Everything you need to know about crochet for beginners, including essential crochet supplies and choosing yarn, getting started, common crochet stitches, turning chains and bonus tips and techniques to make learning your new hobby as pain-free as possible! Latest in a series of "quick" start beginner craft guides, so let me know which craft you’d like me to cover next! Because I am a total enabler, and I'm not even sorry. 00:00 Intro & what to expect 01:35 Basic crochet Supplies 02:17 Choosing yarn 03:30 US vs UK crochet terms 04:44 Anatomy of a crochet stitch / where to put your hook 06:21 How to make a slipknot 07:36 How to crochet a chain 11:36 Single crochet (and how to work into your starting chain) 20:03 How to do a double crochet 24:15 How to do a treble crochet 26:09 Memorising crochet stitches 26:53 Turning chains 29:28 How to do a half double crochet 31:22 How to crochet the slip stitch 33:52 Fastening off 38:06 Next steps Not quite ready to dive in yourself? You can live vicariously through Dave's newbie attempts instead: https://makertube.net/w/fgPJXyzK1qV4tXpqJfwWxT If you enjoy my videos, please consider supporting the channel or checking out my patterns over at https://ko-fi.com/thegiddystitcher You can also find me on: Mastodon - https://artisan.chat/@thegiddystitcher Lemmy - https://lemm.ee/u/thegiddystitcher Various other places - https://linksta.cc/@thegiddystitcher And join our Discord community full of socially awkward crafters at https://discord.gg/MhMFUPEmZ8

Everything you need to know about crochet for beginners, including essential crochet supplies and choosing yarn, getting started, common crochet stitches, turning chains and bonus tips and techniques to make learning your new hobby as pain-free as possible!

Latest in a series of “quick” start beginner craft guides, so let me know which craft you’d like me to cover next! Because I am a total enabler, and I’m not even sorry.

00:00 Intro & what to expect 01:35 Basic crochet Supplies 02:17 Choosing yarn 03:30 US vs UK crochet terms 04:44 Anatomy of a crochet stitch / where to put your hook 06:21 How to make a slipknot 07:36 How to crochet a chain 11:36 Single crochet (and how to work into your starting chain) 20:03 How to do a double crochet 24:15 How to do a treble crochet 26:09 Memorising crochet stitches 26:53 Turning chains 29:28 How to do a half double crochet 31:22 How to crochet the slip stitch 33:52 Fastening off 38:06 Next steps

Not quite ready to dive in yourself? You can live vicariously through Dave’s newbie attempts instead: https://makertube.net/w/fgPJXyzK1qV4tXpqJfwWxT

If you enjoy my videos, please consider supporting the channel or checking out my patterns over at https://ko-fi.com/thegiddystitcher

You can also find me on:

Mastodon - https://artisan.chat/@thegiddystitcher Lemmy - https://lemm.ee/u/thegiddystitcher Various other places - https://linksta.cc/@thegiddystitcher

And join our Discord community full of socially awkward crafters at https://discord.gg/MhMFUPEmZ8