Crocheting in Russian

Yesterday, I found a pattern by Ukrainian designer - Holly by Viktoriia Gul. I've always admired her work, and she's just started designing her own doily pieces recently. I saw Holly and I really wanted to make it, but the problem was that she only wrote the pattern in Russian. Crochet terminology, as fiber artists know, is a completely different language in itself.

Usually, this would not be a problem since many Russian and Eastern European designers chart their patterns rather than write them, to make the instructions universal.  However, as a new designer myself, I've realized how hard it is just to write a crochet pattern that I couldn't imagine trying to chart it, especially since my designs are textured and not flat like many charted patterns.

So I did more research on Russian crochet terminology. What I found out was that there's not a good resource for translating patterns from Russian to English. Here's what I gathered from Holly to use on other patterns as well.

I don't know any Russian, so please use this translation below at your own risk. I plan on updating this list as I try out more written Russian patterns. :)

Russian to American Crochet Terminology Translation

Соединить = Join

Начальный = chainless 

Начальный ССН = Chainless Starting Double Crochet (CSDC)
HCCH = CSDC

Basic Stitches

CT = skip

ССТ = SLST

ВП  = chain

СБН = SC

ПСН = HDC (half double crochet)

CCH = DC (double crochet)

CC2H = TR (triple crochet)

CC3H = DTR (double treble crochet)

CC4H = TRTR (triple treble crochet)

Кластер = cluster

Кластеров = clusters

Попкорн = popcorn

Попкорнов = popcorns

Сплит = split

Сплитов = splits

арки= space

арок = spaces

РЛ = FP (Front Post)

РИ = BP (Back Post)

пико = picots 

Decreases
Убавка-2-СБН = SC2TOG

Убавка-3-СБН = SC3TOG

Directions (not stitches)

в = in or into

соединить в кольцо. = in the circle (to start doily)

Отметить = mark (for special stitch or next rounds)

вокруг  = around

вокруг начального = around the first stitch

ССТ в 1-ю арку = slst into space

в ту же арку = in same space

в ту же арку куда был провязан последний = in previous space just used

в последнюю арку предыдущего ряда = in previous space of last row

в следующую арку = in next space

в последнюю арку предыдущего ряда и следующую арку = in previous space and next space

Last updated: April 23rd, 2018