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10 Common Mistakes Crocheters Make and How to Avoid Them

May 30, 2021
Hello creator, it is clear in Eclair

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r II and today I am going to talk about ten

mistakes

that beginner

crocheters

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when they start knitting. If this is your first time on my channel, make sure to hit the subscribe button so you never miss a thing. in any of my video tutorials and reviews on different products and let's go ahead and jump right into talking about today's topic, so when we all start crocheting, there are a lot of things to learn and we often make a lot of

mistakes

. I know I made a lot of mistakes when I started crocheting.
10 common mistakes crocheters make and how to avoid them
I had no idea what I was doing and felt like I was learning a completely new language. I mean, you see all the different abbreviations and different steps, different techniques and it's hard to know what. To do this, we sometimes make mistakes and it's just part of the learning process, so today I'm talking about ten of the most

common

mistakes beginner

crocheters

make when they're starting out. I asked for their opinion and advice on things that you struggled with when you were first starting out and these are some of the mistakes that I made when I was a beginner in crochet, so I hope that these tips and these different things that I'm going to share today will help you get there.
10 common mistakes crocheters make and how to avoid them

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Whether you are new to crocheting or even experienced, you can be more confident and know what to look for when crocheting, so let's go ahead and jump right into these ten mistakes that beginners often make. and How You Can Avoid Them One of the most

common

mistakes beginner crocheters make when starting out is being able to tell which chain is which in a strand of chain stitches. This was something I really struggled with as a beginner crocheter. I couldn't tell if it was this loop on the crochet hook my first stitch was this the first stitch or that one like how can you tell if it was hard enough for me, but once I got it up, it's actually very easy and you can right away like this So if you are a beginner in crochet or even if you have experience, how do you know what the first chain stitch is?
10 common mistakes crocheters make and how to avoid them
Here on your hook you will have a loop here and then there will be another loop right here. that this one on your hook is going on so in total this is your first chain off your hook so this loop right here the next one is the second chain off your hook and if you're doing a project that uses single crochets if you were working a flat piece, will tell you to start knitting in the second chain from your hook, so if it tells you to do that, you'll come to this stitch right here and then you'll do your single crochet at that time, when you do the next stitch, you'll move on to the next chain and you'll do it all the way to the end while crocheting and just keep track of what the next loop is and make sure you don't rework this loop that you just made. a seam, so if you're having trouble keeping track of which loop you just worked on and which loop is next, a trick I found is that I'll just lay my piece on the table and then line it up. my stitches with the chain stitch because sometimes it curves and then you don't notice it, so I just put it on my table and then I can see, okay, this chain here, which is the chain that I just worked on, like this I want Go to this one, so if you're having trouble keeping track, do that and soon you'll easily be able to tell what all the strings are as you go down the row.
10 common mistakes crocheters make and how to avoid them
Another common mistake is not knowing how to maintain your project. Straight, sometimes when beginner crochet starts, the project that is supposed to be a square starts to curve or go in all kinds of different directions. I definitely came across this when I started knitting and I even had a friend when I showed her her project. It ended up shaped like a horseshoe instead of a tea towel, which is what we were doing, so this is a very easy mistake to solve and prevent from happening, so here I have a piece that I already lined up and I I was left alone. knitting in the next row so I have three stitches left here and this in your last stitches here is where you keep it from not being straight, so you will see here I have this last loop and the one from a stitch in the previous row that you will be working on now, you want make sure that when you're working on this stitch you just want to put a single crochet there that you don't want to go and make a stitch in this loop right here, but you just want to stay and do it in the last stitch, so if they told you to do it in this row, it would be turned like this and then you'll have this loop right here at the end, just make a dot there unless your project requires it. to make an increase there, but this is the most common place to make the mistake of adding an increase where you don't need it, sometimes it will happen in your project in the row here and you'll accidentally make another one. you sew where you don't need it and also sometimes it will happen, so say you're chaining one and turning to start the next row, you want to make sure that why you put your first stitch in this first loop right here, which is a last single crochet. that you did in the previous row, so when you turn you need to keep your work straight like this and then you'll do your single crochet there and then you can do a single crochet along yours, it's very easy to do.
Sure, if you just do that and follow where your stitches are to keep your project straight and prevent it from curling as you do different crochet patterns, you'll come across this word gauge now, what exactly is gauge when I was learning to knit? I decided that oh I can totally ignore this word and I don't have to do what it says because I don't understand it, that was so wrong, I ruined so many crochet projects because I didn't gauge, so what is gauge? the number of stitches and rows you can fit into a four by four inch square, so this is known as a gauge swatch and every crochet pattern will require you to do this to ensure your crochet projects turn out exactly the same. size that the pattern maker made yours in if you are making garments, this is especially useful and necessary because you want to make sure that the stitches and rows you make match the quantities they have for the size you have if your gauge is not the right one. your project will turn out bigger and then it won't fit you, it will be too loose or if it's too tight then it will be too small, so how can you tell if your gauge matches?
What they say is that you will make a square of the number of points that they say and then you are going to take a tape measure or ruler and you want to see well where my four inch mark is here and in this row then you will count how many points I have I have one, two , three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, twelve points and then I'll turn it over and line it up right here to see, how many rows do I have to get to four inches? one two three four five six seven so my gauge for this swatch is twelve stitches per rose, if your projects require something different than what you have and you say you have too many stitches here then you'll want to go down a hook size, but if you have too few stitches then you will go to ground, if you have too many stitches then you will want to increase the hook size because you need to have less stitches, if you have too few stitches and you need to go down a hook size because you need to get more stitches, so to get more stitches, Go with a smaller hook size to get fewer stitches as you go with a larger hook size and you will learn how to gauge.
As you continue doing different crochet projects, but this is definitely something you should make sure you always do with your crochet, another mistake I often wasn't knitting in my ends correctly. Now what are our extremes exactly when you start knitting frequently. It's hard to know what you're talking about when you talk about weaving in the ends so that your ends are those little strands of yarn that are those extra bits that are left over when you start and when you make a color change or when you finish your pattern, you'll be left with this long thread. like this you will go through the last little loop of your project.
This is a small sample I made as an example so I can show you how to properly leave the ends. Now, when some of the tools that you can use for weaving and finishing are things like this tapestry needle or your crochet hook, I often like to use just a tapestry needle because it helps me get a more precise weave on this sample here, so what what? What I'm going to do is thread the yarn needle and this is something that I've found has made it much easier for me to weave the ends and then when you weave the ends you're going to weave it through the stitches so you move the needle through the different parts, but you don't want to go down like this, so if you're going to pass the points this way and you're going in a straight line, it's very easy for that to come out if it's stretched out so you can pull it out very easily since I can grab it so it can come out very easily, whereas if you leave it in more of a zigzag shape it's harder for this little thread to come out and if you don't If you weave the ends correctly, your ends will definitely come out when you're done with

them

, so what What I do is start with one like this, then I'll come down here and move in kind of a crazy little zig. -Zag the pattern and go up and down to make a little Z almost or like different shapes as I knit this and then this helps keep the yarn from coming out once I've trimmed the rest of the end so you want to work. a curved shape not up and down or just this straight weave because it will come out a lot easier so just go ahead and keep going through all of these and then you're going to have to be a Zigzag over here to make it harder to come out and once that you've gone as far as you think will stay safe, you'll be able to cut this end off like this and then it'll be very well hidden within your sample, so now you won't be able to notice it. there is an end there and it will stay nice and safe there so remember not to do it straight across or straight down, move in a zig zag to keep it safe.
Another common mistake when starting crochet is not how to properly join the rounds when you crochet in the round and join, so when you join you start with a row of chain stitches like this and then, which can get tricky when you have very long chains. is to make sure that when you put

them

together it doesn't get tangled now, this is a pretty short chain so it's a little bit easier to make sure that it doesn't twist or twist because if you have it where it twists and coils like maybe like this, so They're like chains, your stitches along the edges will get crooked and then the bottom will look really a little weird and it won't have the smooth, clean look that you want, so when you join rounds, what I do is my little trick.
Sometimes I'll put my chain on the table just to make sure this thing is flat. I can do this and then I'm going to run my hook through this first chain stitch here, I'm going to bring my yarn over there and then I'm going to run the slip stitch over to join these stitches together so you can see that now we have a nice little circle and it's not twisted or it's just nice and straight and even exactly how we want it to be, so start the first round in these chain stitches where you'll join as you start with one chain if you're doing a single crochet row and two chains if you're doing a single crochet row double or a row of half double crochet, then you start each round by doing a chain stitch and then you're not going to knit in this stitch that you did in the slip stitch, you're going to knit in the next one, so since I only did one, let's go to do single crochet here and then single crochet all the way around and Notice that we have this loop right here to mark the beginning of our round where we did that chain stitch, so you're going to want to keep trying that while you're doing a single crochet around this circle of chain stitches to get to the At the end of our round here you'll see that we have this nice little row of single crochets over here and just make sure to keep track of the first chain stitch that you made and then we'll do two more single crochets here. and then one more in the next stitch and when I started knitting, the mistake I made all the time was knitting in this stitch where the chain stitch came from.
Now you want to make sure you keep track of this and stop before this point right here where your chain stitch started because if you do that and here your number of stitches will be off of what you want in your round so when you join the rounds always you stop at the point. right before this one with a chain stitch coming out of it and then you'll join the end of the round to the beginning by going through that chain stitch and then slipping the stitches and if you mess up and you like to count the stitches it comes undone because you crochet there , it's very easy to fix, you just undo the loop back to where you joined it and then you can just take this stitch out and join it again or if you've gone too far and you don't want to go back, which I always recommend taking it out just to make sure your knitting projects be easy and you can even always add a decrease at the end or somewhere in the middle to decrease the number of stitches, but always stop just before this point where you started your round and then just do a slip stitch to join and you won't have any problem joining in the round.
Another common mistake when starting to knit is not knowing how to read a crochet pattern correctly, so here is my crochet pattern for me, she sells seashell tops and this is a raglan top for beginners, so theMost patterns will always start with an intro page like this one here and then the next page will have everything related to your supplies, which I called the ingredients list in your supplies area. It will tell you how much thread you need for the different parts of the job, there are colors and this one there are two colors. I use it.
It will also tell you what weight of yarn you need and the size of your crochet hook. So there will always be a part with the points. and abbreviations that are used within this pattern, so this will help you be able to read your pattern correctly as well as know what techniques you need to know beforehand, so if you're making something that has different sizes, you'll have something like this where It will tell you the different bust sizes you need for a sweater for example, like what we are doing with this top pattern, so I have listed all the different sizes up to 5x and then you will also have a gauge section that will tell you how many stitches are in a four by four inch square using the stitches that you are using in this pattern as well as the pattern notes which I call recipe notes and this tells you different things that you need to know beforehand, like what kind of terminology I am using EE If a chain two at the beginning of a row counts as one stitch, this is basically the place to go so you can make sure you can read your pattern correctly later on, so this is like one of the most important parts to pay attention to is basically starting point with your supplies, your stitches and the pattern notes so you know how to read the next pattern and then into the pattern if you're making something that has multiple parts. like this one, I have it divided into a neckline that joins the body, you have the increase rows and the rest of the pattern that tells you how to do each step, so you want to make sure you understand these parts that you're reading and you know where the different things happen things in the pattern and what places they will be, so you want to make sure you know how to read the stitches and what notes you need to keep in mind with the patterns so that you can read it correctly and make sure you always read your patterns completely before you start dating from the last section.
Another mistake often made is not reading the pattern completely, which can completely ruin your knitting and give you pause. Halfway through making the pattern, so how can you

avoid

it? Make sure you read the pattern completely, which means reading the different sections and the different rows and rows so you understand what is happening in the pattern, especially pay attention to the stitches. They are used so that in case you need to learn a new stitch in this pattern, you can learn it in advance so you don't have to start halfway through the pattern and then miss the mistake and have to pause and then come back to it as well.
Please note the notes section, so it will tell you what techniques are used in this pattern and what things to look out for and when, such as when you have a chain at the beginning of the round that doesn't count as a stitch and a stitch count and in this pattern, because it's a raglan, it's divided into a couple of different sections, so if you've never made a raglan before, it's key to read it and see, how does the pattern work? Explains how to do this, how I make a raglan, and what parts you won't need to know.
Raglans are super simple, so this pattern doesn't have much in terms of complicated stitches or anything like that, but you should make sure to read it carefully. This to understand what I'm doing in this process, you also want to make sure you read, "Okay, where should I stop increasing my size?" or "where should I continue to increase my stitches?", as well as keeping in mind the stitch counts at the end of each round so you can always stay on track with your size in your pattern, so it's very important to make sure you read the pattern completely because you want to be immediately successful with your pattern and start working. the best possible start to

avoid

many different mistakes just by reading your notebook.
Another way to work in the round is to do continuous rounds. Continuous rounds do not involve joining, so you are always working continuously in a circle and increasing in even points along that circle to make the circle larger. This is very important. This tip here is: You should always make sure you have the first stitch of your row marked with a stitch marker. I have a crochet stitch marker here. but I have also used bobby pins or even strands of yarn to mark the beginning of my round. Now you might be wondering why I need to use a stitch marker to keep track of everything if you're doing continuous rounds and megumi or other stuffed animals even on garments it's very easy to lose track of the increases you're doing here and you lose track.
Count all the stitches you are making, so say that your round starts with 10 stitches and you add 5 more on that round. You will have a total of 15 points and sometimes when you make those points it is very easy to forget them. Oh wait, where did I start? Where did I start? When you join in the round, each round is marked with a chain stitch, but when you do continuous rounds, it's not marked with that, so I always put a stitch marker on the first stitch of my round, which is right here, so I'm going to work that stitch and then I'm going to put the stitch marker back in there and then you can knit around it. and when you get to the points marker you will be able to know exactly where you started your row.
This is a really quick and easy tip to make sure you always know where the start of your turn is when doing continuous turns and if you do this it will be very easy to keep track of another word you will hear and your projects is the phrase tension tension se refer to the tension of your stitches some projects, especially those that are for summer and spring, use a fairly loose stitch tension because they want to have more fluid designs and other projects will have a tighter tension so that the fabric is tight like in these samples here , so I use to make this a 5 weight yarn and a 9 millimeter hook, so I say I wanted to If I have even tighter stitches than this, then I'm going to want to go down to a smaller hook size.
Let's say I want to have looser and larger stitches and I'm going to increase the hook size to a 10 millimeter size, so then as I say with this it will give me larger stitches than what I did before even though we are using exactly the same weight of thread and making the exact same stitches so you can even say here that these stitches are already bigger than these ones that I made down here, another way you can change your tension and how your tension is affected is how tight you pull the stitches when you're knitting so if you say you do your crochet stitch here and you're pulling this all the way tight so there's no room for the hook to move and you do this and then you tighten it even tighter and push it down , your stitch is going to be very flat, so it's going to be a little bit flatter than what's here, but say if you don't.
You actually have tension on your hook and you're just doing this and you're doing the exact same stitch, but look how loose it is because your tension was too loose, so one trick I always do is just do a sort of Manimal. We pull the thread as I work it and then you just want to make sure it's tight but not too tight. You want to have some breathability and your stitches, but you don't want it to be too loose and while you crochet. You will learn your special way of how to make tension and keep it the same because you want your tension to be the same throughout the project.
One of the most common mistakes I made when I started knitting was not understanding how to use the proper size yarn and hook for a pattern, so your pattern will give you a list of supplies that will tell you the weight of the yarn and also the hook size you need. Now you need to make sure you always do what the yarn weight and hook size WA, the pattern tells you, otherwise your pattern will come out completely different. Let's say you're using a DK weight thread or a 3 weight thread like this DK cotton thread. You can see it's quite thin and small so this will be something you'll want to use a small hook size for and on the back of your yarn there will always be a list telling you the size of the knitting needle and the size of the crochet hook you need.
That yarn weight sometimes patterns will be a different size, which is just one up or one down from what is on the yarn label, but you generally want to make sure you stay within the range of hook sizes that are ideal for your yarn, so I say: I have this yarn and then the pattern calls for a size 5.5 millimeter hook, but I take my size 9 millimeter hook and I say, oh, it will be totally fine, this is the one I have, this is one that I will use well if you make your stitches come out a completely different size than the size you need, so you'll see here if I'm using this giant hook size, my chain stitches are going to be super big, so this is not what I want for this small weight of yarn now, if I were to use the proper hook size that the pattern like this one here calls for, then I would get a much more ideal chain size that I want to see. nice and small, exactly what I want the yarn size to be for my pattern, so if I use the right hook size I will get the right amount of sizes now.
The same goes for heavier yarn weights if I use this bulky yarn correctly. here, which is a 5 weight yarn and I would use a small hook like this, my stitches are going to be very tight because I'm using the smallest hook size which makes my stitches tighter, but I want to use a size 9 millimeters, which is the closest. size you want your yarn to be, so you don't want to substitute different weights of yarn and your patterns, otherwise they will come out in a completely different size, especially when you are making garments because if you use a different hook size than the Measurements that the designer has already determined for you will not matter because your pattern will not have the measurements that they have already determined, so be sure to pay attention to what your pattern requires as well as the manufacturing.
Be sure to read your yarn labels to see what hook size goes with your yarn weight. This video was helpful for you if you are a new crocheter or even if you are experienced and now that you know what mistakes to look out for. I can avoid them as you continue to crochet and your different projects and in this whole process of learning what is crochet, so I can't wait to share another tutorial with you later on, so be sure to hit the subscribe button and like to this video so he can continue making more tutorial videos so we can see each other next time

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