British terms?

[Anya]

I have been looking at some sites for patterns and I keep seeing these goregous patterns but ones I really like are all in british terms. Is there a way I would be able to convert them to american terms?

[amdm]

What are these sites, please? As for conversion, the UK dc is the US sc, the UK tr is the US dc, and so on.

[lis]

I found this: http://www.nezumiworld.com/crochet_006.htm

 

Hope it helps.

[Cinnaminn]

Here's some more links to help with converting US/UK crochet terms:

http://www.patchworkcrochet.com/foreign.htm

http://medidit.com/Lessons/abbrv.htm (scroll down the page for UK/US terms)

http://www.karpstyles.com/crochet/UKtoUS.html

http://www.yarnfwd.com/crochet.html

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/includes/pinnestr.php

http://www.woolcrafting.com/crochet-stitches.html

http://crochet.ezguide2.com/tag/articles (Look for entries dated May 31, 2007 & June 4, 2007)

http://www.planetshoup.com/easy/tips/convnauk.shtml

 

HTH!

- Cheryl

[darski]

If you are saving them into a Word Doc, you can use search and replace to make the changes. dc to sc, tr to dc etc.

 

Just be sure you put a space before and after the " tr " in your search or you will find some interesting words sometimes

[Aggie May]

The stitches are the same, just the names are slightly different.

Just think of it as learning a new language and you are just learning enough to read the pattern.

CH, Chain, SL ST, Slip Stitch, are just the same,

SC = Single Crochet US which is DC Double Crochet UK,

DC= Double Crochet US which is TR Treble UK.

TR = Treble US which is DTR Double Treble UK.

 

What they did was add in SC then take everything else up a stitch.

If a UK Pattern says DC, you will do a SC.

If the pattern says TR, you will do a DC.

 

It is very easy to adapt once you realise what sort of pattern you have so you dont really even need to change the pattern.

 

Have fun.

Colleen.

PS UK patterns tend to say 3CH where US pattern tend to say CH3 so that is a simple difference to sort.

[yarnyviolet]

I joined Crochetville when it was at its other site because I was crocheting using North American terms with a British book. I didn't know what was wrong as I hadn't crocheted for years. Some nice people explained it to me. I have patterns in both terms and you do catch on to converting them in your head. Some of the really old patterns in Canada seem to use British terms too. Personally I think it was because crochet was too easy when compared to knitting (just 2 kinds of hand holds and a couple of ways to hold to the yarn) and some evil people decided to spice things up a bit.

 

Rachel

[Shell]

on Crochetville's main page under Library you will find the reference section, this is one of the topics covered there http://www.crochetville.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=134