Learn how to get your crochet project off to a quicker start while you create a stretchy starting chain with the chainless foundation crochet technique! Foundation Single Crochet (US FSc UK - FDc) combines making a chain and working the 1st row of stitches into the chain, saving you so much time!
At first glance, foundation single crochet may seem complicated and when you're learning the technique it may even seem slower, but like all crochet techniques, once you've practiced, it becomes much quicker!
This tutorial will show you how to make a foundation single crochet, but the same chainless foundation can be made with all the basic crochet stitches.
Here are my main reasons I love working a Foundation Single Crochet:
You will see some crochet patterns instructing you to start your crochet pattern with a chainless foundation, but that doesn't mean you can't use a foundation chain to start other crochet patterns.
Remember: check your gauge when starting a pattern where foundation chain isn't instructed when making your tension swatch.
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For this tutorial I used the following materials:
You can use any yarn with the hook size as recommended on the yarn band.
US Term: Foundation Single Crochet
US Abbreviation: FSc
UK Term: Foundation Double Crochet
UK Abbreviation: FDc
FSc - Step 1:
If you were making a foundation chain using another stitch, you would make a longer starting chain which would be the same as the turning chain.
FSc - Step 2:
This makes the chain part of the foundation single crochet
FSc - Step 3:
FSc - Step 4:
This completes the single crochet element.
FSc - Step 5:
FSc - Step 6:
Keep repeating steps 5 & 6 to make your foundation chain longer:
Repeat these steps until you have the required number of foundation Single Crochet.
You can now continue with the rest of your crochet pattern. Don't forget, by making a chainless foundation, you've also crocheted the 1st row of your pattern.
If the crochet pattern you are following didn't require you to make a FSc, move on to row 2.
If you'd like to use this technique in a crochet pattern, click the button below to make a coffee up cozy which uses the foundation single crochet to start the pattern.
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