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A cross or an X standing for the shortest worked stitch.
Also known as: Double crochet UK, sc symbol
Single crochet, called double crochet in British terminology, is charted as a cross or an X. The transatlantic naming difference is a genuine hazard: an American single crochet and a British single crochet are different stitches, and the chart symbol is unambiguous where the words are not.
Denotes the shortest worked crochet stitch, drawn as a small cross or X.
Contexts: Laundry
Is called single crochet in American terminology and double crochet in British, so the same words name different stitches on the two sides of the Atlantic and the chart symbol is the reliable form.
Contexts: Laundry
A small cross of two strokes meeting at their centres, or a plus sign, in a crochet diagram.