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I am trying to find a tutorial on crocheting a base ch/sc. All the sites I have found so far no longer exist. Can anyone help me please?

You might try crochet.about.com or crochetnmore.com or learntocrochet.lionbrand.com There are tons of sites out there. YouTube or instructables has videos that might be useful also.

I love Youtube for instructional videos. Anytime I am really stuck I turn to Youtube.

Thanks for reading,

HAVE YOU TRY A SITE CALLED ASK.COM? THEY HAVE ALL KIND OF INFORMATION ON THERE. BEV :)

I have been trying to teach myself simple crochet basics over the past couple of weeks, too. It's going slowly.

Then again, I seem to have done everything backwards anyway, I think <g>. I inherited a spinning wheel from my best friend when she passed away in November '07 <big sigh>, so I learned to spin. Then, when I found myself with a ton of wonderful (some of it pretty funky <g>, but it got better as I went along) home spun yarn, I decided I needed to teach myself to knit.

I have been knitting now for a little less than a year and although I'm not GOOD at it, I am improving and am starting to enjoy it. After trying online tutorials and a bunch of "how to knit" books, I finally found my answers in the children's books section <blush>.

Seriously! I am not an unintelligent person and I am fairly well educated. But I found that most of the "how to" books for adults just made too many assumptions as to my knitting "comprehension". I had NONE. I might as well have been a 6-year-old. Didn't know what "k" stood for, much less K1, P1, YO. Yikes.

The "Beginner Knitting for Children" books were great!! Just my speed. Now (6 months later), I find I can figure out what they were trying to tell me in the adult "Learn to Knit" books <grin> and have moved up to tackling projects from these books.

Now I want to learn to crochet, so I am heading back to the kid's section of the bookstore!
Cheers,

I hear ya! Knitting was very difficult for me. I think it was because of the two needle thing. I learned to cross stitch then tackled crochet so everything was done with one needle (hook). To make both my hands move at one time come on now way. I actually didnt get knitting until I went to youtube.com. Now I use it pretty reguarly. It was great for getting the I cord.

Good luck!

Deb, don't forget to look at YouTube or instructables, Crochet Pattern Central, Knitting Pattern Central, knittinghelp.com, and other sites you can google online. They have some great tutes there, many with videos.

Good luck and happy stitching!!