If you want to learn how to crochet, single crochet is one of the most important stitches you need to know. A majority of crochet patterns and projects incorporate single crochet stitches.
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Single crochet (referred to as double crochet in British crochet patterns) is the shortest and most basic of all stitches.Once you’ve learned the single crochet stitch, there are infinite possible ways to use it. You can work it in rows, in rounds or spirals, as edging, in different parts of the stitch for different effects, and combined with other stitches in countless variations.
What You’ll Need
Equipment / Tools
- 1 Crochet hook
Materials
- 1 Skein yarn
WORKING ROW 1: How to Single Crochet Row 1
We will now begin working Row 1 of single crochet.
Step 1: Make a slip knot and chain 20. Skip the first chain from the crochet hook, insert hook in the second chain from the kook. Be sure that you have the right side of the foundation chain facing you and your yarn hand holding the foundation chain.
Draw yarn through chain and up onto the working area of the crochet hook. You now have two loops on the hook .
Step 2: Again, bring the yarn over the hook from back to front, and draw it through both loops on the crochet hook.
One loop will remain on the hook; you have made one single crochet.
Step 3: Insert hook in the next chain as before, hook the yarn from back to front and draw it through the chain stitch. Yarn over again and draw through both loops. It is important to know that the terms “hook the yarn” and “yarn over” have the same meaning. In both instances, you will bring the yarn over the hook from back to front.
Repeat step 3 in each remaining chain, taking care to work in the last chain, but not in the slip knot. Remember, as you work, to be careful not to twist the chain; keep all the Vs facing you. You have completed one row of single crochet and should now have 19 stitches in the row .
WORKING ROW 2: How to Single Crochet Row 2
To work the second row of single crochet, you need to turn the work counterclockwise, as shown in illustration 22a, so you can work back across the first row.
Do not remove the crochet hook from the loop as you do this. Now you need to bring the yarn up to the correct height to work the first stitch. So, to raise the yarn, chain 1 (this is called a turning chain).
This row and all the following rows of single crochet will be worked into a previous row of single crochet, not into the beginning chain as you did before.
The first single crochet of the row is worked in the last stitch of the previous row, not into the beginning chain.
| Insert hook in the last stitch of the previous row under top 2 loops, bring the yarn over the hook from back to front and draw yarn through stitch and up onto the working area of the crochet hook. You now have two loops on the hook. Again, bring the yarn over the hook from back to front and draw it through both loops on the hook. Work a single crochet into each single crochet to the end, taking care to work in each stitch, especially the last stitch, which is easy to miss. You should have 19 single crochet stiches on the row. |
You can continue practicing or fasten off.
FASTENING OFF
After the last stitch, cut the yarn, leaving a 6-inch end. As you do when you take your crochet hook out for a break, draw the hook straight up, but this time draw the cut yarn end completely through the stitch. Pull the 6-inch end tight to close.
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