As a left-handed newby learning to crochet, I just came across this video and it was the only one I was actually able to follow and do. Thank you so much for making this!
I watched other videos and thought I had it, but it never looked quite right. I'd get to the 4 or 5th row and then unravel the whole thing. I watched your video and I finally got that "ah-ha!" moment!! You explained it so very well. Also, thank you for sharing the stitch marker tip. BONUS!!
Ah brill, thank you. I'm so happy I could provide the ah-ha moment, its lovely when it all of a suden clicks. Hopefully lots of happy amigurumi crocheting coming your way now. Thank you for the kind words xx
I hav watch alottttttt like s lotttt of videos which I couldn't follow any cuz it was complicated but omg I love u cuz the way u show is much more easier for me thank you so much
Thank you so much for this video! I must have watched 20 different ones and yours was the only one where I really understood the magic circle! Also you are right about it being hard to learn left handed from books! I’m so thankful for TH-cam, that’s where I learn and this video helped me so much on learning these basics
I found it really difficult to follow different tutorial videos out there but watching this has been amazing and I’ve finally got it. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much for making an easy video to watch and follow along too. I gave up on crochet a while ago because it was hard and I couldnt understand it. So when I finally decided to pick it up again your video helped and I made a little ball and Im so happy. So once again thank you.
Loved it 😍 not even left landed but was so clear and such a helpful video, I think sometimes we sorta know what we're doing but watching someone else do it gives you the motivation and confidence to give it a go so thank you!
Thank you, that's lovely to hear. I agree, it's always interesting and people all crochet differently and you pick up new ways of trying things maybe you hadn't thought of before. Thank you for giving this a watch xxx
Thank you ! Your video helped me and my bean ball for my cat looks roundy! I have been looking for something like this perfect work , language lighting just spot on . Looking forward for next thing to learn.
Haha, thanks Debbie. I realised when I watched it back that I fiddle with it right as I'm saying magic ring, doh! It's my jingling ring, makes me think of a nursery rhyme my grandma used to sing to us. With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes!
Thank you for making a good left handed video for a magic circle, because the most left handed videos for a magic circle are not good. But this video is very goid, you can see clearly what you must do. Greetings from a 16 year old girl from the Netherlands
I really liked the way you use the yarn for stitch markers. I always struggle with getting those plastic loops through the stitches when inserting and removing them. Thank you for the tips!
Ooh yeah, make a monster! Before you know it you'll have your own little army. Glad it was helpful, the right handed version is up after quite a bit of swearing at the editing software but at least I know how to do it now. I swear I've had older software that just had a button to do it but this programme has everything but the flip feature, bloody tech! Hope you're doing ok xx Love the yarn haul btw, very nice colours x
Hi Kim, this was so helpful thank you! I also started learning crochet when you could only get right handed books and now finding all these left handed tutorials is so brilliant! The tutorial is really clear, sound and video is great and I like how you go over each stitch a few times so it really goes in! Thanks so much :)
Lovely, thanks Wendy. I've got the right handed one up now, now I've downloaded an extra programme to flip the video. I think the software I use has every feature but that lol. Thanks for taking the time to watch, I appreciate it. xxx
Hi, @blueherub82 can you tell me how you keep the stitches to the outside without turning the piece inside out (which is what other lefties have advised me to do) only problem is if I do that, I'm working the wrong way round and making a mess. How do you keep your stitching to the outside to see what you're doing? Many thanks for a great video
@@kristensieck1406 Hiya, I usually have my yarn tensioned around my little finger and then my pointer finger of my right hand. Just to give an extra anchor point. I'm not sure how I arrived at that way of holding my yarn, it feels automatic now xx
Hi if you see this I saw you started to go counterclockwise when you started to decease. Would we just flip our work to do that? Do you ever flip the project back to go clockwise again?
I love your videos.. I am a lefty and trying to teach myself how to crochet.. Can you tell me how do you wrap the yarn around your right hand.. I am having some problems, with that... Thank you Stacey..😀
Hi Stacey, sorry for the delay. Wrapping the yarn and tensioning it is something that I think everyone does differently. I tend to have it wrapped around my little finger then inbetween my middle and index finger. It's a weird set up and hard to explain, to be honest I don't really think about it anymoe but I remember when I first started I didn't know how to tension the yarn but as yiu get more confident with the hook you then develope the tensioning skills. I'll try and do a quick clip in my next video to show it and see if it helps xx
Hello Kim, this is also a clear & precise tutorial 😁 you are so talented 😋 I can't even cut with scissors with my left hand, I am right handed 😋 Erica x
I'm just learning to crochet and without realising it I naturally crocheted in the opposite direction to the video that I was learning from (making a catnip mouse). Partway through making the 2nd mouse I realised that it was going to end up inside out because of how I crochet. The pattern constructs the tail first then moves on to making the body and also incorporates the ears as we go. Is there any way for a left handed crocheter to make the body the right side out as a right handed crocheter would?
Hi Debbie, hope you're ok. To make it that you have the 'right ' side facing out just turn your work inside out as it were. So once the piece starts to naturally curve just push the curve the other way so that the right side is facing out and continue crocheting as you were. I'll try and film a clip later and post it as I remember finding the same problem when I started to crochet xx
I would only use one type, depending on which you prefer. I always invisible decrease now, unless it's for blankets etc and in that case it doesn't really matter xx
Seriously though. How do you hold your yarn in your right hand? I’ve been watching it over and over and can’t figure it out. Thank you for the video. It’s really helped me to start.
Apologies for the delay, I think the tension and holdin the yarn is a very personal thing. I tend to wrap the yarn over my middle finger and then around my little finger to tension the yarn. I'm not sure how exavtly I started doing this and I struggle to think about how I actually hold the yarn but my hands just do it out of habit now. Hope you're doing well with the crochet xxx
@@Bluecherub82 you hold your yarn very similarly to me and I hold mine this way because my mum was a knitter and taught me this way. I thought it was only me
I somehow turned my current project inside out. Im not ripping it out and starting again. How does that happen and should i flip it inside out when im done?
I'm confused. When you make the magic loop, you twist the hook and the yarn in the video but that isn't mentioned in your description. So you do the yarn twice over the fingers and then you go over and under and then twist? I even looked at the closed captioning to see if I was missing something.
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As a left-handed newby learning to crochet, I just came across this video and it was the only one I was actually able to follow and do. Thank you so much for making this!
This was my fourth video to watch for lefties and yours was the first that helped me actually make my first amigurumi! Thank you so much!
I watched other videos and thought I had it, but it never looked quite right. I'd get to the 4 or 5th row and then unravel the whole thing. I watched your video and I finally got that "ah-ha!" moment!! You explained it so very well. Also, thank you for sharing the stitch marker tip. BONUS!!
Ah brill, thank you. I'm so happy I could provide the ah-ha moment, its lovely when it all of a suden clicks. Hopefully lots of happy amigurumi crocheting coming your way now. Thank you for the kind words xx
I hav watch alottttttt like s lotttt of videos which I couldn't follow any cuz it was complicated but omg I love u cuz the way u show is much more easier for me thank you so much
Thank you so much for this video! I must have watched 20 different ones and yours was the only one where I really understood the magic circle! Also you are right about it being hard to learn left handed from books! I’m so thankful for TH-cam, that’s where I learn and this video helped me so much on learning these basics
I found it really difficult to follow different tutorial videos out there but watching this has been amazing and I’ve finally got it. Thank you so much!!!
I'm left handed so glad u showed me both bit of hard work but I'm finally getting there big thankyou liked sharing.
Thank you so much for making an easy video to watch and follow along too. I gave up on crochet a while ago because it was hard and I couldnt understand it. So when I finally decided to pick it up again your video helped and I made a little ball and Im so happy. So once again thank you.
THANK YOU FOR THE HELP!!!! a lot makes soo much more sense now!
Brill, glad the video helped xxx
Thank you. I finally caught on how to make the magic ring.
This help A Lot with learning the magic ring. Ive had some trouble with this but this helps so much!
Loved it 😍 not even left landed but was so clear and such a helpful video, I think sometimes we sorta know what we're doing but watching someone else do it gives you the motivation and confidence to give it a go so thank you!
Hello, Kim has also done a right handed tutorial 😁 Erica x
Thank you, that's lovely to hear. I agree, it's always interesting and people all crochet differently and you pick up new ways of trying things maybe you hadn't thought of before. Thank you for giving this a watch xxx
Great instructions. Thank you so much. Very clear and not rambly at all 😊👍
Great video thank you! The magic ring is tricky but this helped me understand it.
Thank you ! Your video helped me and my bean ball for my cat looks roundy! I have been looking for something like this perfect work , language lighting just spot on . Looking forward for next thing to learn.
This was so helpful! I will have to watch it over and over. Thank you!
Btw...the “magic ring” on your finger is gorgeous!
Hello, Kim has also done a right handed tutorial 😁 Erica x
Haha, thanks Debbie. I realised when I watched it back that I fiddle with it right as I'm saying magic ring, doh! It's my jingling ring, makes me think of a nursery rhyme my grandma used to sing to us. With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes!
Thank you for making a good left handed video for a magic circle, because the most left handed videos for a magic circle are not good. But this video is very goid, you can see clearly what you must do. Greetings from a 16 year old girl from the Netherlands
I really liked the way you use the yarn for stitch markers. I always struggle with getting those plastic loops through the stitches when inserting and removing them. Thank you for the tips!
Big thanks loving ya loads at Last ive got hang off crochet ur videos have helped me loads thankyou.
Great job. Could hear you fine and lighting was great.
Thank you xxx
I found this really helpful Kim thank you! I’m not a lefty but you’re tips were just as useful to me! I think my next ami will have to be a monster xx
Hello Kim has also done a right handed tutorial 😁 Erica x
Ooh yeah, make a monster! Before you know it you'll have your own little army. Glad it was helpful, the right handed version is up after quite a bit of swearing at the editing software but at least I know how to do it now. I swear I've had older software that just had a button to do it but this programme has everything but the flip feature, bloody tech! Hope you're doing ok xx Love the yarn haul btw, very nice colours x
If you are having trouble making a magic ring, but don’t want a huge hole with the chain method, just do 2 chains and the 6 Sc into the first chain.
Thank you for the video Kim xxx
Hi Kim, this was so helpful thank you! I also started learning crochet when you could only get right handed books and now finding all these left handed tutorials is so brilliant! The tutorial is really clear, sound and video is great and I like how you go over each stitch a few times so it really goes in! Thanks so much :)
Hi Deb, glad the tutorial was helpful and thank you for the kind words xx
Hi Kim great totoral am right handed but I could understand what you was doing xxx
Lovely, thanks Wendy. I've got the right handed one up now, now I've downloaded an extra programme to flip the video. I think the software I use has every feature but that lol. Thanks for taking the time to watch, I appreciate it. xxx
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Hi, @blueherub82 can you tell me how you keep the stitches to the outside without turning the piece inside out (which is what other lefties have advised me to do) only problem is if I do that, I'm working the wrong way round and making a mess. How do you keep your stitching to the outside to see what you're doing?
Many thanks for a great video
Hello, sorry for the delay. I've done another video where I talk about turning the work inside out so that the 'right' side is showing. xx
@@Bluecherub82 thank you
How do you hold your yarn to crochet? I am a lefty and I like to hold my work with pointer and thumb like you
@@kristensieck1406 Hiya, I usually have my yarn tensioned around my little finger and then my pointer finger of my right hand. Just to give an extra anchor point. I'm not sure how I arrived at that way of holding my yarn, it feels automatic now xx
@@Bluecherub82 thanks! Your way actually works for me. It feels natural to me.
Hi if you see this I saw you started to go counterclockwise when you started to decease. Would we just flip our work to do that? Do you ever flip the project back to go clockwise again?
How do you hold the string in your other hand? Do you have a video for that. Your really quick at doing it.
I love your videos..
I am a lefty and trying to teach myself how to crochet..
Can you tell me how do you wrap the yarn around your right hand.. I am having some problems, with that...
Thank you
Stacey..😀
Hi Stacey, sorry for the delay. Wrapping the yarn and tensioning it is something that I think everyone does differently. I tend to have it wrapped around my little finger then inbetween my middle and index finger. It's a weird set up and hard to explain, to be honest I don't really think about it anymoe but I remember when I first started I didn't know how to tension the yarn but as yiu get more confident with the hook you then develope the tensioning skills. I'll try and do a quick clip in my next video to show it and see if it helps xx
Hello Kim, this is also a clear & precise tutorial 😁 you are so talented 😋 I can't even cut with scissors with my left hand, I am right handed 😋 Erica x
I'm just learning to crochet and without realising it I naturally crocheted in the opposite direction to the video that I was learning from (making a catnip mouse). Partway through making the 2nd mouse I realised that it was going to end up inside out because of how I crochet.
The pattern constructs the tail first then moves on to making the body and also incorporates the ears as we go.
Is there any way for a left handed crocheter to make the body the right side out as a right handed crocheter would?
Hi Debbie, hope you're ok. To make it that you have the 'right ' side facing out just turn your work inside out as it were. So once the piece starts to naturally curve just push the curve the other way so that the right side is facing out and continue crocheting as you were. I'll try and film a clip later and post it as I remember finding the same problem when I started to crochet xx
@@Bluecherub82 thanks for your reply, that would and indeed does work when there isn't a tail in the way.
Are u meant to do both invisible and visible decreases or can u stick to one?
I would only use one type, depending on which you prefer. I always invisible decrease now, unless it's for blankets etc and in that case it doesn't really matter xx
Oh okay, this helps alot thanks. God bless you
How do you hold your yarn in your right hand?
Seriously though. How do you hold your yarn in your right hand? I’ve been watching it over and over and can’t figure it out. Thank you for the video. It’s really helped me to start.
Apologies for the delay, I think the tension and holdin the yarn is a very personal thing. I tend to wrap the yarn over my middle finger and then around my little finger to tension the yarn. I'm not sure how exavtly I started doing this and I struggle to think about how I actually hold the yarn but my hands just do it out of habit now. Hope you're doing well with the crochet xxx
@@Bluecherub82 you hold your yarn very similarly to me and I hold mine this way because my mum was a knitter and taught me this way. I thought it was only me
I somehow turned my current project inside out. Im not ripping it out and starting again. How does that happen and should i flip it inside out when im done?
Morning, I hope you're well. You should be able to just turn the work insude out while you're working on it xx
Which mm size hook were you using?
4mm I think for this yarn but generally for amigurumi you want a fairly tight fabric to stop the stuffing showing through xx
Is she doube croctching in the same stitch
I'm confused. When you make the magic loop, you twist the hook and the yarn in the video but that isn't mentioned in your description. So you do the yarn twice over the fingers and then you go over and under and then twist? I even looked at the closed captioning to see if I was missing something.
Hi there. Sorry for the confusion, when you put the hook under you pull up a loop so in a way you twist the yarn.
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Your a little fast... I had to slow it down
You talk a little too much get to the point
Sorry about that, I am considering doing a few short videos just showing the increase, decrease etc with little to no talking.