[Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?

[Zimmer, Cindy]

Yes, to get this yarn to stay on your hook you have to get ahold  of it and turn your wrist so the hook slit is facing downwards.  Pull the hook with yarn attached through the look on the hook and quickly flip your wrist so the hook rotates and the slit is back on top.  You have completed one chain.

Sometimes, I have people try to just use their fingers to do a chain stitch so they get the feel of that they need to be doing and how a chain should "look".  Then when they get the hang of a  chain I switch them over to the crochet hook.

Cindy Z.

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Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 2:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?

As you are holding the working yarn taught....the hook is going in the same direction and you put it under the working arm and then as Cindy mentioned you use your wrist to get a grabbing motion going...my words...smile and this results in hooking the yarn and then pulling it through the slip knot in kind of the same step.
HOpe this helps.
Theresa

On Jul 14, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Lovette Yewchan wrote:

> I don't understand which way to put the yarn around or how to get it through the loop.
> I dreamed about this last night! *smile*
> No answers yet though.
> Lovette
> At 09:21 AM 7/14/2011, you wrote:
>> Lovette,
>> 
>> What I tend to see when people are learning to crochet is they put too much "Motion" into what they are doing.  It is more of a wrist action.  You rotate your wrist quickly when you are using the crochet hook.  When the hook is up (meaning the slit of the crochet hook is up) the yarn is not able to fall out of the hook.  Make sure you are doing a flip of the wrist rotating the hook up so the yarn will not fall off the hook.
>> 
>> Cindy Z.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lovette Yewchan
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:42 PM
>> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: blindstitchers at googlegroups.com
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?
>> 
>> I am trying to teach myself to crochet. I get the slip knot but how
>> do you then pull the yarn through for another stitch?
>> I just don't quite get the motion needed here and hope someone can
>> use words to describe it.
>> Thanks.
>> Lovette
>> 
>> 
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Reverend Theresa C. Taylor
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