How to: single crochet

Calling all beginners! Learn how to work in single crochet. It’s super simple and easy to pick up – you’ll be hooked in no time. This video uses US crochet terms.

Calling all beginners! Learn how to work in single crochet. It’s super simple and easy to pick up – you’ll be hooked in no time. This video uses US crochet terms.

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Calling all beginners! Learn how to work in single crochet. It’s super simple and easy to pick up – you’ll be hooked in no time. This video uses US crochet terms.

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Level: Beginner
Craft: Crochet
Type: Technique

Step by Step

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Step 1

Once you’ve worked your foundation chain, work one additional chain stitch, this is your turning chain and you must work this step at the beginning of every row.

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Step 2

Your going to work your first single crochet stitch into the second chain stitch from the hook.

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Step 3

Insert your hook through the stitch.

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Step 4

Wrap the yarn over your hook, and pull it through the first loop on your hook. you now have 2 loops on your hook.

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Step 5

Wrap the yarn over your hook again, and pull it through both loops on your hook to complete the stitch.

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Step 6

Repeat steps 3 to 5 into each stitch along the foundation row.

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Step 7

To work into a previous row of crochet, start by making 1 chain stitch as you did at the beginning of the first row. Don’t work into the turning chain.

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Step 8

Insert your hook under the two horizontal bars of the next stitch. Wrap the yarn over the hook and pull it through this stitch. You now have 2 loops on your hook.

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Step 9

Wrap the yarn over your hook again, and pull it through both loops on your hook to complete the stitch.

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Step 10

Repeat steps 8 and 9 to the end of the row.

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Step 11

Repeat steps 7 to 10 to work another row in single crochet.