WHAT DOES ‘MULTIPLES OF 3 PLUS 1’ MEAN?
It’s amazing that with just a handful of crochet stitches, you can create loads of different fabric, texture and shape effects by combining the stitches in all sorts of different ways.
To make a project repeatable for other crocheters, though, each combination of stitches needs a recipe or a ‘stitch pattern’. The simplest stitch pattern we learn as beginners is a double crochet stitch pattern, where you dc into each dc on the row below.
Some stitch patterns can be more complicated. Instructions may start by asking you crochet a chain in multiples of stitches – for example: ‘multiples of 3 plus 1’. This might sound complicated, but
