How to learn to crochet

How to learn to crochet
 We can say that crochet is much more popular than knitting, and all because of a lot easier to crochet, it is worth to learn a few basic techniques, and can create many variations of products, relying only on your imagination.  

Need to start training with the selection of tools and yarn. Theoretically, the thickness of the hook must be greater than 2 times the thickness of the threads, so to use thick yarn hooks diameter of 6 mm, while the thin - 2 to 5 mm.

Depends on the thickness of the hook density of breeding, so to create a thin air and its products are knitted from thin filaments thick crochet hook is thin in combination with a thick yarn gives a very tight binding.

The hook can be held in two ways: as a knife and a pencil. Selecting convenient way, go to the top of knitting. Picking up the thread, you need to throw it through the index finger on his left hand and hold your thumb. The length of the end of the thread, which runs to the ball of to skip under the middle finger and press the palm, in fact ring and middle finger adjust the thread tension. Hook at this time is in the right hand position as if you were holding a pencil beard left.

For more dense mating hook should be kept anyway, it should be placed in your hand like a knitting needle, which helps to avoid unnecessary movements hook, and significantly reduces the load on the hand. The resulting product is to keep to the left hand, while maintaining constant tension of the thread, and pick up this thread crochet with the index finger.

At first hand will be much strain, and the chain loops would not be too smooth, despite the fact that simple loop aerial created by pulling the thread through the previous loop, so simple that all obtained from the first fold. However, with time and practice the chain will turn out perfectly flat and smooth, even from the web contact form stitches can be made hat, booties or a small sweater for teddy bear.

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