Crochet Lesson 1

You can teach yourself how to crochet!!! How do I know you can do this? I taught myself every step of the way. And now I write my own patterns and have sold over 500 items that were my creations. I started off knowing only one stitch, now it is very rare that I find something that I can not do with crochet.

When learning something new, you always want to start off with the basics.
The three basic crochet stitches I am going to explain are the chain row, a single crochet, half double crochet, and a double crochet.

Lets start with a chain row... The foundation for most crochet patterns.
The first thing you need to do is make a slip knot onto your hook. Then you will wrap the yarn around the hook, and pull it through the initial loop on your hook. Then again, you wrap the yarn over the hook, and pull through the loop already on the hook. You continue that until you have the desired amount of chains for your chain row.
Here is the video on a chain row (I always think videos make it so much easier then reading descriptions on a tutorial)

Once you have mastered a chain row, you will be ready to move onto the basic stitches in crochet.. Soon I will post lessons for each of these stitches.

I look forward to working with you more on learning how to crochet...