{"id":3516,"date":"2010-09-01T12:51:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T19:42:37","slug":"triple-vs-treble-crochet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/triple-vs-treble-crochet\/","title":{"rendered":"triple vs treble crochet"},"content":{"rendered":"

or, Why I Love Twitter…<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday I had a thought about the “tr” abbreviation in crochet. I know that some people call it a triple crochet<\/strong> stitch, and others call it a treble crochet<\/strong> stitch, but I haven’t seen any clear differentiation for why or when you should use one or the other.<\/p>\n

This is one of those occasions when I really wish there were universal crochet standards! In this internet age, it seems so arbitrary and confusing that what I call a ‘single crochet’ stitch is known as a ‘double crochet’ stitch in the UK and Australia (and similarly for almost every other crochet stitch). <\/p>\n

My initial guess was that ‘treble’ was the UK name, and ‘triple’ the US name, but my go-to site for these questions, YarnStandards.com<\/a> (a US site) states<\/a> that tr is the abbreviation for treble<\/em> crochet, so that can’t be right… <\/p>\n

Time to turn to Twitter to poll my network of crocheting friends! I tweeted:<\/p>\n

\"treble<\/p>\n

and within seconds the replies started flooding in (here’s a sample):<\/p>\n

\"treble<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who responded! With all the votes counted (37 total), my results were 22 votes for triple<\/em> vs 15 for treble<\/em>. From what I can tell, UK folks say treble<\/em>, and everyone else seemed split between the two options. @ThingsBright<\/a> said that vintage US patterns use treble<\/em>, and the new US convention is triple<\/em> – which sounds right to me (although YarnStandards.com<\/a> hasn’t made the change to triple<\/em>).<\/p>\n

So, should you use triple crochet<\/em> or treble crochet<\/em> in your crochet patterns? Apparently, unless you’re writing in US\/Aus crochet terminology, the choice is yours! <\/p>\n

I’ve decided I’m going to cast my vote in the triple camp, but write triple (treble) crochet<\/strong> in my patterns, to avoid confusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

or, Why I Love Twitter… Yesterday I had a thought about the “tr” abbreviation in crochet. I know that some people call it a triple crochet stitch, and others call it a treble crochet stitch, but I haven’t seen any clear differentiation for why or when you should use one or the other. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23188,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/23188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}