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Hi! I’ll tell you how to make crochet. This guide will help those who doesn’t know anything about crochet and want to learn. Some illustrations that I made will guide you in this process. Let’s start!!!

You will need: a crochet hook, a yarn and your hands!!!

1 - THE FIRST LOOP. (Fig. 1)
This is the first thing you have to do. Look ak the example. Put the yarn around the hook and pull the side of the yarn that goes to the main yarn through the circle. Then pull the same yarn to secure the loop. You’ve done it! Congrats! Try the other side of the yarn (the “fixed” one) to have a length of about 6 inches: this is to secure the work, again!
Fig. 1
2 - THE FIRST CHAIN.

Like in the first loop, you have to put the yarn over the hook and pull it through the loop. Do this until you have a long chain (the length you need).

3 - SINGLE CROCHET.
a - Once you have your chain, you have to turn back and make your stitches in the other direction. If you are doing a square work, you have to do this any time you end a row.

b - Then, insert the hook in the second stitch from the hook, skipping one stitch. You will do this only the first stitch. In the first draw (Fig. 2) you can see the first step of the single crochet, but the row is already started.

c - Put the yarn over the hook and pass it through the stitch (2nd draw, Fig. 2). Yarn over hook, again (3rd draw, Fig. 2) and pull it through both loops. DONE! Do this until you complete the row. To turn back, make an extra loop (this will avoid decreasing).

Fig. 2
Warning: It’s common that beginners use the same stitch to make 2 single crochet or that they skip one stitch. This is a mistake! This will have, as a result, an increase or a decrease in your work. Be careful! Use each stitch for each single crochet stitch (unless you want to increase or decrease).

4 - DOUBLE CROCHET.
a - Look step a in SINGLE CROCHET.

b - Before insert the hook you have to yarn over. So, yarn over and then insert the hook in the fourth stitch from the hook, skipping 3 stitches of the chain. You will do this only the first stitch. (1st draw, Fig. 3)

c - Yarn over hook (2nd draw, Fig. 3) and pull yarn through one stitch. Yarn over hook one more time (3rd draw, Fig. 3) and pull yarn through 2 loops on hook. Yarn over loop one last time, and pull through the last loop on hook.

d - Now, yarn over hook and insert the hook in the next stitch. (4th draw, Fig. 3) Start all over again…

Fig. 3
5 - AVOID DECREASE AND INCREASE.

In SINGLE CROCHET, every time you end a row, you have to yarn over hook and pull it through the loop one time. This is necessary if you want to avoid decreasing.

In DOUBLE CROCHET, every time you end a row, you have to yarn over hook and pull it through the loop three times, making a little chain of 3 stitches. If you do this you avoid decreasing.

6 - INCREASE AND DECREASE.

INCREASE: Make two stitches in the same stitch. You can do it in every stitch, if you want, but I recommend you to choose an specific place to do it, for example, increase one stitch doing an extra stitch in three stitches from each side. If you had 14 stitches now you will have 16. The increasing will be always in the same place, and your work will be tidier.

DECREASE: Skip one stitch! It’s very easy. The same recommendation: choose a specific place to do the decreases.

This is the basic knowledge!!! I hope it’s been useful and clear. Knowing single crochet, double crochet, increasing and decreasing you can create million of things: any kind of clothe, different house stuff. What are you waiting for?

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