Crochet Chainless Foundation Single Crochet (FSC) Tutorial

[@mailecat61]

Thank you!! This is perfect. When you said “Work vertically,” a bright light came on in my brain. You are a wonderful teacher!!

[@anumidium6641]

Thank you so much for this. I was having quite a bit of trouble figuring out how the foundation chain would develop, but as soon as you explained that it is worked vertically rather than horizontally all the pieces popped in place! Thank you!

[@dianeweber7013]

pulling the stitch up to level!! that's the key to a nice even, non-curly foundation chain! Thank you so much! (Love all your tutorials!)💌

[@HookedbyRobin]

You are very welcome! Thank you for watching :D

[@carmelassanctuaryofsquirrels]

Thank you for always having such clear, concise tutorials. Whenever I need to learn something new, I know I can count on you to make it understandable right away. You are, simply put, the best crochet tutor I've seen. Keep up the great work!

[@desereehunt]

Best and clearest single crochet foundation chain ive seen. Thank you! Oh and i couldnt figure out why it was curling but you explained what to do! Awesome.

[@GretchenButteryBum]

YAYAYAYYAY thank you. I watched another vid on this.. and was confused. Your is usually right on the money for me. thank you!

[@pamcadd8658]

Robin, I've watched others demo this, and it just didn't compute. Your explanation of doing the chain and then the sc is brilliant! When I need a technique, I now look at your videos first. You're an excellent teacher - and it doesn't matter than this one was done six years ago. It was exactly what I needed today. Thank you!

[@HookedbyRobin]

Hi Pam, I’m so glad the video helped you.😃🧶

[@katwilsey1250]

I've always had a hard time doing the foundation chain. You explained this so well that now I finally get it! Thank you so much!!

[@HookedbyRobin]

I am so pleased my video helped Kat! 😃🧶

[@sarahgoings8318]

Thank you for telling us to pull that second loop up higher. No one else mentions that and I couldnt figure out why it was curving. Finally I got it straight! You're awesome!

[@HookedbyRobin]

I’m glad it helps Sarah and thank you!😃

[@christylane4785]

Excellent! So easy to see clearly how to do this stitch. Thank you

[@HookedbyRobin]

Thank you Christy! 😃

[@kimlammie4668]

Thank you, I can always count on you to help me learn new techniques. You are the best!

[@pamogren5707]

Your instruction of this is way more simple than I have come across in some KZbin projects where the instructions begin by using the foundation chain and I had no clue. Now I am ready to go and do anything! Your vids are the best anyway! Thank you !

[@HookedbyRobin]

Thank you so much Pam!😃🥰

[@lograves]

Thanks you. This was the clearest demonstration I have seen. I tried 4 and this is the cleanest & easiest. I ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@HookedbyRobin]

Thank you so much.🥰🧶

[@connieduncannorrell6181]

I've watched so many of these.... Thank you for the great tutorial! Using the larger yarn and hook was brilliant! Trying to make your fingerless gloves, only using #2 yarn... Which I've never used. Wish me luck!

[@Mystichummingbird83]

Thank you. I have been trying to learn this stitch forever. Now I think I have it.

[@marigoldlancs8937]

Thanks so much! I'm getting back into crochet after a long time away. I made your fantail shawl for a friend. I'm so happy to have found your channel 🥰

[@HookedbyRobin]

So lovely to have you here! 🥰🤗 I am pleased you are getting back to crochet too.

[@vickyyeargin499]

You make things so simple I love it 🥰 thank you so much

[@HookedbyRobin]

You are so welcome Vicky, I am glad it helps. 😃

[@moonfurthetemmie8068]

My mom and I have been watching many of your videos to get into crocheting. Today I wanted to try something I haven't done yet, and looked up how to do this stitch. The first tutorial I went to made sense in theory, but I just couldn't make it work for me, so I came to you. Now I've got it. My mom says you're just magic, and I think she's right. The last time we tried to learn crocheting, years ago, Mom just barely got it and I didn't get it at all. But now, I'm finding it's much easier than knitting, which I'd picked up from Mom in middle school. Funny how that works sometimes, huh? Anyways, I really just wanted to say thank you for helping us get into crocheting :]

[@HookedbyRobin]

Awwh, I loved reading this comment and I am so glad my videos have helped you both.😀 What do you both want to make next?x

[@moonfurthetemmie8068]

​@@HookedbyRobin Well, mom's not sure what she wants to make, but I'm working on a crop sweater! The pattern is pretty simple, though it's definitely going to be time-consuming, haha.

[@TazPessle]

Wow. You're content has been amazing right from the beginning of the channel!!

[@HookedbyRobin]

Thank you so much Johanne, that is so kind.😃🥰

[@leenoah1505]

Yep, came here from the fingerless gloves video! With aloha from Hawaii 💌

[@HookedbyRobin]

Lovely to have you here Leenoah!😃

[@GiveMeCoffee]

Wow, thank you so much for such an easy to follow video! I just put this to work and I'm not doing regular chains ever again.

[@MEMORIA1316]

You are simply the best! When you insert through both loops at the base, I notice it’s a “yarn under” rather than yarn over. That seems to work best. 😎💕🦋

[@debbiemcclure2874]

I've watched quite a few people do this but it didn't make sense til now. Getting ready to make my daughter a blanket and wasn't looking forward to all those ch then sc😮😮. U probably just saved my sanity😂. Tyfs

[@HookedbyRobin]

You're very welcome Debbie!😀

[@Sstringe]

Absolutely genius! I really do not like chaining…especially when it’s so long! Thank you!❤

[@HookedbyRobin]

You’re welcome, I’m glad it helps!😃

[@carey-loujones7860]

Thank you. Really clear & easy to understand!

[@HookedbyRobin]

Thank you so much!😃

[@janeransom9151]

Hello, thank you so much for this tutorial. Please, could you also show how to do a double crochet foundation?

[@HookedbyRobin]

I'm a little late but yes! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXamqJuHidiVqpY :D

[@deboraalexis4016]

Thank u.. I am on the hunt to understand this...FSC.. I just have to keep trying!

[@HookedbyRobin]

Practice definitely pays off Debora.😃🧶

[@candylu4019]

Thanks for the fsc tutorial very helpful tips

[@HookedbyRobin]

my pleasure! Glad it helped :D x

[@candylu4019]

I enjoy your tutorial's going to make the shells gloves but I would like to make a ribbed cuff

[@HookedbyRobin]

You can do that with front and back post double crochets if you wanted - feel free to adapt the cuff section however you like for the shell gloves!

[@basiaalam8462]

Thank you for the tutorial!

[@HookedbyRobin]

You’re so welcome Basia! 🤗😃

[@300heart]

Ahhhhh, that makes sense to me now. Thank you :)

[@cbgbstew4072]

Love this. I’m newer at this and can’t stand how uneven, tighter-versus looser-stitched my chains tend to be when trying to work back into them. Plus I suspect this step cuts a bit of time off 😊 Thank you for this, and ALL your videos.

[@HookedbyRobin]

You’re very welcome, I hope they all help.😃🧶

[@katel9281]

That was great! Thank-you

[@CraigsOverijse]

Really find this so hard and so much more difficult to do with smaller yearn for the permaid think I won’t bother and will fudge it, it not that it’s not explained just that it’s so much more faffing about and looks a complete mess when I’m doing it not at all neater and I could have done the foundation chain and the sc in half the time

[@TheDunroaminfarm]

Thank you, I’ve been crocheting my whole life. I’m almost 69

[@pamogren5707]

AMAZING ... Thank you!

[@HookedbyRobin]

You’re so welcome Pam! 😃

[@Stella_V777]

I love your videos and I'm sticking with you. Very helpful, this. Your hooks seem so smooth and easy to use. Can you share this hook brand name please? Thanks again, Robin.

[@HookedbyRobin]

These metal ones are just cheap, no branded hooks from China! 😅 I use Clover Amour hooks now as the handle suits my grip better 👍

[@Stella_V777]

@@HookedbyRobin funny! I thought maybe they were the vintage HERO brand. I have clover too, but some don't slide the yarn as well as others, I noticed, for instance the smaller sizes are aluminium but as you get bigger, they're plastic. Right, good to know😊

[@HookedbyRobin]

@@Stella_V777 I have to say, it does REALLY bother me that the larger sizes are plastic - nowhere near as nice as the aluminium!

[@julialee8028]

Thank you!!!!!

[@ManalIjaz-f5c]

Thank u so much ❤❤❤

[@tinainman3482]

I am having a hard time joining the top together with the slip stitch. Could you show me more in detail please!

[@sarahb4900]

Thank you ❤

[@DarkMoonDroid]

Yay sommore!!

[@juanitafuentes5010]

Hello Robin thanks for the video this help me so much all your videos have improved my crocheting. I just have one question when you make the fsc what row is it. Example if pattern asking for 4 rows of 24 sc I trying to check if I am starting at row 2 or 1 hope you get what I mean thanks.

[@HookedbyRobin]

You'd be doing the first row of the 4 :-) x

[@juanitafuentes5010]

@@HookedbyRobin thanks

[@savannamm]

Random question 4 years later...is it possible to change colors halfway through?

[@jnmhpersad7260]

That's really neat Robin, great idea to make your foundation firm, I don't like seeing the foundation ch sts. Can we use it only with single crochet stitches??

[@HookedbyRobin]

You can use it for any stitches! I have a video for double crochet version here kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXamqJuHidiVqpY and the half double will be on my channel in the next couple of weeks :-)

[@jnmhpersad7260]

@@HookedbyRobin Great, looking forward to seeing them.

[@vickiegentry7124]

Nothing I do works for this. I can not find the two loops I am supposed to be going under. :(

[@HookedbyRobin]

Hi Vickie, sometimes it helps to slow the video down. See how to here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnq1iqqhoK6Sars 🤗🧶

[@nannydebbie9158qqq]

Hi Robin if a pattern calls for a multiple of 3 then add 2. Would i do the chainless foundation for the multiple number then just add 2 chains or for all. Eg. Pattern states 21 then add 2. Hope that makes sense?

[@HookedbyRobin]

It all depends if that +2 counts as a stitch in the overall pattern. If it is a turning chain that does not count, then you would only need to do the multiple of 3. If it DOES count as a stitch, then you would only need to do +1 on the chainless foundation. I hope I'm explaining it correctly! 😀

[@nannydebbie9158qqq]

@@HookedbyRobin Thank you for your very quick reply. and yes you have explained it clearly. Many thanks again, very much appreciated. xx

[@TheGoblinQuinn]

What do you do if the pattern ask you to stitch in like 3 or 5 stitches away from the hook if you've used this method?

[@TheDunroaminfarm]

Oops hit send prematurely. As I was saying crocheting all my life and just recently found out about these stitches. O goodness blew my mind. I hate chaining. Unbelievable

[@HookedbyRobin]

foundation stitches are a game changer aren't they? I hate chaining too - now I rarely chain at all! :D x

[@tstarcher2001]

How do you join a fsc round?

[@HookedbyRobin]

You simply slip stitch to the top of your first fsc 👍 You may want to use your tail to stitch the very bottom chain sections together if there is a small gap :-)

[@marymcgettrick2355]

When a pattern says chain 20 if you are doing this foundation chain do you just do 19 foundation chains?

[@HookedbyRobin]

I'd go by the pattern repeat multiple rather than the chains (if that makes sense!)

[@heatherb918]

I didn't think I was going to be able to do it at first. I could not see the v stitch that I was supposed to go through to begin until I re-watched the tutorial. If you are having trouble, pay attention to when she says "this one forms the chain". It's the one you drop before going through the last time. Keep an eye on it and you'll find it every time!

[@ecologicaladam7262]

Brill 👍🌞

[@Augustusdramaticus]

I wonder, who disliked this video?

[@EvilPanda007]

Too confusing with thicker yarn

[@LULUCLARKE06]

Thank you for this tutorial. I have watched 2 other videos. You have the key, as @dianeweber7013 says. thank you so much. Now I am confident I can do foundation single crochet to do my project. 😀

[@HookedbyRobin]

Thank you Lulu!😃🥰