Learning to crochet

[nonamemummy]

So I’m trying to learn to crochet! I started yesterday and so far I know how to make a slip knot and to make a chain. I’ve spent the last 2 hours trying to double crochet, and I just can’t do it. The videos make it seem so easy but I just can’t seem to get it right. Isit something I’ll learn if I just keep trying, or shall I just give up and try something else?

Keep going, try different videos it took me ages to find videos that made it clear for me and I eventually got there. Even now learning a new storing I watch different videos until I find the one that shows it in the right way for it to click.

Keep going! I started learning in November and can now make some pretty cool stuff.
Have you tried Bella Coco tutorials on YouTube? They were the only ones I could make head or tail of.

Have you tried slowing the videos down to half speed? That's what I do when I can't get my head around something fiddly they're doing.

Well done OP getting that far. I learnt online too and its hard. I had to scrawl through tutorials to find ones that were very basic, clear, good lighting and didnt zoom past what I wanted to learn. I did a great deal of watching, starting again, stopping, start again etc. Once you find a tutorial person who clearly demonstrates it, note their name and check their other videos. Best of luck.

Practice practice practice. It will suddenly click!

Keep going.

Bella Coco is good.

It took me an age to learn how to crochet. Blooming weeks before I even made a small square but once you get going, it's great. I make really big blankets now. V satisfying!!!

Thanks so much everyone. I’ll keep trying! I wasn’t sure if it was the sort of thing where if I didn’t get it now, I just wouldn’t haha. But I’ll just practice practice practice and hopefully it will just click!
I’ve been watching (over and over again) Bella coco on YouTube, her videos seem really good. Ahh I’m excited now, I won’t give up

Try starting with a granny square. I found trying to actually get a new stitch into the starting (foundation) chain basically impossible. You don't have to do that with a granny square so you get to just practice the various stitches and get those down.

Now I can work in rows although I still hate the first row.

I started with Bella coco beginner videos last week. Now have made my daughter a hat as well and partway through a different one. It will click! Accept you might get it wrong sometimes but crochet so easy to undo and start again

I have also just started.

A few things - make sure you are using an easy yarn and that your hook is the right size.

I tried my first with very fine yarn - disaster. Got a general purpose acrylic yarn for size 5 hook. Hey presto. So so much easier.

Use a light coloured yarn - much easier to see the stitches.

Keep practicing! You'll get there. It took me ages to learn how to crochet. I started to knit first, but I prefer to crochet once I learned how to do it. Practice practice practice!

Agree with everyone else; practise loads!

I started in October, ignored my friend's advice to try a granny square first (I wanted to make the good stuff, you see!), got myself in a pickle, admitted defeat & spent an afternoon watching Bella Coco make a granny square.

It took hours to make that first square, lots of frogging, lots of stopping and starting, and it's very very loose. But now I can make the stuff I wanted to!

I'm always on youtube/looking something up in my crochet book I got for Christmas, but it's all good :)

Keep at it! And come and join us over on the Knit, Crochet and Natter threads when you're ready. Total newbies very welcome!

I’ve been practicing every day and I can do the double crochet now. I’m getting better everyday what do you all make now? Apart from blankets

@nonamemummy I've made a crochet praying mantis & fly for dd2, loads of among us crewmates, a bee, reindeer at Christmas & snowflakes.

Have a cardigan similar to Taylor Swift's Folklore cardi lined up for dd2, a scarf for me (or shawl, or pocket scarfy wrap thing, when I decide), and wool to make something else for dd2.

The world's your oyster!

@nonamemummy well done. We make all sorts. Blankets. Hats. Scarves. Gloves. Toys. Come and join us on our long(ish) running thread. There's lots of pictures

Good going, nonamemummy! We make all sorts. I mostly make blankets and granny squares but others make amazing amigurumi toys, storage baskets, placemats, scarves, hats etc.

I used the Bella Coco videos to learn to crochet, but actually the way I do it is completely different- I loop my yarn over my hook with my other hand, as opposed to catching it with the hook like she does. I kept trying to do it her way and just ended up with a loose, sloppy mess... my way is slower but it works for me! I still use her tutorials all the time to learn different stitches and patterns though- I’ve been doing a c2c and willow squares this week.