I have been fruitlessly searching for a decent explanation on turning chains as I have found it to be the most confusing part of learning how to crochet. I had almost given up. Thank you so much for this simple yet detailed explanation! You have made it possible for me to continue my crochet crafting journey. You have a new subscriber!
I'm glad this video helped! It should be a simple topic, but isn't, especially when starting out. I know the confusion. I'm also happy to hear you didn't give up! Crochet is such a wonderful hobby (not biased at all lol). Welcome to my channel and thanks for subscribing!!
This is brilliant! Thank you! I have been crocheting for 3 yrs and this always confused me. Now I totally understand. Thankfully my gut instinct was right in all my previous projects but now I feel more confident reading a pattern that states whether the turning chain counts as a stitch or not. Thank you so much for this video!!
I am very late, but thank you SO much for your help with this! I'm still very much a beginner and counting stitches have always been an issue for me, and trying to find out if the turning chain counted was impossible to find an answer to online until I found this video. Thank you again!
Thank you SO much for this! You're such a great teacher. Your pace and articulate explanations are awesome. Love the recap at the end. New subscriber, here!
This helped me out a lot, you did an excellent job of explaining things as you went. I have a question hopefully you can answer. I have patterns that will tell you to chain 1 then turn and another will say to turn then chain 1 does it make a difference?
My question is coming back to the chain stitch as you’re ending the next row. So I’m dc’ing along, and how is it treated if it’s considered a stitch? Do I crochet into the chain? Do I crochet into the stitch I skipped? Or do I just end at the first double crochet? Not sure how that works, and that’s my problem. Thanks in advance.
I know this is an old video but I'll ask anyway: Why does not counting the turning chain as a stitch cause an increase when doing double/triple crochets but not when doing single crochets? I don't get the difference, why it's an issue with one stitch and not the other.
So even though you adjusted the number of turning chains for dc and trc, you still count the turning chains as a stitch? Do you have a video that shows the outcome of this?
My question is: if a pattern says to count the turning chain as a stitch and you would make the chain, turn, skip a stitch (even if the pattern doesn’t say to skip it because that is supposed to be understood?); but, I don’t like to use the turning chain as a stitch, so could I then chain, turn and go into the very 1st stitch and it would not alter the look of the pattern or row count? The reason I’m asking is because I can never seem to get my hook into the top chain of the turning chain, so, therefore, I don’t want to count the turning chain. Or, how would I make a change on a row, if I don’t want to count the turning chain as a stitch?(is this confusing enough of a question)
Hi, thank you so much for your question. I'm much like you and don't like to use the turning chain as the first stitch because you get these gaps along the edges. So you can do exactly as you said. Make a chain, turn and crochet into the first stitch. I find this works really well in creating straight edges and eliminating gaps for both single crochet and half double crochet stitches. Now for double crochet, I find that if you chain and double crochet into the first stitch, you can get waves along the edges. I think it's because of the bulkier nature of this stitch. So if you are using double crochet, I would suggest trying out a different method that I will link for you: ruclips.net/video/YA46KLsg9LM/видео.html There are other videos explaining this method, this is just the one I've followed before and liked. I hope this is helpful in answering your question! Please let me know if you have any others.
Thank you so much ..finally figured out why I always ended up with way too many stitches. Stay safe and blessed!
Excellent video and clearly explained techniques.
Thank you
I have been fruitlessly searching for a decent explanation on turning chains as I have found it to be the most confusing part of learning how to crochet. I had almost given up. Thank you so much for this simple yet detailed explanation! You have made it possible for me to continue my crochet crafting journey. You have a new subscriber!
I'm glad this video helped! It should be a simple topic, but isn't, especially when starting out. I know the confusion. I'm also happy to hear you didn't give up! Crochet is such a wonderful hobby (not biased at all lol). Welcome to my channel and thanks for subscribing!!
This is brilliant! Thank you! I have been crocheting for 3 yrs and this always confused me. Now I totally understand. Thankfully my gut instinct was right in all my previous projects but now I feel more confident reading a pattern that states whether the turning chain counts as a stitch or not. Thank you so much for this video!!
I'm so glad that this helped and that it confirmed what you already knew!
I am very late, but thank you SO much for your help with this! I'm still very much a beginner and counting stitches have always been an issue for me, and trying to find out if the turning chain counted was impossible to find an answer to online until I found this video. Thank you again!
Thank you SO much for this! You're such a great teacher. Your pace and articulate explanations are awesome. Love the recap at the end. New subscriber, here!
This helped me out a lot, you did an excellent job of explaining things as you went. I have a question hopefully you can answer. I have patterns that will tell you to chain 1 then turn and another will say to turn then chain 1 does it make a difference?
Thank You!
You're so welcome!
My question is coming back to the chain stitch as you’re ending the next row. So I’m dc’ing along, and how is it treated if it’s considered a stitch? Do I crochet into the chain? Do I crochet into the stitch I skipped? Or do I just end at the first double crochet? Not sure how that works, and that’s my problem. Thanks in advance.
My work still always has too much fluctuation. It’s never even on the sides
Do you count ur stitches or use a marker to know where they started?
I know this is an old video but I'll ask anyway: Why does not counting the turning chain as a stitch cause an increase when doing double/triple crochets but not when doing single crochets? I don't get the difference, why it's an issue with one stitch and not the other.
So even though you adjusted the number of turning chains for dc and trc, you still count the turning chains as a stitch? Do you have a video that shows the outcome of this?
My question is: if a pattern says to count the turning chain as a stitch and you would make the chain, turn, skip a stitch (even if the pattern doesn’t say to skip it because that is supposed to be understood?); but, I don’t like to use the turning chain as a stitch, so could I then chain, turn and go into the very 1st stitch and it would not alter the look of the pattern or row count? The reason I’m asking is because I can never seem to get my hook into the top chain of the turning chain, so, therefore, I don’t want to count the turning chain. Or, how would I make a change on a row, if I don’t want to count the turning chain as a stitch?(is this confusing enough of a question)
Hi, thank you so much for your question. I'm much like you and don't like to use the turning chain as the first stitch because you get these gaps along the edges. So you can do exactly as you said. Make a chain, turn and crochet into the first stitch. I find this works really well in creating straight edges and eliminating gaps for both single crochet and half double crochet stitches. Now for double crochet, I find that if you chain and double crochet into the first stitch, you can get waves along the edges. I think it's because of the bulkier nature of this stitch. So if you are using double crochet, I would suggest trying out a different method that I will link for you: ruclips.net/video/YA46KLsg9LM/видео.html
There are other videos explaining this method, this is just the one I've followed before and liked.
I hope this is helpful in answering your question! Please let me know if you have any others.
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