Crochet from Scratch
Pick up a hook and turn a single strand of yarn into actual fabric. Learn the core stitches, keep your edges straight, and fix mistakes with complete confidence.
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: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Your First Stitches and Control, Fixes, and Finish. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Crochet from Scratch
- A slip knot acts as an adjustable collar around the hook shaft
- The knot must slide smoothly back and forth along the hook so yarn can pass through it easily
- Consistent tension is created by weaving yarn through fingers to establish steady friction and drag
- Pinching or squeezing the working yarn causes uneven, overly tight stitches and hand fatigue
- The shaft diameter determines the actual size and gauge of each crochet loop
- Working too close to the tapered neck or throat produces pinched loops that are too small to insert the hook back into
- Hold the working loop on the hook shaft
- Wrap the working yarn from back to front over the hook
- Catch the yarn in the hook groove and pull it through the existing loop
- Each completed chain stitch appears as a distinct 'V' shape along the top edge of the chain
- The loop currently sitting on the hook and the beginning slip knot do not count toward your chain total
- A single crochet starts by inserting into the fabric and pulling up a loop to get two loops on the hook
- A second yarn over pulls through both loops together to secure the stitch height
- Each stitch looks like a small 'V' lying flat along the top edge
- Catching both legs of the 'V' on the hook creates a balanced, sturdy fabric, whereas catching only one creates visible ridges or loose gaps
- Stitches have physical height, but working yarn sits level with the row just finished
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.
How should your slip knot feel on the crochet hook?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Crochet from Scratch takes you
- 1
Your First Stitches
- From Slip Knot to Foundation Chain
- Building Rows with Single Crochet
- 2
Control, Fixes, and Finish
- Tension Control and Fixing Mistakes
- Fastening Off and Polishing the Swatch
2 sections · 4 units · 11 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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