[Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?

[linda]

Hi Lovette,

I'm going to throw my 2 cents in here and add that there are different ways
to hold your hook that may help you.  One is an overhand hold like you would
hold a knitting needle (don't remember if you nit" or like you would hold a
knife.  The other way is to hold your hook like a pencil.  This is the
method I prefer.  I use both, but I do prefer the latter as I have more
control with the tension.  I will say that most of my friends use the
overhand method, but I was taught the other and like it best.

I begin by placing the slip knot onto the hook, then I wrap the working yarn
around the pinky on my other hand, come up under the ring and middle finger
and then over the pointer.  Double wrapping the pinky will add a little drag
on your working yarn and you won't have to clench your pinky to hang onto
the yarn. I then hold the bottom of the slip knot and tail, that is on the
hook , between the middle finger and thumb of this hand.    This will create
tention on the working yarn  between your pointer finger and the slip knot
on your hook.  Using a sort of dip and scoop motion, with the hook facing
down, you go under the working yarn, come up on the far side, bring the hook
forward over the top of the yarn,  angle it down to catch the yarn and then
in a   sort of upward motion, pull it through the slip knot on your hook.
You now have one chain st completed.  Try to relax and not pull the yarn too
tight.  If the stitch on the hook is too tight, it will be hard to get the
hook through it, so relax!  Repeat these steps to make your foundation
chain.

Continue to practice making chains.  This will help you learn how to control
the working yarn and your tension.  When you feel like your tension results
in uniform chain stitches you can move on to row two!.  The first couple of
rows are always the hardest, but practice will  get you there.

Good luck and if I can add any information, just ask!

Blessings, 
Ninn
the_ninn at tx.rr.com
 
-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lovette Yewchan
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 1:25 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crochet help?

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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