Beginners / Tips & Techniques How To Crochet For Beginners: Free Step-by-Step Guide January 24, 2024 Written by Sarah-Jayne Fragola This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through links on our site, I may earn a small commission. Click to see full details of my Privacy Policy. Pin it now, make later!7.6KShares Step 5: Working your stitches UK Double Crochet Stitch (dc) | US Single Crochet Stitch (sc) It’s time to make some stitches. We will start with the UK double crochet/US Single crochet as this is the smallest stitch of them all. You can find a video tutorial in both right-handed and then the left-hand version here and the written step-by-step with photos below.TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Step 5: Working your stitches2. UK Double Crochet Stitch (dc) | US Single Crochet Stitch (sc)3. UK Double Crochet/US Single Crochet written instructions4. Step 6: Turning your work to make rows5. Beginning your next row (Turning chain)VIEW MORE▼ UK Double Crochet/US Single Crochet written instructions Insert your hook into the chain or stitch. Yarn over the hook. Pull through first loop on hook (you will have two loops on the hook) Yarn over and pull the yarn through both loops on the hook. You can take a look at the video further down for the demonstration and a deeper look at how to correct your work, fasten off and sew in your ends. Please make sure you are using the correct video i.e left or right-handed. Step 6: Turning your work to make rows Once you’ve completed your first row, it’s time to turn your work in order to go back the opposite way. If you are right handed, you’ll be turning your work like the page of a book. If your left handed it will be the opposite way. Beginning your next row (Turning chain) In order to work your next stitches, you need to get to the height of the stitch you are working. This will be different for each one. When learning to crochet, I like to teach a set amount of chains for each of these stitches, however, when you get more confident, these may change in order to make your work even neater. This turning chain may or may not count as a stitch. If you’re working from a pattern, it will indicate whether it is or not, however, as with the chains themselves I teach a set way as a starting point. Pin it now, make later!7.6KShares Pages: 1 2 3 Further Reading... 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Actually I just saw the videos for curicity and determined I must learn the crochet. Thanks a lot for giving the videos for the new beginner. ❤ Reply Rebecca July 16, 2020 at 2:12 pm I am really enjoying your videos and they have helped me as I learn to crochet. I do have a question though (or two) one is when you are making your initial chain of say…15 do you make one extra for when you are turning and going back the other way? Also..I am having difficulties keeping my edges straight, they don’t look nice and square like yours do and so I try to stitch to the very last…dimple/divet (whatever), would using a stitch marker help to mark off the last corner to make my stitch be a good idea? Lastly, I am having a real bugger of a time trying to keep my tension constant. I figured out that I simply need to hold the yarn below the needle and not really pull on it…much but the tension for yarning over is a bit trickier, what do you suggest I can do to keep the tension constant without creating sloppy stitches? At any rate, I have seen many videos but yours are nice and detailed without being too complex. Thank you for creating these videos, they really helped me out tremendously. Reply Rebecca July 16, 2020 at 8:04 pm Thanks for the video however I am still a bit perplexed. Now, for example I made a chain of twenty stitches and now I want to start doing a single crochet, before I start that, am I correct in assuming that I should add at least two more stitches regardless of the type of stitching I use? ALSO..what sort of font do you use on your site as some of the letters looks a tad odd (only slightly). Thank you for being so helpful and nice. 🙂 Reply Adya August 12, 2022 at 10:07 pm Hi, I have the same question, do we always add 2 stitches? Thank you for the videos, very simple to follow along for beginners! Looking forward to continuing this journey 🙂 Reply Lindi Warren February 20, 2024 at 8:19 pm I stumbled across Bella Coco in Jan 2023 when I was given a crochet hook and yarn and told to crochet by a friend. Sarah-Jayne’s videos taught me everything I needed to know to get started and learn how to crochet. What I really like is that she covers both UK and US terms, which helps so much in reading patterns. Because of her videos I have been able to try out so many different stitches and I am currently working thru her patchwork blanket and learning even more stitches. Thank you for making learning to crochet so easy. Reply Sally Green February 21, 2024 at 12:05 pm Thanks to Bella Coco I have been able to fulfill a lifelong dream of learning to crochet. Reply Debbie February 21, 2024 at 5:57 pm I came back to crochet in 2019 after learning the basics as a teenager (1970s) and found bella coco’s youtube videos immensely helpful. Initially I wasn’t at all confident following written patterns so would watch and learn. These days I can follow written patterns and help others learn to crochet, always suggesting they look at BC’s channel. This guide is great too, but the videos are brilliant and left handed versions so helpful. Reply Tracey February 21, 2024 at 6:42 pm I love Bella Coco video’s, I learnt to crochet with them about 7 years ago and I couldn’t have learnt without her help. Sarah Jayne I’d so good at explaining the stitches and takes her time going through each one. Whenever anyone asks me how I learnt or if they want to learn I always point them to Bella Coco ❤ Reply Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. 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