Help with stitch

[Cherie03]

My pattern says *hdc, 2hdc in next st,*. Does this mean 3 hdc total in stitch? Confused.. thank you

[Lacycrochet]

Hi Cherie03

Without seeing the flow of the pattern, I would think with the comma between the hdc, and 2hdc then it is a hdc in one stitch then 2 hdc in the next stitch. 

[Granny Square]

I agree with Lacycrochet.  Conventionally, if a pattern says to make 1 stitch, and doesn't say where, it's in the next stitch.  If it said 'x number of hdc', and didn't say where, it means 1 hdc in each of the next x stitches.  Your pattern very specifically said  2 in the following stitch, meaning the stitch following the one you put 1 hdc into.

When I learned to crochet way before the internet, and didn't have anyone handy to ask after the first lesson, I learned to follow patterns 100% literally and never make assumptions that it meant anything else on the first pass; 99.9% that was the right thing to do, and if it didn't work out, I'd look at the pattern photo and figured out what it meant.  

 

Edited December 15, 2022 by Granny Square