Slip Stitch Crochet Class Resources

Collage of many examples for Big-Hook Slip Stitch Crochet Class by Vashti Braha

Updated July 20, 2020. First posted in 2012.

This clickable list of slip stitch crochet resources is mainly to aid students of my classes in exploring more about Slip Stitch Crochet at their leisure. (If you have not yet taken any of my slip stitch classes, I hope someday I’ll meet you in one of them!) You’re welcome to enjoy the links below whether you’ve taken the classes or not. They represent the extra information that doesn’t fit into a standard three-hour class. Some are the names of designers, books, other types of slip stitch crochet, etc., that I may have mentioned in a class.

— Vashti Braha

Slip Stitch Crochet Class Resources 2020

Bling Bam Bangle and DesigningVashti Lotus yarn — Simple Stitches, Big Hook

Slip Stitch Crochet Designs

My published Slip Stitch Crochet patterns here in the Designingvashti.com shop.
My pattern shop at Ravelry.com.
Page of my not-yet published Slip Stitch Crochet projects (in Ravelry).
My Pinboard of selected slip stitch crochet around the ‘net (in Pinterest).

Relevant Crochet Inspirations Newsletter Issues

Issue #9, “Slip Stitch for Style” (from 2011!)
Issue #27, “Stalking the Wild Slip Stitch” (earlier experiments with lacy slip stitch fabrics; from 2011)
Issue #29, “Short Row Startle!” (2011)
Issue #35 “Draping Simple Shapes” (these happen to be big-hook slip stitch fabrics; 2012)
Issue #36 “Crochet Ribs, Old & New Grooves” (slip stitch ribbing compared with traditional crochet ribs, including yarn use; 2012)
Issue #42, “Inverse (NOT Reverse) Crocheting” (2012)
Issue #52, “Slip Stitches, Wool Breeds, and Plying” (2013)

Special to Big Hook Crocheting

Big wood hooks and jumbo sizes up to size U/25 mm here in the Designingvashti shop. Also, size 7.00 mm (between US sizes K/6.5 mm and L/8 mm) in aluminum and glittery gold plastic!
Issue #33, “Jumbo Hooks” (2011)
A Big Hook Bucket to crochet. I use mine all the time.
All Crochet Hook Sizes in Charts (downloadable)
Hook-Led Gauge, a core crochet skill. Especially with big hook sizes.
Deluxe Crochet Hook Diagram (downloadable)

2 flat crocheted bunnies (sihouette), 2 stuffed ones, in different slip stitch crochet textures. — Beginner Slip Stitches

Slip Stitching Around the Internet

Slip Stitch Crochet group in Ravelry (free, open to all)
The Slip Stitch socks of the Pamir people and Day Three (at Dora Ohrenstein’s CrochetInsider.com)
Anna Lindmark’s wonderful slip stitch basics blog post from 2016, and designs (Ravelry page)
Tanja Osswald’s designs (Ravelry page)
Finnish blog post at Hillevisthreads (in English, from 2010) about Bosnian Crochet
James Walters’ Bosnian Crochet fabric images
David Burchall’s A Yarnified Life SSC blog
“Inverse” stitches in regular crochet:
- Hazel Furst’s “Back to Front Crochet“
- Dee Stanziano’s “Pushmi-Pullyu“: Pushmi Pullyu: Coined by me (Dee Stanziano) in 2008, Pushmi Pullyu is the crochet technique of making crochet stitches forwards (Pushmi) and backwards (Pullyu) within the same row, or by alternating hands for each row without the need to turn work. This creates a unique look in the fabric, almost like Illusion Crochet. In 2011 Hazel Furst coined this as “Back to Front Crochet.”

Slip Stitch Crochet Books of Interest

Tanja Osswald’s Kettmaschen (in German)
Nancy Nehring’s Learn Slip Stitch Crochet and Slip Stitch Caps
Bendy Carter’s Knit 1 Purl 2 in Crochet.
Dora Ohrenstein’s designs and articles in Interweave Crochet magazine, Fall 2010 and Winter 2011 issues.