When you have really tall stitches, like the treble crochet stitch, and don't want the holes between stitches, you can link stitches together. This can be done with all stitches except single crochet stitches.
To link stitches: Insert hook into the horizontal loops of preceding stitch and draw a loop up. This is done in place of doing a yarn over before inserting hook. For a treble crochet, you would do this twice before inserting your hook into the next stitch to complete the stitch.
This swatch is of a group of linked treble crochet stitches.
To link stitches: Insert hook into the horizontal loops of preceding stitch and draw a loop up. This is done in place of doing a yarn over before inserting hook. For a treble crochet, you would do this twice before inserting your hook into the next stitch to complete the stitch.
This swatch is of a group of linked treble crochet stitches.
This stitch helps solve the problem, if you want to call it that, of the large gaps and holes between stitches between normal treble crochet stitches. It also seems to create a double ridge on rows that looks almost like working a stitch in the back loop.
What I don't like about this method is the holes created by the unattached turning chains. Perhaps not linking every stitch in a row would alleviate the holes on the end if the rows.
