Crochet: Basics. Crochet for Beginners

The creation of needlewomen creates the desire to master the work with the hook. Then there are a lot of questions - from how to keep the hook and thread, to the difficulties with reading the diagrams. As in any other needlework will need to learn the basics. Crochet crochet starts with the easiest - the hook must first be successfully selected.

The choice of a hook, yarn and the rules of how to keep them

It is difficult for a beginner to determine the number of the hook. In this case, it is worth paying attention to the recommendations given by the yarn producer. Usually the label shows not only the composition with the weight of the skein, but also the length of the thread and the most appropriate size of the spokes and hooks.

Do not immediately take on fine yarn. Let it be as thick as possible. Then the work will go quickly and will not seem complicated and tedious. Over time, skill will come, and it will be possible to take models airier and thinner.

As to how to hold the hook, there is no consensus. Any instructions that contain the basics of crochet, say that it should be convenient, that for everyone individually. He can lie in a brush like a pen or be pressed to the palm of his hand with a little finger and an unnamed finger. Each needlewoman herself determines how comfortable she will be.

But the thread should be evenly stretched, otherwise it will not be possible to pick up and pull through the loops correctly. It needs to be clamped between the thumb and forefinger, then toss through the second one. It should be skipped under the next two and displayed above the little finger. All fingers need to be lightly squeezed so that the yarn slides easily between them, but does not fall out. Without these nuances you will not be able to master the basics. Crochet will be comfortable with these simple conditions.

Getting started: node and chain

There are several ways to fix the thread at the beginning of the job. One of them is to place it in a special way on the fingers of the left hand.

First, you need to put the thread from the tangle to three (from the little finger to the middle) of the finger. Then send her for the index and put under the big one. Make a loop around it and attach it to the one that already lies on the three fingers mentioned at the beginning.

Now you need to insert the hook into the loop formed on the thumb, pick up the thread from the index finger and pull it out. It remains only to tighten the knot. This is how crochet begins. The beginner's basics continue in the dial-up chain.

It consists of air loops. Air - because they do not hold together with other rows. Such a chain can be knit right from the position of the thread that was described for the node. After it is tightened, the working thread remains on the index finger, and its end is clamped between the large and medium (it is so convenient to start work without removing the yarn from the hand).

It is necessary to hook the work thread with a crochet from the index finger and pull it through the loop located on it. At the same time, hold the bundle with your thumb and middle finger. They should stretch the ready work a little. This is required in order to successfully master the basics of crochet.

Such a chain continues until the required quantity is selected according to the scheme. It should be noted that the thread on it is not considered a loop. With such a mistake, beginner needlewomen sometimes face.

How is the connecting bar made and when is it used?

It is also called a connecting loop. Sometimes you can find more such names: hook, blind or blind loop. It's all about him.

Its designation is also ambiguous. In circular schemes, it often looks like an arc. And in other cases it can be a dot or a small dash.

But it is always the same. It is worth starting to learn the basics. Crocheting starts with the fact that you need to enter it in the first loop of the chain. Then pick up the thread on the index finger and pull it through all that is on the hook. The connecting post is ready. During practice, you can tie a whole series or even a small square to them.

This loop is used very often in a circular pattern. Because there the beginning of the series coincides with its end. If there is a desire to make napkins using crochet, the basics (photo) in the practice of such loops will prove to be necessary.

The main types of columns

A newcomer can not easily decide the question of where the first, second or fourth loop from the hook is. To correctly calculate them, you just need not take into account the one that is on the hook.

For each of the columns at the beginning of the series, an ascent is required. The higher the column, the more it is necessary to tie the air loops.

1. Without a crochet. It is knit like a connecting loop, with one change. Hook to stretch not immediately through everything that is on it, but only through the canvas of work. As a result, there will be 2 loops. The thread needs to be picked up again and this time is stretched through everything. To lift it, two air loops are usually used.

2. With a crochet. In the technique of knitting, there is an additional step. Before you pass the hook through the canvas, you need to wrap a thread around it - it's a cape. Then the thread is supposed to be stretched through the loop of work and left on the hook. Then, in turn, pair loops that are on the hook in pairs. The lift is formed by 3 loops.

3. With 2, 3 caps. The work is complicated by the required number of turns of the thread. And pairwise tying becomes somewhat larger. On the rise takes 4, 5 air loops respectively.

A few more elements that you will need to master

If some skill has already appeared, then you can expand the set of elements that is included in the basics. Crocheting must bring joy. And for this, the number of columns should be increased.

• The step is used for strapping the product. It fits like a column with a crochet, only the movement does not go from right to left, but from left to right.

• Lush column is an indispensable element of patterns. Usually it consists of several bars with crochets. There is only one condition in it: you need to knit all these bars from one loop.