UK Hand Knitting Association

CROCHET BASICS

The instructions below will show you how to make a foundation row and a single crochet stitch.

Continue with the steps until you get a block as big or as small as you want!

These instructions use the American terms and should be translated as follows:
a single crochet = English double crochet usually two turning chain
a double crochet = English treble three turning chain
a treble crochet = English double treble 4 turning chains

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Step 1:	Hold crochet hook in right hand and make a slip knot on hook.
Step 2:	Bring yarn over hook from back to front and grab it with hook.
Step 3:	Draw hooked yarn through slip knot and onto hook. This makes one chain stitch.
Repeat Steps 2 and 3 in sequence 28 more times. You should have 29 chain stitches and one loop will remain on hook.
Step 4:	Skip the first chain stitch
Step 5:	Insert hook into center of next chain stitch. Draw yarn through the chain stitch and up onto the hook. There are now 2 loops on hook
Step 6:	Bring yarn over hook from back to front, and draw it through both loops on hook. One loop remains on the hook, and you have just made one single crochet stitch.
Repeat Steps 5 and 6 in each of the remaining 27 chains--be sure to work in the very last chain. You have now completed one row of single crochet. Measure your work; it should be about 7" wide.
Step 7:	At the end of the row, make one chain stitch, then turn the work counter-clockwise, leaving the hook in the chain
Now you can begin another row, working into the stitches of the previous row
Step 8:	Make one single crochet stitch in first stitch and in each remaining stitch of the previous row. Be sure to work into the last stitch. Chain 1, turn.
Repeat Step 8 until the block until desired measurement.
Finishing: Cut the yarn from the skein, leaving a 6" end. Draw the hook straight up, bringing the yarn through the remaining loop on the hook. Thread yarn into yarn needle and weave back and forth through stitches to secure