Crochet from Scratch
Pick up a hook and turn a strand of yarn into neat, repeatable fabric. Master tension control, keep your edges straight without losing stitches, and complete your first polished project swatch.
Like Duolingo, but for Crochet from Scratch. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through First Rows and Foundations and Control, Shape, and Finishing. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Crochet from Scratch
- A slip knot tightens down onto the crochet hook to start a project
- Pulling the tail or working yarn lets you adjust the loop size or pull it completely out
- Both knife grip and pencil grip produce identical crochet stitches
- Choosing a hold depends on personal hand comfort, wrist mobility, and preventing strain
- Working yarn tension is regulated by threading the yarn through the fingers of your non-dominant hand
- Clutching the crochet hook tightly causes hand fatigue without fixing loose yarn flow
- The foundation chain determines the starting width and bottom elasticity of a project
- A foundation chain worked too tightly causes the bottom edge to curl or buckle into an arch
- The hook's shaft sets the true gauge of the loop, while the tapered tip is narrower
- Forming loops entirely on the tapered tip results in tiny, choked chains that you cannot work back into
- A single crochet begins by pushing the hook through the fabric to fetch fresh yarn
- Drawing up a loop leaves two active loops on the hook shaft
- A final yarn over pulled through both resting loops seals the stitch
- The top edge of every crochet stitch forms a braided 'V' shape
- Standard single crochet requires piercing underneath both strands of the 'V'
- Catching only one strand creates a loose, ridged texture rather than a solid, balanced row
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Crochet from Scratch the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What happens when you pull the yarn tail or the working yarn on a slip knot?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Crochet from Scratch takes you
- 1
First Rows and Foundations
- The Basic Loop: Slip Knots and Foundation Chains
- Building Solid Rows with Single Crochet
- 2
Control, Shape, and Finishing
- Diagnosing Shape: Tension and Stitch Counting
- Adding Height and Finishing Cleanly
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Crochet from Scratch is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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Start Crochet from Scratch today.
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