Crochet is a process in which fabric is produced by using thread or yarn and a hook. Crochet is similar to knitting as the two methods include drawing loops of yarn through other loops. The only disparity is that just one loop is active at one time and a crochet hook is used rather than needles. Crochet has been around for centuries and more and more designs are made through experiments over the years. Today crochet is used to make articles of clothing, blankets, scarves, decoration in the home and even bikinis. Unlike knitting stitches, crochet is only produced manually.
Crochet is very easy to learn and there are many variations in addition to the main procedures. These stitches are based on sequence of loops called chains. The stitches can be worked alone or together to create patterns. The basic stitches in crochet are:
1. Chain – series of loops
2. Single crochet
3. Half-double crochet
4. Double crochet
5. Treble
6. Double treble
7. Triple treble
8. Slip stitch
HOW TO CROCHET
Materials:
Crochet hook
Crochet yarn
Instruction:
1. Grasp the crochet hook amid your index finger and your thumb as if you are grasping a pencil.
2. Next create a crochet chain. To do this, make a slip- knot around the hook. Wrap the yarn around the hook and draw it through the loop you made in the knot. The yarn is now wrapped around the hook.
3. Pull another loop through that loop and repeat until you have made a number of loops and is able to hold the yarn reasonably firm, i.e., not too tight and not too slack.
4. Next you are going to single crotchet. To do this, hold the chain and insert the hook into the second chain from the hook.
5. Wrap the yarn over the hook like you did when you were making the chain and pull it through the chain that you inserted the hook into. You should have two loops on your hook.
6. Wrap the yarn around the hook and pull it through the two loops on the hook to create the single crochet.
7. To make the next stitch, insert the hook again, this time into the next chain on the row of chains and repeat the exact processes at #5 and #6.
8. Continue until you reach the end of the row where you should now make a chain so as to begin row 2. This chain is called the turning chain.
9. Turn your work so that the row you just created is facing you. Insert the hook beneath the two top loops closest to it.
10. Yarn over and draw the loop through to produce two loops on the hook.
11. Bring the yarn over the hook and pull through again. Replicate until you have completed the row and practice until you are able progress to different kinds of stitches.
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