Hello my name is Sarah Jayne welcome to
my channel today is going to be the first video in learning how to crochet
for absolute beginners this series of videos is also good if you are already a
crocheter and just need a refresher i'm going to be teaching you everything you
need to know to get started so let's get stuck straight in in this episode you
will learn what you need to begin how to prepare your yarn a slip knot and chain
stitch what you will need to begin in order to start the journey of learning
how to crochet you will of course need a few tools so the first thing that you're
going to need is your yarn I'm using this paintbox yarn in simply Aran so I
would recommend that you use an aran weight yarn or a DK which stands for
double knits and then also when you're looking at your yarn have a look at the
yarn label and it will tell you what size crochet hook you will need so in
this particular one it tells you to use a 5 millimeter hook it says 8 USA in the
middle and then a 6 UK the reason it has different ones is because there are
different terms depending on what terms you are using so UK or USA once you've
established which size hook you need for your yarn you then want to go ahead and
get your crochet hook ready I have a selection here because they do come in
all different shapes and sizes this is an aluminium hook with a soft grip
handle this is an acrylic hook this is the full aluminium crochet hook and then
this is aluminium with a plastic handle but as I say there are many more on the
market I would recommend that you start with something with an aluminium head to
it so like this one for example or these two because it's much easier to work
with at first you will also need a pair of scissors a darning needle to tie off
your ends when we get to that stage stitch marker will come in really handy
but is not necessarily important when you're just starting out I will leave
links in the description box below of all the places where you can get any of
these tools preparing your yarn you want to start by removing your yarn band and
then you want to unravel some yarn so that it's nice and easy when you're
working with it you can either choose to work from the center of the yarn ball or
from the outside it's totally up to you but make sure that you unravel enough
because this will help when it comes to your tension how to do the slipknot so
to do a slipknot you want to take the end of your yarn and wrap it around your
finger bring it forward to make an X pinch that in your hand that's holding
the yarn grab the yarn that's attached to the ball and wrap it around your
finger and again pinch in between your finger and thumb take the back loop and
bring it over the front loop and there you have your slipknot how to do the
chain stitch we're then going to take our crochet hook and insert it into the slip
knot pull down on the attached piece of yarn and we are ready to start our chain
so there are a few different ways to hold your hook I would recommend you try
in different ways so that you can find a way that suits you best
I hold mine like this which is called a knife hold just how you would hold a
knife when eating there is also the pencil hold which is like this just like
you would hold a pencil I'm going to do it the way that I hold it which is the
knife hold you then want to get used to holding your yarn the way that I do this
is I bring it around my little finger and around my pointer finger like so but
again please play around with this because it will be different from person
to person you then want to take your finger and thumb and you're going to
pinch just underneath the Slipknot and this creates your tension for your
project so now I'm ready to create a chain you're going to wrap your yarn
around the hook where we have created the tension you then want to grab the
yarn with your crochet hook and bring your crochet hook
towards you and through the loop that is a chain so I'll show you that again you
want to go around the yarn and then grab the yarn and pull it through around grab
the yarn and pull it through when you wrap your yarn around the hook this is
called yarn over and will be used in many different techniques throughout
crochet so yarn over and pull through the loop yarn over and pull through the
loop so let's take a look at what we have done so far we have created a
series of chains as you look at these chains they always look like these so we
have one two three and four we're going to create 10 so that we can start to
build some stitches on top of this in the next video so let's do some more yarn
over pull through that's five yarn over pull through that's six
notice how I'm moving my fingers up along the chain as I'm working this
helps with your tension yarn over pull through seven yarn over pull through
eight yarn over pull through nine and then one more yarn over pull through ten
so we now have 10 chains so we're just going to look at this chain and get used
to some of the terms which you see in crochet so as you see this V as we're
looking at the chain you have a top loop and a bottom loop if I twist this round
you see a series of bumps along the back and they are called the back bumps a
couple of common mistakes are when you crochet too tight so when you pull
through you are pulling too tight on your tension and you can't get your hook
through in which case you just want to ease off another mistake is when you do
it too loose and you pull on the hook and make your chain too loose
so I would highly recommend that you practice this over and over until you
get the technique correct and then we can move on to actually doing some
stitches make sure that you check out the next video in this series we'll be
learning how to double crochet which is a UK term in the US this is a single
crochet see then
HOW TO CROCHET LEFT HANDED FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS | EPISODE ONE | Bella Coco Crochet
