DIY Crochet Skirt

Novice crocheters who learn by creating scads of scarves and hats can stretch their skills by attempting to crochet a skirt from a pattern. While crocheting a skirt from a pattern will not differ much from any other crochet project, the size of the project may be intimidating.

If you are confident using basic crochet stitches and have some familiarity with crochet terms, you should be able to find and follow a crochet pattern that will result in a skirt you can wear with pride.
• Find a crochet skirt pattern online or in a crochet magazine or book, preferably using just the crochet stitches you're already familiar with. Keep in mind the amount of yarn required, and be aware that you may have to wear an underskirt to maintain your modesty under some crochet skirts.
• Acquire yarn in appropriate weight -- which is another term for thickness -- and amount to complete your skirt pattern. The pattern will tell you the amount of yarn needed, usually in yards or ounces, as well as the weight of yarn appropriate for the pattern.
• Crochet a 4-by-4-inch gauge swatch to determine how many stitches per inch you make with the hook and yarn you selected for your skirt project. If your number does not correspond to that given in the pattern, measurements will be off and you need to change hook size to get the correct gauge.
• Measure your hip and waist circumferences, and determine the length of your crocheted skirt. Take the waist measurement at your belly button, the hip measurement across the fullest part of your hips and the length from your belly button down to the desired length. According to Crochet Me, you should decrease all measurements by 10 percent to compensate for stretch.
• Keep track of where you are in the pattern when crocheting. Unlike a hat or other small project, a skirt is likely to take a number of sittings to complete. Use stitch markers, and mark your place in the pattern by jotting a note on the pattern itself.
Or other steps are
• Make one single crochet stitch in the center of a buttonhole stitch, beginning at one side of the shirt. Chain two, and single crochet in the next buttonhole stitch. Repeat all the way around the shirt. Join to the first single crochet with a slip stitch.
• Chain three, and make three double crochet stitches in the first chain two loop. Make four double crochet stitches in the next loop, and in each loop all the way around. Join to the first stitch.
• Chain three, and make one double crochet in the same stitch; make two double crochets in each double crochet all the way around.
• Chain two, and skip two stitches and single crochet in the third stitch. Repeat all the way around.
• Keeping the loops made in the previous round in the back of the work, make two double crochet stitches in each double crochet that you skipped in the previous round, all the way around. Join at the top of the first double crochet stitch.
• Keeping the stitches of the previous round in front of the work, chain two and single crochet into the first loop of the previous round. Chain three, and three double crochet stitches in the first loop. Make four double crochet stitches in each loop all the way around. Join at the top of the chain three.
Repeat steps 4 through 6 until the skirt is the length you wish.
• Double crochet into the third stitch from the hook. Chain one, and double crochet into the same stitch three more times. Skip two stitches and make a single crochet in the third stitch. Repeat this step all the way around the skirt. End off

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DIY Crochet Skirt
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