I Beg to Differ

I love The Crochet Answer Book and have referred to it often. It was one of the first books I bought when I first starting crocheting, and I’d have to say it’s been one of the most used. However, I do have a difference of opinion on one of the solutions in the book:

Q: Is it possible to stitch into a row of backwards single crochet*?

The book says “no”, which is technically true, and that it’s meant to be the final row in the piece, but if you do the backwards single crochet in the front loops only then at the end of the row begin working in the normal direction and single crochet in the back loops, you can indeed place the stitches anywhere in the piece that you wish. So, technically, you can’t crochet into the backwards single crochet stitch, but you can crochet into the single crochet stitch that you put in the back loops. This leaves only a slight space between the rows, but depending on what look you’re going for, it works.

Perhaps the answer to the question as it is asked is correct, but from my own experience as is described above, it is possible to put the crab stitch someplace else besides the edge.

*(also known as knurl stitch & crab stitch)

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