Single Crochet Stitch - Beginner Course: Lesson #6

Hi, Bobbi Thompson here from Crochet Guru and welcome back to lesson number six on my

Learn How to Crochet series. Now in this lesson I'm going to show you how to single crochet and we're also going to start our very first project as well

Okay so the first thing you need to know is that single crochet is abbreviated

SC. So when you look at a pattern and you see the letters SC you will now know

how to single crochet and you will understand what the pattern is asking as

well. Okay so in the last lesson I had you chain 30 so if you haven't already

done that go ahead and do so now because we're going to need that chain 30 for this lesson and

the other fun thing about this lesson is that we're going to start our very first project which

will be a dishcloth. Okay so starting out with your chain 30 I'm going to go ahead and insert my

hook into that very last chain. So the first thing I really want you to know is that there are actually

three strands of yarn in each chain and this can actually become confusing when you place your

first single crochet so I'm going to actually show you where all of these strands are located

So the first strand is located on the very top and this is the strand that you'll most likely be

using when starting your work. So the second strand is going to be right in the middle

so I'm going to demonstrate that and sometimes you actually do use the second strand it just

depends on what the pattern calls for and then the last strand or the third strand is on the very

bottom so when you push your hook through the last strand you'll have two strands of yarn on your hook

which will be the top and the middle strand. Okay so I hope that helps but mostly what we'll be using

and mostly what you'll always be using is the very top strand when placing any kind of stitch or any

kind of work into your chain. So I'm going to just show you that top strand one more time

Now when placing your first single crochet in the chain you always place it in the second chain from the hook Not the chain on the hook not the first chain from the hook but the second chain from the hook

So go ahead and insert that hook into the second chain from your hook

And now I'll do our first single crochet. So yarn over from underneath, never go on the top

Go ahead and yarn over from underneath the yarn and pull it through that first strand

Now you'll have two loops on your hook. So you have your first loop and then your second loop

And then go ahead and yarn over again and pull through both loops that are on your hook

And there you have your first single crochet. Okay, so let's go ahead and do our second single crochet

and that will be in your second chain from this first single crochet

So insert your hook into that first strand, yarn over, pull through the first strand on your chain

there'll be two loops on your hook, yarn over again, and pull through both loops

and that will be your second single crochet. And then again, in the third chain, insert the hook

yarn over, There will be two loops on your hook, yarn over again, and then pull through both loops

on your hook, and that will be your third single crochet. And then just continue this pattern all the way down your chain until you're finished single

crocheting on this chain. And what I'm going to do is go ahead and turn the video off and meet you back here when

I almost through with my chain Okay now I going to place my last single crochet Don place it in the knot but make sure that you place it in your last chain So push the hook through yarn over two loops on the hook yarn over and there your last single crochet

Now this is what it should look like when you're all through. So the one thing that you'll notice when you're all done with your work is that there's going to be two strands of yarn on top of each single crochet

so make sure that you have the two there's actually one more located in the back but we're

just going to concern ourselves with just the two so um also what's important is that we count

each of our single crochets and make sure that we have all of our single crochets in place now you

don't want to count the bottom ridge on the very bottom there but you do want to start at that first

single crochet on the top and that will have two loops okay so one single crochet two three four

five and what you want to do is just continue down making sure that you have

all of your single crochets in place now when you can't you'll actually only get

29 and the reason for this is because we actually skipped that first chain if

you'll remember correctly so we're actually only going to be working 29

single crochets for our dishcloth that we're going to be making okay so this is

what it's going to be looking like and what you want to do to start your second row is go ahead

and chain one now after you chain one you're going to want to go ahead and turn your work around

okay so when you place your first single crochet in your second row make sure that you don't place

the first single crochet in your chain So right there is your chain you don want to place that first single crochet in your chain but you do want to place that single crochet in those two strands that are connected to that first

single crochet. So yarn over, pull through that first single crochet. You'll have two loops on

your hook. Yarn over again, pull through both loops on the hook, and there's your first single crochet

on your second row. Okay, so I'm just going to show you this process one more time

and I'm going to slow down the track and just let you watch at your own pace

okay so here we are in our third row go ahead and place your last single crochet in your last

single crochet from the first row. So two loops on your hook, pull through, and there's your last single crochet

Now go ahead and chain one and we'll start our next row. And the reason we actually chain is because we're meeting the height

of the next row that's going to be worked. So on a single crochet you just chain one

So go ahead and just continue to work this third row and what I'm going to do is we're

going to move on to lesson number seven. In lesson number seven we're going to learn how to change color

So that way when you make this dishcloth you'll have more than one color in this dishcloth

So again just move on to lesson number seven and we'll be learning how to change colors

in our crochet work. And thank you so much for watching and I hope you have a great day today