Description

Crochet, pronounced as krowshey, is atechnique of creating a piece of fabric using yarn and a crochethook. The word crochet is derived from a French word which means ahook. If you know knitting, then learning crocheting will be easieras it is similar to knitting; the only difference between the twois that in a crochet only one loop is active at a time.

Afghans Stitch
Special hooks are used for making afghans, so that there is morespace for the large number of stitches. For Afghan or Tuniscrochet, you need to keep the right side of the work always facingyou, and work on a base chain, and then make rows by looping theyarn first from right to left and the second half left to right. Bylearning these easy crochet patterns you can make scarves,blankets, and other easy patterns.

Scarves
For this pattern you need to first practice making a basic chainand learn single crochet stitches. To learn how to crotchet ascarf, use bulky yarn and J size or larger crochet hook. For makingthe scarf, first make a slip knot and base chain which is around 14stitches to get the length of the scarf. Then make another extrastitch and turn, then insert the crotchet hook in the second chain,and make another single crotchet stitch. This way make a row byturning the stitch and keep making these, till you are satisfiedwith the size of the scarf.

Baby Blankets
Select soft yarns that feel nice to your skin, like cotton yarns,for making a baby blanket. Then using a similar stitch pattern likethe above mentioned scarf pattern, you can make the baby blanket.However, when learning how to crotchet a baby blanket the size ofthe blanket will be bigger than scarf, so instead of making around14 inches for length make 36 inches for length and then work it toform rows to complete the blanket.

Hats
To crotchet a hat, select a yarn of your choice. To make the hatinteresting you can use 2 or more colored yarns. Again the abovesimilar stitch can be used for making a crochet hat. The onlydifference is that you have to work in a circular pattern. So startcrocheting in a round, till it is as large as the top of your head,keep working in the round stitches and increase the number ofstitches slowly till the hat is large enough, and reaches yourears.

There are many illustrated tutorials and videos online,following which you can learn the basic stitches and the abovepatterns. So learn 1-2 simple stitches and then make any of theabove mentioned pattern to create your very first crochet knitfabric.