How to Crochet Straight Edges EVERY TIME!! (CC Available)
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Welcome to my Crochet Basics for Absolute Beginners Series. In this video I will be showing you how to to doter your work so that you will ALWAYS have straight edges! Also I will be showing you how to use stitch markers to keep your edges perfectly straight.
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Thanks so very much. I'm 68, been crocheting since a child and those little hole gaps at the end of a row have driven me nuts for years. How simple you have made it. I'm OCD about some things so now I'll be a very HAPPY CROCHETER!!! lol I know u call the stitch a treble, but in the U.S., it's a Double Crochet. You may want to mention that to help a beginner in the U.S. so she or he doesn't get confused. I only found out a couple years ago when discovering YT that Britain calls the stitch a treble, yet America knows it as a double crochet. You did a great job, so simple, easy to follow and I'll be trying it tonight. The other 2 videos I watched were more work & more stitches, plus confusing. So I'm THUMBS UP on yours!!!! Thank you.
thanx for clearing up the double/treble mystery for me.
This helps a ton! thank you! I was dropping a stitch every row last night and I have no idea where since I wasn't ignoring the turning chain, but found trying to crochet into the turning chains a real pain. Figuring out where to put your hook is one of the hardest parts of crochet. I already found the tip for doing a full crochet instead of a turning chain, but I'll also try this method with marking the last stitch during my practice this week. It's a great idea. Thank you!
I finally did it! I made a straight square! \o/
Well done!!
When I was younger they use to offer knitting/crocheting classes about anywhere you lived but now that I'm interested they seem to no longer exist unless you want to pay upwards of $30 a class that only lasts for an hour, smhs. I just want to do an exceptional maybe not perfect job on my projects. I believe this will help. I'm working on a scarf with attached mittens for my granddaughters that are 40 chains. I count every stitch with each passing level I do. I have torn this one down so many times it ain't funny. I didn't even know to do a turning chain until tonight, smhs. Ty for your help. God bless you
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video for all of us. This is so much easier than the other way where you have to pull up a long loop which takes forever and you lose the yarn when you try to twist it and all the other things you have to do just to make the beginning stitch. This makes the work much easier, more flexible and time-saving by a whole lot. I've been crocheting for years, and this just made my work so much easier. Thanks again.
I forgot to add a TIP so no one has to buy stitch markers. I save & use the square plastic closures on the end of a loaf of bread (which are different colors depending on expiration date) which show the expiration date of the bread or bakery item. They work perfect if you're not overly rough when handling your work or putting it away, then picking back up to start again. Now I'm in the USA, so not sure if Britain has those on the end of a loaf of bread, bagels or various bakery items. Good luck and happy crocheting everyone! Happy New Year 2020 also. Blessings to all, L :)
Interesting to learn what they look like in the US. Can't imagine using the ones we have here.
I use small gold safety pins as stitch markers. They work great and you can stitch over them if you forgot to remove them and they don’t fall out like some stitch markers.
I think I finally understand how to use these stitch markers thanks to your tutorial, so thank you very much. I always thought with double crochet (US), you chained 3 to turn. I've just started chaining 1 and I think it will make it easier to see the first stitch since it is actually a real stitch now.
Love this tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing! Ive been crochetting for years, but havent used stitch markers much, but in the last couple of years I have started using them. I will use them on the beginning stitches now. Will be much easier to keep those rows straight! Thank you again!
I am using an old necklace’s hook as a stitch marker. It’s what I have on hand and I find it works just as well
That’s such a good idea!
The first marker is actually an earring. And you can also use paperclipses especially the plastic ones.
Or Bobby pins
Or you just can simply use a safety pin
Hi I using gem clips to mark the ends.Thanks a million. Was struggling to learn love from South Africa ❤❤
The best way to start and end your work!!! Thank you!!!
this was really interesting! I definitely have trouble with this, so your video was helpful. thanks!
After you had a stitch marker at both ends, and you gave an explanation of what to do, I wish you would’ve shown us exactly what to do. Thank you.
me too I like a verbal walk thru with up close camera work.
me too
oh thank you so much. I know this is going to help a lot a lot. You are a God send!
Thank you! This is the best video I’ve watched. 🙂
Thank you so much! xxx
Bobby pins are so handy for stitch markers also!
Stitch markers r great. I was having such a hard time with uneven edges. Now they r straight. I felt like such a bad as#. When I showed my husband he was not very impressed..
Bobby pins made great stitch markers.
This was very helpful - thank you. I may be misunderstanding one thing though; you demonstrate the double crochet but call it a treble crochet. Maybe that is a UK thing that I don't understand. Anyway thanks for the stitch marker info.
Blasting Agent a UK treble is a US double.
Hi Lexie I sure hope you can help me with a problem I have. Not necessarily with keeping the ends straight it’s more to do with crocheting in the round. I’ve just finished a little girls dress and you slip stitch at the end of the round then chain up 2 or 3 stitches to start the next round, whether that chain 2/3 counts as a new stitch or not, it leaves a line down the garment that veers off on an angle and is very annoying because depending on the colour of the yarn it can be quite visible. Hoping yourself or any one of your readers can help.
Oh! Thank you so so much. You have solved a massive problem for me!!!!!
I have read of people using Bobby pins like the ones you use in your hair. I might like that better.
The edge problem is the only reason I don't like anything square but I will try this and I should be fine. Thanks.
it is so frustrating trying to keep edges straight but ill certainly practice these stitch markers. incidentally it is difficult knowing the turning stitch from the first stitch and also finding the last stitch. what about doing this extremely slow so theres no mistake and PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!
Thank you so very much for instructional video! Will your technique work on top of a foundation row made up of Foundation Treble Crochet (i.e, a FTC row in lieu of a Foundation Chain row)?
Kim Rodriguez yes it will do x
Lexie Loves Stitching, many thanks for your response.💞
Awesome tip!!! thank you so much.
That looks perfect can you do this with single and double crochet and will they be this straight or is there a way to do it if not and my stitches have been tight last night I started over 10 times at least but I'M STARTING to crochet again after laying down my needle for years! I think I'm out of practice! Great job and video!
Thank you very much for sharing
That was great! Thank you from Newnan, Ga!
My rows are really good say for 10 rows then it all goes wrong! And gets wider.
This is always a problem for me and I tend to give up because I can't complete a project. I hope I can see what you see.
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I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time try to see where u put the marker so I will no where to put hook after chaining.
its very inexact the unclear.
Madam while doing purse please tell me how to Turn thread in which chain at edge of clutch purse or a small purse please show me at edges of purse
This is what I’m struggling with :( can do the stitch but can’t crochet straight cause all wonky half way through lol
That good you show us how do that that nice
Thank you so much ❤️
You said you had finished your row of trebles, but these are double crochet stitches here in the USA.
There is a treble stitch I've seen it in videos. Pretty neat!
Over seas it's considered a treble, which is the same as a us double
@@CharliAndNini This is why I stick to knitting..crochet instructions are so confusing!
Thank you!!
Thanks, very helpful
Made this look so easy Thankyou. Could you show me how to do the waistcoat stitch also please
I will try to film a video of this stitch for you at the weekend. Happy crocheting xxx
You’re a diamond xx
I saw this on a blog and she has a utube channel forgot the name of it type it in videos will come up.
how to tell the last stitch?? ?
this was not clear in the video, I don't know how to read the stitches at the point to know where to put the marker, so frustrating without an up close look at the configuration of the stitches.
Do you still need to chain 1 when doing a single crochet?
Yes. It makes it easier as it gives you a bit of slack to work with xx
I use little safteypins
You can
Great tip! Thanks.
How to start please
How to you do this when the chain is counted as a stitch so you don't have a hole?. Thank you
I don't know if you've learned or not, but I figured I'd answer in case anyone else has the same question. You'd put the stitch marker in the third chain. I find it easier to put yarn or a marker before finishing the chain. They are so fiddly especially if using a small gauge hook or yarn. So you'd lay yarn down or marker on the working yarn before pulling through. I personally don't like chain three's or fours (DC and ch 1) for starting rows and do alternative stitches like shown in the video but there are a few different ways to mitigate the gap from a ch 3 and keep edges straighter.
First one is an earring! Lol
Its a stitch marker out of Little Box of Crochet.
I thought it looked like an earring!
@@beehumblewithmevicky2792 - It IS an earring. It's called a leverback. : ) Someone simply decided to use it as a stitch marker in their products. I've used the sterling silver ones many times when making earrings.
Thank you my edges are never straight
Pretty
Please add proper closed captions! I Came here because of it Said cc available. Not true. Autogen captions are hard to follow.
Im sorry that you found it hard to follow. I will look into transcribing for proper CC. Xxx
You have to turn it on. I believe! lol
Are you referring to these stitches as "trebles" ? These are double crochets and why are you chaining one for double crochet? This is so confusing. Every instruction I've ever seen for turning chains when doing double crochet tells you to chain three. Each person on you tube that does videos seems to be changing these "rules" and now I'm even more confused after all of the years that I've had trouble already.
Dolly Wilson because as I state in the video I use UK terms. They are UK trebles which are US doubles. By chaining one it gives you leverage to work a proper stitch into the very first stitch rather than chaining 3 then skipping the first stitch. This is what gives a neater edge.
Lexie Loves Stitching sorry I never heard that but I have since read that in the comments. Why does crocheting have to be so confusing? I would have to know whether the pattern was UK or US and also know about that difference, which I never knew till now. Thank you for your clarification. .
Dolly Wilson if it has “single crochet” in the pattern it is a US pattern. We don’t use that term in the UK. Your single is our double.
Lexie Loves Stitching Oh Lordy. Thank you for telling me. 🙂
Just take your earring off and use it as a stitch marker😂
Ha ha! xxx