How To Crochet A Blanket | Half Double Crochet Stitch 

Sameeeeeee😅

I learned about a month now and I've made seven blankets already. I'm completely addicted.🤪

@@dtyson you go girl. How much yarn do you need for a blanket? To cover a bed?

@@5thdimension625Thank you! Yes, I'm working on a blanket for my grandson. He now has his own bed😁

How did it ago???

How long has it taken you?

Thank you so much!

Aww I’m glad 😊

Yay!

My mother taught me how to crochet first with my finger, then with a hook when I was a young girl. That was in the 70s. Now I’m 57 and my mom is 92. We have not crocheted in sooo long. Looking forward to making this blanket after re-learning from this video. Hope mom will too. We’ll see.

I really appreciate you taking time to leave me this comment ❤️ I’d recommend you check out some of my slow crochet videos, they’re great for beginners.

Glad I could help 😊

Welcome! 😊

I learned a few new things. Thanks .

@Amber - I'm hoping that you have gotten a remedy to your dilemma. I'm writing this in case others are having problems. I'm a relatively new crocheter, having made a few baby beanies, so I'm no expert. First of all I wouldn't suggest ever using a dark color like black or navy blue or chocolate brown or dark forest green for my first (or even my 10th) project. Been there, done that, not fun! The problem is that the darker colors are almost impossible for a beginner, or even the experts I've spoken to, to see where the individual stitches are. I've had to frog (rip out) more rows due to a missed stitch than I would like to count! Sunlight and the crochet hooks that light up are the only suggestions I've heard that seem to help. My thought with the hook getting stuck is that your tension is too tight. On another crochet video was a comment from another crocheter that her grandmother made her chain 5 chains of 100 chains each every day for 2 weeks before teaching her to crochet! Since that time she's never had a problem with tension. So I decided to try it as I was also having problems with my tension even with having done a few baby beanies. I didn't do 5 chains of 100 each for 2 weeks but I did do about 25 with 2 different yarns. I cannot believe the difference that has made! You don't have to make 5 chains of 100, cut the yarn and start all over again. While I did that a few times as I had some tiny balls of yarn, I also would crochet the chains, without tying them off, then pull out the stitches and do them over again using the same piece of yarn. Using both methods allowed me to keep a few of the cut and saved ones to compare to the ones that I did later. That's when I saw the difference. I HIGHLY suggest trying this.

You only go into the third hole when you chain, this creates your first post. Every row after you want to go into the first hole.

@@KristinsCrochetTutorials thank you much!!! cannot wait to stop "practicing" and get real!

Kristen, you truly are an amazing teacher I’m so happy for you and for me and everyone else! Do I have to count every stitch for every row.? I was hoping to crochet and maybe watch a movie, but I have a feeling I need to be counting and paying attention. Also, Is there anywhere to find how many chain stitches I need for the size blanket I want to create?

I'm not sure what you mean by "bump", do you mean the knot?

@Samantha Lynch - I'm reading this a year later, so I'm hoping you have had your question already answered. But maybe this will help someone else. I think the "bump" you are talking about is the back of the single crochet. Some crocheters call this the camel bumps. The advantage to working into the back bump only is the starting chain looks like the ending of the blanket, so it doesn't need to have a border added. However, it can be difficult for me (a relative beginner) to keep a long chain from twisting, so I use the v (which is the front of the stitch) as shown in the video. You use either/or, not both.

Awesome!!

It’s really up to you and how wide you want each color to be. In this video I did five rows for each color.

When starting your foundation chain row and you tend to have small tight chains try using a hook size one or two sizes larger than the recommended size just to start the foundation chain. Once you get the foundation chain to the desired length you simply switch back to the original hook size for your project. Hope this tip might help.

@Amber, there are crochet blanket patterns that are called mile-a-minute that are specifically designed to do that. This is not one of them.

I didn’t count them. I just kept going until it laid across my lap the way I wanted. With this big of a blanket l, it was probably like 100 or more.

thank you Kristen!! that was a perfect description and example of how I should start! thank you!

@@muttlee1213 H Hu u

I really like Caron. For scarfs I use the “simply soft” because it’s softer on your skin and then the normal one for everything else