[0:00]Hey everyone, and welcome to my channel, Simply Daisy. Today I'm going to teach you how to crochet for absolute beginners. I thought I would teach you some of the basic stitches and skills you'll need to know. Let's get started. Today we will be learning how to make a slip knot, hold your crochet hook, crochet a chain, crochet a single crochet, and how to weave in the ends of your work. So today you're going to need yarn. You can use any basic yarn you have around your house. Or if you're going to the store, you can get any of their basic plain yarn. I'd recommend getting 100% acrylic. And then for a crochet hook, I would recommend getting aluminum crochet hooks. I just got this set of four with a bunch of different sizes. And you can use them for many different projects and use them for all different types of yarn. So today I'm going to be using a 5.5 mm crochet hook. So to start, you're going to make a slip knot. To do this, you hold your yarn like so with your index finger pointing downwards. Then you twist it upwards and put your thumb through that same loop. And you grab the tail with your index finger and your thumb and pull through, creating a loop. Then you put your crochet hook in and pull the yarn to tighten it. So next is how you hold a crochet hook and your yarn. So you hold the crochet hook with your thumb and fingers, usually on this indent, and then you hold it like you're cutting with a knife. And then with your left hand, you hold the yarn. You can hold it many different ways, but this is just how I do it. So I hold it with the yarn through my fingers like I'm pointing at something. Then I wrap the yarn around my pointer finger and grab my work with my middle finger and thumb. So I just put them together like so. So next is learning how to chain. So you're going to hold the crochet hook and you're going to twist the hook away from you, and you're going to put it on the left side of this string. Then you're going to turn it to face towards you and then a little bit more towards your left hand. Then you're going to pull downwards and pull through the loop on your hook, just like that. And so that is one chain. So again, we have our hook facing away from us. We put it on the left side, then we face it towards and then towards our thumb and pull through. And it just continues like that. So away from you on the left side, yarn over, turn to face towards you, and then towards your left hand so that it will easily go through that loop. So when you face it away from yourself and turn it towards you, that's called yarning over. And then so you yarn over and pull through. Face it away from you on the left side, yarn over and pull through. Yarn over and pull through. We're going to make a chain of 11. So right now we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. So each chain is that V, and it has a top loop and a bottom loop. So these are the top and these are the bottom. So now we're going to learn how to do a single crochet. So we're going to insert our hook into the second chain, which is this second V from our hook. So we insert. Then we yarn over by going behind the string. Come out of a stitch. Yarn over by facing away, turning it towards us, and then towards our left hand and pulling through both loops. So we used, we skipped the first chain as a turning stitch. And we're going to continue so we insert into the next chain by going into the top V. Then we yarn over by going behind the string. Come out. We have two loops on our hook. Then we yarn over, so it's facing away from us and on the left side. Turn towards us, and then towards our left hand and pull through both loops.
[4:44]That's one single crochet all the way across. And then once we've gotten to the end, we should have 10 stitches, 10 single crochet and 10 Vs.
[5:17]So we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Then we're going to do another row, and to do that, we chain. So we face it away from us, yarn over, and pull through. Then we flip it around, so we turn our work. And then we're going to work into each of the Vs. So you're going to insert underneath both, so it looks like you have three loops on it, but so this is just the stitch of our single crochet. So we come out behind it, yarning over. Come out. Yarn over and pull through both loops. So now you can do as many rows as you'd like. I'm going to do a total of 12 rows of single crochet to make a square swatch. So if you're continuing, you're going to do one single crochet in each stitch or V for a total of 10 single crochet in each row. When you get to the end of the row, you're going to do one chain, flip over your work, and continue going across.
[6:46]So now that we're done with our swatch, we're going to chain one, so we yarn over and pull through. Then you're just going to pull your crochet hook, get your scissors, and cut it. And pull tight. Then if you want, you can weave in the ends with a sewing needle with a wide opening. So you just put the yarn and weave it in.
[7:28]Then you can cut the extra with your scissors and do it to the other side.
[7:50]So there's our little swatch where we chained 11, and then we inserted our hook into the second chain because the other one was our turning stitch. And we did single crochet all the way across. Now that you've learned the basics of crocheting, the chain and the single crochet. There are millions different projects you can do with just those two stitches. So while you're still learning how to crochet, it's important to not give up, to keep practicing and to take it slow. At first, it might be difficult, but you just need to take your time, learn how to do the stitches and keep practicing so your hands get used to the movements and they'll become easier and you'll get better and better. So thank you so much for watching this video on how to crochet for absolute beginners. Please subscribe to my channel down below and if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and I'll see you next week. Bye.
