When To Use Half Stitches? Finetune Your Crochet!

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[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you for watching! 😊 See also another Finetune your crochet video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2eqh4eeiNBqkJosi=f50MahkfWuW4JPmZ

[@patpowell6684]

And thank you for all the knowledge you are passing forward…much appreciated by this 77yr old who has only been crocheting for a few years. Thank you from Liverpool England 💁🏼‍♀️

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much! Lovely that you have started to crochet later in life! 💜

[@thethriftyfawn]

Yes please for more of these "fine tuning" videos Tuula! They are fascinating, useful, and practical, as well as unique in the sense that they are something you can't necessarily "search" for very easily. Your tips and tricks, combined with your clear instructions and teaching skills are absolutely TOP TIER, and an essential resource to anyone who has an interest in crochet! 😊

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much! 💗 You are right, there are quite a few things that would be hard to know what to search for. I will continue doing this type of videos at times, just thought of the subject for the next one!

[@preciousbeautyj1043]

Thank you Tuula, even tho I’ve been crocheting for over 50 years, I’m still learning new things and I’ve learned so much from you after finding your video on the absolute 10 essential crochet tips. You’re a great teacher, and I appreciate how you get straight to what you’re teaching. The teenage you in the tree reminds me so much of my younger sister.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you, so glad that video was useful to you! That's interesting that I looked like your sister! 😊

[@Sweetrose333]

I learned to crochet when I was 8 years old I’m 71 now Still learning ❤

[@katydidiy]

I learned continental knitting at 9 and did not crochet till about 30. I rarely knit anymore. BTW the switch from continental to crochet was easy! I'm now 74🎉

[@TuulaMaaria]

Isn't it great that we never need to stop learning? 💗

[@TuulaMaaria]

Great! Ilearned knitting and crochet about the same time, and then both are taught at schools on the same year here.

[@graceau9885]

I love your tips and tutorials. They are always practical. Instead of following a pattern blindly you teach us how to understand a stitch and vary it to suit an individual project.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad you like them! Yes, I find it so important to understand what you are making and how to adjust!

[@JustBeAPerson]

So glad you’ll be doing more of this sort of thing. You consistently quality content that’s so useful to experienced crocheters looking to refine our craft (not the easiest thing to find online right now) that’s still so clear and accessible for relative beginners. Thank you for sharing your expertise with both camps.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much! It seems that what I do has started to be geared more towards experienced crocheters little by little without an actual plan!

[@JustBeAPerson]

A happy accident, perhaps, but you’ve definitely found an underserved niche, and that’s the Holy Grail in business, so kudos. 🙂

[@erikbohm1779]

I loved seeing that picture of you as a teenager!! Young Tuula 😍

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad to hear, thank you! 😊

[@Pakrs61]

Thank you for being such a wonderful teacher and showing us tips & tricks to improve our projects, you're simply The Best!

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much! 😊💜

[@barbkopp9021]

You’re the best teacher on KZbin. Your crochet tips are so helpful! Have a wonderful day!!

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much, happy to hear! 😊 I'm way behind answering comments because of Easter holidays! Have a great day!

[@bryzcrochet]

This works so well. My projects look much better the more techniques I learn. I taught myself for 45 years but have grown exponentially since starting watching YT content.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Wonderful!

[@hippiechik5781]

I am thrilled the fact I found your channel. I been watching all of your videos and you are one amazing woman. I keep bouncing back and forth looking for up to date videos and the older ones. I'm so in love with this channel. I'm watching you from Pennsylvania, United States ❤😊

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you, so glad you found my channel! Happy crocheting, and greetings from Gran Canaria 💗

[@jesusknowsmethisilov]

Such a cuuuute picture of you as a teen!!!!!!! You are an adorable lady. Thanks for all your help.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you!! 💗😊

[@kusakichan15]

Im only a beginner with crocheting and Im so glad I found your channel!! Thank you for this!! 💕💕💕

[@TuulaMaaria]

Welcome, I' glad you found my channel! 😊😊

[@pzpierce]

I really appreciate your tutorials, Tuula. I learned 4 months ago to crochet and you really help me.

[@TuulaMaaria]

That's lovely, great to hear you started, happy crocheting! 💗

[@luvastandardbred8270]

I'm so glad I found your channel, Tuula 💕💕

[@TuulaMaaria]

Lovely, welcome! 💜💜

[@juliachapman1899]

Thank you , Clever Lady Tuula. Your experience is so valuable 😊. Especially as I get older I get fussier to make things in the best way possible. Your hints & tips are so sensible! Especially useful when one gets an idea to make something & it becomes more & more complicated maybe, & involved! Best wishes 💓🕊️j c

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you, glad you find my tips useful! 💗 All the best!

[@Woodlawn22]

Thank you! I have been knitting for about 20 years, always trying to build my skills to make projects look as best as I can. I found a really great knitter on youTube who has helped so much with her videos. (I would love to say her name here but don't know how you would feel about that.) Then I decided to learn to crochet because I thought touches of lace on things I sew would be nice. But it took off and now I love crocheting all kinds of things very much. But I hadn't found the equal to my knitting teacher...until now. I think you are her!! I will learn so much from you and wanted you to know I am grateful.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much, so glad to hear! Glad you found me, hope there are things in my past content that are useful, as well as what I will be posting in the future. Happy crocheting! 💗

[@missapippin9020]

Thank you so much. Explaining it makes it seems so sensible and right. I have never seen it increase in height like that before. I am so happy I have learnt this technique. ❤❤

[@TuulaMaaria]

Great, glad it was useful! 😊

[@ianetmoreno7250]

I learned the granny square from you. You are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you!❤

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much! 💜

[@cerwelt]

Very helpful. Necessity is truly the mother of invention in this case.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Very true! 😊

[@Pitoonya]

I can definitely see the difference.. it's perfect. Thank you so much for your great tips, that i have never seen anywhere else 😊

[@TuulaMaaria]

Lovely, glad it was something new!

[@ABJILL033]

An excellent instructional video, this is something I have been looking at for shaping. 👏👏❤️❤️🇬🇧

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad it was helpful! 💗

[@angelikahelmes455]

You are a treasure to us. Your tips are so helpful.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you, happy to hear! 💗

[@SuperShassa]

Great advice Tuula, thank you for all your tips. An open mind is an active one . ❤

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you! Absolutely!!

[@jordana72uk]

it never occurred to me to do that - thank you for this tip - it fixes my clumsy-looking shaping stitches perfectly :-)

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad it helped!

[@erniejofo]

I'm always learning something new. And here I thought I knew everything 😅

[@TuulaMaaria]

Great! I doubt anyone knows everything, I keep finding new things all the time! 😊

[@BlueSkyLissa]

How did I miss this??? I LOVE this video Tuula!!! Thank you so much!!!💜🫂💜

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad you found the video! 💜💗

[@Ticolme819]

Thank you Tuula. I enjoy the helpful tips.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Lovely, thank you!

[@chilloften]

It’s magical. Your sweater as a teen was gorgeous. That’s an awesome skill.

[@TuulaMaaria]

That was the first Aran sweater I knitted 😊

[@Orgutasarimmodelleri]

Very nice sharing beautiful 👍

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you! 😊

[@magdap2868]

Thank you! I'm pretty new to crocheting but I am very detail oriented, so your tips are very helpful.💚 I just found your channel today :)

[@TuulaMaaria]

Lovely, welcome, glad you found me! 💜

[@helenacombis7722]

Hello, Tuula, love your videos, very interesting way to do this kind of increasing. And I believe that we can add other intermediate stitches… I recently was watching a spanish crochet channel and they show the “long“ doble crochet (they do the first loop alone, than 2 loops and 2 loops, and do the same to the treble stitch)…. It’s nice too😊😘

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you! Yes, that sounds like a good idea too, thank you! 😊

[@GrannyBlanketSue]

Another really interesting and useful video. Thank you so much. 🧶

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@KatEyze1015]

Just wow! Thank you again!

[@user-st1ru6kc9k]

Dear Tuula, Thank you for sharing. Your videos always teach us something new and important to know and learn. Look forward to more content like this. Take care and stay safe and well. God’s blessings to you and yours 🙏🏽💜🧶😻🐶

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much, all the best! 💜😊

[@user-st1ru6kc9k]

You’re very welcome and Thank you 💜🙏🏽🧶

[@jeannewells6747]

You are such a good teacher 😊 I did the ribbing bind off you showed very easy to follow

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you! 😊

[@rajulshah1357]

You are very brilliant lady. Thanks for your help🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️❤️

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad it was helpful!

[@patriciahamer419]

Such a cute teenager …and such a smart one too 😊✌️❤️

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you! I suppse it's a bit of a weird photo, up in atree! 😁

[@patriciahamer419]

Not weird at all to me…I was always climbing trees …lol ❤️

[@TuulaMaaria]

@@patriciahamer419 😄

[@karleedu]

Very informative! Thank you for more great lessons!

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@rebeccabonner6542]

Such a wealth of knowledge. Thank you!

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you!

[@fionastube2011]

I love the fine-tuning videos!

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you, I'm glad, I love making them too!

[@cookingwithsalma7752]

Very nice sharing zabdast video beautiful work My dear friend

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much!

[@ChrisTina-ln4yk]

Tuula! Omigosh you have blown my mind in the best way possible! I have never even considered something like a double-half (2.5?) stitch, *but it makes complete sense*! Why doesn't anyone teach this, I wonder. Also, I hold my yarn the same way you do. It's nice to see that my style isn't an anomaly

[@TuulaMaaria]

There are many tiny things that improve crochet, I suppose it would be too long especially to write those on written patterns! Glad you hold your yarn the same way - very common at least in the Nordic countries. We get taught at school to hold closely to the way i do it - I have changed it a bit!

[@adsmith0423]

This is a game changer for me 😮 Thanks Tuula

[@TuulaMaaria]

Wonderful! 💗

[@magnoliaweathershield443]

Love your blouse - reminds me of vintage Chinese porcelain

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you! Right enough, that blouse has similar flowers!

[@madewithloveandfibres1816]

As always, great tips for refining yarncraft techniques! 🤩 thank you

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you Joanne! 💜

[@michellepaino9650]

this is a generous sharing , great teaching …thank you 😊

[@TuulaMaaria]

Lovely, thank you!

[@flash963]

Your fine-tuning is ingenious! Thanks!

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad you like it!

[@meowmeowf4916]

Thank you for your wonderful video. Love all your tips. It is awesome.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thanks for watching!

[@amymaki2918]

Thank you for this insight! I've stumbled over this issue as well. 😊

[@TuulaMaaria]

Great! 😊

[@lynnock8003]

How strange ... I find that I do this unconsciously as I crochet. Now I know what I'm doing. Thank you Tulla

[@TuulaMaaria]

That's great! There are probably many things that people do without thinking much about it! Wish there was a way to collect all that knowledge from different people!

[@lynnock8003]

@@TuulaMaaria thatcrochet bank is called "You Tube". Among the thousands of channels, however, there are only a small handful who present well ... yours is one of those. Thank you

[@martyvadala5724]

GREAT TIPS THANK YOU…. LOVE YOUR PICTURE…. I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO UOUR WEEKLY VIDEOS❤❤❤❤

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you so much, happy to hear! 💗

[@keborn6teen]

I love your tutorials!!♥️

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you!

[@jencrochetingradtech5913]

That half stitch when growing stitches is new to me. I don’t think I’ve seen this in a pattern I’ve used or if I have I was not thinking of it in this context so I’m not recalling it. Very good tip/hint

[@TuulaMaaria]

Great, hope you get use of it!

[@fritula6200]

Your video' s are so helpful ...

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad you think so!

[@Laceycrochet]

Thanks Tuula 👍💜🇬🇧

[@daniellerodgers6493]

Thank you!

[@TuulaMaaria]

👍

[@zitatempleton4821]

Interesting. I had not heard of half stitches until a few years back. A pattern I was making had half triple stitches. I didn't know why or that you could do that with other stitches. Thanks for sharing.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Great! They don’t seem to be common but still useful!

[@chriss312]

Great Video Very Helpful Please could you do a video how to help when you have lost your motivation to crochet etc.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you! That could be a good subject !

[@michellepiazza7698]

Love this series ❤

[@TuulaMaaria]

Lovely, thank you!

[@barbarag8718]

Oh what a great tip thank you.I have had trouble with this a long time 😊

[@TuulaMaaria]

Lovely to hear!

[@mayaraxavier2359]

I love the idea of finetune, I do that a lot, because I always love a pattern except a little the detail in the finish so I change it lol. But I'm not as good as you, I'm pretty much a beginner.

[@TuulaMaaria]

It's great to make changes where needed even if you are a beginner, that way you learn more than just doing what you are told! 💗

[@veronicaambler1846]

This is really useful, thanks! I want to make a few blankets, and it'll help me to make my edgings look better 😃 x

[@TuulaMaaria]

That's great, enjoy making the blankets! 😊

[@veronicaambler1846]

@@TuulaMaaria I will, thanks x

[@vickieaxell9518]

Adorable hair cut❤

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you! 💜 Asked her to cut it a bit shorter than normal becasue will be quite a while before I will be in my own town!

[@boredwiththegame]

Thank you sooo much, it's so simple.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Welcome 😊

[@Scotty3146]

A good example of using half stitches is a crochet heart shape.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Yes, true! Thank you!

[@rhondaherdman7338]

Great information thank you so much for your tutelage❤ Blessings and Love

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheGoldenflower58]

What a great great idea❤

[@TuulaMaaria]

Glad you think so!

[@ki-rort]

Thank you!❤

[@MichelleMonstera]

This is amazing! Thank you

[@TuulaMaaria]

Thank you!

[@dianecummins4168]

great information. Thank you!

[@TuulaMaaria]

Great, thank you!

[@dianaepple524]

Good tips!

[@TuulaMaaria]

Great!

[@lindawellinghoff5432]

Great!

[@bapudev1082]

Very very nice

[@marysmith9109]

Thank you

[@arielog1941]

thank you

[@benedettaciani4866]

Thanks !

[@TuulaMaaria]

Welcome!

[@amyexo]

I would love to know about when to use the different needles! The extended stitches have a similar height addition, I need to compare with these to see if there is a difference in how they look.

[@TuulaMaaria]

Yrs, extended stitches work too. Different needles would take a whole video, there are so many choices. Could make one!

[@Susan.M.]

Thank you. And did you slip stich down the last one to start over?

[@TuulaMaaria]

I chained 5 to get back down to start.