When It’s Used

If you’re working from a pattern, the designer will tell you when to work it.

If you’re doing it yourself or doing it freestyle, there are a few different ways that it’s typically used:

• to dip down and span earlier rows.
• to continue working stitches at increasingly great heights.
• to create a row with a taller stitch.

If you work it around the post of an earlier row, it can create a vertical line of raised stitches.

How it’s Abbreviated

You will often see it written as either:

• eDC
• extDC

Both typically mean the same thing. But, check the abbreviations to make sure.

How to Work an Extended DC

Step 1: YO and put your hook where it is mentioned in the pattern. If not using a pattern, I suggest inserting working around the post of the previous row if you’re just working a single extended stitch and you want the height of the row to remain consistent, or put it where you normally would if you’re doing an entire row.

Step 2: Pull a stitch up and elongate it a bit (if you’re just working the one stitch) so it’s at the height of the other stitches. Yo and go through just one stitch (you’re creating a chain). 3 stitches on hook.

Step 3: Yo and pull through 2 stitches. 2 stitches on hook.

Step 3: Yo and pull through the final 2 stitches.

Done!