What does it take to learn how to crochet from scratch? A crochet hook, knitting threads, pictures with descriptions, a good instructional video and a great desire. These are the basic conditions for successful crochet learning.
A crocheted dress, seen by chance on the street, can generate a desire to learn how to knit and create something similar for yourself.
Do-it-yourself dress, blouse, shawl cannot but attract attention.
What to stock up on for training
The desire to learn to crochet is the first and most important condition. Without desire, nothing will work. The hook by itself will not make loops and will not form a beautiful canvas.
You need to stock up on hooks of different numbers (from thin # 1 to thick # 3-4), knitting thread, video tutorials, books and manuals with illustrations.
Choosing a hook and thread for training
Hooks are available in metal, plastic and wood. Medium-sized metal crochet hooks are suitable for a beginner knitter, without a burr on the handle, with a smooth head. The threads for training can be taken thicker, smooth, soft colors so that the loops that you will knit are clearly visible.
Hinges, posts and diagrams
It is good if next to a novice knitter there is a person who will show you how to hold a hook in your fingers, how to stretch a thread into a loop, how to tie a chain of air loops, how to form rows of double crochet and single crochet stitches.
If there is no such person, you should not be upset. Open any tutorial video on YouTube and watch the knitter hold her crochet hook. This can be a "hold like a handle" or a "hold like a knife" method. Do not be confused by the fact that in different videos, different craftswomen hold the working hook in different ways. It doesn't matter. Anyone who is used to it, how it was originally learned, and holds the hook while working. You can try both ways and decide how you feel better.
Stock up on pictures showing basic crochet techniques. All the most intricate laces are knitted with just a dozen basic techniques. You can master them both with outside help, and armed with illustrations or by picking up a good training video.
After the basic techniques are mastered: a chain of air loops and rows of columns are obtained even and dense, choose a crochet pattern. It can be either a crochet motif or a shawl.
The designations on the diagram will tell you which row to knit loops, columns with and without crochets.
The first steps may not please the quality. The canvas will turn out to be uneven in texture: where it is freer, where it is tighter. Experience will surely come, and the hand will begin to knit all the elements of crochet knitting with the same thread tension. The thing will become smoother and denser.
Remember that any most complicated dress or cape of amazing subtlety is tied by human hands and with a great creative desire to do this thing. With all this in stock, learning to crochet from scratch, becoming an unsurpassed knitter is quite real.
