How To: Make A Single Crochet Stitch

Pictures and videos on how to make a single crochet stitch.

There are three possible components to nearly all crochet stitches:

• Inserting your hook into a stitch
  • Assume you should stitch your hook under both the front and back loop, or completely under the V, unless:
    • You are instructed to do “Front Loop Only”,
    • You are instructed to do “Back Loop Only”, or
    • You are doing specific special stitches, such as the invisible decrease stitch.
• Yarning Over (or Yarning Under*), which is basically grabbing the yarn with your hook.
• Pulling the yarn you’ve grabbed through either (i) the stitch you inserted your hook into, or (ii) some or all of the loops on your hook.

*Yarning under is an alternative method to yarning over. If you’re a beginner, just stick to yarning over.

All stitches are a variation in the order and number of times you do these three things.

For the single crochet stitch, you:

1. Insert your hook into the stitch
2. Yarn Over
3. Pull the yarn through the stitch you inserted your hook into
4. Yarn Over
5. Pull the yarn through both loops on hook

Let’s go over that again with screenshots:

And if helpful, here is a 30 second video: