Post stitches and cables · Intermediate
Front post treble crochet
Work a treble crochet (UK double treble) round the post of a stitch from the front, and you have a front post treble crochet, written FPtr. Take the yarn over twice, pass the hook from the front round behind the post and out to the front again, pull up a loop, and work the loops off two at a time. It is the tall raised stitch that cables are crossed with.
How to work it
Yarn over twice, and go round the post from the front
Take the yarn over the hook two times. Find the post of the stitch the pattern names. Push the hook in at the front of the work just before that post, take it behind the post, and bring it out at the front again just after the post. The post lies across the hook.
Pull up a loop round the post
Take the yarn over the hook and draw it back round the post, the way the hook came. There are four loops on the hook.
Work the loops off, two at a time
Take the yarn over and draw it through two loops: three loops are left. Do the same again: two are left. Do it a third time: one loop is left, and the stitch is made.
At a glance
- Also called
- FPtr, fptr
- Used for
- cables, where raised stitches are worked out of order so that they cross; raised stitches that reach down to a post two rows below
- Abbreviation
- FPtr, also written fptr
- In UK terms
- raised double treble front (RdtrF)
- Yarn overs before the hook goes in
- Two
- The hook goes
- From front to back to front, round the post
- Loops after the loop is pulled up
- Four
- Takes the place of
- The stitch that lies behind it in the row being worked. Skip that stitch.
It is made like the front post stitch in double crochet (UK treble), with one more yarn over at the start and one more pull through two loops at the end. That makes it taller.
Some patterns send this stitch to a post two rows below, not to the row just finished. After it, skip the stitch behind it and work on along the row.
In a cable, front post stitches are worked out of order: skip some stitches, work round the posts after them, then go back and work round the posts you skipped, so that they cross the stitches just made. Each pattern gives its own order.
In United Kingdom terms the names move up one. This stitch is a raised double treble front there, and a raised treble front is the shorter stitch.
When it goes wrong
- I do not know how many loops I should have.
- Four after you pull up the loop round the post. Each pull through two loops takes one away: three, two, one.
- My row has too many stitches.
- After each front post treble, skip the stitch behind it. Working into that stitch as well adds one to the row.
- My stitch is no taller than the ones beside it.
- The yarn went over the hook once, which makes a front post double crochet. Take the yarn over twice before the hook goes round the post.
Left-handed
The pictures show the hook held in the right hand. For the left hand, read each picture as its mirror image.
Variations
- Front post double crochet. The same move with one yarn over, for a shorter raised stitch.
Questions
- What does fptr mean in crochet?
- Front post treble crochet: a treble crochet worked round the post of a stitch from the front, so that it stands forward.
- What is the difference between fpdc and fptr?
- One yarn over. A front post double crochet begins with one yarn over, a front post treble crochet with two, which makes it taller.
- Is front post triple crochet the same stitch?
- Yes. Treble crochet and triple crochet are two names for one stitch (UK double treble), so both names mean this post stitch.
- What is fptr in UK terms?
- Raised double treble front, written RdtrF.