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How to Do a Single Stitch | Crocheting

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Hey, I’m Andrea Lemire, the education coordinator here at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio. I’m going to show you some really cool techniques for beginning crochet, and hopefully, you’ll have as much fun as I have with it. Okay, lets get started.

So the single stitch or the single crochet is the shortest of all the basic stitches. Its the least amount of steps that exist in any of the stitches. We are going to be working in rows. There is a different way you would be working this stitch if you were working in rounds, which I will be showing you guys a little later. We are going to be making these flat sort of swatches here. when you’re in your first row after you have made your chain, there’s a slightly different way that you go into the fabric and then it changes after that first row. So I’m going to show you both in a single crochet stitch. It is important that you skip over that first chain closest to the hook, where that yarn is coming out of and the reason for that is if you go in that chain, it will undo it because you are basically following that yarn back through and then the whole chains going to come out. So we are going to skip over that first chain and if you’re a right handed person your going to be working from right to left, if you are left handed you will be working left to right in your rows. I am showing you guys right handed so I am working towards the left, so you can sort of position your chain going in that direction, to make it easier to find where to go and where we want to be going for the very first stitch is in that second chain from the hook and if you look at the front of your chain it looks like little V’s all stacked on top of each other and if I turn that to the side there’s a top layer and bottom layer and where I want to go with my hook for the first step of this single crochet. We don’t want to go into the first chain here, where the yarn is coming out of because that would undo that chain, which we don’t want. So the first chain we are working into is that second chain from the hook and what I want to do with my hook is insert under the top of my V from front to back. So I’ve gone into that chain. Once I’m in it, I want to bring my yarn over the hook, swivel down here to lock that in place. Now I’m just going to bring that yarn through that chain on to my hook. So you should still have two loops at this point. To finish my single crochet, I am going to yarn over again and this time I am bringing it through the both loops. and it helps to pull down a little here on what’s below those loops to help get through them. To find where to go next, it’s a good idea to position your hook so its horizontal to your work so that will line all the stitches up nicely. The stitch that we just worked into is going to be a little open, so that makes it a little easier to find and we used up that space so we don’t need it anymore. So where we are going to go next is just the next available space to the left and I’m going to go in with my hook, front to back, bring my yarn through the chain on to my hook, you have two loops. Yarn over and pull through both. And you’re going to do this across every available chain, until you get to that knot, that last chain. So now your finished your first row of single crochet into the chain that is different from every other row that your going to move onto now. So make sure to check out the turning video next.

How to Do a Half Double Stitch | Crocheting

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Hey, I’m Andrea Lemire, the education coordinator here at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio. I’m going to show you some really cool techniques for beginning crochet, and hopefully, you’ll have as much fun as I have with it. Okay, lets get started.

So now, we’re going to do the half double crochet. It’s the second highest stitch that exists out of the 4 basic stitches. So we’re gonna do it into our chain. This step is important. We need to skip some chains. And the nber of chains you skip for the half double crochet is 2. So we’re gonna count them away from the hook. You’re gonna start at the loop on your hook, and that doesn’t count as anything. And we’re gonna count each V, like, little V shapes away from the hook. So there’s one, where my yarn’s coming out of. The next V or space is 2. So the third here, is where I’m going to go in with my hook. So step 1 of the half double crochet is yarn over the hook. And that’s just bringing that yarn from back to front over the hook. And that’s the same way that you always yarn over in crochet. I’m going to insert under that third chain from the hook now. The yarn comes back over the hook. And I’m gonna bring that yarn through the chain onto the hook itself. So at this point, we have 3 loops on the hook. And the last step in the half double crochet is yarn over again. And bring it right on through all 3 loops. At that point, it helps to kind of grab right at the base of those loops, and gently pull down as you’re sliding through with your hook. And that just opens those loops up, and makes it a little bit easier for you to do that motion. So one more time. We’re going to yarn over the hook. Insert under the next chain. Bring the yarn over the hook. And pull it through the chain onto the hook. So you now have your 3 loops. We’re going to yarn over again, and bring it right on through all 3. So that’s the half double crochet. What you’re going to do is work that across every chain to the end. And then definitely check out the churning video to see what happens next.

How to Do a Double Stitch | Crocheting

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Hey, I’m Andrea Lemire, the education coordinator here at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio. I’m going to show you some really cool techniques for beginning crochet, and hopefully, you’ll have as much fun as I have with it. Okay, lets get started.

So, now we’re going to make the double crochet stitch. It’s the third tallest stitch that exists in crochet. The first step is skipping a certain number of chains when we’re working out very first row of double crochet. This is a very tall stitch so we’re skipping over three chains. So one where the yarn is coming out, two, the next V, and three, the next V below that second one. So three chains from the hook and I’m going in my fourth chain from the hook. First I need to do a yarn over, again that’s yarn from the back to the front, over the top of the crochet hook and now I’m inserting into that fourth chain from the hook. When I’m in that chain I’m yarning over again and bringing that yarn through the chain onto my hook. So here I have three loops on the hook, I’m going to split these three loops up into two groups. The first group is yarn over and pull through the first two. So at this point you should still have two loops left on the hook and that’s my second group of loops, so I’m going to yarn over and pull through the last group. Next double crochet, remember to yarn over first, go in the next chain, yarn over, bring the yarn through the chain onto my hook. I’ve three loops on the hook; I’m going to yarn over and pull through my first group of two loops. You should still have two loops at this point. Now, I’m yarning over again and pulling through the last two. And that’s the double crochet and you’re going to work that across all the remaining chains for your first row, worked into the chain, and make sure to check out the turning video to see what happens next.