Free Beginner Crochet Instructions

Learning crafts is always fun and crochet hits the highest ranking amongst all. With a piece of thread and only one hook, making things can flabbergast anyone. Name a thing you want to make with crochet and you can get a crochet pattern for that.

Dresses, bags, hats, slippers, balaclavas, gloves, toys, rugs, belts, wristbands, cushions and the list never ends… isn’t it surprising for an art to be known all over the world and being equally appraised all around?

Crochet needs skills and very imaginative mind. When I started learning crochet I was only 6 years old. Now with 40 years of experience I found crochet to be the most diverse art of all. For anyone learning can be devastating if not having proper guideline and beginner crochet instructions.

When teaching a class I always ask them to start with the basics. Start with a simple one colored square patch then add colors, then different shapes and finally the patterns.

After that you can start making projects. So supposing this is your first class for crochet, I’ll teach you a simple crochet square.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Worsted weight yarn of your favorite color.
• Crochet hook.
• Yarn needle, blunt edged with big eye.
• Small scissors.

BEGINNER CROCHET INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Hold crochet hook wit firm grip in right hand and make a neat, small slip knot on hook.

2. Bring yarn over hook from back to front and grab it with hook.

3. Draw hooked yarn through slip knot and onto hook. This makes one chain stitch. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 in sequence 30 more times. You should have 31 chain stitches and one loop will remain on hook.

4. Skip the first chain stitch.

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.

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 29 chains--be sure to work in the very last chain. You have now completed one row of single crochet.

Two persons with the same thread and same hook can end up having different widths. This is because of the force they apply. Try making your hand used to of working with same standard force while yarning around hook otherwise your project will have different sized knots.

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. So it has started to take its shape now. All you need is to make it more illusive.

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

9. Cut the yarn from the skein. Draw the hook straight up, bringing the yarn through the remaining loop on the hook.

10. Thread yarn into yarn needle and weave back and forth through stitches to secure. And that’s it. Wasn’t it easy?