[Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?
Lovette Yewchan
lyewchan at telus.net
Thu Jul 14 19:52:31 UTC 2011
so how do you do it with just your fingers to make sure I am doing it right?
At 12:36 PM 7/14/2011, you wrote:
>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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>[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Theresa Taylor
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>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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