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  • A Beginners Guide To Crocheting: How To Chain

    A Beginners Guide To Crocheting: How To Chain

    Learn how to chain when crocheting. A beginners guide to crocheting.

    Hello friend! I’m so glad your here, aren’t you? We are finally working on stitches now that we know all the basics. Like how to create a slip knot and how to hold our yarn & hook.

    Chaining is the most basic stitch when crocheting. You will use chains to start a new project, to build onto of a previous row and to create designs throughout your pattern. If you can create a chain, I believe you can crochet.

    Create a slip knot and attach it to your crochet hook.

    With your hook facing down, wrap a loop around the crochet hook.

    Slide that loop through your slip knot and repeat. *Hook facing down, wrap the yarn around the hook and slide it through the loop you just made.*

    Continue doing this until you feel confident woking chains and notice that your stitches are consistent in size. P.S: Head over to my Facebook Group A Beginners Guide To Crocheting and share your progress!

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  • A Beginners Guide To Crocheting: How To Hold Your Yarn & Hook.

    A Beginners Guide To Crocheting: How To Hold Your Yarn & Hook.

    Today I am breaking down how to crochet, starting with the basics. How to hold your yarn and hook.

    Hello friends, I’m so excited your here and ready to start crocheting!! P.s: Where are all my left handed friends? Yes girl, I see you! For this tutorial simply switch hands. You can do this! Now let’s get started!

    Start by creating a slip knot. (Not sure how? Click here for a full tutorial) With your right hand pick up your hook. I personally like to hold it like a pencil, but you can also hold it like a child holds a spoon. I like to use my right pinkie finger to grab the tail end of the yarn, keeping it out of the way of my working yarn. This is not important but I find it helpful.

    With your left hand I want you to open it up and separate your fingers. Like you’re showing a child 5 fingers. Place your working yarn between your pointer and middle finger. Turn your hand over, palm facing you. Make sure the yarn is going over your pointer finger, then under. Close your last two fingers around the yarn. This is where it might feel really awkward.

    Keep your pointer finger and thumb up, place your middle finger behind the slip knot. Then place your thumb on top. Pinching the knot of your slip knot. This will allow you to hold your work as you crochet. Slightly pull down, so that your hook can freely move through the loop.

    How does it feel? A little awkward? Thats ok, remember practice makes perfect and friend, I KNOW YOU CAN DO THIS!

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  • A Beginners Guide To Crocheting: How To Make A Slip Knot

    A Beginners Guide To Crocheting: How To Make A Slip Knot

    Not sure what a slip knot is? Today I will be showing you step by step, how to make a slip knot and attach your yarn to a crochet hook.

    To add your yarn to the hook, you’ll need to create a slip knot. First find the end of your yarn, either unraveling the outside or pulling from the center.

    Starting with your left hand, hold the end or starting point of your yarn. Now with your right hand, use you first two fingers and thumb pinch the yarn a few inches from the end.

    Twist your fingers towards you as you hold the yarn. The yarn should create a circle.

    Now there should be a strand of yarn under your fingers, which is the working yarn (The yarn that is attached to the ball). Using those two fingers pinch the yarn between them. Pull up on that yarn through the circle and tug tightly to create your slip knot. This is what you should have.

    Place your hook inside of the loop and tug on the two strands of yarn to secure the loop on your hook. Now you are ready for the next step in my series “A Beginners Guide To Crocheting,” How To Hold Your Yarn & Hook.

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  • A Beginners Guide To Crocheting: The Most Common Frustration For Crocheter Beginners

    A Beginners Guide To Crocheting: The Most Common Frustration For Crocheter Beginners

    Today I am talking about the most common compliant and frustration for crochet beginners. Learn how to successfully crochet.

    Now that you have all your supplies let’s first talk a little bit about the problem I find most people have when learning how to crochet. The most common complaint is how the yarn and hook feels in their hands. At first its very awkward and that’s because you’ve never done it before. Try and relax. The more tense you are the tighter your stitches will becoming, making it very difficult to crochet.

    This may seem unimportant and will take some concentration but I want you to focus on finding a comfortable hold on your yarn and hook. Don’t focus on the stitches so much! I know that seems opposite, but if you really want to learn to crochet and find it enjoyable you have to get comfortable.

    To start we are going to practice the most basic stitch, chains. Essentially that’s what you are doing, interlocking loops of yarn into a chain. Head over to the next post in my series “A Beginners Guide To Crocheting,” How To Create A Slip Knot for the next step.

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  • A Beginners Guide To Crocheting: What You Need To Get Started

    A complete beginners guide to crocheting. What you need to get started crocheting. Crochet Supplies.

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    What you will need:

    A crochet hook– My personal favorite is Clover 1008/H Soft Touch 5.0-mm Crochet Hooks, Size H

    Yarn– I Love This Cotton or Lion Brand are my go to’s

    Scissors

    Yarn needle

    You can find these supplies at your local craft store; including Joann’s, Micheals, Hobby Lobby, and Walmart. As well as online, hello there Amazon.

    Friend, I could not be more excited that you are here!!! You’ve got this! Together we are going to dig in and do the work. I’ll take you step by step and teach you how to get started crocheting. In fact, I’ve set up a whole series just for you, “A Beginners Guide To Crocheting!”

    Once you have all your supplies, head over to the next post in my series “The Most Common Frustration For Crochet Beginners.” Grab your yarn and hook and I’ll see you there!

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