Starting Your Crochet with Chain Stitch

Chain Stitch - Hook through a loop, wrap the yarn over the hook and draw the yarn through to form a new loop

Starting to Crochet

1. Make the slip knot (video posting for this is below) and put it onto the crochet hook,

2. Thread the yarn (long end that goes back to the ball of yarn) through your fingers for tension,

3. And hold just below the slip knot with your thumb and third finger. Hold the crochet hook in the other hand and start the row of chain stitches.

This sounds worse than it is!

How to do a Chain Stitch

Step 1: Put the yarn over the hook.

Step 2: Pull the hooked yarn through slip knot. This makes one chain stitch. Step 3 Repeat to form a row of about 25 chain stitches.

To Practice

Practice the chain stitch until most of your stitches look fairly evenly sized.

Once you have done a length of chain stitches just remove the crochet hook and pull it back to the beginning and crochet the chain stitch again.

Crochet is very easy to pull back. :-)

Top Tip

You will only have one loop on your hook when the chain stitch is completed.

If you have more than one you have made a mistake, so just take out the hook and put back to a single loop. Put the hook through the loop and continue to do more chain stitches.

This video clip shows how to crochet a chain stitch and how to count the number of chain stitches you have done.