Crochet projects like laces or doilies are made from crochet threads or lace-weight yarns. And you need steel crochet hooks to make them!

In the world of crochet, just like so many other things, the US and the UK don’t follow the same terms. Why can’t the two go together and make our lives simpler!! But, no worries... We are going to cover the whole lot and how the US (or American English) terms are different from the UK (or British English) terms.

There are some common crochet abbreviations that are used in patterns and there’s no explanation about them in the pattern. For a newbie, it can seem like gibberish or a completely different language. But, once you get used to these abbreviations and what they mean, you’ll be reading patterns like a pro!