How to Crochet: Single Stitch

Series Summary

Nothing says winter like hand-crocheted hats and scarves. Crochet, dating back two or three centuries, is a process of creating fabric from thread or yarn with a hook-like needle. By looping yarn through other loops, a soft woven material is formed that is perfect for cold weather comfort. Crocheted items make unique gifts from the heart for friends and family. In this free video series, a crochet and needlework specialist will demonstrate the basics of crocheting. Besides demonstrating the single, double and triple stitch, switching colors and pattern abbreviations will be explained. Soon, observers will find themselves crocheting a square, circle, triangle and following a pattern. Master the basics of crocheting today!

Video Transcript

"In this section we will learn about single stitches. The first thing you'll do is with your yarn you will make a slip knot and how you do that is you take the yarn and put it underneath and bring it around and bring it through the loop or as some people like to say when touching children you bring the bunny up through the hole and there you have your slip knot. Then the first stitch that you will learn is the chain stitch which is simply bringing the yarn over the hook and drawing it through that first loop on your hook and thus you have just made a chain stitch. Most patterns will have you make a few chains before you continue on with the next stitch which in this case we will be doing a single crochet stitch and all you do there is you take your hook, put it through the next chain on the line, put the yarn around the hook and draw it through the chain until you have two loops on the hook then you wrap the yarn around one more time and draw it through both loops and now you have just made your single crochet."