How to Crochet for Absolute Beginners

Welcome Let's get started! Today, we're going to learn how to form a slip knot and hold your crochet hook. I thought I would teach you some of the fundamental stitches and skills you'll need to know. I'm going to show you how to crochet for complete beginners. Learn how to crochet a chain, a single crochet, and how to weave in the ends of your work. First, you'll need yarn. You can use any basic yarn you already own or, if you're going to the store, you can buy any basic plain yarn there. For yarn, I recommend 100% acrylic, and aluminium crochet hooks. I just got this set of four with a bunch of different sizes and you can use them for many different projects and use them for all different types of yarn so today I'm going to be using a 5.5 mm crochet hook so to start you're going to make a slip knot to do this you hold your own like so with your index finger pointing downwards then you twist it up upwards and put your thumb through that same Loop and you grab the tail with your index finger and your thumb and pull through creating a loop then you put your crochet hook in and pull the yarn to tighten it so next is how you hold a crochet hook and your yarn so you hold a crochet hook with your thumb and fingers usually on this indent and you hold it like you're cutting with a knife and then with your left hand you hold the yarn so you can hold it many different ways but this is just how I do it so I hold it with the yarn through my fingers like I'm pointing at something then I wrap the yarn around my pointer finger and grab my work with my middle finger and thumb so I just put them together like so so next is learning how to chain so you're going to hold the crochet hook and you're going to twist the hook away from you then you're going to put it on the left side of this string then you're going to turn it to face towards you and then a little bit more towards your left hand then you're going to pull downwards and pull through the loop on your hook just like that and so that is one chain so again we have our hook facing away from us we put it on the left side we face it towards and then towards our thumb and pull through and it just continues like that so away from you on the left side turn face towards you and then towards your left hand so that it will easily go through that Loop so when you face it away from yourself and turn it towards you that's called yarning over and then so you yarn over and pull through face it away from you on the left side yarn over and pull through yarn over and pull through so we're going to make a chain of 11 so right

now we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 11 so each chain is that V and it has a top Loop and a bottom Loop so these are the top and these are the bottom so now we're going to learn how to do a single crochet so we're going to insert our hook into the second chain which is this second V from our hook so we insert then we yarn over by going behind the string come out of the Stitch yarn over by facing away turning it towards us and then toward towards our left hand and pulling through both Loops so we used we skipped the first chain as a turning Stitch and we're going to continue so we insert into the next Chain by going into the top Fe then we yarn over by going behind the string come out we have two loops on our hook then we yarn over so it's facing away from us and on the left side turn towards us and pull through both Loops so you're just going to continue inserting yarn over come out yarn over and pull through both Loops That is one crochet across in its entirety.

And when we reach the end, we should have 10 stitches, which is 10 single crochets and 10 Vs, so we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and 10. Next, we will work another row. To do this, we will chain, facing the other way, turn it over, and pull through. Then, we will flip it around, turning our work, and work into each of the vs. You will insert underneath both so that it appears to have three loops, but this is just the stitch of our single crochet, so we come up behind it, yarning over, come out, yarn over, and pull through both Loops. At this point, you can work as many rows as you like; I'll work 12 rows of single crochet to create a square swatch, so if you continue, you will work one single crochet in each Stitch or V for a total of 10 single crochet what I forgot to mention before was that if you ever mess up on any one of your stitches and you want to redo them you just take out your crochet hook and pull the string however far back you want to go and redo those stitches insert your crochet hook and do them again so now that we're done with our Swatch we're going to chain one so we yarn over and pull through then you're just going to pull your crochet hook get your scissors and cut it and pull tight then if you want you can weave in the ends with a sewing needle with a wide opening so you just put it on and weave it in and you can cut the extra with your scissors and do it to the other side so there's our little Swatch where we chained 11 and then we inserted our hook into the second chain because the other one was our turning Stitch and we did single crochet all the way across now that you've learned the basics of crocheting the chain and the single crochet there are millions of different projects you can do with just those two stitches so while you're still learning how to crochet it's important to not give up to keep practicing and to take it slow at first it might be difficult but you just need to take your time learning how to do the stitches and keep practicing so your hands get use the movements and it'll become easier and you'll get better and better.