How to do Single Crochet and Slip Stitch
This is my fourth tutorial in my ‘Back to Basics’ series.
Single crochet is the simplest stitch to make and what is used most of the time. You can use it in a chain or in a round like a magic circle. If you want to know how to make a magic circle, check out the previous blog post.
Slip stitch, on the other hand, is great for ending off or for adding a flatter stitch to your amigurumi.
How to do Single Crochet
I’m using a darker blue and lighter blue yarn for easier illustration, this is not a changing colours tutorial, it will be covered later on. The steps involved for making the sc in a round are very similar to in a chain, in this case, the steps are for a round.
In step 1 in this example, I’m doing a single crochet into a new round. The hook insertion is into the 1st sc of the previous round.
After you yarn over and pull through the yarn, you should have 2 loops on the hook. These steps 1-3 are the same for making a slip stitch, as you will see later on in this tutorial at the bottom.
Having completed steps 4-5, you should end up with 1 loop on the hook again. There you have your first single crochet in the round! You can continue doing this all around the rest of the round.
How to do Slip Stitch
As mentioned previously, steps 1-3 above for making the sc are the same for starting off a slip stitch.
After you yarn over and pull through yarn through desired stitch, you will similarly end up with 2 loops on the hook. Only this time, use the crochet hook to hook the left-most loop THROUGH the right-most loop.
What you will end up with is a flatter stitch along the round. Note that slip stitches are frequently used to end off because inserting a crochet hook into a slip stitch subsequently can be tight and difficult.
These are the 2 shortest stitches you can make in a round or a chain, next up I will be discussing how to make a half double crochet, which is a taller form than that of a single crochet.
