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How to Read a Mosaic Crochet Chart

teacher avatar Shelsy Joseph, Digital Artist and Crafter

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:41

    • 2.

      Your Project

      0:56

    • 3.

      What You'll Need

      3:06

    • 4.

      The Stitches

      7:24

    • 5.

      How To Read The Chart

      4:29

    • 6.

      Starting The Chart

      5:57

    • 7.

      Starting The Pattern Section: Row 2

      5:32

    • 8.

      Working The Repeat (Part 1: Rows 3 and 4)

      5:26

    • 9.

      Working The Repeat (Part 2: Rows 5-7)

      4:48

    • 10.

      Correcting Mistakes

      1:17

    • 11.

      The Final Row

      2:04

    • 12.

      Tips For The Second Side

      2:08

    • 13.

      Putting It Together

      3:28

    • 14.

      Stuffing The Pillow

      3:57

    • 15.

      BONUS: Adding Fringe

      4:07

    • 16.

      Thank You

      0:34

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It can be very frustrating to find a crochet pattern you love and not know how to read it. Most crochet patterns are written instructions. But in mosaic crochet patterns are represented visually as charts. If you are new to mosaic crochet, this can be incredibly intimidating! This class aims to demystify these charts. We will work through a very simple chart together. 

                                

By the end of this class you will understand the symbols and colors used in charts. By working through repetitions of this chart you will have the confidence to take on any mosaic crochet pattern that interests you. 

                                                     

This class is best suited for students who have at least a little bit of experience with crochet. This class does not teach crochet basics. I do, however, teach all of the stitches used in the pattern, which are specific to mosaic crochet. These are in Lesson 4 and can be reviewed as often as necessary throughout the class. 

If you are interested in a more thorough explanation of mosaic crochet techniques, please check out my other class: A Beginner's Guide to Mosaic Crochet. 

Mosaic crochet is so much fun and the possibilities are endless. Once you understand how to read a chart, you'll be able to work on any project that suits you. In the process you'll make something beautiful for your home. 

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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Hi, I'm Chelsea and I'm a digital artist and crafter. When I first became interested in mosaic crochet, I immediately went looking for patterns. Instead of finding the written patterns that I was used to, I was finding a lot of charts. Charts are a way of presenting mosaic crochet patterns in a visual form. At first they can be very intimidating. This class will teach you how to read mosaic crochet charts so that you can have the confidence to tackle other mosaic crochet projects. This class is for people who have a little bit of crochet experience. I will be teaching you all of the stitches that you need to know, but not in a lot of great detail. There'll be a whole video on the stitches and you can refer to it whenever necessary. If you would like more detailed instructions on how to do mosaic crochet, you can check out my other class, beginner's guide to Mosaic crochet. In that class, I walk you through a lot of the basic steps of mosaic crochet and a lot more detail. In this class we will be using a very basic chart to learn how to read it and to get used to the process. We will be using that chart to make a pillow. You can find this chart in the resources section. By the time you've finished with this class, you will understand the basics of mosaic crochet and you'll be able to understand other mosaic crochet patterns that interest you. 2. Your Project: [MUSIC] In this class, we will be making pillows. This will give you a lot of repetitive practice with reading the chart so that by the time you are finished, you'll be very comfortable with the process. Because pillows are two-sided, you will also have the opportunity to practice reading your work, which is counting how many stitches and rows that you have already done so that you can make that second side identical to the first. You will also have the option of finishing your pillow by hiding all the tails on the inside, or by incorporating them as a feature and adding a fun french. [MUSIC] In the next video, we will talk about everything that you will need to get started. 3. What You'll Need: [MUSIC] The first thing we're going to talk about is yarn. You'll need two colors. You want there to be enough contrast in the colors that your pattern will be easily visible. I chose a yellow and gray, and you can very easily see the pattern. For this project, I am using a medium or worsted weight acrylic. You can see the yarn weight there. You can also check your yarn for the recommended hook size. This yarn recommends a size J10, or six-millimeter hook. You can see that my hook is an H8, five millimeter, which is two sizes smaller. I suggest using a hook one or two sizes smaller than what your yarn recommends. You have a lot of choices for yarn color. One fun option is to use a self striping yarn. You can see how it changes colors as you go. I paired it with a dark blue for a lot of contrast. This is what's left of that yarn. It transitions from purple all the way to fluorescent yellow. I chose a dark blue to let the colors really pop. This particular yarn is called fruity stripe by Red Heart. Another great option is to use a dark and light version of the same color. Here's a maroon and light pink, which gives a striking monochrome look. This project also works particularly well with a bulky yarns. I used this fuzzy yarn in purple and green, which will make a really soft pillow. That's another option for you as well. Since we're crocheting two squares and sewing them together to form the pillow. Another fun way to play with color is to make a reversible pillow. For this pillow, I use the light blue on one side and light pink on the other. The cream background color ties both sides together, but you could choose to use four entirely different colors if you'd like. You'll need at least two skins of yarn, a crochet hook, a pair of scissors, and a yarn needle. It should have a blunt tip and a wide eye. Of course, we're making pillows, so we'll need pillow stuffing. I'm using polyester fiber fill, which works great. But if you'd prefer to use something else, that's fine too. Let's get started. In the next video, I'll show you how to do all of the stitches. [MUSIC] 4. The Stitches: Let's learn the stitches we'll be using for this project. The first thing we're going to learn is how to make a slipknot. To do this, you want to make a loop in your yarn, then you're just going to reach through the loop from back to front and pull up one of the yarn tails. You can then pull the ends to make the loops smaller. Another way to do this knot is to lay your loop on the table. Fold the loop down over the long end of the yarn, then grab the yarn in the middle of the loop, hold onto both ends and pull. It's the same knot but maybe a little bit of an easier way to make it. Once you have your slipknot, go ahead and put it on your hook. Let's take a second to talk about how to hold your hook and yarn. The two most common ways are the pencil grip, where you hold your hook like you're writing, and the knife grip, pretend like you're cutting some veggies. I personally use the knife grip, but you should use whatever is most comfortable for you. There are also no rules for holding your yarn. I like to wrap it around my pinky and drape it over my index finger. This allows me to control the tension coming out of the skin and control the tension by my hook while I'm making the stitches. I use my thumb and middle finger to hold onto my project. Once you find something that feels comfortable, stick with it. The chain stitch is a foundational stitch. It's used as the basis of the project as well as other stitches. All you need to do is put your hook under the yarn and pull it through the loop, it can help to pull down on the yarn a little to give your hook more space to pass through. You can do a bunch of these in a row to make a chain, hence the name chain stitch. Next, is the single crochet. A normal crochet, you would find the next stitch in your project, these little V shapes and go under both loops that form the V. Mosaic crochet is different though. In mosaic crochet, we'll work our single crochet stitches only through the back loop, that's the one that's farther away from us. Put your hook down through the center of the V and out the back, now you pull your yarn through just the first loop, now we have these two loops, so we're going to pull the yarn through both of them. That's a mosaic single crochet. You can see the back loop that we worked into is pulled up and the front loop is left untouched. This will be very important later. To repeat, go through the center of the V into the back loop, pull the yarn through the first loop, then pull it through two loops. Another name for mosaic crochet is overlay crochet. That's because the double crochet stitches actually lay on top of other stitches to create the pattern. Here's how you do it. You're going to put the yarn over your hook before you go into the stitch. Now, this is the interesting part. Remember how we leave the front loop behind when doing a single crochet? I'm going to overlay this gray line and go all the way down to this other yellow line down below. Here's the front loop that was left behind in that row. This is where I wanted to put my hook. I have the yarn wrapped around my hook, and I go up through this yellow front loop. Now, I'll pull the yarn through that loop. This time I have three loops on my hook. I'm going to pull through just the first two loops. Now, I'm going to pull through those last two loops so now there's just the one left. To repeat, put the yarn over your hook, then find the front loop from the row below, put your hook up and under, then pull the yarn through the first loop, you should have three loops on your hook. Pull through the first two, then pull through the last two. That's a mosaic double crochet stitch. If you look at the back, you can see how this gray stitch is completely skipped, that's exactly what we want. Each row will begin with a border stitch, here's how to do the opening border stitch. You'll start each row with a new color, so hold your yarn firmly against the back of the project, then find the first stitch and insert your hook under both loops this time. You're going to pull the yarn through so you have a loop on your hook, then do a chain stitch. Next, you're going to put your hook back through that same stitch, both loops, and do a single crochet. Pull it through once, then pull it through both loops. That's your opening border stitch, and it will be the same for every single row of your project. Finally, let's learn the closing border stitch or ending border stitch. It's the opposite of the opening border stitch. When you get to the last stitch of the row, you'll go under both loops and do a single crochet, then you can cut your yarn. Finally, you'll do a chain stitch. By keep pulling until the end of the yarn comes all the way through, pull it tight to form a knot, that's how you'll end every row. You can see that the border stitches give you a nice edge to your project that's separate from the pattern. On the right, it has these loops and on the left, there are knots. We'll use these borders to create the scene when we saw the front and back of the pillow together. In the next video, we'll learn how to read the chart. 5. How To Read The Chart: Here's what a mosaic crochet chart looks like. It can look intimidating at first, but once you understand how to read it, you'll find that it's a very convenient way to use a pattern. First off, you'll see that the colors in these boxes alternate. These represent your two yarn colors. Blue is color A and white is color B. I find it helpful to write in the colors of yarn that I'm using so I don't get confused. For me, I'm going to start with yellow. So I'll just write that here. Everywhere that's white for me is going to be gray. Now I can remember, blue is yellow, white is gray, alternating rows all the way up. We will read the pattern from right to left because that is the direction we crochet. If you are left-handed, you would read the pattern from left to right. We start with the foundation row represented in this pattern by an F. I will do this row in yellow. Then we'll go to row one, which for me will be gray, then yellow for row two, and so on. These numbers represent the rows. There are seven listed here, plus the foundation row. Along the top is the number of stitches. Each box is one stitch. Let's look at this dark bordered outline. This is the part of the pattern that will be repeated. Each row, we'll start with a border stitch, then you will repeat these eight stitches until you get the length you want, then close with a border stitch. You'll continue that for each row until you get to row seven and then you repeat the whole thing again. When you take this outlined section and repeat it, that's what gives you your pattern. Here's an example of what it looks like. The section keeps getting repeated until you get the size you want. The colored blocks show you what the pattern will look like. For me, blue is yellow. This will look like a yellow square with a yellow line to the left and these gray sections. This is the part shown on the chart. We'll repeat that a gazillion times to make the pillow. Empty boxes represent a single crochet and the X's represent a double crochet. Whenever you come to an X, you're going to double crochet over the previous row down into the corresponding row of that color. That's why this white color stretches all the way down and covers up the stitch from the blue row. This whole row would be done in yellow, but this gray double crochet would come down and cover it up. Here's an example of a more complicated chart. This is a pattern that I purchased. It is one section of a blanket, but you can see that it works the same way. This pattern has a bunch of diamond shapes. The colors show you what the pattern will look like when it's completed. Each X is a double crochet. Here are the row numbers. This pattern author used symbols for the border stitches, but they're completed the same way. We don't look at the color of the boxes. Only whether they have an X in them or not. The colors just show us what our project will look like once we've completed the rows. On this pattern, the repeat extends up the whole chart. You do this section. Then this section repeats. When you get to the end of the blanket, you do this part and that finishes off this side of the blanket. So this is a very complex pattern. The one that we'll be using is very simple. But by the time you're finished, you'll be able to tackle just about any mosaic crochet pattern you can find. In the next video, we'll grab our yarn and get started. [MUSIC] 6. Starting The Chart: If we take a look at our chart, we can see that the very first row is the foundation row. Get your color A. For me, it's yellow. To start the foundation row, we need to make a row of chains that's as long as we want our project to be. Let's take a look at the pattern again. We can see that the repeat is eight stitches long. We want to choose the number of stitches for our project that is a multiple of eight. I'm going to do eight times seven, which is 56. Let's start with a slipknot on our hook. Will chain eight to start. One,two, three,four,five,six,seven,eight. Here are eight stitches, which is enough to do one repeat of the pattern. Continue making chains until you reach the length you decided on. Now I have 56 chains stitches. Looking at the pattern, we know that besides just the 56 patterns stitches, we're also going to need an extra stitch at each end for the border stitches. Let's add two more to the end of our chain.One,two. Here is our full chain. To complete the foundation row, we're going to do a row of single crochets into each of these chains stitches. This is the only time we won't be cutting the yarn. Here's our very last chain stitch. I'll do one more chain stitch. Then put my hook into this stitch that I'm marking. We're working into the back loop. Put your hook right in the middle of the V,and just to work this loop that is at the top. That's a single crochet. Pull it through once,pull it through twice. Now we can see that the stitch we just did has opened up and our yarn is going through it. Let's move on to the next stitch, single crochet. We'll continue doing this all the way until we get to the other side. Now I'm at the end and I have two stitches left before the slipknot. There is no border stitch for this row, just single crochet the whole way. [MUSIC] Now, let's cut the yarn and just pull it through. This is our completed foundation row. We have a multiple of eight plus two. [LAUGHTER] Looks like we're going to have a visitor today. This is Nemo. He was lost for the last four days and we just found him last night. He's sticking extra close today. I'm going to try to move his tail. After the foundation row, we'll look at the chart and get started with Row 1. This is color B, which is great for me. We have a border stitch and then a whole row of empty boxes, which means single crochet. Remember that it doesn't matter what color the box is. You're only looking at whether it has an X in it or not. Hold your foundation row with the tails off to the left. You want this nice fat row of V's to be on the top. If you look at the bottom, it looks just like a line. That's not very nice. We want to work into all of these nice stitches. If you look at it from the top, find the V at the very end. Put your hook through both of those loops. We're going to do the opening borders stitch. Grab your yarn and hold onto it firmly on the back of your project. Pull the yarn through, then do a chain stitch. Now, go back into the same stitch again and do a single crochet. [MUSIC] For Row 1, we're going to single crochet through the back loop for the entire rest of the row. There are no double crochets in this row. We're going to stop when we get to the last stitch. [MUSIC] You can see that the very last stitch has a big gap under it. That's where our border stitch will go. Put your hook under both loops. It can be tricky on this row, but do your best. Do a single crochet. [MUSIC] Cut your yarn, leaving a few inches of tail and do a chain stitch, pulling the end all the way through. Tightened gently, and you're done. In the next video, we'll get started with the repeat section of the pattern. [MUSIC] 7. Starting The Pattern Section: Row 2: [MUSIC] Let's take a look at row two. We're going to switch back to color a, so yellow for me. We have a border stitch and look, we have some x's here. Let's see. We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 single crochet stitches. Then we have two double crochet, then one single crochet. Then that repeats again and again. At the end of a row, we have a border stitch. I'll leave the chart right here so we can see it. Let's start with the border stitch. Put it through both loops. I'll grab my yellow yarn, pull it through, chain, go through both stitches and single crochet. Now we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 single crochet. One, I'll zoom in just a little bit, 2, 3, 4, 5. Now, two double crochet. We yarn over and instead of going into this stitch, we'll go down into this stitch. If you're not completely sure which stitch to go into, you can count the loops in this row to make sure you get the right one, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and then number six is where you want to go. Yarn over, go into that stitch and double crochet. If you look behind this double crochet, you can see the gray stitch is empty. We're not working into it. Our next stitch is also a double crochet, so we won't work into the next gray stitch either. The next double crochet goes right next to this first one. We have two empty stitches back here. Our next stitch on the pattern is a single crochet. When we look at the front again, we want to make sure we keep those two stitches open and work into the next stitch in the line. It will be just to the left of those double crochets. There is one repetition of our pattern. Five singles, two doubles, one single. Now we're going to start over again and do five singles, two doubles, one single, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Now there are two doubles. Again, feel free to count if you're not sure which loop to go into. Remember that for double crochets, you're always going down a row to the same color as the yarn you're using. When we look at our project, we can see that there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 loops. This is because we have the five single crochets at the beginning and one at the end. Between one set of double crochets and the next, there will be a total of six single crochets. Keep following the pattern until you come to the end of a row. I'm at the end of the row now. I'll do my two double crochets. Then my one single crochet will go into this last stitch right here. All that's left is my border stitch. Go under both loops, single crochet. [MUSIC] Then cut the yarn and do a chain stitch on the tail all the way through. In the next video, we'll continue working the pattern row by row. [MUSIC] 8. Working The Repeat (Part 1: Rows 3 and 4): [MUSIC] Now let's take a look at row 3. We have the border stitch, 1, 2, 3, 4 single crochets, a double, two single crochets, and a double. I'll pick up my B color, which is gray, and do the border stitch. [MUSIC] Start with 1, 2, 3, 4 single crochets. Now we have a double crochet, so it's going to go into this stitch next to the double crochet from the last row. It's a little tight. There we go. Now these two single crochet stitches will go right on top of the double crochets from the last row. Then we have a double crochet on the other side. so you can see that these gray double crochets frame the yellow double crochet stitches. Now, we'll start back at the beginning with the four single crochets. [MUSIC] Double crochet, two singles, and one double on the other side. Continue doing that for the rest of the rope. Here's my last repeat. Double crochet, two singles, and this last double crochet is going to go into this lonely little gray loop down here. Finally, finish off with a border stitch. That is row Number 3. [MUSIC] If you're having trouble keeping track of the row you're on, you can use a piece of paper or a sticky note to cover up some of the other rows. Now we'll do row Number 4. We have a double crochet, two singles, double crochet, then four single crochets, it's the reverse of the last row. [MUSIC] Border stitch. Now we'll start with a double, so it immediately into this first loop. Then two singles. and the double goes into this last available loop down here. Now we have four single crochets. [MUSIC] Keep repeating until the end of the row. Let's finish up with four singles. [MUSIC] There is row 4. Finish with your border stitch. [MUSIC] We'll keep going with this in the next video. [MUSIC] 9. Working The Repeat (Part 2: Rows 5-7): [MUSIC] Let's get started with row Number 5. We have a single, two doubles, then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 singles. This is the reverse of Row 2 that we started out with. As always, start with the border stitch , then there's a single. The two doubles go into these two loops right here. It's the only place that they can go, so that makes it easy. Then we have five single crochets. [MUSIC] Now, just to keep going. We'll finish up with our single crochets all the way to the end. Then finish with the closing border stitch. Let's look at Row 6. Border stitch, double, single, single, double then four singles. By this point, you should be getting pretty comfortable with the process. You'll also be able to start knowing what comes next just by looking at your project. Eventually, you might not even need to look at the pattern except for reference. [MUSIC] You can see that we have closed off this square. The pattern is really starting to come together now. [MUSIC] Finish off your row with the last four single crochets and the border stitch. Finally, we're on Row 7. This is the last row of the repeat section. We have 1, 2, 3, 4 single crochets, double, single, single, double. This is exactly the same as Row 3, but it's going to form the bottom half of the gray box instead of the top half. Work this row the same as you've been doing all the way to the end. Here is one completed repeat of our pattern. Here is Row 1-7 plus the foundation row. Now, you're going to go back to Row 2, since that's what's inside the box, and start all over again. You'll keep repeating Rows 2-7 until you get the size you want. In the next video, I'll show you what to do if you realize you've made a mistake. [MUSIC] 10. Correcting Mistakes: [MUSIC] One of the great things about mosaic crochet is that each row is separate. If you make a mistake and don't realize it right away, all you have to do is untie the knots at the end of the row and pull it out until you get to where the mistake happened. If your mistake was several rows down, it's no problem. Just keep undoing the knots and pulling out the stitches until you get there. Then, you just go row by row and re-crochet the stitches until it's all put back together. It's that simple. 11. The Final Row: [MUSIC] If you want your project to be square, you can obviously measure your sides to make sure your project is as tall as it is wide. But I never have a ruler with me, so instead of getting up, I just quickly fold it over into a triangle and see if the sides line up, or are at least pretty close. [MUSIC] Now that your project is the size you want, let's see how to finish it off. If we look at the pattern, you can see that there is an empty row up here. You might measure your project and find that it is a square after row 3 and you don't want to add four more rows. You don't have to finish the entire repeat. If you want to stop in the middle of the repeat, wherever you decide to stop, that's totally fine, all you need to do is add another row of single crochet and the color of your choice and you can be finished. [MUSIC] However, if you want to make it symmetrical, here's how. You can see at the bottom, we have this jagged row of gray and these yellow double crochets plus the foundation row, which is also yellow. I'm going to try to replicate that at the top. Here's my jagged row of gray, so I'll go ahead and add another row of yellow and fill in these double crochets. [MUSIC] Then I'll add in another row of single crochet in yellow to mirror the foundation row. [MUSIC] This will give you a symmetrical look to your project. [MUSIC] In the next video, we'll talk about getting started with and completing the second side of your color. 12. Tips For The Second Side: [MUSIC] We finished one side of the pillow. Now, we need to do it all over again. If I look at the chart, I can see that I should have a yellow square and a line forming one repeat of the pattern. If I go into my project and look at the first yellow square, I'll just count how many there are. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. I have seven repeats. Each repeat is eight stitches. I know I need to chain 56 stitches plus 2 for the border stitches [MUSIC]. Everything about the second side of the pillow is the same as the first. As you're getting closer to the end, you want to make sure that you have the same number of rows. Rather than counting each row individually, it's really easy to line them up and see exactly how much more you need to do. Fold it so that you have a row of boxes lined up along the edge. Then you'll just lay it on top of the finished side, lining up the squares next to each other. Now you can easily see that I have 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, all of my gray squares line up. I have this gray section right here, that lines up with this. I know I still have a couple more rows to go. Once you've finished your second side, join me in the next video and we will learn how to put it all together. [MUSIC] 13. Putting It Together: [MUSIC] Now we have both sides of our pillow and we need to put them together. We're going to look at the size with the loops. Make sure that both sides of our pillow are oriented in the same direction that we worked on them. We'll take the top one and flip it over so the right sides are now facing each other, the patterns are on the inside. We're going to start in this bottom right corner. [MUSIC] Make a slipknot and the color that you used for your foundation row, put it on your hook, and now we're going to pick up the top piece and go into this space between the first two rows of color. [MUSIC] I have a yellow stitch on my hook. [MUSIC] Now, I'll pick up the other side and try to get between the rows again. You should have the same color on your hook, again. I have two yellow stitches on my hook. Now we're going to do a slip stitch. All that means is that when you pull through the loops, you're going to go through all the loops, including the one that's already on your hook. That's it. Now, I'll go on to the next row. The last time I had yellow stitches on my hook. This time I want to get Grey stitches on my hook. It can get confusing to try to keep track of the rows, but if you go by the colors that are on your hook, this will help you to keep it even. [MUSIC] I have to grays on my hook, going to do a flip stitch pulling the yarn through all the loops. I'm going to keep going this way, all the way up the side. [MUSIC] Do your best to keep those tails out of the way. The slip stitches will give me a little row of stitches along the side here. Remember to only be working into the very end, these are our rows of border stitches and that's why they're here. They're here to give us this scene. Once you've made your way all the way upside, you want to line up the stitches along the top. Go through both loops of the first stitch on this side, then through both loops of the first stitch on the second side. [MUSIC] Keep slip stitching all the way along the top, doing your best to keep the stitches lined up. [MUSIC] You'll go all the way across, then back down on this side, the same way you did for the first side. Here's what it looks like seemed up on the front and the back. Go up, across, back, down. Then stop when you get to this corner. In the next video, I'll show you how to stop it and close it up. [MUSIC] 14. Stuffing The Pillow: [MUSIC] [LAUGHTER] Oh my gosh [LAUGHTER]. You're so cute. You are in my way. [MUSIC]. All right, we're almost done. When you've sewn all three sides, make sure you leave yourself plenty of yarn and then cut it off. Then pull it through and pull it tight. Now, we can flip the pillow right side out [MUSIC]. The open scene will be the bottom of your pillow. If you have any places where the tails came through, just hold onto it with one hand and flip the pillow to the inside. Give the tail a little tug until you can locate it on the inside and then pull it back through. Now, we're ready to stuff. Grab your fiber fill or whatever you're using. Take a handful and pull it apart a little bit to get rid of any lumps [MUSIC]. Then start in the corners and keep going. Remember that it's a pillow so you don't want to stuff it so much that it's really fat in the middle. You still want it to be kind of flat but full enough to hold its shape. Just keep going until you're happy. I like to add a little more at the opening so that once it's closed, it will fill the entire pillow [MUSIC]. Find the same part of the pattern on both sides, line them up, and then clip it. For this step, I find it helpful to have some kind of clip or pin. I use whatever I happen to have laying around. I've used clothes pins, safety pins, bobby pins, sewing pins, chip clips, these sewing clips, whatever is available. It just helps keep you on track. This will keep your stitches even. Now, we'll take our yarn and thread it onto our needle [MUSIC]. There are all kinds of ways to sow a scene. For this one, I went to maintain the look of the stitches, so I'm just going back and forth under these top loops, doing my best to keep the stitches lined up [MUSIC]. When you get to the end, make sure everything is tight and secure [MUSIC]. Then go through the last stitch again and make a knot [MUSIC]. Then you can put your needle near the knot and poke it down through the pillow [MUSIC]. Pull it out, making sure not to pull too tight and crumble your corner. Cut the yarn close to the fabric. This will hide the tail inside the pillow, so you don't have to leave it in. Your pillow is finished. Great job [MUSIC]. 15. BONUS: Adding Fringe: [MUSIC] In mosaic crochet, we always have these tails. Sometimes we want to take advantage of that fact and finish our project with a fun fringe. To do that, when you see in your pillow, instead of putting the two right sides together, you're going to put them wrong sides together like this. The pattern will be on the outsides, stripes inside. Then just seam all the way around exactly the same as we did before. But instead of stuffing it right away, this is when you want to work on the fringe. You could just cut all of these tails to the same length and that would look great. That's one option. If you want a fuller look, you'll need to add some tassels, which is what I'm going to show you how to do. Take your two colors of yarn and cut a length a bit longer than you think you might want the fringe to be. This doesn't have to be exact. You just want to try not to make them too short. To get started, we're going to do our best to keep these tails lined up. I'll have these two yellow tails on the left and then a yellow and gray on the right. I want to put my hook through these stitches in the middle. This can get a little tough to find the right place. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just get as close as you can. Now, take your pieces of yarn and pull them partly through leaving a loop. Here's where it can get hard to keep everything straight. We have the four strands from the loop we just pulled through the two yellows on the left and the gray and yellow on the right. We want to go up through the loop. You can use your fingers or the hook and grab all of these pieces and pull them through it. Then gently pull on each of the strands to gradually tighten the knot. You'll probably have to go through them each a couple of times. There's one. Let's do another one. Do your best to find the next four tails. This time there's a yellow and gray on each side. Take two new pieces of yarn and we'll go in-between these tails. Then pull the yarn through [MUSIC] [LAUGHTER] Too hard. Support the loop through, and figure out which tails you're working on. Once you have them, pull them through and tighten it down. There we have two tassels. As you can see, definitely looks different than leaving the tails as is. It's a lot fuller, but also a lot more work. I think it looks really nice though. Once you've done them all, you can just trim them to whatever length you want. You can do this on just two sides of the pillow. Or if you want, you could do all the way around the whole pillow. You'd have to do the fourth side after the pillow has been stuffed and seamed. For the top and bottom edges. You would also want to cut four pieces of yarn instead of two for your tassel that has the same fullness as the sides [MUSIC] 16. Thank You: [MUSIC] Thank you so much for joining me in this class. I hope that you understand the basics of reading a mosaic crochet chart so that you can continue to find patterns that inspire you. I also hope that you have made something beautiful for your home. Please remember to post your projects and your works in progress in the project section down below, happy crocheting. [MUSIC]