How to Stacked Single Crochet (Easy Guide)
If the edges of your crochet work have a lot of gaps or are uneven, turning chains will be the reason. You can learn how to fix them with this crochet stacked single crochet tutorial for all skill levels. This will be a small alternative step but help you to make your crochet items more professional and special, so let’s get started!
What is a Stacked Single Crochet?
Stack single crochet, as the name suggests, is a technique of crocheting single crochet on top of each other at the start of a row to get the height of a particular stitch (usually taller than sc). It is actually a great alternative to turning chains that leave big gaps.
Procedure to know before
You will need one simple technique to know before crocheting it:
How is stacked single crochet done?
When you turn the work to crochet the new row, you will do a stacked single crochet instead of crocheting the turning chains. For this, crochet one single crochet in the first stitch.
Then, on the left V loop of that single crochet, do another single crochet. You will notice that the second single crochet is stacked on top of the previous one. This will be your stack single crochet for double crochet US. For taller stitches, you will keep crocheting the stitches on the top.
For example, the treble crochet will need three stacked, and the double treble will need 4 of these single crochet stitches.
To check visually how it looks, watch the video tutorial created by PassioKnit Kelsie.
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