What is 'Petranese'?
Writing Image Overlay Crochet (IOC) patterns can get pretty wordy pretty quickly.
“Petranese” is a way of easily describing the nature and placement of a stitch in an IOC pattern.
Since June 2021 with the introduction of collaborators and contributors to the Wrapped in Jamie CAL and for the purpose of using a more ‘official’ language, we have started to refer to this specific terminology as Image Overlay Crochet (IOC) ‘Petranese’ terminology.
Below you find a collection of tutorials that explain the basics and some more advanced techniques and special stitches in IOC.
"Petranese" explained Tutorials
Basics – Counting rounds and stitches and special stitch placement
Basics – Stitch Definitions and Abbreviations
Image Layer Stitch – Spike Stitches and Split Spike Stitches
Background Layer Stitch – dcbb – double crochet into the st behind and (2 rounds) below
Image Layer Stitch – dtr_-3-3 in FLO/dtr_+3-3 in FLO/<2tog –
2 double treble (in front loop only) together
Background Layer Stitch – hdcbb-x, previously referred to as hdc/hdcbb or double hdc – half double crochet into the top loops of the next st AND the top loops of the st behind and (2 rounds) below
Decorative Stitch – Ldc_Star5 – Long Double crochet Star with 5 legs
Decorative Stitch – psc and psc-x – picot single crochet (and its variation)
Decorative Stitch – Rose Bud aka bud st and Big Rose
Tutorial page
hdc-around – half double crochet around
Tutorial page
Right-handed video
Left-handed video
coming soon
IOC Technique – 3rd loop slip stitch join
