How to Crochet: Making a Single Crochet Stitch

So, you want to know how to crochet by using one of the basic stitches. When you know how to make your chain (click here for the tutorial), you're ready for the next step in your journey - learning the basic stitches. The basic crochet stitches are the single crochet (sc), the half double crochet (hdc), the double crochet (dc) and the triple crochet (trc) or also called treble crochet.

Start with your Chain

The single crochet stitch is made by using your chain. Once you have made your chain as long as you need it, make one extra chain. This extra chain will be your first single crochet. You will skip the first chain from the hook, which will use that extra chain you just made. Thus, you will push your hook through the second chain.

To make your single crochet stitch, you need to skip the chain closest to your hook, and enter into the second chain.

How to make the Single Crochet Stitch in Three Steps

Step 1

Push the hook through the hoop of the second chain and grab the yarn.

To make a single crochet you will push the hook through the loop and grab the yarn by wrapping it around from the back.

Step 2

Pull the yarn through the loop to create two loops on your crochet hook.

Pull the yarn through the loop/

Step 3

Yarn over and pull through again.

Yarn over again and pull through the two loops you have created before.

Your single crochet stitch is complete!

Now that you have successfully made your first single crochet, you can continue through the chain and made more by doing exactly this in every chain loop.

The Completed Single Crochet Stitch

When you are done with your first row, you should have something like this:

Completed single crochet row.

To make a second row, you will chain one and turn your work around. This one chain will act as your first stitch every time you start a new row. You can now make as many rows as you want, creating your very first project in any size you want.

With practice you can make this stitch in your sleep. This might be a basic stitch, but with it you can make many great things. You can easily make socks or a beanie by purely using a single crochet stitch.

You can click here to see some ideas to try out. Feel free to share your single crochet creations with us all!