HDC^?

[Aryn]

My row says to go from hdc-ing to hdc^  and i’ve never seen that symbol in crochet patterns before and i was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what it means?:)

[Granny Square]

I have never seen that symbol in crochet, the only thing that comes to mind is an extended hdc, or a typo.  But really, extended stitches already have an abbreviation, like ESC, EDC, and so on, to the carat is not consistent to the way those stitches are called out.

Does the pattern have a 'special stitches' section, could be at the end of the pattern or the beginning.  Sometimes designers will give a name to a group of stitches and name it whatever they want, like after their dog - which is legit-they just need to define what a 'Fido' stitch is.

[Aryn]

1 minute ago, Granny Square said:

I have never seen that symbol in crochet, the only thing that comes to mind is an extended hdc, or a typo.  But really, extended stitches already have an abbreviation, like ESC, EDC, and so on, to the carat is not consistent to the way those stitches are called out.

Does the pattern have a 'special stitches' section, could be at the end of the pattern or the beginning.  Sometimes designers will give a name to a group of stitches and name it whatever they want, like after their dog - which is legit-they just need to define what a 'Fido' stitch is.

This pattern seems to have a lot of special stitches with NO explanations. I have had to come to this site multiple times for help. 

[Aryn]

1 minute ago, Aryn said:

This pattern seems to have a lot of special stitches with NO explanations. I have had to come to this site multiple times for help. 

Row 2

[Granny Square]

It must be an increase, notice you go from 58 to 62 stitches, which is 4, and there are 4 HDC^.

[Aryn]

Just now, Granny Square said:

It must be an increase, notice you go from 58 to 62 stitches, which is 4, and there are 4 HDC^.

So i should just treat them as normal hdc?

[Granny Square]

Well, an increase is usually 2 stitches into 1 stitch, so I'd assume 2 'otherwise normal' HDC shoved into 1 stitch.