If you have just bought your first ball of yarn and first crochet hook, then this is the right blog post for you on your next few steps. Before you can start crocheting, it is very important to figure out how to hold your yarn and crochet hook! If you do not get this part right, it could mess up your tension in your project, make it turn out ugly and cause you to have painful wrists! Before you know it, you may give up crocheting before you gave it a chance!

If you have always wondered which side of the crochet project is the right side or the wrong side, then hopefully you get the answers here! There is a combination of various ways to do this, some by just visually looking at your project and some by the techniques you actuallly use when crocheting. By the end of this post, you should know your right from your wrong very easily!

Even wondered about the front loop only and back loop crochet stitches? Or maybe you never even know that you have been working into both loops? If you are wondering what's the difference and what's the point then you are in the right place. 

Decreasing crochet stitches can be quite confusing for new crocheters. Increasing crochet stitches just involves doing multiple stitches in the same stitch. On the other hand, decreases can include a simple decrease, an invisible decrease or even a cluster of stitches. I will go through each of them individually below. 

Increases in crochet stitches create a wider appearance while decreases in crochet stiches create a narrower appearance. This is important for shaping in general, especially for amigurumi projects, when creating 3D shapes and structures. By combining changes in width and changes in stitch heights, you could create many different variations in amigurumi shapes.