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Dropping off a "CheerBear's guide to single crocheting in the foundation chain" complete with photos for @Phoenix_Rising and anyone else who might want to join ☺ If anyone is reading and wants to add anything or has a different idea, please jump in!
Phoenix_Rising - you mentioned you were finding it hard to know where to put your first stitch. It is tricky to do your first row - the chain stiches are hard to work out, they're flimsy, there's nothing to hold on to etc. Once you get past this bit, it's much easier. It's one of those annoying things about learning crochet - the start is hard! But with practice it may/will hopefully get easier. Row 1 still does my head in a bit sometimes.
With single crochet, you'd usually work into the second stitch from the hook. The first stitch from the hook is used to kind of "turn" the work. Hopefully it makes a bit more sense once you see this.
I wanted to make a row of 10 single crochets so I made a chain 11 to do that.
They're tricky to count and "see" but I'll try and show you here.
The pink hook is going through stitch 1
Now stitch 5
The stitch you want to go into when working a row of sc into the foundation chain, is stitch 2 which is here:
These are the parts to a stitch. The "back ridge loop" can also be called the "bump".
There are different ways of crocheting into the foundation chain, but for this example and because it's maybe the easier way, I would go into the "back loop" and the "bump".
Here's a birds eye view of what that looked like:
(My pink hook is pointing at the bump of stitch 5 so you can see what the bumps look like)
And a view of what it looks like from the front before I have drawn up yarn:
I made 10 sc across. The pink hook is now in the first stitch I made and the tiny hook is pointing at the stitch I 'skipped' to begin with. You may be able to see how it becomes the side by turning up.
Hope that helps. Alternatively you could watch this very quick, very clear demonstration that probably explains it way better than I can with pictures 😆
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