About to throw my crochet hook out of the window...

[PotatoPolly]

Please can someone help me?!

I'm trying to teach myself to crochet, I'd like to make a blanket of granny squares I think (although any other suggestions are welcome!)

I've managed to teach myself the chain stitch and slip stitch, and can do a treble stitch onto a long chain, but the pattern is:

Step Two: Round One
Ch 3 (counts as first tr), 2tr in ring, ch 3, (3tr in ring, ch 3) three times, join rnd with a sl st to top of first ch. Fasten off yarn. Attach next yarn to any 3-ch corner sp of rnd 1.

And I just can't get my head around it!

Pleaaaaase someone save me!

Thanks

[yegodsandlittlefishes]

It
says:

Chain 3

[yegodsandlittlefishes]

It
says:

Chain 3

[yegodsandlittlefishes]

Oops.

It misses out that you start with a ring. (Chain about 5 and join with a slip stitch to make ring, then continue from there).

[droitwichmummy]

Ok, you should already have made a ring.
start by doing a chain of 3.
Do 2 trebles by putting the wool round your hook and then going through the ring to wrap the wool round for the second time
Then do the bit in brackets 3 times.
Finally do a slip stitch in the chain you did to start the round.
Does that help?

[atomicyoghurt]

Presumably the first thing you did was make a ring? Then you are going around the ring making three trebles, then chaining 3 and the doing 3 more trebles in the ring you made in the first round.

Continue on until you have 4 sets of trebles in the ring.

[TheOnlyPink]

Have you tried looking at YouTube tutorials? I've recently learned to crochet by using these!

Also, while I've only made a few granny squares I've never fastened off mid square, you just keep going round. Definitely try a YouTube video, its so much easier when you can see it! Just make sure you get a UK one, I've used American ones and its different terminology!

Good luck! Its so much fun when you get the hang of it!

[atomicyoghurt]

Like this:


pdxpursuit.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/how-to-crochet-a-granny-square/

[yegodsandlittlefishes]

Then it says:

Chain 3 into ring (so put your hook into middle of the ring, over complete chain stitches, no need to fiddle around trying to find part of a particular stitch here.)
The chain 3 is the length of the first treble.
Chain 3 (this forms the corner, so you can treble lots more stitches into it at the next round. You'll need 4 chains like this for a square.

[yegodsandlittlefishes]

Have we tied tou in knots of confusion yet, op?

[atomicyoghurt]

It's not telling you to fasten off in the middle it's telling you to fasten off after the first round, then do a different colour for the next round.

[atomicyoghurt]

Look at the link I posted it has pictures

[Doingthedo]

watch some youtube videos, that's how I learnt!

[u32ng]

3yrs ago I didn't have a clue how to crochet & I started out with a granny square & from there I've made a baby blanket for a friend, teddy bears, amigurimi animals, hats....

What definitely helped me was going to a class & having someone show me so YouTube will definitely be a help.

Also it might be easier to just stick with 1 colour granny squares for now until you get the hang of it & then do colour change ones.

Stick with it!! It's worth it! I had one pattern in particular that drove me absolutely demented as it was circular and I just couldn't get it to work without going wavy, but I just doggedly started again & again until it worked.

[PotatoPolly]

Thank you so much for your help, feeling (sadly) very proud that I've managed to make even the tiniest something!
Was starting to feel a bit despondent, but now I'm inspired to keep trying! I'll try to upload a pic of my weeny square :)

[MILLYmo0se]

Im very impressed PotatoPolly ! I started trying to teach myself, got as far as learning the basic stitch and then gave up !

[droitwichmummy]

Well done! Keep going and you will get there.
When you get stuck YouTube is your friend (as well as MN of course!)

[PookBob]

Keep going!

Definitely watch some you tube videos, it all becomes really clear. Crochet written down is no good until you are more confident.

Keep going and update with your progress :)

[yegodsandlittlefishes]

Keep at it.
It looks as if you would find it easier to use a slightly bigger hook with that weight of yarn (judging by the density of the stitches) but that can also get better with more practice and being careful to feed more yarn into every stitch at key points, until it becomes automatic.

[OwlCapone]

Whereabouts are you? Often there are MNers who are willing to help in person for cake

[Lonecatwithkitten]

In addition to you tube videos Attic 24 blog has little tutorials with loads of pictures and wonderful descriptions.

[TendMagazine]

I needed someone to actually show me crochet, and I still don't like it that much. Get a real person to help.

[PotatoPolly]

I knew MN would save me!
I'm in the south east
I've got 5 weeks now I'm on mat leave til my due date so will be doing as much as possible
thank you very much... off to persevere again, I'll try to update with pictures (when I get somewhere!)

[TimrousBeastie]

i find moogly and attic 24 have really good guides that covers most of what you'll need. i taught myself using there patterns etc

heres mooglys video for the granny square
www.mooglyblog.com/how-to-crochet-granny-square/

[MrsGubbins]

I found these youtube videos very helpful, although she does use American terms but I was taught originally with US terms, she explains each stitch in every video before she does them.