How to Crochet for Absolute Beginners

Today, I'm going to teach you how to crochet for complete beginners. I thought I would go over some of the fundamental stitches and techniques you'll need to know. Let's get started! Today, we're going to learn how to weave in the ends of your work, make a slip knot, hold your crochet hook, crochet a chain, and make a single crochet. You'll also need yarn; you can use any basic yarn you have lying around the house or purchase any basic plain yarn there. For a crochet hook, I suggest getting aluminum ones. I recently acquired a set of four with a variety of sizes. You can use them for a wide range of projects and yarn types.

Today, I'll be using a 5.5 mm crochet hook. To begin, you'll need to create a slip knot. To do this, hold your own yarn with your index finger pointing downward, twist it upward, and insert your thumb through the same loop. Then, grab the tail with both your index and thumb and pull through to create a loop. Finally, insert your crochet hook into the loop and pull the yarn to tighten it. This is the next method for holding a crochet hook and your thumb. First, hold a crochet hook with your thumb and fingers, usually on this indent, and hold it like you would a knife. Then, hold the yarn with your left hand.

There are several ways to hold it, but this is how I personally hold it: I hold it by passing the yarn through my fingers, pointing at something, then I wrap the yarn around my pointer finger and grab my work with my thumb and middle finger. Finally, I just put them together like this. Next, learn how to chain, which involves holding the crochet hook, twisting it away from you, and then you

This is one chain. Now, with the hook facing away from us, we place it on the left side, face it toward you, and then turn it slightly more toward your left hand. Then, we pull downward and through the loop on our hook in that manner. It just keeps going like that. From you, on the left side, turn it face-to-you, then toward your left hand so that it will easily go through that Loop. Once again, you face it away from yourself and turn it towards you. It is known as yarning over and then, so you yarn over and pull through, facing it away from you on the left side.

Next, we will make a chain of eleven, so we have the following numbers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 11. Each chain is a V with a top loop and a bottom loop, so these are the top and bottom. Next, we will learn how to do a single crochet, so we will insert our hook into the second chain, which is this second V from our hook, and then we yarn over by going behind the thread emerges from the stitch and faces away, turning it towards us and then toward our left hand and pulling through both loops.

We used 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. We then yarn over by going behind the string come out, leaving two loops on our hook. We then yarn over so that it faces away from us and on the left side turn towards us and pull through both Loops. You're just going to keep inserting yarn over come out yarn over and pull through both Loops, meaning it's one single crochet all the way.

All throughout Once we reach the end, we should have 10 stitches total—10 single crochets and 10 Vs—so we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and 10. Next, we will work on another row. To do this, we chain, facing the opposite direction from us, turn it over, and pull through. Then, we flip it around to turn our work, and we will work into each of the vs, inserting underneath both to create the illusion of three loops.

However, this is just the stitch of our single crochet, so we come up behind it, yarning over, come out yarn over, and then. in all directions 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 on another row. To do this, we chain, facing the opposite direction from us, turn it over, and pull through. Then, we flip it around, turning our work, and work into each of the vs, inserting underneath both so that it appears to have three loops on it. However, this is just the single crochet stitch, so we come up behind it, yarning over, come out yarn pull through both loops to begin working in as many rows as you like.

If you would like to continue, you will work one single crochet in each stitch or V to make ten single crochet in each row. I will be working in a total of 12 rows of single crochet to form a square swatch. You will turn your work over and continue working across at the end of each row. I've done my small swatch at this point.

I should have mentioned earlier that if you make a mistake, you only need to pull the thread with your crochet hook to redo a stitch. You may go as far back as you like to replace the stitches, just make sure you insert your crochet hook and start over. now we're going to chain now that our Swatch is complete. Here's our little swatch where we chained 11 and then 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 know the fundamentals of crocheting the chain and the single crochet, there are millions of different ways to work with them. First, we yarn over and pull through. Next, you're going to pull your crochet hook, grab your scissors, cut it, and pull tight. Finally, if you want, you can weave in the ends with a sewing needle with a wide opening.Thanks so much for watching this video on how to crochet for absolute beginners. Please subscribe to my channel below. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. I'll see you next week.

There are a lot of 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 used to the movements.