Tutorial: How to make a Crochet Chain!

Hello everyone! If you want to learn how to crochet, the first thing you need to learn how to do is a chain. The chain is the base of your project.

First of all, here I include the video I created to help you, since I know these things are kind of hard to explain in words. It's better/easier to just see them in action:

Here are the written instructions:

• To create a chain, you must first create a slip knot. To do this, wrap a bit of yarn around your finger to create a loop, and then, pull the yarn through the loop leaving a new loop open. This is your slip knot (if you don't understand my explanation, don't worry! You can see it step by step in the video.) 

• Next, insert your crochet hook into the loop of the slip knot. To make our chain, we will not be using the short tail; we use the yarn that's still part of the yarn ball. So you may want to put the tail away. That way you won't get confused and end up accidentally using it. 

• Finally, we can start our chain. We take yarn from underneath and then pull it through the loop. We repeat this action over and over until we reach the number of chains required by the pattern of the project. 

*When I say to take the yarn from underneath, I mean that the hook grabs the yarn from underneath, and not from above. We also pull the yarn from underneath when pulling it through the loop. I think I didn't word this too well in the video, so I explain it here. 

*The friend who taught me how to do this when I was in elementary school told me that the motion used from crocheting was similar to that of scooping soup with a spoon. I thought it was nice mentioning this comparison. :)

Thanks for reading! 

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Thanks for watching my video. I hope it was easy enough to understand. I sound like a child lol

On the next crochet video tutorial, I will show you how to make the single crochet stitch. We'll make a simple square. 

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