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Summary: Start crocheting your granny square with a pretzel and loop. Learn how to crochet a bag from start to finish in this free crafts video.
"What we are getting ready to do now is to start our granny square so we take our yarn and wrap it around our finger to create the pretzel and pull this yarn right through here holding on to that end. There we go and we have our first loop. Okay so what we are going to do is make a chain of four so we are going to add that to here and pull that through, one, two, three, and four. Once we have those four we are going to leave the loop on our needle and not grab any more yarn, make sure it is tied and stick it through this very first one. Now that it is like a U you are going to pull this yarn through the two of them, put your finger through the middle and you will see we have created a nice little circle right in there. This is the base and this is where all your yarns are going to come underneath to create it to spiral around so we can make a nice square."
eHow Article: Crochet: Start Single Color Granny Square