How to crochet a Simple Snowflake for beginners – video tutorial. For crochet beginner's, it will introduce the weave of simple basic: a chain ring, single crochet, picot, slip and puff stitches. A Puff Stitch. To crochet a puff stitch, you half-close several stitches worked in the same stitch and then join them together to finish the stitch.