🧶🪢🧶🪢🧶🪢🧶🪢 Crochet basics: how to make a slip knot. This is the starting point for most crochet projects. First, starting 6 inches from the end of your yarn, wrap the yarn around 2 or 3 fingers. Use your thumb to hold where it crosses over to make an X. Then pull a loop from the remaining yarn up, just behind the X. You should find you can adjust the height of the loop coming from the slip know by pulling one of the yarn ends but not the other (which will only tighten the knot at the base