Best Beginner Crochet Kit

5 Best Beginner Crochet Kits: Getting Started Made Easy

Crochet is a beloved craft that has been around for centuries. A relaxing and meditative hobby, crochet is an art form that allows you to create beautiful and functional items with just a hook and some yarn. If you’re new to crochet, the first step is to find the best beginner crochet kit to get …

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How To Crochet Fingerless Gloves

How To Crochet Fingerless Gloves

Who here has a yarn stash? Raise your hand. It’s a necessary part of being an avid crocheter. Chances are, you have some yarn stored away somewhere that is just itching to be used but it doesn’t really go with anything else. In any case, you are not alone. I have a stash. I admit …

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how to crochet a pumpkin

How To Crochet a Pumpkin: A Beginner-Friendly Tutorial

This is a quick and easy crochet project. As the weather is cooling off, crocheting pumpkins are a fun way to mark the beginning of fall. This pumpkin is an amigurumi, which is the Japanese word for “crocheted/knitted stuffed toys”. Usually, making an amigurumi requires making a magic loop and working the stitches around in …

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How To Crochet a Bee

How To Crochet a Bee: A Beginner-Friendly Tutorial

Everyone will be buzzing over your new bee friend with this quick and easy amigurumi pattern! Whether you are new to the amigurumi process or a pro, you too can create a little bee orb to sit on your desk, or to squeeze when you’re stingin’ mad! Time: 2-3 hours Difficulty: Easy Materials: Yellow Yarn …

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Crochet Stitches – Single, Half Double, Double and Treble

Early on in the writing of this blog I put together a series of How To posts for the basic crochet stitches, so I thought that today I’d aggregate those all in one space here for people who want them. Below you will find written instructions, images, video tutorials, links and more for the sc, hdc, dc and tr. Enjoy!

How to Single Crochet Stitch

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Single crochet looks like this! image source

One of the most basic things that you learn when you first start learning how to crochet is how to single crochet. When looking at crochet patterns, the crochet abbreviation for single crochet is (sc).

Written instructions for how to crochet single crochet

  • Crochet the length of foundation chain that you want to use.
  • Turn the piece so that you are ready to start your single crochet.
  • Insert the crochet hook into the second chain away from the hook.
  • Yarn over.
  • Pull through the chain.
  • Yarn over again.
  • There will be two loops on the chain at this point. Pull the yarn through both of these loops.

That’s it; that’s single crochet. Of course, those are just the instructions for the first row on a turning chain. The instructions are slightly different if you’re working into another row of single crochet, but they aren’t too different. They are as follows:

  • Turn your piece so that you are ready to begin your next row of single crochet.
  • Chain one before doing anything else. This is your turning chain.
  • Insert the hook into the first stitch of the row (the single crochet that is immediately next to the turning chain you’ve just created).
  • Yarn over.
  • Pull through the stitch.
  • Yarn over.
  • Pull through both loops on the chain.

Pictures of how to single crochet

Not everyone learns well from written instructions. It might help to look at these pictures of how to single crochet that come from TLC:

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Video instructions for how to single crochet

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wearable crochet jewelry art

Crochet Interview with Jewelry and Decor Artist Penny From Wearit Crochet

Penny Chorafa of Wearit Crochet is a Greek crochet artist who loves to experiment with both form and material when constructing her crochet jewelry. With a background in architecture and an interest in unique fibers like paper yarn, she is able to make original, sculptural wearable art pieces, and is constantly pushing herself to create …

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