Just like sewing, crochet is a wonderful world full of possibilities. You can make anything! Bags, slippers, vests, hats, amigurumi, baskets, dream catchers, shawls, decorative objects… Thousands of beautiful things begin with a first step: learning the basic crochet stitches.
In this post, we’ve brought together three short, very easy tutorials with which you can learn from scratch, even if you’ve never picked up a hook. We’ll show you how to make a chain, single crochet, double crochet, and a magic circle.
Before we begin, we should warn you that crochet is addictive and also very relaxing. It’s a bit like meditating, focusing your mind, and freeing yourself from stress while you create. But you’ll discover that as soon as you start, so let’s get going!
Chain and Single Crochet
The chain is the most basic crochet stitch. You’ll use it in every project you make, but it’s wonderfully easy. And once you start, you can’t stop.
When I was a child, my mother taught me how to make a chain. She gave me a hook and a ball of pink yarn. I liked it so much that I turned the entire ball into a chain, and when I finished, I unraveled it and started again. I don’t know how many times I repeated the same process, but I lost count. So if you have kids at home, they might love it too.
Single crochet is made from the chain. It’s also one of the most frequently used stitches, and you can make entire—and beautiful—projects using only this type of stitch. In just two minutes, you can learn to make both with the following video:
Double Crochet, Pillar, or Vareta
It’s the next logical step in the learning sequence. Once you know how to make single crochet, it will be very easy to move on to double crochet. Both are worked in a similar way, although double crochet is less dense.
What makes it a basic stitch is precisely that it serves as the foundation for other, more complex and decorative stitches. In the following two-minute video, you’ll see that it’s also very easy to make:
The Magic Circle
Behind this intriguing name is a starting technique. Using it, we can work the stitches we’ve learned to create projects in a circle instead of crocheting in a straight line, with the center perfectly closed.
But it’s better to let Ari Togores explain it, since she does it brilliantly in this video:
And now that you know the basics, you know what comes next: get hooked on crochet! :P
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