Crocheting is a craft that is quite enjoyable and before starting to enjoy this past-time activity, yarn and crochet hooks need to be bought. The crochet hooks come in a variety of styles, sizes and colors. For beginners, it is advisable to start with the G hook which is essential for practicing basic stitches. Together with the G hook crochet and the yarn, scissors and a yarn needle with a big eye are also needed.
Beginning
- The crochet hook should be held in the right hand and a slip knot made on the hook.
- Bring the yarn over the hook from back to front and use the hook to grab it.
- Pull the yarn that is hooked through the slip knot and to the hook. This will then make a chain stitch.
- Process 2 and 3 are repeated in sequence a further 28 times so that 29 stitches are obtained, remaining on the hook.
- The first chain stitch is then skipped.
- Insert the hook into the centre of the chain stitch following the skipped stitch. Pull the yarn through the chain stitch and up onto the hook to have 2 loops on a hook.
- The yarn is then brought over from back to front and pulled through the two loops on the hook. One loop will remain on the hook and this is just a single crochet stitch.
- The last two steps are repeated in each of the remaining 27 chains and they should be done so until the last chain. This marks the completion of the first row of a single crochet. The work is then measured and it is supposed to be around 7” wide. If this is not the case and the work is too wide or too narrow, try once more either with fewer beginning chains or more beginning chains.
- At the row’s end, make a chain stitch and then the work should then be turned counter-clockwise. The hook should be left in the chain. This then means another row can be started, working into the stitches of the earlier row.
- A single crochet stitch is made in the first stitch and in every remaining stitch of the preceding row. This is done to the last stitch, chain 1 and turn. This process is repeated till the block is 9” long.
- Finish by cutting the yarn from the skein and leave 6” at the end. Pull the hook up and the yarn should come through the last loop on the hook.
For sewers to correctly crotchet, they should go through a number of publications and do a little more practice.