Crochet-hook bobble (3 double crochets)
A plump bobble that Japanese charts work with a crochet hook right on the knitting: faster than a knitted bobble and more even.
How to do it
- Insert the hook into the next stitch on the left needle as if to knit, pull up a loop and drop the stitch from the left needle.
- Chain 2 — this stands in for the height of the first double crochet.
- Yarn over, insert the hook into the same stitch, pull up a loop, yarn over and draw through 2 loops on the hook. Repeat twice more — 4 loops on the hook.
- Yarn over and draw through all loops on the hook.
- Move the loop from the hook to the right needle.
Tip
Half double crochet version: pull up the loops but don’t work them off two at a time — keep them all on the hook and draw through all at once at the end.
Chain version: chain 3–5, then join the last chain to the first.
Use a hook the same size as the needles or half a size smaller.
Common mistake
Loops pulled up too short make a flat bobble. Pull them up to about the height of 2 rows.