# Learn — Crochet 3D

> Crochet 3D's Learn pages: 3 articles on reading a crochet pattern, the abbreviations that are not stitches, and why an amigurumi comes out the wrong shape.

**What is here.** These pages are written by the people who build a pattern planner, which mostly means they are about the two things a planner spends its life on: what a pattern actually says, and why the piece did not come out like the picture. Reading them needs no account.

## Articles

- [How to read a crochet pattern](https://crochet3d.com/learn/how-to-read-a-crochet-pattern) — The grammar rather than the abbreviations: which bracket means repeat, which number is a count, and how to use the number at the end of a round as the error check it was written to be. Markdown: https://crochet3d.com/md/learn/how-to-read-a-crochet-pattern.md
- [Crochet abbreviations](https://crochet3d.com/learn/crochet-abbreviations) — rep, rnd, ch-sp, tog, BLO, tch — the vocabulary a pattern assumes you already have, which every other abbreviation chart leaves out in favour of the stitches. Markdown: https://crochet3d.com/md/learn/crochet-abbreviations.md
- [Why your amigurumi came out wrong](https://crochet3d.com/learn/amigurumi-troubleshooting) — Pointy, flat, lumpy, full of holes, or leaning. Seven things go wrong and most have one cause each — and two of them are arithmetic wearing a disguise. Markdown: https://crochet3d.com/md/learn/amigurumi-troubleshooting.md

The [free tools](https://crochet3d.com/tools) do the arithmetic these pages describe, and the [pattern gallery](https://crochet3d.com/gallery) is somewhere to practise reading one.

Source: https://crochet3d.com/learn