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Foundation Single Crochet – Learn How

Foundation Single Crochet is one of the KEY Game-Changer stitches that I would encourage you to master.

This stitch makes for a beautiful stretchy edge that is perfect for garments and allows for easily building rows on either side of the stitch. FSC is actually worked in a sort of vertical fashion, rather than the horizontal right to left movement than we are generally accustomed to. It is sort of an optical illusion so, don’t over-think it, trust the instructions, and you’ll be great!

Follow these comprehensive steps, as well as working along with my low-tech and easy to follow Tutorial Video

Yo and draw one loop through the 2 loops of the stitch your hook is under.
Yo and draw one loop through the first loop on your hook to make the foundation chain stitch
Yo and draw through both loops on hook to complete the sc

To make subsequent FSC follow these steps between the **

** Locate the foundation chain of the previous stitch
Insert hook under 2 loops of the foundation chain
This makes the nice V shape we recognize from the top of a crochet row
Yo and draw up one loop
Yo and pull through 1 loop to make foundation chain
Yo and draw through both loops to finish the sc. **

Continue working ** to ** until the desired number of foundations stitches have been made.

Now, get out your practice yarn and hook and work through YouTube tutorial I made for you:

Foundation Single Crochet: How to start your crochet project without a chain.

I hope you found this tutorial on Foundation Single Crochet helpful! If you did, please share it with your stitching peeps!

Love,

SuziQue