Easy Double Crochet Tutorial (dc) For Beginners
After practicing half-double crochet, it’s time to learn the double crochet (dc). It is one of the most used stitches and is easy for beginners. For your help, we are sharing this easy double-crochet stitch tutorial with a video guide and written tutorial. You will learn about the no. of turning chains of DC, how it differs from hdc, and a few more details. So, keep reading!
How to Double Crochet?
Let’s start this double-crochet tutorial for beginners. It is called treble crochet in UK:
Procedures to Learn Before:
You will need very basic knowledge of crochet before you learn double crochet. However, since double crochet is the 5th stitch out of 6 basics, you will already know how to yarn over it, what turning chains are, and how to pull through the loops, so there is no need to revise them. But if you want, you can better understand these small procedures in the video below by “The Woobles.”
Instructions for Double crochet stitch
Below are the step-by-step detailed instructions on how to crochet double crochet:
- Make a row of foundation chains.
- Make three turning chains to get the desired height when starting the second row.
- Yarn over and insert the hook into the fourth stitch.
- Yarn over and pull up a loop.
- Yarn over and pull through the first two loops out of three. In the case of HDC, you pull through all the loops. This is the main difference between DC and HDC.
- Yarn over and pull through the remaining two loops on the crochet hook.
