Learn To Crochet (For Real This Time) | Slow Step-By-Step How To Crochet Tutorial

Hey there and welcome to my studio, so today's the day, you finally decided to learn how to crochet, and you caught me at the perfect time, because i'm excited to teach you how my name is tony lipsy, i'm the crochet designer and educator behind teal yarn crafts And this is learn to crochet. So here's what you can expect from this video i'll start by talking about the materials you need to crochet. That'S just for this class, not for any potential project that you might want to make. Then we'll move on to how to make a slip, knot, working the chain and transition to working basic stitches in turn, rows we'll start with single crochet and then we'll work, half double crochet, double crochet and finish with slip. Stitch we'll wrap up with some tips for fastening off and weaving in your ends. Now i'm gon na level with you. I'Ve been crocheting for a really really long time, but i do remember, being a beginner, i remember being very frustrated clicking from one youtube video to the next hoping i would come across somebody who would help me get it now. I can't say for sure that this is that video for you, but i really hope it is ultimately you're going to learn crocheting through experience and practice, but with a little bit of patience and hopefully the right teacher. I know you can do it. So, let's do it when learning to crochet, i recommend a smooth, solid, colored yarn in a worsted or bulky weight. So here i have a worsty weight yarn. I know that because it's got a little four here on the label. This is going to be great to learn with because the yarn itself is very smooth. It'S this nice, medium gray throughout and i'm gon na get great stitch definition with this. So for this worsted weight yarn, i'm going to use a five and a half millimeter crochet hook or i can use what's recommended on the ball band, which also happens to be a five and a half millimeter. I can also choose to go with a bulky weight. Yarn like this one that i found in my stash, you can see that it's also a smooth, solid color throughout. It is very different than the gray yarn in that it's plied and the material is a little bit different, but this is still very smooth and beautiful is going to give me some good stitch definition for a bulky weight. Yarn like this one, i'm going to go with a six and a half millimeter crochet hook or what's recommended on the ball band. In addition to the hook and yarn, i would recommend having a tapestry needle a pair of scissors and a couple, locking stitch, markers or split ring stitch markers nearby, we're going to start by making a slip knot. This is the first step in crochet to establish one loop on our hook, so i'm going to start by making sure i leave a long tail if you're not sure how long of a tail to leave i'll usually leave one hand length as my tail and i'm Going to start here so i'm going to take my index finger, i'm going to wrap this yarn twice around my index finger, i'm going to take this second loop and bring it over the first that first loop bring it up and over the tip of my finger. I'M going to now grab both lengths of this yarn and pull, and that makes a little loop i'll insert my hook into that loop tug on my yarn to tighten that loop up onto my hook, and that is my slip knot. Let'S do that again together. So i'm going to start by getting one hand length of yarn and i'll do that to make sure i have some yarn to weave. In my end later, i'm then going to wrap that yarn around my index finger two times. Gon na bring this loop over the first bring that remaining loop up and over the tip of my finger. Gon na grab both ends and tug slightly until that knot tightens up - and i still have this loop here on my finger - insert your hook through that loop and tighten down you'll just want to tighten down until that knot meets the hook. You don't want it. So tight that you can't move your loop around from here. Let'S talk about holding our crochet hook, you can see that i naturally picked up my hook in my right hand, but i happen to be left-handed just grab your hook in whatever feels natural to you. It doesn't have to be the hand that you write with if you're left handed, and you pick it up with your left hand great right hand to pick it up with your right hand, also great right handed, and you pick it up. With your left hand, that works too, whatever feels most natural to you. Now when it comes to holding your hook, you have pretty much two options. You have what i'm doing right now, which is the knife grip, because if you think about the way you cut a stake, you hold your knife like this, so my thumb is resting on the thumb rest and all of my fingers are back here along the back Of the hook, we have another option, which is called the pencil hold, where i'll actually put the hook above my hand, and my thumb is still on the thumb rest. But my first finger and my middle finger are kind of straddling the hook now and that's an option as well. It'S just again about what feels natural to you. So try them both and see which one you like now that we've talked through how we want to hold our hook. Let'S talk about how we want to hold our yarn just like making a slip knot. There are about a thousand different ways that you can hold your yarn, i'm going to show you what i like to do i like to kind of cradle the yarn in my last two fingers and i'm going to wrap it either once or twice around my index Finger the reason i do that is to create more or less tension, as the yarn feeds over my hand and onto my hook. So two wraps gives me a lot more attention because the yarn has to come in more contact with my finger. One wrap gives me less tension. Now, i'm going to determine whether i want more or less tension based on the yarn that i'm using maybe how thick or thin it is, what fiber it's made from and just generally how the yarn feels as it's going across my finger tension and how you hold Your yarn is more of an art than a science so play around with finding different methods of how folks do it online and see what works for you. Let'S talk chains, so chains are essentially the foundation of crochet. It'S what all of our other stitches are built upon, so making sure we do our chain correctly is going to be super important when working your chains, knowing you did it right or wrong, comes down to whether or not you'll be able to get your hook into Those chains later and have a nice clean border along the bottom of your project. So i'm going to show you how to make a chain first and then we'll talk it through and identify the different parts of our chain so to make a chain we'd start by yarning over our hook and we'd pull this loop that we just yarned over through The loop that's already on our hook just like this, so we now have one chain: we'd yarn, over pull through the loop yarn over pull through the loop yarn over pull through the loop you'll notice that, as i continue to go up the chain when i yarn Over and pull through, i'm creating some tension here to pull the chain a little bit away from my hook to make sure that the loop that i create is even inconsistent with the other loops that i've already created. So i'm pulling through yarn over tugging. Just slightly here and pulling through a couple things to note, when i yarn over i'm making sure that this live loop on my hook, so the loop that was already there before the yarn over it's making its way all the way down my hook, all the way To the thumb, rest actually and that's to make sure that this loop stays consistently the size of the hook if your loop ends up up here. What you'll notice already is that i have a automatic tendency to start pulling this yarn here, which makes this loop smaller. So if i try to yarn over up here, i'm going to have a heck of a time getting this through, and it's going to be even harder when i'm trying to put an actual stitch into that chain so be sure that your live loop makes it down. Your hook so you're getting the right size each time. So again, i'm going to yarn over and pull through yarn over and pull through, and that is a chain. So i'm going to rip this out, so we can do it together, leaving that first loop on here from my slip knot and just putting that right back on my hook so again pulling that slip knot down the body of my hook. So i know that my loop is the correct size. I'M then going to yarn over creating some tension here at the base of my slip. Knot i'm going to pull through lifting my hand up to pull right at the base of that loop. That'S on my hook. I'M going to yarn over and pull through, bringing that loop all the way down yarn over pull through yarn over pull through. So let's make 10 chains, here's how i'm going to count it! The loop on my hook does not count as a chain, but each of these v's all the way down the chain counts and when i say the v's, what i'm talking about is this left leg and right leg of the stitch. So i have one chain here: that's two there's three and there's four. I have four chains so far. Let'S get to ten, so here's five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten. So when i look at my chain, i have nice even chains, they're all about the same size going up and down the chain. So i know that when i put stitches into these, it's going to look even you might need to spend some more time here. Making chains is honestly one of the trickiest parts about learning to crochet. So don't be afraid if you don't get this the first time around now again, to recap: here's how we'll count we're gon na look for these little v's on the front. So we've got one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine and this one here makes ten. So this is the front of the chain that we're looking at here. We can also flip over and see the back and on the back, you have what we call our back bumps. So, there's these little bumps here on the back of your chain, which essentially is telling you that your chain is made up of three loops on the front. We'Ve got a fr, basically a top loop and a bottom loop. If we were to flip it over and look at that same stitch here is that stitches back bump. So, depending on the pattern you might be instructed to work into the back bump of a chain. So that's what you would be looking for back on the front here. We have 10 chains for our actual swatch of stitches. I want to go a little bit further, so, let's stitch up six more so there's one two, three four five: six. We now have 16 chains now, let's move into the single crochet to work our single crochet we'll want to find the second chain from the hook. Remember that the loop on the hook does not count as a chain, so instead we're going to find the first and there's the second chain. Here'S the first there's the second we're going to insert our hook under that top loop of the second chain. We'Re going to bring the yarn from back to front over the hook for a yarn over again back to front over the hook for a yarn over and pull up a loop in just the first loop. That'S there on our hook now, just like before we were doing our chains, i'm making sure that the loops on my hook make their way down the hook so that they stay the same size. I'M going to now yarn over my hook again from back to front and i'm going to pull through both of these loops. I have now created, what's called a single crochet now what i'm going to do, since this is my first row, is i'm going to take one of my stitch markers and i'm going to insert it under the two top loops at the top of that stitch and The reason i'm going to do that is because, when you're learning to crochet, sometimes it can be a little tricky to know what your first or last stitch of a row is to make sure you keep even edges. So these are going to be kind of like our training wheels and when we don't need them anymore, we'll take them out, but for now we'll leave them in. So that is one single crochet. It went into this chain. You can tell because that chain is now kind of elongated, so you can tell that there is a stitch in that chain, so we'll want to now go to the next chain and make another single crochet. That next chain is right here. So this is the chain we worked into. The next chain is right: here, i'm going to go into that top loop. I now have two loops on my hook. I'M going to yarn over and pull through just the first loop, still two loops on my hook. I'M now going to yarn over and pull through both of those loops to complete the single crochet. So now i have two single crochet stitches: let's keep going into the next chain yarn over pull up a loop two loops on your hook, yarn over and pull through. Two insert your hook into the next chain: yarn over pull up a loop yarn over pull through two loops insert into the next chain, yarn over and pull up a loop two loops on the hook, yarn over and pull through both loops and we'll repeat that all The way down the chain, so i'm being careful to make sure i just pull up a loop in that top loop of my chain. So i'm consistent throughout making nice even single crochet stitches, insert yarn over pull up a loop insert or yarn over rather and pull through two insert yarn over pull up a loop yarn over pull through two looking here. How many chains do i have left? I'M counting one two and three so i know i have three stitches left to the end of my row. So here's one here's two and here's three. So let's talk about counting our stitches, we have two different ways to kind of look at our stitches. We can either look at the post or the loops at the top. We end up with a little v for the post or the body of our stitch. Now, in addition to the post or the body, we also have these bars here at the top, we'll call them loops. So we have our front loop, which is the one that's closest to us this one right here and we have the back loop of that same stitch, which is the one that's furthest from us. Both of these loops are part of this stitch, so i can count this v here at the top of the stitch when i'm counting my stitches. So that's what i'm going to do. I'M going to go back to my marked stitch. I know that this was my first single crochet right here, so looking at the v's along the top, i count. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Stitches. I have 15 stitches in this tiny little swatch here so now that i've established that i have 15 stitches, at least for the rest of this video. You should always end with 15 stitches. So let's turn our row and make another row of single crochet together. So when i'm turning my row for single crochet, i'm going to start with a chain one and what that does is it gets my working yarn up to the correct height for my next row, i'm going to chain one and then i'm going to turn my work. So, whereas before i was looking at the front of my stitches, i'm now looking at the back of the row i just completed so when it comes to finding my first stitch. This is my live loop. That'S on my hook. My chain is just below it because i chained one, so i know my stitch is just below that. If i pull my work apart, it creates a natural hole here. So, whereas before we were working into chains now we're actually going to be working into stitches. So again pulling my work apart. I can see that natural hole that the single crochet creates. I'M going to place my hook into that hole. That puts me under both the front and back loop of that stitch. I can now yarn over pull up a loop. I can now yarn over and pull through those last two, so that is my first single crochet just like before i'm going to put a stitch marker into this stitch. So i know when i get back around to here what my last stitch is. So i just put it under the two loops of that single crochet and now i can continue on my row. So remember: we've established that we have 15 stitches, so we can now count as we go across, so that was one. My next stitch is right here again just pulling it apart, so i can see it. I can also look at the top to find those two v's, i'm working under those two v's making sure i catch both of them and not just one of them. I'M going to yarn over pull up a loop yarn over pull through two next stitch under both loops of that next stitch. Yarn over pull up a loop yarn over pull through two and continue that across finding that next stitch, either by the v's at the top or the body of the stitch going right into that hole. Insert yarn over and pull up a loop yarn over pull through. Two insert yarn over pull up a loop yarn over pull through two and we're going to repeat that across to make our single crochet stitches, so here's where our training wheels come into play. I know that my marked stitch is the last stitch in my row, so i don't have to guess about where that last stitch is meant to go. I'M just going to drop this marker out go into where that stitch marker was making sure again, i'm catching both loops of that stitch and completing my single crochet from here i'm going to chain one so remember for a single crochet, we start with a chain one At the beginning of our row and turn our work just like before i'm now looking at the back of the stitches from my previous row, and i can work my first single crochet so remember, we've got our live loop on our hook, our chain just below that And our first stitch just below that, i can open up my work and find that stitch and that's exactly where my hook is going: placing a single crochet there, i'm going to now mark that stitch. I'M not dropping my training wheels yet pop that right in there and then i can continue single crocheting across the row. There we go, and now again my last stitch i know is marked with this purple marker, i'm just going to drop that marker insert my hook under both loops of that last stitch and complete my single crochet. So these are our single crochet stitches. It is the first stitch that you typically learn when i'm looking at the stitch again remember in the body i'm going to see a little v here and i'm going to see a larger v here at the top to delineate the loops of that stitch. Now, let's move on to the half double crochet, so for my half double crochet, i'm going to use this same swatch, i'm going to make sure i'm sticking to 15 stitches. So, if you're ever concerned, if you're doing it right, just make sure you go back up to those v's at the top and count your stitches for a half double crochet, my personal preference is to leave the turning chain. The same. I'M gon na keep it at one, so i'm going to chain one and turn my work and just like before i've got my live loop. My chain and my first stitch is here and that's where i'm headed i'm going to yarn over my hook. First, so bringing the yarn from the back to the front around the hook. I'M then going to insert my hook into that next stitch insert just like that. I'M going to yarn over again and pull up that loop. So, whereas before for the single crochet, we had two loops on our hook at this point, we now have three i'm going to then yarn over and pull through all three of those loops. It also helps that i've pulled those loops way down on my hook. So i know they're the right size, i'm also creating some tension here by pulling my work slightly away from my hook, so that my hook head can easily glide down these three loops, just like that for a half double crochet, so just like, before with the single Crochet, i'm going to find the top two loops of the stitch i just made and insert a stitch marker just so i know what my first and last stitches are. I think i might switch out my stitch markers these are too sharp. I think this will work better yep slide that right in there and this one locks, so i can leave it just right there. So going back to my work, i can go right into my next stitch right here with a half double crochet. Again, it's yarn over from back to front i'm going to insert my hook into the stitch, making sure that i'm grabbing both loops of that stitch yarn over pull up a loop. I'Ve got three loops on my hook, yarn over pull through all three loops on the hook. So what we can already notice is that half double crochet stitches are taller than single crochet stitches. They look a little bit different on the front as well as the back. We'Ll look at the back momentarily so again to start our stitch. We'Re going to yarn over from back to front around the hook, insert our hook into the next stitch yarn over pull up a loop three loops on my hook, bringing those loops down oopsie bringing those loops down. So i've got enough space on each one so that they're evenly sized yarn over the hook and pull through all three loops and we'll repeat that down the row. When we're done, we should still have 15 stitches yarn over insert your hook into the next stitch yarn over and pull up a loop yarn over pull through three yarn over insert your hook into the next stitch yarn over pull up a loop yarn over pull through All three, so i know that my last stitch is the one that i've marked here with my locking stitch marker. So i can just drop that marker out making sure i don't lose that stitch and i'm going to place a half double crochet there. Remember it's yarn over insert into the stitch making sure you're catching both loops of that stitch. Then yarn over pull up a loop three loops on the hook yarn over pull through all three. So that's our first row of half double crochet remember for the turning chain. We'Re going to yarn over and pull through one that turning chain just makes us establish the correct height that we need. We can turn our work, find our live loop, our chain just below it in our first stitch, goes right in here. So now, with a half double crochet, looking at the back, we see that it has what we call a third loop. So if we look at the front of our work or the front of our half double crochet stitches as at least here's the post of the stitch, you can see kind of a long bar here. You'Ve got the other side of the v here and then it's got a bar going across the top up. Here we've got the two loops remember the front loop, which is the one that's closest to us in the back loop, which is furthest from us. But if we rotate our work a little bit towards us, we'll notice that the half double crochet also has what we call a third loop when we flip our work over. That third loop is what i'm seeing horizontally across here. So when i go to work my stitch with a single crochet, it was really really obvious exactly where the hook goes here. It looks like i'm creating two different holes again. If we go to the top of the stitch find the v that creates the top of that stitch, i know that i'm going just underneath that to make sure i'm catching those two loops so for my first half double crochet, i'm going to yarn over my hook Insert my hook just under those top two loops and complete my half double crochet stitch, i'm going to put my marker back in because i'm kind of loving these training wheels and then i can work. My half double crochet across my row. I'M going to yarn over find those top two loops insert my hook just under those top two loops, but again making sure i catch both of them yarn over pull up the loop yarn over pull through all three yarn over insert in the stitch yarn over pull Up a loop still making sure those loops make their way down my hook, i'm going to yarn over pull through all three and repeat that across here at the end of my row. My last stitch is marked here with my stitch marker, so i'm just going to drop my marker work, my last stitch making sure i still just catch the top two loops of that stitch yarn over pull up my loop yarn over pull through all three. So now that i've gotten the hang of the half double crochet stitch, the moment of truth is going to be. Am i maintaining my stitch count? Do i still have 15 stitches? So let's check i'm going to start with this marked stitch over here, so this counts. As one again, i'm counting from the v's on the top, so this is 2 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, here's 14 and 15. we're doing great. So now we can move on to the double crochet so for the double crochet as well. I like to make my turning chain just one. This is usually where i catch a lot of flack, because the double crochet is pretty tall, but to keep these nice clean edges here. For my single crochet, half double crochet and double crochet, my turning chains are always one everybody. Does it a little bit different? So just find the process that works best for you, i'm going to now turn my work. I'M looking at the back of my half double crochet stitches, i'm going to first find where my stitch is meant to go. So i've got my live loop, my chain just below. That is my stitch. I'M going to make sure that i'm only going to catch the top two loops of that stitch. So for a double crochet. It starts off just like a half double crochet, i'm going to yarn over my hook, i'm going to then insert my hook into the stitch yarn over and pull up a loop still got those same three loops on my hook for a half double crochet. I would yarn over and pull through all three loops, but for a double crochet. We'Ve got two steps here: we're going to yarn over and pull through just the first two loops. So if you want, you can kind of fit your finger between that second and third loop to make sure you don't catch that third loop, but we're just going to pull our hook through these first two loops. Just like this, and then we're going to yarn over and pull our hook through these last two loops, just like that and that's how we get a double crochet see how tall that is compared to a half double and compared to a single i'm gon. Na put my training wheels back on, insert that stitch marker and lock it down. I'M going to continue double crocheting across my row so remember. I start with a yarn over i'm going to find my next stitch making sure i just work under those top two loops. I'Ve yarned over insert my hook into the stitch yarn over and pull up a loop three loops on my hook, i'm going to yarn over and pull through two yarn over and pull through two. I know that my stitch is complete when i only have one loop left on my hook, and i can move on to my next stitch yarn over find the next stitch working under just the top two loops of that stitch. Insert yarn over pull up a loop yarn over pull through just two yarn over pull through two again, so just so, you know, with my double crochet, i'm being very mindful to make sure that every loop that makes it onto my hook makes it all the way Down my hook, so i'm still making sure i maintain the right size of my loops yarn over insert yarn over and pull up a loop three loops on the hook yarn over pull through two bringing those down the hook to re-establish that size yarn over pull through Two to finish, the double crochet yarn over pull up a loop yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two yarn over insert yarn over and pull up a loop yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two. So this next stitch is my marked stitch. I know that this is where i'm going from my very last stitch, i'm going to drop my marker and place my double crochet right into that stitch. So, let's take a look at double crochet for a second, so we're looking at the front of the stitch and we have what's called the post, which is basically the body of the stitch. So this whole bit here is the post. So we've got that little v that worked its way around the stitch underneath and then we've got all these other loops going in different directions around our double crochet. So that's the post of the stitch and just like every other stitch, it's got a front loop and a back loop here at the top. We'Ve got our front loop and our back loop. So when we count our stitches across, we can still count our little v's here. Let'S do one more row of double crochet together, so i'm going to start with a chain one and turn my work. So we're going to yarn over insert our hook under those two top loops yarn over pull up a loop three loops on our hook, yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two double crochet in the next stitch. Oh, i forgot my training wheel. Wait! Wait! Wait grab my locking stitch marker. I know i've done two stitches, so this is the one i just completed, and this is the one that i started with. So i'm just again going to pop my locking stitch marker in there and continue my double crochets across so i've got my last stitch marked here with my stitch marker, i'm gon na drop my marker and insert my hook under both loops of that stitch yarn over Pull up a loop yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two. So at this point we have practiced single crochet, stitches, half double crochet stitches and double crochet stitches. Here at the top, we can see the back of these double crochet stitches and the front of these double crochet stitches. Here i can see the front of this half double crochet stitch and the back of this half double crochet stitch just below it. I see the front of this single crochet stitch and the back of this single crochet stitch you'll want to get very comfortable doing what's called reading your stitches, knowing what is the post of your stitch? What is the front of your stitch? What is the back of your stitch? Knowing the anatomy, the loops is going to be really important. Once you get into working patterns, we're going to do one more practice. That is for the slip stitch. I saved that for the end, because i find that slip stitches are easier to work into actual stitches than to work into chains so for our slip stitch i'm going to start again with a chain one and turn my work. I'M not going to worry about my training wheels on this one. This will be our last row on this swatch. So for this stitch, we're going to go under the top two loops of this double crochet, insert our hook, we're going to yarn over and pull up a loop and then we're going to pull this loop through the other loop on our hook just like this, and That is a slip stitch again we're going to go into the stitch yarn over pull up a loop and then pull through the remaining loop on the hook. Slip stitches can be quite tricky because they're already a pretty small and condensed stitch and since you're not creating a lot of movement with this stitch, it can get really tight. So try your best to keep your working yarn loose and keep pretty flexible on the hand. That'S holding the hook so insert yarn over pull up a loop and then pull through the remaining loop on your hook, insert yarn over and pull up a loop. So i'm being really conscious here not to pull this yarn. This working yarn is this loop here on my hook, i'm keeping that loop, nice and high and just pulling right through the loop. That'S on my hook, insert yarn over and pull up a loop pull through the remaining loop. That'S on the hook. Slip stitches are used for decorative purposes to join rows to help you travel from one place to another in your fabric, they're a really versatile stitch. So so i know i have one loop left here or one stitch rather left here, because it's marked i'm going to drop. My marker insert my hook into that last stitch yarn over pull up a loop and yarn over pull through for a slip stitch. So for your slip, stitches there's not really as much to see what it'll honestly look like is that the loops that were at the top of my double crochet just got thicker, but actually these v's here are my slip, stitches, they're, very small and very close to Whatever stitch or chain you put them into, but you can still very clearly identify a front and a back loop. Remember the front loop is the one that's closest to you and the back loop is the one that's furthest from you and just note that that changes when i turn my work, this is now the front loop and this is the back loop. So it's all about perspective when you're pulling front and back loops, but that is our slip stitch. So now we're going to do what's called fastening off. When you see a designer say fasten off in a pattern, it basically means to cut the working yarn to remove it from your project, your swatch, whatever you happen to be working on, i like to leave more yarn than i think i'll need just to make sure That i'm not going to have any issues with my ends: working themself out of the project and me losing all of this hard work. Now i will note that some people recommend doing a chain here before you fasten off. So i finished my last slip stitch. Some people would recommend a chain here and then cut your yarn and pull the loop up. I don't find that to be necessary, because if you leave a long enough lead of yarn here and weave in your ends, those ends aren't going to go anywhere. So i'm leaving a long length of yarn, i'm going to cut it right from the ball and from here i'm going to lift my hook with the loop on it until that loop pops out of my work just like that. So now i'm left with my swatch, and these two ends, so let's make it pretty by weaving in those ends. This is where our tapestry needle comes into play and we'll want to decide which side is the front and the back of our work, since we just did these slip stitches, i'm going to decide that this is the front of my work. So i'm going to weave my ends into the back, so they'll be hidden. We'Ll start with this end. Here, i'm just going to work that, in into the eye of a tapestry needle just like that, and what i'm going to look for are the loops of the stitches just below, where my yarn is coming from. So i'm going to just start working my tapestry needle under several of the loops on the back of my work, and you can work in as many different directions as you want under as many loops as you want weaving in ends is about you feeling secure that Your work is not going to go anywhere; you didn't send it so i'm going to go in this direction for a little while, maybe i'll, flip around and start going. The other way, maybe i'll, go down this way a little bit if you're working with a slippery yarn. You want to take more time to weave in your ends, because it's more likely that that end will work its way out of your yarn, but for something like this honestly, this is overkill. I'Ve done more than enough that end is not going to go anywhere because it's now, basically a maze for it to get all the way back up here and work itself out of my work. So now i'm going to cut my yarn and i'm making sure i'm getting close to my project without actually cutting my project just like that. So that end is right here, but you can barely see it and since i cut so close to my work, it's basically camouflage so now i want to do the same thing with the other end, just thread that end onto my tapestry needle and i'm going to Start working under the loops of some of the stitches here close to the base of my yarn, so i'm pulling through gently not pulling too tight, because i don't want that end of my work to pucker and again just working under a few stitches. This is a cotton and nylon blend, so it's pretty sturdy. It'S pretty strong! I'M not concerned that this yarn is going to try and work its way out and ruin all of my hard work. So again i can now cut my yarn getting close, but not too close just like that and my friends, you just crocheted, and there you have it friends. You'Ve now got the foundation to continue learning and practicing crochet, but what we accomplished today was huge and i want to see it if you've got your little swatch make sure you take a picture and tag me at tl yarncrafts on instagram and facebook. I can't wait to see it. I'M really glad you took some time to learn how to crochet with me today and if you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel. If you want to support my content, you can buy me a coffee. Every bit of those proceeds go right back into tl yarncraft, so i can keep making content just like this. Well, thanks! So much for spending a bit of time with me and i can't wait to see you for the next video bye.