CARLITTO PATTERNS BLOG

My Carlitto Patterns blog has lessons on how to crochet.  Check out the Archives for posts, with links to videos on how to chain stitch, single crochet, double crochet, fasten off, and weaving yarn ends.  As well, you will find links so you can make a beginner scarf, as well as a beginner summer shawl!

Find them all by clicking into the Archived Posts on the right of the screen.

My youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/shannon12345637
My Pattern Shop: www.Carlitto.etsy.com

CROCHET TIPS, MAKE A SHAWL PIN, OR A HAIR STICK

Crochet shawls, and scarves look lovely with an added shawl pin.

You can make an easy shawl pin, with just a dowel, and a few beads.  If you have access to a drill, you can drill a hole, but if not, you could tighten the wire around the dowel to make it good and secure, the attach another section of wire with beads added to it.  Check out the youtube video on how to do that.  The link is below the photo.

I can show you how to do that in my youtube video.  Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cobBW_-bBA&feature=plcp

HOW TO CROCHET A BEGINNER SCARF

It's always nice to be able to make scarves and accessories for yourself, or to give to friends and family as gifts.  A beginner scarf can be crocheted, using only the chain stitch, and the double crochet stitch.  Choose some yarn colors that you like, get out a crochet hook, and off you go!  In no time at all, you will have your very own creation.  Impress your friends with your crochet skills, and make a bunch of them!

See how easily you can do it.. just watch my video on my youtube crochet channel.  Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZSFXztxMLI 

HOW TO CROCHET, LEARN TO MAKE A BEGINNER SHRUG

After practising how to make a chain stitch, and double crochet, you will be ready to make an easy summer shrug.  Shrugs are easier to make than most people think.  It's really like making a long scarf, and then connecting the two ends to make them into sleeves.  What an easy way to make a summer accessory for when you need just that little something as a cover-up. 

This shrug requires only a foundation chain, and then rows and rows of double crochet stitches.  A great free crochet pattern so you can whip up some of these in any size imaginable!!

Watch it now, as I show how easy it's done, right here on my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0Eq2QjTGg

CROCHET 101, HOW TO FASTEN OFF AND WEAVE IN, IN CROCHET

When you crochet a project, you will need to know how to finish off.

Learn how to "Fasten off" and "Weave In Yarn Ends" by watching me do it on my youtube channel!
Many people wonder just exactly what it means to "fasten off", but after watching this video, you will know for sure.  As well, if not done right, sometimes the yarn ends will work themselves out and peek through.  With this method shown in the video, there is no change of that happening, as you weave in 3 different directions, which secures the yarn so that it can't wiggle around and loosen up.

Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bfbZ068_M

CROCHET 101, HOW TO MAKE A DOUBLE CROCHET STITCH

Off we go, you have learned how to chain stitch, and single crochet from my previous posts... now you can make the double crochet.

The double crochet is a tall stitch, and gives you much mileage for little effort.  To make a double crochet stitch, wind the yarn around the hook one time, then insert the hook through the next stitch, and pull the yarn through.
You will then have 3 loops on the hook, so you again pick up the yarn, and pull it through 2 stitches.  You will have 2 stitches remaining, so pick up the yarn, and pull it through 2 loops again.  Voila!  You just made a double crochet stitch.  Would you like to watch it being made?  Check the link below this photo.

Watch me do it now, right here on my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj0uoy27i3w

HOW TO CROCHET 101, LEARN TO SINGLE CROCHET

So now that you know the first thing about crochet, (making the chain stitch), you can now learn how to single crochet!

The single crochet stitch is one of the basic stitches in crochet.  It's pretty easy to make, and watching the video on youtube will take all the mystery away.  Click on the link below this photo, and you will be taken right to the single crochet video.

Watch it now on my youtube channel, right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVvwgvsjGV0

CROCHET 101, LEARN HOW TO CROCHET

To begin in crochet, you will need to know how to do the chain stitch.  The chain stitch is involved in everything in crochet.  You cannot begin a crochet project without the chain stitch, it's an absolute necessity.

It's called a chain stitch, because once completed, it really looks just like a chain!  And it's so easy, you could do it with your fingers, and not need a crochet hook at all.  Check it out in the link below, and see exactly how it's done.  Then practise, practise, practise! 

You can see a video here on my youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP1XbZdj2dY