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If you’ve been wondering how to do a certain stitch, then you’ve come to the right place. Find quick and easy step-by-step tutorials for all of the basic crochet techniques and different crochet stitches, plus learn the abbreviations you’ll see in a pattern for these crochet terms.
Learning crochet stitches can be overwhelming for a beginner which is why we created this easy to follow page with some of the basics you’ll need to know. Each simple crochet stitch tutorial has helpful photos and step-by-step instructions to ensure you don’t miss a stitch, and even if you’ve never crocheted before, you’ll find that these are easy crochet stitches for beginners. Once you’ve mastered any one of these new crochet stitch tutorials, find a new crochet pattern to make and put your skills to the test!
How to Begin Crochet: How to Crochet a Slip Knot
Slip Knot Instructions:
- Hold the yarn in a U-shape, leaving 6-8″ of yarn (your “tail”) hanging from the end.
- Twist your fingers to create a loop, making the yarn strands cross each other.
- Insert your fingers into the loop and grab the yarn that leads back to your ball of yarn (not your tail), creating another little loop.
- Pull the tail the tighten the knot – you should now have a cinched knot with a loop coming out of one end, and two strands of yarn (one of which is your tail) coming out from the other.
- Slip the loop onto your crochet hook and pull both ends of the yarn to make the loop tighter.
Plus, learn how to crochet a chain stitch here!
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More Basic Crochet Stitch Tutorials:
- How to Single Crochet – SC
- How to Double Crochet – DC
- How to Half Double Crochet – HDC
- How to Triple/Treble Crochet – TR
- How to Tunisian Crochet – TFS
- How to Crochet a Shell Stitch – SH
The video collection above has just about any stitch tutorial you’ll need, both beginner level and more advanced. Once you’ve mastered these basic single, double, and triple crochet stitches , the fun has only just begun! While you can work up so many different projects by just knowing those few ultra-basic crochet stitches, there’s so much more you can do by combining those different crochet stitches in different ways.
For some extra practice, check out the easy crochet stitches below. All of these stitches and techniques are perfect for working up your next project, whether it’s a simple crochet scarf or a huge crochet blanket pattern!
- How to Foundation Single Crochet: The foundation single crochet stitch is both your base chain row and your first single crochet row in one step! This is also known as chainless crochet.
- How to Crochet in the Round: Crocheting in the round is no different from crocheting flat except that you work around continuously instead of going side-to-side, row by row.
- How to Crochet the Spike Stitch: The spike stitch is a type of over-extended stitch pattern that adds little spikes of color.
- How to Crochet a Crazy Shell Stitch: Don’t be fooled by its name, this crochet stitch isn’t too crazy, but it’s a bit different from the regular shell stitch.
- How to Crochet: Popcorn Stitch: PICTURED BELOW. The popcorn stitch is a type of cluster stitch that adds 3D “balls” to your work
- Front Post Double Crochet Stitch: To work this easy stitch, you work a normal double crochet stitch, but instead of inserting your hook under the top two strands of yarn in a stitch, you’ll be inserting your hook around the post of the stitch, from the front of your work.
- Backpost Double Crochet Stitch: Instead of inserting your hook under both the top strands of yarn when making a double crochet stitch, you only insert it around the vertical post of the stitch, from the back of your work.
- Crocheting the Seed Stitch: The seed stitch is an alternating single and double crochet stitch. It gives a closed stitch, which resembles a knitted seed stitch.
- Basket Weave Crochet Stitch Tutorial: In order to make the basket-weave stitch, you will need to know the chain stitch and the double crochet stitch.
- How to Crochet a Popcorn Stitch Left-Handed Tutorial: For lefties! This stitch is a series of five stitches all worked into one stitch causing a kind of bobble effect.
- Crochet V Stitch Video Tutorial: PICTURED BELOW. The V stitch is a truly gorgeous pattern that you can easily master once you know how to do the double crochet stitch.
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- How to Crochet a Puff Stitch Left-Handed Tutorial: The puff stitch, or the cluster stitch, can have many different variations; but, no matter what your project calls for, this crochet video can show you how to create this stitch.
- How to Crochet a Bobble Stitch Left-Handed Tutorial: This How to Crochet a Bobble Stitch left-handed video tutorial breaks down just how easy it can be to get this crochet pattern in your work.
- Picot Stitch Crochet Tutorial: All you need to know how to do for this stitch is a crochet chain and a crochet slip stitch – it’s that easy!
- Tunisian Crochet Stitch: Unless you have a traditional Tunisian crochet hook, which is a very long handled crochet hook, then Tunisian crochet is really only practical for making smaller items, such as wallets, headbands, belts, and other small items which don’t require more than a dozen stitches across the row.
- Crochet Decrease Tutorial: This technique is a way of intentionally making your pattern smaller by decreasing the number of stitches per row or round.
- Crochet Increase Tutorial: This technique lets you add stitches per round or row, increasing the size of your work.
- How to Crochet Ribbing: By alternating rows of single crochet stitches and slip stitches, you will create a ribbed piece of fabric that looks just like the knitters make.
- Crochet Slip Stitch Tutorial: One of the most need-to-know techniques in crochet, the slip stitch is a common part of most patterns. Learn it and be free of worry before starting your next project.
- Crochet Moss Stitch Tutorial: PICTURED BELOW. The moss stitch is worked over an even number of chains, and the stitch is really just a single crochet-chain 1/sk 1 stitch-single crochet repeat across the row.
Want more? Learn how to crochet in the round to work up hats and crochet amigurumi patterns; watch some video tutorials for extra help, like this popcorn stitch video tutorial that adds some lovely texture to your work.
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