillows need a continuous canvas through which the lining is not visible.
- Swimwear and opaque elements of openwork dresses.
- In order to "dilute" the openwork pattern. Sometimes a combination of several rows of lace mixed with a dense pattern allows you to create a new unique pattern.
The specifics of choosing yarn for solid patterns
Most types of yarn are suitable for crocheting tight patterns. Patterns are often designed for yarn with a thickness of about 350-400 m / 100 grams. This should be taken into account if the thread chosen for knitting differs significantly in thickness from this figure.
Too thick yarn will cause the fabric to become coarse, overly dense and stiff. In addition, when knitting such products creates a large load on the fingers and they can hurt. To avoid unpleasant consequences and still use a thick thread, you can use a large hook (7 or more) and try to knit freely.
A thread with parameters more than 400 m / 100 grams is thin. For example, the thickness of mercerized cotton is 560 m / 100 grams. Knitting solid patterns with such a thread requires the use of a very thin hook (from 0.9 mm) and tight knitting. Otherwise, the connected fabric will turn out to be openwork and will not fulfill its function.
Crochet: dense patterns. Schemes from the must have category
Elementary solid patterns are formed by a combination of different columns. This can be a traditional surface, including single crochet (RLS) or double crochet (CCH). A feature of such patterns is the absence of air loops (VP). An example is the ornament in the photo below.
It consists of "bushes" and the RLS separating them. The given sample is made in color, but more often it is used in a single-color version. It can be called the lifesaver of many knitters.
And in this modified pattern there are already VP and an element of lace.
This scheme can easily be adapted to obtain a dense web. It is enough to replace the VP for the CCH, then the “leg” for the bush will contain not three CCH and five CW, but eight CCH.
Dense crochet patterns, the diagrams of which are presented later, are also based on CCH. This technique allows you to create a truly dense canvas. The essence of the method is that the base part of the bulk CCH is not the upper part of the column of the previous row, but its main part. The hook is wound behind the CCH and the thread is pulled behind it.
So knit convex CCH.
Crocheted zigzag dense patterns: description and diagram
Wavy patterns are very convenient for the manufacture of solid paintings. Similar ornaments are formed according to one principle: adding loops at the peak of the wave and reducing the same number of loops in the cavity. Zigzags have their own specifics and features:
- Zigzag dense patterns are difficult to reduce, they create difficulties when knitting according to the pattern (sleeves, neck, relief for the waist). Waves are best suited for knitting even webs.
- For the correct calculation of the loops, you need to knit a rather large pattern, since a fully wavy pattern is formed after knitting about 5 cm of the fabric.
- It is necessary to strictly observe the number of added and reduced loops in each row. Ignoring such calculations leads to a gradual change in the proportions of the wave.
Crochet wavy dense patterns, patterns and patterns are shown below, may be with minor holes in the canvas (as in the diagram).
If desired, you can achieve a continuous canvas, if you replace the CCH in the pattern on the RLS.
Dense openwork patterns
There are such patterns for crocheting, which can be called intermediate between openwork and solid.
These are quite common patterns of crochet patterns, the tight lace of which is formed due to a small number of air loops in the pattern.
This category should include most of the crochet patterns, which are considered solid. Unfortunately, for a swimsuit or skirt, they will not work, but for other products they will be indispensable. Especially good are the canvases associated with the use of angora and such dense openwork. The lightness of the pattern does not burden the model, and the fibers of angora yarn provide heat.