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HOW CAN I MAKE THINGS MORE QUICKLY?

If you’re anything like us, you’ll have a long wishlist of patterns you want to make – and never enough time to make them! But there’s a nifty way to speed up the time it takes to hook double crochet fabric – it’s a stitch called ‘linked treble crochet’ (ltr), and you can use it in rows or rounds (although the look is more consistent in rounds).

Each ltr stitch is the same height as a treble crochet, but with the appearance of two double crochet stitches stacked one on top of the another. This means you

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