Chain Stitch

Now that you have your slip knot on the hook it is time to create a line of stitches using the chain stitch!

Do you remember doing any finger knitting when you were a kid? This crochet stitch is the same as finger knitting. Except instead of forming the stitches over your finger you form the stitch with a crochet hook.

crochet chain stitches
Chain Stitches

How to Make a Chain Stitch

Start with a slip knot.

Holding the hook in your right hand, slip the hook under the yarn so that it lies across the hook in front of the loop already on your hook.

step one - making achain stitch

Catch the yarn under the hook and draw it through the loop.

forming a chain stitch

and you have formed your first chain stitch!

a row of chain stitch

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Sometimes watching someone do it is easier to absorb than static images and written instructions.