How to chain stitch first of all you want to make a slipknot so take your finger like this
put the yarn over and then make a cross so bring that small piece of yarn forwards so
it's coming in front of this piece then bring this piece around your finger and hold with
these two fingers bring the back one over the front insert your hook in here pull tight and
you have made your slipknot what we're now going to do is chain so in order to chain you want to
hold your yarn I usually wrap it round my finger around my little finger and around my index finger
you want to hold this small piece of yarn here with your finger and thumb your middle finger
in your thumb you want to yarn over so to yarn over you bring your hook around the back of the
yarn so pushing it away from you twist your hook and pull it through and that is your first chain
yarn over twist your hook pull it through so now we have three chains to this particular chain so
usually when you are starting a piece of work you will need to chain and this is called your
foundation chain yarn over pull it through yarn over pull it through as the chain gets longer
you want to move your fingers up along with the chain so that you are not pulling too tight or
making it too loose if you are struggling to get your yarn through this particular
chain then you are put in too tight here so loosen up your hand slightly so that it can
pull through easily also what you don't want to happen is you pull too much on here and it
makes your chains too loose so it makes a much larger chain so what you want to make
sure that you're doing is you're following your fingers up along the chain and that
you are keeping both these two fingers and the hand holding your hook nice and relaxed
in order to count your chains you don't count the one that's on your
hook and you count down these ones so we have one two three four five
six seven eight nine ten eleven chains I'm going to keep going until we get to twenty