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1. Introduction: You ever wondered how to turn a simple rectangle into an adorable bookmark?
Hi, everyone. Welcome to my Skillshare class, where I'll teach
you how to crochet a Bginner friendly
bookmark with one of my favorite crochet bdr
techniques, scalloped Edging. My name is Maha, and
I work full time as a crochet content
creator and educator sharing my love for
the craft across my social media platforms and through tutorials on YouTube. I've hosted multiple crochet
clubs for beginners guiding them through the
process of creating their first ever project. You can usually find
me crocheting outdoors or in bed with my crafty cats. My favorite thing about
crochet is that we can create, customize and design practical items to use in our daily lives. To me, nothing compares to the satisfaction of
decorating your room with handmade pieces or bearing a bag you made from
scratch for your day out. This class, I'll
walk you through each step from how to
begin your project with a slipknot to creating
the bookmark with single crochet and designing
it with scalloped edging. Let's grab your materials,
and by the end of this class, you'll have a lovely bookmark
ready for your next read.
2. Class Project: This class, you can
use any acrylic or cotton yarn that is DK
weight or size three. You can pair the yarn with a
3.54 or 4.5 millimeter hook. This will ensure that
your bookmark is not too chunky but still sturdy
enough to maintain its shape. If you're unsure about the
size and weight of the yarn, you can check the yarns label
for all the information. For my bookmark, I
used one skein of pink and off white
acrylic yarn that's DK weight with a 3.5
millimeter hook. You'll also need a
pair of scissors. Now, let's get started and
craft a crochet bookmark.
3. Create a Bookmark with Single Crochet Stitches: Begin by learning how to
crochet a basic rectangle. There are many different
ways to make a slip knot, but I'm going to show
you my two favorites. For the first one, lay
your hand with your palm facing upwards and place the
yarn facing towards you. Then grab onto the
tail with your thumb. Next, wrap the yarn around
your top two fingers. Turn your hand to
the other side, making sure that you
have an X shape. Then use your ring finger
to hold the yarn in place. You've got this X in the middle. Then you're going to take
your hook and you're going to place it under the first loop, grabbing onto the second loop, pulling it through, and then
twisting your hook upwards. Then very gently, let go
of the yarn that's on your fingers and start
pulling the hook up. As you pull the hook up,
you're going to notice this not tightening, and
then you can let go. And tighten the knot even
more closer to your hook. And then you'd have a slip knot. The next method doesn't
require your hook. We're going to repeat
the same steps as before with a little
bit of a change. So once again, make
sure that the tail of the yarn is facing you with
your palm facing upwards, grab onto it with your thumb, and then wrap the yarn
around your two fingers, making an X shape, secure it with your
ring finger like so. Now, insert your finger
under the first loop, grab onto the second
loop like this, and then pull this the
second loop through. Hold onto it, tight and tight
and tighten, like that. And then you'll
have a slip knot. You can pop it on your crochet
hook and then tighten. And there we go. You'll
have your slip knot, and now we can move
on to some chains. Ignore this tail of the yarn. We're going to be working
with the piece of yarn that's attached
to your skin. Now let's get comfortable
holding the hook. There's a lot of different ways that some crochets
like to hold it. There's the pencil grip, and there's the knife
grip, which I prefer. I would recommend
trying out both of them and see which one
is easiest for you. Next, we're going to put the working yarn on our hand
so we can start chaining. To do this, place your hand with your palm facing upwards. Place it under the working yarn. And then twist your
pointer finger up while bending these
three fingers over here. Then move the pointer
finger behind your hook, open your middle finger and your thumb and hold on to
the slip knot like so. Your bottom two fingers
over here are holding this in place so it's not
loose or moving around. You can tighten the tension by just pulling on
the yarn like this. So this string over here
should not be loose. Kind of like a guitar string, you should be able to strum it. Now, move your crochet
hook under the yarn. And then twist it so that the pointy part
is facing downwards, and then you're going to slide
it through your slip knot. And that would be your
very first chain. If it's too hard to slide
it through the slip knot, you might want to losen the
slip knot a little bit. Now let's do our second chain. So we're going to move our
thumb and middle finger a little bit upwards like that so we can control the tension. Once again, we're going
to move our crochet hook to grab the yarn, to twist it, so it's facing downwards
and pull it through there. That's our second chain. Let's
do this a few more times. So every time I chain, I like to move my thumb and my middle finger a
little bit up just so I can have better
tension and make sure that my chains are
a little bit more even. So grab the yarn, twist it downwards, and pull it through the loop
that's on your hook. There we go. Move upwards, grab the yarn, twist it under, slide it through the loop
that's on your hook. If you feel like the loops are getting smaller and smaller and you're not able to get your other piece of yarn through it, then you can make
it a little bit looser by just
pulling the hook up. So the hole gets bigger
the more that you pull. And if it's way
too big like this, then you can make
it smaller by just pulling the yarn away. Let's do a few more. Grab the yarn, pull it through the loop on your
hook, move upwards, grab the yarn, pull it through the loop
that's on your hook, move upwards and repeat. Now, chains are the
building blocks of our crochet
projects for today. This means that the
length of your bookmark depends on how long
your chains are. So if you want a
longer bookmark, you're going to chain more. If you want a shorter bookmark, you're going to chain less and the number is
completely up to you. I would recommend
getting your next read, the book that you
want to use this for, and then I want you
to keep chaining until you like the
length of the piece. I've crocheted a
total of 23 chains, and I'm going to show you how to count these really quickly. So every little V
over here is a chain. So you can count it by counting either the loops on
the side, one, two, three, four, five, or you can count the Vs. Let me lay
this flat and show you. So that would be one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, and onwards. I've got a regular paperback
size book over here, and this length of chains is just roughly a little bit
shorter than the book itself. Now we're going to start
building the width of the bookmark with
some single crochets. Single crochet is the most
basic crochet stitch. It's very versatile,
which means that you can use it for a ton of
different projects. I'm going to show you how to make a basic rectangle with it, but you can use it to
crochet in rounds, crochet circles,
triangles, squares. To single crochet,
the very first row, we're going to skip
our first chain. So we never insert a single crochet into
this first chain. We consider it the
turning chain, which means that it helps
us start a new row. So remember that your loop, the one that's on your hook
is not counted as a chain. The chain is the Vtge right
under it. So here we go. To make your first
single crochet, skip the first chain and
insert your hook into the second chain
right in the middle, or you can think of it grabbing
the top loop like that. Then you're going
to grab the yarn, twist your hook downwards, pull it through the first loop. And pull it up. Then you should have two
loops on your hook. You're going to grab
the yarn again. Don't forget to
twist it downward, so it's easier to pull
through and slide it through both of the loops that are
on your hook like that, and that's going to be your
very first single crochet. Now let's go into
the next chain. We've already inserted a single
crochet into this chain, so we're going to move
on to the next one. Take your hook and insert
it through the next chain, or once again, you
can think of it grabbing onto the top loop. Grab your yarn, twist
it downwards and slide it through the first loop. Next, you'll have two
loops on your hook. Grab the yarn,
twist it downwards, and slide it through both of the loops that are on your hook. Let's go into the next chain. We already did a single
crochet in this one over here, so we're going to go
into this next one. Insert your hook into the chain. Grab the yarn, twist
your hook downwards, pull it through the first loop. Then you should have
two loops on your hook, grab the yarn,
twist it downwards, and pull it through
both of the loops. Now we've done three single
crochets, and we're on track. Now we're just going to insert one single crochet into
all of these chains, and you have to make
sure that you're not accidentally
skipping a chain. So keep the total number of chains that you made in
mind and then subtract one. So I had 23 chains. We skipped the first one. So that means that
I'm going to be doing 22 single crochets
all the way down. So it's good to keep
count to make sure that if you miss this chain,
you can go back. You can unravel it and
you can try again. So we already did a single
crochet into this chain. Now we're going to move on to
this one, insert your hook. Grab the yarn, twist it downwards to make
sure it's secure, pull it through the first loop. And then I would recommend just loosening this
up a little bit. Grab the yarn,
twist it downwards, and pull it through both of the loops that are on your hook. Let's do this a little
bit faster now. Insert your hook into the chain, slide it through the first loop. Yarn over, slide it through the other two
loops on your hook. Now, go ahead and insert one single crochet into
each of these chains, and I'll meet you back
here once we're done. Now we're going to start our second row of single crochets. Every time you want to start a new row of single crochets, we're going to chain one. So to chain, just grab the yarn, twist your hook
downwards, and pull it through the
loop on your hook. Next, we're going
to turn our work. So with your fingers, just flip your work the
other side like that. Now we're going to be
inserting single crochets into the stitches
instead of the chains. So when you crochet single
crochets into every chain, you made stitches at
the top over here. And these stitches are
these little loops that form a V. So now, instead of inserting your
hook through the chains, we will be inserting our
hook through the stitches. And to do this, you're
just going to go through the hole that
is formed under the V. I'm going to show you a
bunch of different angles, so feel free to follow
along to whichever way makes sense for you
so you can hold your work facing
you like this and then insert your hook
through the stitch, making sure that you're grabbing onto both of these loops. So this stitch over here, these two loops together
make one stitch. So it does look like you have
three loops on your hook, but these two loops
count as one. Another way to look at it is that if you flip
your work like this, and then you try to grab
only the top two loops, that could be a
little bit easier, but just make sure
that you're not going all the way
down over there. You have to try and get your
hook as close to the top as possible while grabbing
onto the stitches like. All right, so we're going
to skip the tyrany chain and insert our hook
into the stitch. Now we're going to yarn
over and pull up a loop. But this time, we're
going to pull up a loop through the stitch. This means both of these
loops that count as one. Like that. So now you should once again have only two loops
on your hook, yarn over and pull it through
both of those two loops. And that is going
to be your first single crochet of row too. Let's do this again.
Insert your hook through the top of the stitch, making sure that you're grabbing
on to the V, like that. Yarn over and pull up a loop. Making sure that you only
have two loops on your hook, yarn over and pull through
both of those two loops. Let's go again, insert your hook as close to
the edge as possible. Don't go at the bottom. Making sure that you've grabbed both of those loops that make a V. Yarn over and
pull up a loop. Making sure that you only
have two loops on your hook, then yarn over and pull through
both of those two loops. Now go ahead and insert one single crochet into
each of these stitches, making sure that you have
the same stitch count as the first row. So for me, that was
22 single crochets, which means that
for the second row, I should also have
22 single crochets. As you're working, try
to move your thumb and your middle finger
with you so that it's easier to
control your tension. For example, if your thumb and your middle finger all the way over here and
you're trying to work, it's going to be
really, really hard. So try to keep them close to you so that you can
control where you're inserting your hook and so
that your stitches don't get too loose or too
confusing or messed up. Sometimes the last single
crochet stitch is a little bit confusing because
we usually have this little knot in
the corner over here. This is why it's so
important to keep track of your stitch
count so that you don't accidentally insert an extra single crochet
here and there. Insert your hook into
the stitch like normal, you might have to press a little bit more for
this last stitch. It might be too tight, and then you're an over pull up a loop and you're over
pull through two, and we're done with our second
row of single crochets. Now you're going to keep crocheting rows of
single crochet until your bookmark is as wide
as you want it to be and these are the steps that
you're going to repeat. So chain one and turn your work. Remember that this is
your turning chain and you're not going to be
inserting anything in it. Insert your hook into
the first stitch, which is directly after
your turning chain, yarn over and pull up a
loop and then yarn over, pull through two, making your first single
crochet of the next row. Now go ahead and insert
one single crochet into every stitch just like what we did before to complete
your third row. I've crocheted a total of
seven rows from my bookmark, and I think this is the
perfect width for me, but please keep in mind
that you can make this as wide as you want by
doing more or less rows. Now I'm going to show you how to fasten off and end your work so we can move on to
the scalloped edging, which I'm so excited for. Go ahead and grab your
scissors and let's chain two, one and two. Now I'm going to leave a
bit of a long string over here so we can weave it in
later and just cut the yarn. And then pull the hook
upwards like that. Then go ahead and tighten
all the way down. So push these chains
down so that they tighten into a knot at the end like that.
And there we go. Now we have your rectangle
for the bookmark. In the next lesson, we'll
explore how to crochet a shell like border with the
scalloped edging technique.
4. Crochet a Shell-Like Border: Sloped edging is a
design technique that adds a decorative border
around your project. It's one of my favorite
crochet bodd techniques, and it's often used to
decorate things like blankets, cushions, and place mats. Today, we'll learn how to
crochet around our bookmarks. Ahead and grab the color
that you want to use for the scalloped edging and pick any one side of your bookmark. Let's start from one of the longer sides rather
than the shorter ones. You can pick this side, or
you can pick this side. It's completely up to you. Now, go ahead and
find the stitch in the very corner and insert your hook through it like this. Then we're going to
make a little loop with the yarn that
we want to attach. Don't tie it or make
a knot or anything, hold onto it with your thumb
and your pointer finger, put it onto your hook and then slide it through this stitch. Like that. Then you
can pull it out like this and let's tie a knot
to secure it in place. Insert your hook back
through the stitch and take your tail and just fold it towards you like this
so we can work over it. Now, go ahead and yarn
over and pull up a loop, pull it through like so, and we're going to chain
one just like that. Now we're going to
be working into the next stitch to
create scalped asuring, we're going to be repeating one pattern all the way around. This pattern is going to be five double crochet
stitches in one stitch. And then one slip stitch. Just keep in mind that
we're going to be inserting five stitches into this one stitch over
here, right through here. Every time you want to
do your next stitch, you're going to insert
your hook back through the same stitch.
Let's get started. To make a double crochet, make sure your tension is tight, yarn over, and then insert your hook through the stitch that we're going to
be working through. Make sure that you
have two loops on your hook as you're going
through that stitch. Then go ahead and yarn
over and pull up a loop. When you pull up a loop, you're going to notice that you have three loops on
your hook like that. Yarn over and we're
going to insert our hook through the first
two loops, one and two. Pull it through the first one, and then the second one, and then you can move
your hook upwards again. Now we're going to yarn
over one more time and pull through
the last two loops. Just like so, and
that's going to be your first double crochet. Let's do this again. Yarn over, insert your hook back
through that same stitch. Pull up a loop. Then you should have three
loops on your hook. Yarn over and pull through
the first two loops. Then yarn over and pull
through the last two loops. That's your second
double crochet. One more, yarn over, insert your hook into
the same stitch. Pull up a loop, three
loops on your hook, yarn over, pull
through the first two, and then yarn over and
pull through the last two. Now we have three
double crochets. We have to do two more
in the same stitch. Yarn over insert your
hook, pull up a loop. Yarn over, pull
through two loops, yarn over and pull through
the last two loops. Let's do the last
one, yarn over, insert your hook,
pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through
two, and yarn over, pull through two, and that
is our very first shell. We create a shell with five double crochets
in the same stitch. Now we're going to
be working to the stitch that's right next to it, and we're going to
make a slip stitch. So insert your hook
through that stitch. Pull up a loop. Now, you should have two
loops on your hook and we're going to slide this
loop through this one. So just move your hook downwards and slide it through like that. There we go. You've
completed one shell. Now, let's repeat this
into the next stitch. Let's keep our pattern in mind, five double crochets
in one stitch and then one slip stitch in the
next. Let's get started. Yarn over, insert your
hook into that stitch. Pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two. That's one. Let's do our second one. Now let's do our third and this is going to be
our fourth double crochet. Then finally, the fifth one
all through that same stitch. Now we're ready to
complete the shell, so we're going to insert our
hook into the next stitch. And then we're going
to slip stitch by sliding the loop up and then inserting the same loop through the other one like that. And there we go. That's going
to be our second shell. Now that you've worked over a little bit of this
tail over here, you can cut the rest of it. And now we're going to
work all the way to the end of this edge over here by repeating
the same pattern. So we're going to do
five double crochets in one stitch and then end the shell with a slip
stitch in the next one. So I'm going to go
ahead and complete this all the way to
the end of this edge, and then we're going to
find out how to do this on the side that doesn't have any stitches
for us to work into. So basically, this
one over here. Keep in mind that it's
completely normal for your work to curl a
little bit like this. We can lay it flat
inside our books and close it and it
should flatten out. So please don't be worried if your work is curling up like so. Now, let's start working
on this edge over here. Our pattern is going
to remain the same. The thing that's going to differ is where we're
inserting our hook. My pattern ended over
here and I still have one stitch left
in this corner. I'm going to go ahead
and just insert five double crochets into this little corner that
I have left over here. If you have an odd
number of stitches, then you might have
to do this as well, but if you have an even
number of stitches, then you would have ended on a slip stitch in
the very corner. This doesn't make
a difference to the pattern because
we're going to be inserting shell stitches
all around anyway. Now that I've got
five double crochets, I'm going to change the
direction of my work. I was holding it like this
and I'm going to hold it this way and just slip
stitch into the corner. Over here, we don't have a
stitch to insert or hook into, so we're going to try to get as close to the edge as possible. Not all the way down here,
just as close as you can possibly get and I'm going to be
working over this end. I'm going to slip stitch. Just like that. Now
I'm going to find a space where I can insert
my hook comfortably. Right over here, once again, there's no specific place
for you to insert your hook. Just try to get as close to the edge as possible
and I'm going to insert my five double
crochets into the space. Instead of calling it a stitch, we're going to call
it a space now. Right through that space,
I'm going to insert all five double crochets
right into there. I'm going to slip stitch
into the next space. You have to try and be a
bit careful because you can insert your hook all the way over there because
that would be too far. I'm going to try to get
a little bit closer if I can push my hook through
wherever I get space, close to the edge
and slip stitch. So that's what my bookmark
looks like right now. I'm going to go ahead and fit two more shell
stitches over here and then we're going to
continue along this edge. When we're working along
the other edge over here, we're going to
insert our hook in between the criss
cross off the loops, not through the
loops themselves, but in between the place where both these loops intersect
right over here. Yarn over and once again, we're repeating
the same pattern. Thing that differs is where
we're inserting our hook. Once again, we don't have
exact stitches on this side, but we still have the
loops to help us out. Then once again, I'm
going to slip stitch into the place where
the two loops intersect close to the edge to complete my pattern for this
shell. There we go. Now, we're just going to
repeat the pattern all across this edge all the
way to the end over here. Once you're done with your
last five double crochets, here's how to end your border. You're just going to
go ahead and insert your hook into the stitch where you started and then you're
going to slip stitch. And then chain one to secure. You can also chain
two, but since I already have a slip
stitch over there, I'm going to stick
with just one chain. Grab your scissors
and cut the yarn, pull and then tighten
to secure in place. Now, here's what to do
with this extra string. Turn your bookmark
to the backside, grab your hook and slide it through these little loops of the double
crochet at the back. This is going to be a
little bit tricky to do. Slide it through the back, and I'm going to try to
do this for two shells. Making sure that you're only grabbing these little
loops at the back. And then take the piece of yarn that you
have over here and slide it through. Like that. Then just loosen it up a
little bit and cut the extra. Here's a look at what
the piece will look like with the finished
scalloped edging. I would recommend stretching
it out a little bit because sometimes your slop stitches
can be a bit too tight, and then lay below something heavy just
to flatten it out. Next, we'll add a
dainty touch to our bookmark for the
classic crochet bow.
5. Add a Decorative Bow: We're going to start
by making a slip knot. I'm using the first way that I showed you earlier
in this class. Now you're simply going
to chain until the string or this length is long enough
to be tied into a bow. Make sure that your
chains are not too tight, keep them nice and loose so that they make a thicker bow or if
you want something thinner, then definitely chain
as tight as you can. I've crocheted a
total of 47 chains, and now we're going
to tie it into a bow. I like tying it
into a bow before fastening it off just to make sure that I
like the look of it. So here's how I
do it. First, I'm going to make this loop really, really long to make sure
that it doesn't unravel. Now I'm going to make two loops with the chains like this. Then I'm going to wrap these
two loops around each other, leaving a little bit
of a hole over here, and then I'm going
to take this loop and slide it through the hole. And grab onto it and pull. Now, I'm just going
to adjust the bow so it's going to look a
little bit wonky at first. I'm just going to pull this and then pull this a little
bit more, tighten it. I think that's a bit
too wide on the side, so I'm going to pull
a little bit more. Now, let's get our bookmark and see if you like
the look of it. Place it at the top like that. I think that looks good. So I'm just going
to fasten it off, D two or three more and we're going to grab our scissor and just
cut the extra yarn. Pull and then
tighten all the way. So you will lose a few chains
when you're doing that. And then grab my scissor
and trim it just like that. Now we're going to repeat
on the other side as well. So I'm going to tighten
this as much as I can, and then trim the extra. There we go. You should have a cute little bow made
out of some chains. Go ahead and cut a
slightly long string, and we're going to
use it to attach our bow onto the bookmark. Go ahead and place
your bow where you'd like it to be and adjust it. Make sure it's in the perfect
position that you like. Then you're going
to go ahead and insert your hook through the side of the bow
and into the bookmark. Then you're going to grab onto the string, make a little loop, and you're going to pull it from under to go on top of
the bookmark like this. Then you're going to pull
the string, once again, adjust the bow and you're going to insert your
hook from the bottom, come up, make a little
loop and then slide this loop once more to the backside of your
bookmark like that. This is just going to hold the center of your bow in place. Make sure that
you've adjusted it and everything looks good. Then turn your work
to the backside and we're going to
tie this into a knot. And there we go. You can go
ahead and double knot it, triple knot it, making
it super secure. For your final step, go ahead and trim the
ends at the back. And there you go. We're all done with your
beautiful bookmark.
6. Final Thoughts: You did it. I hope you love the crochet bookmark
that you made. You can now experiment with different sizes,
different shapes, and add the scallop
edging technique to multiple different projects. So whether you're
making a blanket, a cushion or a placemat, this technique is sure to add a dainty and delicate
touch to your project. If you have any
questions, please feel free to ask them the
discussion page, and I'll get back to
you as soon as I can. Thank you so much for
crocheting with me, and I hope you'll join me for
lots more crochet classes. So don't forget to follow
me here on skill share. Subscribe to my YouTube
channel and follow me on Instagram to stay in
touch and get inspired. Let's see your bookmarks.
You can upload a picture of your bookmark to the
project section of this class, and I can't wait to see
what colors you chose. You can also tag me at Moho crochets on
Instagram and TikTok or use the Hash
tack crochet with Moho to share your work
with me and my community. Thank you so much for
joining me today, and I'll see you next time. Bye.
Mahum, Crochet Artist and Educator
