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Wouldn’t be great if all the patterns – whether they are UK or US- would come with a guide to the difference between US and UK crochet stitches? Problem solved! This cute American/British Conversion Chart by Stacey of FreshStitches is exactly what you need! This is a handy cut-out you can download on her site and save it with you or in your folder where you save together all your printed crochet patterns. All you need to know now is if the pattern is American or UK and as long as you know the differences in terms, you’ll be fine. Cannot be simpler than that!
Download a .pdf version of this chart at: FreshStitches
Thanks to Stacey for the article inspiration and featured image.
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Mareya Butcher
Thanks, this will come in handy!
Crocheted for 50 years. But I’m a Brit who has lived in US for 30 years. So I learned both ways. Confusing? Oh yeah!!
Denise Derrick
Thank you. I use Susan Bates hooks & I have only had one Size 7. It doesn’t come with the sets from B to K.
Welcome Liz!
Welcome Jules!
Welcome Sandra!
Welcome Jessie!
Welcome Sharon!
UK terms doesn’t have a single crochet, it’s a slip stitch
We still call a slip stitch a slip stitch. Don’t have single crochet in UK. X
Ané Erasmus
what is M size?
Dominique Southwick
thank you
One problem with the chart. UK terms uses “slip stitch” just like American. They don’t have a single crochet stitch. If the pattern doesn’t specify UK/American you know it is American if it includes any single crochet.
Never heard a slip stitch called a single crochet! Pat McGregor ?
Janice and Chelsea, thought this might interest you. 🙂
What is a single crochet in British terms. A chain perhaps?
Yes.
You forgot to add South Africa as a serous cricket playing nation!! Lol, love the way you made the distinction though, Thank you for the chart – I’m a South African living in the USA. Yes the patterns can get confusing and this is just the right size chart to keep with my work
Love the note about cricket nations! I am a Scot living in New Zealand who taught myself to crochet four months ago using a British book and an American YouTube video. I had no idea there was a difference until something didn’t look quite right! Now I write in all the library books I get out which terminology they use! Hopefully stop others having to un-crochet too many times lol!
very useful thank you
FYI – to all my fb crochet friends
I never knew there was a difference b/c I learned by watching my mother in law crochet. An instructor told me that I use the European technique. I still need lessons on reading instructions.
Lys Schaeffer and Danielle Fasig, maybe you will find this info useful
Dorothy Christensen
cricket cricket all the way!
Kellee John
Your stitch conversion may have been intended to try and help people but it’s not really accurate. There’s no such thing as single crochet in British terms, a slip stitch is a slip stitch (American or British) Gauge is still gauge, it’s just affected by your tension.