Single Crochet Stitch and Double Crochet Stitch Decreases.

Decreasing crochet stitches is very easy and in this post i'm showing you how to decrease a single and a double crochet stitch decreases. 

Decreasing a stitch means making the stitch count less and hence reducing the area of crochet design.

We will begin with the Double crochet Stitch Decreases.

It is very easy and if you read my post carefully you will catch up everything easily and learn it in one go InshaAllah!

Steps.

1. Wrap yarn around the hook.

2. Insert through the chain.

3. Pull yarn through the chain.

4. You will have 3 loops on the hook.

5. Pull yarn through two loops.

6. We will be left with two loops on the hook.

7. Wrap the yarn over the hook once again.

8. Insert the hook in the next chain stitch.

9. Pull yarn through it.

10. We will have 4 loops on the hook.

11. Pull through two.

12. This will leave us with the three loops on the hook.

13. Pull yarn through all of these loops.

14. This will reduce two of our stitches to one and hence one double crochet stitch is decreased.

The next is the Single crochet Stitch Decrease.

It is easier than the double crochet stitch decrease.

Steps.

1. Insert the hook in the chain stitch.

2. Pull yarn through it.

3. We will have two loops on the hook.

4. Now insert hook in the next chain stitch.

5. Pull yarn through it too.

6. We will have three loops on the hook.

7. Pull yarn through all of them.

8. This completes our one single crochet decrease.

9. The two stitches are reduced to one.

Hope this was helpful. You can also visit our YouTube channel to watch the Single Crochet Stitch and Double Crochet Decreases video to get the clarity of the things.

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Kashmiri Palak and Chicken Recipe.

HI Guys! today i'm going to share how we Kashmiri's normally cook our Spinach and chicken meal. Its easy and yummy. if your recipe vary, you can share that in the comments below!

Ingredients:

Spinach 1 kg.
Chicken 1 whole.
Garlic 3 - 5.
vegetable oil 2 - 3 tablespoons
Salt to taste.
Red Chillies 1 teaspoon.
Ginger powder 1/2 teaspoon.
Turmeric 2 - 3 teaspoons.

Method:

We will cook chicken and spinach separately and mix them together in the end.

1. Put chicken in a bowl with water, little salt, 1 teaspoon turmeric and boil. As soon as it boils drain the water and let it sit in a strainer.

2. Clean the spinach and put it in a big utensil with water and a little salt. Boil till the volume is reduced. Strain the water.

3. Fry the spinach. In a pressure cooker put the fully strained spinach along with chopped garlic, oil and salt.

4. Beat the spinach when frying to make a paste using a wooden spoon.

5. When it starts to give off oil add other spices and mix thoroughly. Add a little water if need be.

6. In a separate utensil put the drained chicken, add oil, salt and chopped garlic. Fry for 15 to 20 minutes on a low flame.

7. Add spices and fry a little more.

8. Add enough water that covers the chicken pieces.

9. Let it boil and keep it boiling till the chicken is tender.

10. Add this chicken along with its soup to the spinach prepared.

11. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes.

12. Serve with naan or rice.

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Mathemetics of Crocheting

Hi guys!

Have you ever thought that why the heck am I studying Maths during school? Or have you ever thought why and where do I need such complex mathematics?

Well, I have been crocheting since childhood but never thought about it and it only came about much to my surprise that there is a link between crocheting and mathematics!

Yes folks, Its true! In fact all crochet patterns have underlying mathematical structures. The mathematics of crocheting. 

crochet is used to view 3D spaces that are otherwise difficult to understand or view 2 dimentionally. it is used to illustrate hyperbolic and fractal geometry!

In ancient times, making baskets and weaving led to the mathematical discovery in these crafts as the crafts have repetitive patterns.

Some mathematical crochet structures:

 Möbius strips

Mobius stripes in crocheting are nothing than Infinity scarfs! we have made them, used them all along our life but until now, had no idea about their mathematical perspective. In mathematics, a mobius stripe can be defined as a surface with one continuous side formed by twisting the other side at 180 degrees! (Dont get confused, they mean Infinity scarves).

Did you know, Alan Turing, a well known computer scientist, would often knit mobius stripes and other geometric shapes during lunch break!

Mathematics and hyperbolic crochet

Hyperbolic plane is a surface that is always expanding! the space expands and curves away from itself. It is open and infinite and has a very complex geometry. For a crocheter though, creating a hyperbolic pattern is very easy. Just keep on increasing those stitches, like you do in ruffles.

The above piece is just a flat circle that has number of stitches increased in each round so it looks like a giant round ruffle.

As a matter of fact, mathematicians for hundreds of years believed that anything as such was impossible until they accepted that in form of geometry. Because of its complexity, they thought it was not possible to materialize it. However, in 1997 Dr. Daina Taimina, surprised them all with its simplicity through crocheting!

Hyperbolic growth in nature gives rise to the ruffled shapes of coral, kelp, and sea anemone.  The Institute for Figuring created the concept of the Coral Reef with hyperbolic crochet and have been developing this concept since 2005.

Lorenz manifold

Mathematical scientist Edward Lorenz, first studied a system of ordinary differential equations, they are notable for having chaotic solutions for certain parameter values and initial conditions!

Dr. Hinke Osinga(Engineering Mathematics) and professor Bernd Krauskopf have turned the lorenz equation in a real life objects by crocheting computer generated instructions of lorenz manifold!
The overall shape of the surface is created by little local changes: adding or removing points at each step.

Dr Osinga has been able to crochet since she was seven years old , so she noticed that this is exactly the same way that crochet instructions work – by specifying a “surface” (more usually a poncho or baby’s blanket!) in rows, with the number of stitches increasing or decreasing. From there it was a simple step to turn the algorithm into a crochet pattern, and to start to create a real-life Lorenz manifold.

That was clever!

Fractal Crochet

Fractal geometry is a field of maths born in 1970's and is developed by Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Fractal geometry is all about shapes. Fractal is a geometric pattern that is repeated at small or large scale to produce self similar and irreglar shapes and surfaces that are impossible to create in classic geometry. Fractals are irreglar patterns found in nature that are modeled using computers and fractal geometry.

In crochet as you can see, we make certain small unit of a pattern and repeat it over and over again to make the end product that looks like it is made up of smaller sub units. The basic examples are that of doilies, blankets etc.

I hope you found this information as insightful and fascinating as I did. I never knew there is so much to crocheting as this. If you are a crocheter like me, it is a plus point to know more about the science behind the crochet and crochet behind the maths!

Don't keep it to yourself only, Keep pinning, keep sharing!

References:

Happyhart.com

georgemdallas.wordpress.com
www.math.auckland.ac.nz
wikipedia.com