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#1
This hack is useful when youre starting your project.
A project begins with a chain.
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Usually, most people skip a stitch and go to their second chain, then work down.
This way is pretty standard, but it leaves the bottom with a ribbed edge.
Instead of working on the side of your chain, work on the back nub of the chain stitch.
Do this by skipping your first chain as you usually do.
Do this until the bottom.
#2
Foundation stitches allow us to work our stitches without doing a foundation chain at the start.
To do this, start with a two-slipknot chain on your hook.
Insert your hook through the second chain, yarn over, and pull up a loop.
Then, work your way through your usual single crochet.
Then, work your second foundationless single crochet, inserting your hook at the base of the stitch.
Yarn over and pull up a loop twice.
Take your strands and make a slip knot.
Insert your hook and start crocheting as you usually do.
If you use different colored yarns, using multiple threads makes for a colorful outcome to your project.
So, grab another yarn, preferably acrylic, and combine it with the homespun yarn.
To do this, fasten off like normal but leave a long yarn tail.
Then, use a tapestry needle to pull the thread through.
Find a nice, clean v-stitch.
Insert your needle through the underside and up through the two threads of the v-stitch.
Skip where the knot is and go to your large v-stitch top.
Take your needle and thread underneath both strands of the v-stitch and pull gently.
To finish it off, go down to the side through which you came up.
Then, feed your tailpiece through your stitching, hiding it in your project.
#5
This hack is in line with our second hack.
In the second hack, we got rid of the foundation chain.
With this one, we will get rid of the need for a turning chain.
Yarn over and pull up a loop twice.
Then work your double crochet stitch as usual.
Its almost like youre working a single crochet stitch since its essentially two of these stacked up.
