How Carrying Your Yarn Creates Diamonds, Landscapes, and Even Your Pet's Portrait Ever seen a crochet piece with a graphic design on it, like a diamond pattern, a landscape, even a cat's silhouette, and wondered how it's made? This post walks you through exactly that: what tapestry crochet is, how it works in practice, and where this technique can go far beyond a rug. Where This Technique Shows Up (H4) Diamonds, gingham checks, your pet's portrait, a large-scale wall design. It's all tapestry crochet (also called graph crochet or graphgan crochet), and it fits way more than just a rug. What Is Tapestry Crochet Tapestry crochet is a graphic colorwork technique: the yarn color you're not using at the moment gets carried inside the stitches instead of being cut. That keeps the back of your work neat, and you're not weaving in ends every time the color changes. How It Works in Practice On be a single crochet, a half double, or a double crochet, depending on th...
Sou a Leticia, apaixonada por crochê e criadora da Leticia Ribeiro Crochê. Aqui você encontra apostilas digitais com passo a passo completo pra fazer suas próprias peças em fio conduzido e intarsia, técnica que uso em painéis, tapetes e itens decorativos com desenhos e personagens. Tenho um carinho especial por peças com pegada pet: gatos, cachorros, patinhas, ossinhos, coração. Também desenvolvo peças funcionais pro dia a dia e itens de decoração pra dar um toque especial na casa.