HELP!!! Crotcheting and doing turning chains!!

[CrookshanksinJimmyChoos]

I just can't get hang of it!! How do you do turning chains????? My work just ends up back to front and shapeless heap!

[rantinghousewife]

Right you do your row and then you make the appropriate number of chains for your stitch, so if you're doing double crochet (the UK one) you do 1 chain, half treble, 2 and treble is 3 and then turn the work so that the reverse side faces you.
You make a chain exactly the same way that you do the foundation chains, yrh, pull through loop.

[rantinghousewife]

Forgot to say once you've turned the work just put your hook in the stitch that you need to work your next stitch in.

[CrookshanksinJimmyChoos]

And then you would continue crotcheting into the work with the 'wrong' side facing you or should it end up with the 'right' side facing you?

[rantinghousewife]

When you begin crocheting you will have the wrong side in your left hand and as you crochet it moves towards the right, iyswim. Give me a moment I'll post something you might find useful, gotta find it first.

[rantinghousewife]

If you have adobe, there is a crochet guide on this page here that you can print off but, I have to confess that I got my mum to show me in the end (she's an enthusiastic crocheter) after which it all came clear.

[CrookshanksinJimmyChoos]

Ahhh!!!!! That looks clearer!!!! Oooh....will be trying that tonight....I do love my crotcheting!

You star

[rantinghousewife]

You're welcome, let me know how you get on!

[CrookshanksinJimmyChoos]

I will...I'm left handed though....but hold the hook in my right hand so I guess I crotchet as if was right handed.....I hold the foundation chain in my left hand and work from right to left for the first row though...is that what you do?

[rantinghousewife]

Yes, I hold the hook in my right hand and foundation chain in my left.

[CrookshanksinJimmyChoos]

Oh good! How funny that I'm so left handed with many things, but not crotchet.....