How to Make a Crochet Chain Stitch

"Hi! I'm Beth Essington for Expert Village. I am going to be demonstrating how to do a chain stitch. Before you begin any project, you are always going to begin with a base roll of chain stitches. There is pretty much no other way to do it. This is a really nice yarn. It is a combination of wool and acrylic and it is very soft, washable and a chain stitch when you are going to start is you are going to start with a slip knot which is just a little circle. You push your little piece through like so. Put your crochet hook in and give it a little tug so that it hangs on to your crochet hook. So when you do your chain, this is how I wrap around my hands. You can do it anyway that works for you. You are going to bring it around from behind and pull it through your little slip knot like so and you just go ahead and proceed like this. And every project that you ever do is going to begin with a row of chains like this. You wrap it around, pull it through, wrap it around pull it through, very simple. And you will know when you are on the right side because you are going to see what looks like little chain lengths like so. On the wrong side its got little bumps. That is the side that you don't want to be working on especially when you start your first row of other stitches. So you just go through like so. Keep the little chain lengths facing you and you are on the right track. Very simple and very quick. Not hard at all."