We're now going to work some stitches into this chain in the UK this stitch is
called double crochet in the UK and other countries it's called single
crochet so what we're going to do is start with our second chain from the
hook so it's not the chain on the hook here it's not this first chain we're
going to be inserting our hook into this second chain so if I just open it out
here you can see that space there is where we're going to work into so you
want to insert your hook into this chain I find it quite easy just to hold on to
the piece of yarn the loop on the hook while I'm doing this it just makes me
feel a bit more in control you want to yarn over pull through so there's two
look loops on the hook yarn over and pull through two and that is your first
double crochet or your first single crochet in US terms and you are going
to carry on with this all the way down so insert your hook into your next chain
space yarn over pull through yarn over pull through
try not to pull too tight because it can make your chains that you're about to
work into too tight for you to get your hook into so our next chain
and you want to continue with those stitches all the way down to the end of
your chain once you've got to the end of the row what you want to do is yarn over
and pull through to chain one and then you want to turn your work so that it's
facing the other way now what we want to do is ignore this chain here and then go
into your chain space so if I pull it apart here you can see that chain space
there so if you look at the top of the work here it almost looks like
V's all the way along so we're actually going underneath those V's
into that chain space I turn it round like this it will look like there's two
loops on the hook there so yarn over pull through two loops on the hook yarn
over pull through two and you are literally going to work your way across
the whole of the work like this
again once you get to the end it might end up like a spiral but if you
just unravel it that's your second row of single crochet and you would just do
exactly the same you want to yarn over pull through create that
chain turn your work and then work your way across in exactly the same technique