The Most Complete Crochet Course for Beginners: Learn All the Basics

1. INTRODUCTION: Learning how to crochet is a truly invigorating activity, the feeling of making something with your own hands for yourself or to offer to those you love is incomparable. My name is Emilie. As you can hear, I'm a French-Canadian from Quebec and crochet is my passion. I like to design modern patterns that are easy and pleasant to make. I'm the girl behind Crochetmilie's brand, which started thanks to the Etsy platform in 2015. And I'm so happy to finally share my knowledge with you thanks to this course. It was at the age of 8 that I discovered the pleasure of crocheting and I never thought I will be able to make a living with my passion. Thank you. 21st century Internet. In this class we will learn the basic skills you'll need to crochet anything you want, whether you're left or right-handed. We will start with the theory, very quickly. Then how to hold the hook and the yarn. The different stitches and techniques of crochet, the finishing of a project. And at the end, you will learn how to read a pattern so that you will be ready to go it on your own because there's a whole world of crochet waiting for you. What makes this course unique and successful is that At the end of each lesson, a quick project will be proposed to let you practice immediately what you have just learned. And you're going to be amazed by your new skill after only one lesson, I promise you when you're done, not only will you be comfortable to crochet whatever you want, but you'll notice all the positive effects on your mental balance and your stress. And given that the equipment is easy to bring with you, all the waiting moments will turn into relaxing moments. Are you ready? Let's start this crochet journey, Have fun and get hooked! 2. THE BASICS - Hooks & Yarns: Let's start with the basics to know the difference between each yarns and hooks First of all, we're going to learn the concept of crochet. Don't repeat that. It's just to show you. It's like making an knot but never finishing it. That's the principle of crochet. And as you can see, if we pull on that thread, everything comes undone. That's it. Here's a couple of hooks I've already used. You can find the aluminum or plastic hooks really common in stores. There's bamboo hooks personally, I don't like them because the yarn doesn't slide well on them. There is the ergonomic hooks made in China. It's good quality versus price. And my favorite one, the clover hooks made in Japan, I found that they slide really smoothly on it and the handle help your wrist to not get tired of crocheting all day long. As you can see, there's a wide range of hooks tagged in millimeter, or sometimes there is a letter associated with. And in one minute, we're going to understand the meaning of these numbers. There's a huge variety of yarns and I will not go over everything. But there are three main types. There's natural fibers that can be made from wool, cotton, bamboo, anything that came from nature. The most popular one that you can see all over the craft store are the synthetics, ones made from acrylic. And you will see also blended yarn, it's often a mix of acrylic and wool. With time you will know your taste, what you prefer most between all of those yarns. Let's talk about yarn weight. You can find different thickness in the thread of the yarn. So you will see those little numbers on the wrapping of each yarn. Numbers goes from 0 to seven, from Thin to super thick. Thin yarn will be crochet with small hook sizes and thicks yarn with bigger hook sizes. And we can use different hooks for the same yarn, depending if you want your project to be tighter or looser. And if a yarn that you love doesn't have the thickness you want, you have the option to double it by taking two threads at the same time. And just a quick note when you start to crochet Please avoid these kind of yarn like this fluffy or fuzzy ones because you're not going to see well your stitches. To be well equipped to complete all your crochet projects, you will need scissors, yarn, needle, stitch marker and a tape measure. In the next ten lessons, I will use Worsted weight yarn with a 4mm hook and super bulky yarn with a seven millimeter hook. In each lesson, I will show you how to crochet with both of them and lefties are not left out because I especially made a version for them. And these tutorials will be well identified at the end of the list of videos below. So you can go to the craft store to get these or you can grab my how to crochet box with the best hooks and quality yarns inside. With all the tools you need to complete my crochet course with the projects associated with. Let's now start to crochet. See you in the first lesson. 3. The Concept: In this lesson, you will only need your hands and any stren of a good lamp that you can find at your home. It can be your cell phone charger cord, yarn that your granny gave you, and even dental floss. Clean, please. Get your yarn, we start right away. Every rose project can start by making a slip nut. The easiest way to do it if you have a very long thread is to try to make a regular nut, and you will see that the thread will not have time to pass through the look that you will have made your slipknot. But I will still show you the official method to do it. It is similar to our regular nut. Only we will not pass the yarn completely through the loop. You can go get the yarn and hold the two ends to form the slip knot. You should be able to undo it easily by pulling. I show how to do it here from another angle. Hold the yarn well so that it does not enter the loop and pull simultaneously on the loop as well as on the threads. I show you another method by wrapping the loop around two fingers and going to get the yarn to form our slip nub. We will now cross a chain with our fingers. You will be able to pass through the loop and come to get the yarn that is connected to your skin or the longest side of the c that you have go to get. You will repeat the movement. You put your fingers in the loop formed, and you always go to get the yarn to pass it it and you continue like this for as long as you want. When you have had enough, you can either keep this masterpiece as a souvenir or simply pull on the strand to undo everything super easily. It's certainly much easier with real yarn, but I'll show you here that with the same technique you can practice with any strand. You can also have fun trying this technique with your family. I left my niece Zana Tend, and she was off to go around the world with her chain. You have just learned the concept of course. This will replace your fingers, but the principle remain the same. To pull the yarn through the loop. Let's practice with a real hook in the next lesson. 4. The Starting Chain: The starting chain is the foundation of every crushe project. It is made up of several chain stitches joined together. You will start by making a slip nut as you learned in the previous video. Now you will insert your hook into the loop, and you can tighten the nut around it, but not too much. Your hook must be able to slide well inside the loop. Your left hand will come to control the tension of the yarn. You can pass it like this. You open your, you wrap the n around your finger passing the inside, and then you turn your hand over and you are going to bring the yarn on your index finger. With your thumb and middle finger, you are going to come and hold the little nut that you made like that. You are going to work this way. The index finger will always be in the air to control your tension. I'll show you a second time. You'll see after about 15 minutes, this movement will become very natural. Once you're well positioned, you can hold your hook in two ways. There is the knife w or the pencil way. You can test both methods to find out which one you are most comfortable with. We will now make our first chain. The head of the hook facing you, you will pass the hook under the yarn, so you make a movement towards you. You will try to hook the thread on the head of the hook. C. Will bring it back towards the loop to pull it through it. Your index finger will help you control the tension so as not to tighten the loop. You can make a small rotation movement of the hook downwards so that it can fit well into the loop. Then you twist your hook upwards so that the yarn does not escape. You have made your first chain. Don't worry, if it is not as beautiful as mine, trust me, you will succeed by the end of the video. You should not force the hook to get inside. You see that with my index finger, I control the tension of the arn well so that it is easy to pass. When I tilt my index finger a little bit, the loop gets bigger. It's important that the loop on your hook always has a little bit of slack so that your yarn can pass through it properly. So Let's make our second chain stitch. With the hook head facing you, you pass this one under the yarn and you will catch it by making a small rotation of the head downwards, and you pull it through the loop. You see here, I have a little bit of difficulty because the thread is a little tighter on my index. I could have brought it a little closer to give myself more plate. To do this, you can place your right index finger on the loop of the hook so as not to lose it and relax your left hand. Pull a little bit and reposition your fingers, which will give you a good length of yarn to work. At the same time, you can always bring your thumb and middle finger closer to the hook. They will always hold what you're doing. A mistake to avoid will be passing the hook over the yarn. You see that it doesn't work. You can't put it in the loop. But really the hook towards you, and you're going to catch the threat by passing it under it. This movement is called a yarn over. The yarn goes over the hook. I'll let you continue a little bit to observe my movements, and I'll show you the common problems in a few moments. It's very important to facilitate your work to always bring your fingers close to the hook. And you can see very well here that I can control the opening of my loop with my index finger and by pulling the hook up. If you ever drop your loop or you've made a chain stitch that you don't really like, it's super easy to undo it by simply pulling on a thread to the next loop. This is one aspect of rota that I really like. It's so easy to correct a mistake. You just have to put the hook back in with the little braid of the chain facing you. Don't insert the hook behind it, but in front of it like that. And you put your hands back and you continue your chain. Let's move on to the problems you might encounter. If you are not able to pass your thread through the loop, it is because your tension is much too tight. Release the thread a little bit from your index finger. Pull your hook up so you can see a gap in your loop. I'm showing you here the movement you should do when it's too tight. I'm releasing the tension. I'm making sure I have a gap to get into my loop. The opposite problem, if your loop is too big like this, the small braid, your starting chain will not be very homogeneous. It is important to keep the same tension throughout our chain for a beautiful result. If this happens to you, you just have to pull on the thread and start again. The last problem will be too lose tension between your index finger and your hook, which will make your thread almost impossible to catch. You should keep a comfortable lamp between your index finger and what you are crushing. Also, it is important to keep your hook above what you're crushing. Don't go passing your hook under your chain to catch the yarn. Each little chain stitch of your starting chain should be similar. Each chain is made up of two V shaped strands that make a small bridge. And that's the right side of the chain. And the back side looks like this. It's very easy to recognize the right side, the one with the small brig. I now teach you how to count each chain stitch. You can use the strands from above to count them. The first one will be just after the loop that is on your hook, and we will count the following strands up to our slip knot. This one does not count as a chain. The last visible strand for the slip nut will be our last chain. The first one you made. You will understand and lesson to why we count the stitches in the chain from the hook and not in the order you make them. Now let's try the same technique, but with a super bulky yarn. With the seven millimeter hook this time, we will redo a starting chain. Maybe you will find easier to work with the s thickness of yarn. You will start in the same way with a slip knot, and you put your hook inside the loop and tighten the nut on the hook so that it can slide well through the loop. Position the yarn that is connected to the skin on your left hand by wrapping your little finger up to your index, and your thumb and your middle finger will hold the slip knot. Again, you can hold the hook in the pencil way or the knife way. I personally prefer the ladder because it puts less strain on the wrist. With the tip of the hook facing you, you are going to grab the yarn from below, rotate the hook head slightly downward to pass it easily through the loop, and then you turn the hook up, and we continue to chain. You will find that it is much easier with a large hook and a thick yarn to pull through the loop. On the other hand, you will have to adjust your left hand much more often to keep a good tension, given that each stitch will take much more yarn than a worsted weight yarn. Continue practicing your chain stitches. Remember that you can always use your index finger on your right hand to hold the loop on the hook as you adjust your left hand to keep a good tension. When you are completely comfortable, you can increase the speed. Again, if you have difficulty passing the iron through the loop, it's because your tension is too tight. Release your left index finger and larger loop to pass the thread easily. And to have an equal tension between all the stitches of your starting chain. If you see one that is too loose, you can simply undo it and start again. You should once again have a nice even foundation chain. This is how we should count the chain stitches from your hook. Always looking at the strands that are above. I made nine in this case. Now, let's practice with the first project. 5. The Bracelet - PROJECT: Welcome to your first crochet project. You will need a little bit of worsted weight cut on yarn in the color of your choice, a four millimeter hook and scissors. Please note that you can use any other yarn to make this little project. We will start our bracelet by making a slit nut. Insert the hook into the loop. Place the yarn as you learned on your other hand to keep a good tension. And you are ready to begin your starting chain, which will constitute your bracelet. You will make 100 chains. In a pattern, it will be written chain 100. This is the perfect project to practice your technique. Try to make each chain look the same for a nice even foundation chain. If you lose count, don't worry. I'll show you how to know where to stop. When the tension gets too tight from time to time, you can pull on the skin to give yourself some slack. You can pause the video. When you've finished your hundred or so chains, to know if it's the right len, it should be fit three times around your wrist. You can add or remove some as needed. You can check if your little braid, your chain, is always in the same direction so that the little Vs are always visible on the right side of the chain. You can take the hook out by pulling on the loop. Cut the thread, leaving a good lamp. And you have two options to secure your thread. The first one is to put your fingers in the loop and go and get the ending thread and pull on it to be able to finish your knot. The second method will be to simply pull on the loop until the end thread comes out. That's two ways to secure the end for your project to come. You can choose which method you like best. Then you will make a double not with both beginning and ending threads to close your bracelet. If you see that it is still not strong enough, you can make another nut. And that's it. You can cut the axis, leaving just a little length like this. And you are ready to wrap it around your wrist, making three turns. There you have it, your first cross set project is complete. You can be very proud of yourself. Join me in the next lesson where you will learn how to make single crochet. A. 6. The Single Crochet - Part 1: Now let's get into the real thing where you'll learn how to build something using your hook. The concept is that you will work on the starting chain that you have just made by crushing from right to left. When you reach the end, we will turn our project back on itself to continue working on the stitches that you have just made, and so on. This way of doing is called crushing in rows. I'll show you how to do this in part two and three of this lesson. For now, let's learn how to make at basic stitch the single crochet. With your four millimeter hook and worsted weight yarn, make a foundation chain of ten chains. You can pause the video. We will now build on this chain. We will make a single crochet into the second chain from your hook. By bringing your fingers together to hold the chain closer to the hook, you will hold the loop that is on your hook with your right index finger, and you will come to insert the hook into the loop that is upper of your second chain like that. Then you will come to catch the thread. Make a yarn over by passing it under this one, and you will pass it through the loop of your chain. Pull the hook up so that you can see the two loops clearly now on your hook. Put your fingers back in order to see clearly what you're doing and create space in the loops. You will make another yarn over, always passing the hook under the yarn, and you pull it the two loops that are on your hook. As with the chain, you can turn your hook up so as not to lose your loop. It doesn't look like much, but you've just made your first single crochet. Now we're going to make a second one. To know exactly where to make it. You see when I pull on my single crochet, the little strand of the chain moves. That means we've already entered this one. The next, the next loop will be this one, the one that's not stretched, and everything will fall back into place at the end. Don't worry if you see that it makes little holes. You're going to go into this strand. You hold the loop with your index finger, you insert your hook. You can use your middle finger to gide it into the top loop. You're going to make a iron over. Do not do it by passing your hook over the iron. That's another method, but really pass the hook under the iron to get it. And you pass through that chain. You replace your fingers to see your two loops well, and you make another yarn overver, and you pull it through the two loops that are on your hood. There are two steps to the single crush. Let's look together their anatomy. You see that it creates a small braid on top and the strand that you see completely to the right, this is the chain that we skipped at the beginning. We sometimes call it the turning chain. You will understand why in the following video. You can place your stitch marker on it. It will help you to find your way in the following rows. We are ready to continue with our single crochet. You can enter the next chain. You see that this one that has a big gap it's already taken. It's not in that one, but really in the next one. You enter your hook into the chain. You yarn over, you pass through the chain. You yarn over and you pull through the two loops that on your hook. You can't continue until the end of your starting chain. If you ever miss a single crushes stitch, skip the chain or make two in the same chain, you can simply pull the yarn to undo until the next loop that will appear on the break that your stitches form. Then you will insert your hook from right to left into the loop. And you are ready to start again. Your chain may be very stretched after undoing a single c, but you'll see everything falls back into place at the end. I'll let you continue. You can pause the video. We need the last single crochet to do. The last single crochet will be in the first chain that you made, the one that is right after your s. You have just finished row one of your little project. You should have nine single crochet plus your turning chain in a row one. You can tell how many there are by counting the little brakes that are on top. Let's take a look at the anatomy of single crochet. When you look at the right side of a single crochet stitch, you can see that each of them forms Vs. On these, they are the strands that form the small brad that corresponds to them. If we turn to the other side, we look at the single crochet on the wrong side. You see that it creates inverted V with one strand on top. We call it the posterior loop. For the next row, we will come work into the two loops of our small brake that is on top. You can put a second stitch marker in the last single crochet that you made. We will continue the next row in the following video. A 7. The Single Crochet - Part 2: I showed you in the previous video that you can construct something by crushing in a rows. In this lesson, I'm going to show you two methods that can be applied to any kind of stitches. The first one will give you straight edges on the side, while the second which is a bit easier will give you undefined edges. After we practice with both methods, I will show you in which situation each of them will be the best choice. By picking up where we left off in the last video, you can replace your fingers, your hook, and make a chain. It is used to give height to be able to build our second row. We will therefore always start a row by making one or more chains depending on the stitch. We will then turn our project on itself by turning it like this. To always crochet from right to left. Now we will crochet row two in each of the stitches of row one, taking the two strands bolt loops of the small bread. In this case, since we're going to use the method with straight edges, our chain will count as a stitch. It will replace a single crochet. We're going to make our first single crochet in the next stitch. That is the one right after the marker. You can remove the marker, but remember where you have to go. And you enter into the next stitch, which is this one by entering both loops. And you make your single crochet as usual. Yarn over, you pass through the stitch. Yarn over, you pull through two loops. That's the single crochet you just made. And here you have your turning chain. The one that counts. Which means we're going to use it to insert the last single crochet of the next row. You can place your stitch marker on a loop of it, the one that's facing you. We're going to continue row two by making single crochet in each of the following stitches, still taking ball loops like this. I'll let continue. We'll meet up near the next marker. Pay attention to really going to each of the little brakes of each stitch. You can pause the video. Now I have a bra visible, so I'm going to make my single in both loops of this one. And we're going to finish by making a single crushe in the turning chain. The method to have straight edges requires that we always finish in the turning chain of each row. It is normal to enter only into one strand of the chain. As when working on a starting chain, we only take 11 loop. You can remove your marker and we will look together at what we have just done. You should normally, as in row one, have nine single crushed, plus your chain, where the marker is. For a straight project, you will absolutely always need the same number of stitches in each row. Unfortunately, we can't cheat. If you skip one or make too many, you will have to undo to correct the mistake. That's why in the beginning, it's important to count the stitches in each row, so we can see if we've made mistakes as quickly as possible. You can put your marker back on the last single croche that you make. You're going to make a chain and always turn outwards, and we're going to start our third row. Where is your marker? It's called the same stitch. The last one you made in row two. We're going to enter the one after the next stitch. And you make your single crochet. You put the marker back on your chain, which is just before your single crochet, enter into the loop that faces you. By the way, you won't always need these little markers. It's really to get you used to recognize your stitches. No. You continue by making single crochet in each of the following stitches. We need just before the next marker. Same as in row two, we're going to make our last single crochet in the turning chain of row two. Sometimes you may find it difficult to get into the little strand here. You can use your fingernail if you have one to help the hook to pass. M. And you have completed row three. Let's look at the anatomy together again to understand how to count stitches and rows. Here's the nine single crochet you made plus the chain from the beginning. Here's how to recognize the rows. We find row one, which is just above your foundation chain. Row two will be on wrong side, so you will see the shape of the inverted V with the small strand on top. Row three, we return on the right side where we can clearly see the small V that the single crochet make. Since we turn the project every row, there is not really a right or wrong side. It looks much the same. But generally, the right side will be the side where the starting chain is visible and the right side of row one. If we turn that we just did to the other side, we can clearly see the starting chain as well as row one, which are on the wrong side. But as you will notice, there are no precise rules for crochet. The important thing is the visual result. If it's more beautiful on one side than the other, we'll choose the most beautiful side, that will become the right side. The one we're going to show. A common mistake that happens to all of us when we start crusheting, would be to enter our hook in the same stitch instead of entering the next stitch. Because we use the straight edge method, that would add a single crushe to your row. Therefore, an increase. You will immediately see a small bump appear on the edge. Just double check after each row that you didn't add one by accident. The same way. Remember to always end your row in the small chain. Otherwise, you will miss a single crush in your role. Another mistake would be to skip a stitch. The appearance of the mistake is subtle, but it will come to shrink what you're doing, even create a small bump from there. The importance, again, when you start to count each of the single cruce well, to make sure we haven't missed any. Now that you're used to inserting your hook into both loops of each stitch. I'll show you that you can insert your hook in different places to get a different style. You could insert your hook in front loop only, the one that is facing you. Whether your project is right side or wrong side, when the instruction tells you to go in the front loop, it is always the strand that is in front of you. Usually we will follow this indication for a full row. This will make a small line appear on the other side of the project. You could also pass your hook through the back loop only. The strand that is furthest away from you, which is right here. You can tilt the work a little bit down there to see that you are entering the back loop only. This time, it's going to give you a little line on the front of what you're doing. Let's practice now with the super bulky yarn and the second method for building rows. 8. The Single Crochet - Part 3: Now that we have practiced the first method to make straight edges, I will show you the second method that you will find maybe a little easier, but that gives less defined edges. You can practice this time with the seven millimeter hook and the super bowl Keyon. You're going to make a starting chain of ten. Chain ten. You can pause the video. We're going to start the same way as the first method, you're going to make a single crush into the second chain from your hook. You enter the loop that is upper, you yarn over, you pass through the chain. And you make another yarnover, and pull through the two loops that are on your hook. Your first single crush of row one is done. You can place your stitch marker on this one. In the second method, the turning chains do not count as a stitch. We will never crush into these. You can make your s c into the next chain. Ner the chain. Yarn over, you pass through that chain. Yarn over, you pull through the tops on your hook. And you continue like this all along your foundation chain. We meet just before making our last single cro. By the way, I wanted to show you what it looks like when you make two single crush the same stitch. You'll see that there are two small breads, two stitches that are formed into the same one. If this happens to you, you just have to undo one and continue. Your last single cru of row one will be in the chain that is right after your s. You can count to see if you have made nine single crochet. You can then place your second stitch marker on the last single crochet you made. As with the first technique, we will make a chain before turning our project to continue with row two. The difference this time is that you will not make your first single crochet in the next stitch, but in the same stitch. The one where is your marker. If the marker is in that path, you can remove it, but remember where to go. That's why this technique is a little easier because you don't have to think about where to enter your hook. It's simply in the available stitch that is closest to your hook. And you enter both loops of the stitch. The first single crochet of root two is done. You can put the stitch marker back on this one, and as you see, we completely ignore our turning chain. You're going to continue to make single crochet in all the following stitches, always entering both loops, and we meet up just before finishing our row. Your last single crusht of row two will be where you put your marker in the first single crushet of row one. And we totally ignore the small turning chain. You will see you will have done again nine single crush set. To summarize the second method, we start each row in the same stitch and we finish it in the stitch just before the chain. You can place your stitch marker on your last single c. We will continue with the th row. You're going to make a chain turn, and you start by making a single crush in the same stitch, stitch where your marker is. Place the marker back on the single crushe that you just made and continue by making a single crushet in the next eight stitches. Your last single crochet will be where your marker is in the one just before the chain. Let's look at the anatomy of what we just did. We have our starting chain, then row one, where we can curly see our single crochet with the shape of a small v. Row two, which is on the wrong side in an inverted V. Row three, we can see our single crushes stitches that are on the right side with the small braid that forms on top. You should always have nine single crushes stitches in each of the rows. Since we don't finish the rows in the turning chain, that's why the edges are a little less defined because it creates a gap between the two rows. Sometimes if you have trouble seeing the anatomy of the stitches, you can always use your fingers to feel your single crutch to know how many rows you have. With this method of constructing rows, the variations of style will still remain the same. If you were told to go in the front loop only, well, you would start in the one of the same stitch. Just a reminder the front loop is always the one closest to you. Similarly, if you were told to go in the back loop only, you would start in the one of the same stitch. The first one you see. Now, how to choose the right method? The difference between the two is seen by their edges. When we start the row in the next stitch and finish it in the chain, the sides will be straight. When we start our row in the same stitch and finish it just before the chain, as we just practiced, it's easier to work with, but the sides are less defined. You can choose the method that suits you best depending on whether the borders will be visible or not. They are visible, the ideal choice will be the first method with straight edges. Otherwise, the second method will be ideal for pillows because the sides will be sewn together anyway, or for crochet projects that have a lot of color changes, often in the form of graphs that you will practice in the third project. Finally, if your project includes adding a border, you will have the option of taking the easy one since the edges will be hidden. In any case, it will be important to keep the same method for all rows. You may have wondered, does the direction you turn the project at the end of a row make a difference? I taught you to turn it to the back, but some crocheters will turn it to the front. Note that there is no wrong way to crochet, as long as you keep the same method throughout. There are two reasons why I prefer to turn to the back. First, it will be much easier when you do large projects. For example, in each row of a blanket, it will always go in your face. Also, the turning chain is harder to see, and the hook more complicated to pass in it. I show you here the aesthetic difference between the two methods. It is really a matter of taste and it's up to you to decide which one you prefer. Now, let's practice with your first real crochet project, the mug rug. 9. The Mug Rug - PROJECT: [MUSIC] This little mug rug is a great project to practice your single crochet stitch. You will need about 10 grams of worst-weight cotton yarn, a four-millimeter hook, scissors, yarn needle, and a tape measure. [NOISE] Start by making 13 chains. Make a single crochet in the second chain from your hook. Enter in the chain, yarn over behind the thread. Pull it through the chain, yarn over in front of the thread, and pull it through the two loops on your hook. Continue making single crochet in the next 11 chains. You will have a total of 12 single crochet in this row, Row 1. Don't forget to always count how many single crochet you made, to be sure that you have 12 single crochet in total. Let's do Row 2, so Chain 1, turn your project and single crochet in the same stitch. You take both loop and you do your single crochet. You continue doing 11 more single crochet, and you stop just before the turning chain, the Chain 1 of Row 1. [NOISE] [MUSIC] Your last single crochet will be in this stitch. [NOISE] Make sure you did 12 single crochet. Row 3, Chain 1, turn, and you do the same single crochet in this same stitch here, and single crochet in the next 11 stitches. You continue, Row 4 to Row 13 the same way. You can pause the video and come back when your 13 rows are done. [NOISE] I'm going to show you how to count your rows. Here's the 1st one, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. To finish and secure your project, you remove the hook from the loop. You cut the yarn, you can always leave a good length, and you pass this thread into the loop. That's it. We will now learn how to weave in ends, how to hide the threads. Put the tread into your yarn needle like this, and you will pass back and forth into any loops. As long as you feel a certain resistance, it's all right. My way to do it is to zigzag into these little loops back and forth three time. This is the second time, and I will just go back a last one. Like this, you're sure that this end will not go out. You can guess that this will be the backside of the project. [NOISE] You cut the yarn. This is how I weave in ends. Let's do it with the second one. You can repeat the same thing in any loops, just go back and forth. Just to secure this end. It's now time to put the little fringe on it. With your tape measure and your scissors, you can cut 26 thread of seven inches long. Once it's done, you can put these on the edge of your mug rug. In each row, there will be one thread. You put your hook into any loop, fold the thread in the middle and take it with your hook and pass it through the loop, and yarn over with the rest of it, and pass those through the loop. It's going to make a little fringe. You can continue making the fringe. If you find that is hard to take the thread with your hook, you can take them with your fingers. It's a little bit easier to pass them into the loop. You can enter your hook anywhere, that's what I like about crochet. Nothing has to be really precise as long as you have 13 fringe on each side. If you feel comfortable to make those, you can forward this video at 12:15 minutes. Do the same thing on the other side. [NOISE] When all your fringes are done, you can measure and cut them about one inch from the edge. [NOISE] That's it. You made your first beautiful mug rag. Congrats. [NOISE] See you in next lesson where you're going to learn how to change colors. 10. Color Changes: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we're going to learn how to change colors and how to join a new skein of yarn. It's really simple. All you need to know its just before finishing any stitch, in this case, single crochet, you join the new color by simply yarn over with it and pass it through the two loops on your hook. You continue crocheting with this color. You can tighten the threads behind. If you forget to change color, you simply pull the yarn to undone put your hook back into the loop and continue. You enter your hook into the stitch yarn over, pass it through the stitch, yarn over with the other color, and pass it through the two loops on your hook. The last step of the stitch, you join the color. It's that simple. We will now learn how to change color for an entire row. Let's say we want to change color for next row. The last stitch of the rope, you would join the color the same way as we just learned and we continue to work with the other color. I will show you three techniques for how to follow colors. Because depending of the projects you make, maybe you don't want to see those threads behind your project. Maybe the back of your project will be hidden, so it doesn't matter. The first method gives the tapestry technique, which is to crochet over yarn of different color while making every stitch. The other color will follow you while you're working. Make sure this other treads stays in the back. If I want to use this color, it's already there for me to take it. Let's say on the other side of this project. I decided to change the color here. This time I will keep the other thread in front of me because it's the backside of the project. I want to hide it as much as possible. I include this thread in every stitch I do in this row. If your project is reversible, it's a great technique. But as you can see, because we crochet in rows, the other color thread will be visible. Another technique that I often use when the backside of my project is hidden like pillows, every three or four stitches I include the other colored yarn. I crochet over it. My yarn followed well, don't pull too hard on it. Just make it follow without tightening your project. We don't see it on the other side. The other method, the lazy one, is to simply ignore your other color. When you're going to need it again, you just have to retake the thread, by giving it a good length and you continue your work. After when your project is done, you simply cut all the threads and make double knot with another one near of it. Obviously, that will be the backside of your project. I hope it will be hidden because it's not cute at all. But the good side of your project is beautiful. If you crochet and you are at the end of your skein, simply do the same thing with a new one, like if you change color. The last step of your stitch, you join the new skein. At the end of your project, if it's reversible, you can leave those threads in them. If this side is hidden, you can simply do a double knot with them. Another method I really like, because it's really subtle, it's the magic knot. You make a knot on each other thread. It's a little bit hard to explain like this, but you can see well in this video, I will show you how to do it three times. After making your knots pull one against the other. You cut the overreach. You make sure it's really solid. I will show you with the super ball here, maybe it's going to be care. You'll make and knot on each other thread. You pull hard. You cut the average. You reach at the solidity by pulling them again. Another last time, I will show you this magic knot with two different colors, maybe it's going to be more understandable. That's it for this lesson. You now know how to change color and how to join yarn. See you in the next video where we're going to practice our color changing by doing this boho mug rug. 11. Boho Mug Rug - PROJECT: [MUSIC] You will now practice how to change colors. This project is a little bit challenging, but I'm pretty sure you're going to be able to do it. You're going to need two different colors of worsted weight cotton yarn, a four millimeter hook, scissors, a yarn needle, and a tape measure. With the main color, which is the natural one, white one, you will start by doing 13 chains. You're going to do a single crochet in the second chain from your hook and single crochet in the next 11 chain for a total of 12 single crochet in row 1. Row 2, chain 1, turn. You are going to make a single crochet in the same stitch and single crochet in next four stitch with this color so the fifth one, you're going to join the black color, so one, two, three, four, and the fifth one, we join the black yarn. You can do one single crochet with this color by crocheting over the white thread. Since we're doing only one stitch with the black color, you're going to join the white yarn in the last step of this stitch. You can pull a little bit on the thread to just tighten it a little bit. We're going to use a tapestry technique for that project. You'll continue doing six single crochet with the white color by crocheting over the black thread. This one is following your work and when you're going to need the black thread again, it will be at your disposal. You made 12 single crochet in the row 2, five white, one black, and six white. That's how it's supposed to look, this is behind and the good side. Now row 3, chain 1, turn. You're going to do only one single crochet, we're taking the black thread with it in the same stitch. Since we're doing only one single crochet, you're going to join the black yarn here and you're going to do one single crochet with this black one in the next stitch by including the white thread. Since we're doing only one single crochet in the back, you're going to join the white yarn right after and you will continue by doing three single crochet with this white yarn. Don't forget to follow your black thread. The third single crochet will join the black yarn and you're going to do two single crochet with this color, crocheting over the white thread. Always keep the thread on the backside of the project. Join the white yarn just before completing your second single crochet and you continue doing single crochet in the next three stitches with white. You will change color in the third one, you're doing one single crochet in black and the last one in white. This was the most complicated row [LAUGHTER] you can be proud of you. This is supposed to look like this on the good side. Row 4 now, chain 1, turn. You're going to follow your black color behind your project so single crochet in the same stitch and single crochet in next four stitches before joining the black yarn. Join your black yarn and the fifth single crochet you did. You're going to do three single crochet in this color. Don't forget to follow your white thread behind. At the third one, you join the white yarn and you will be doing four single crochet with that color. You should always have 12 single crochet total in each row. Row 5, chain 1, turn. You're going to do four single crochet with the white yarn. Always start in the same stitch. Just before finishing your fourth one, you join the black color and put the thread in front of you because it's the back of your project. You will do four single crochet with this black yarn. Always crocheting over the white thread. Fourth one, you would join your white color and you're going to do four single crochet with this color. Row 6, it will be four single crochet in white, five single crochet in black, and three single crochet in white. [MUSIC] Row 7, chain 1 turn. One single crochet in white in the same stitch. Join your black color. One single crochet in black. Join your white yarn. One single crochet in white. Join your back yarn. Six single crochet in black. In the sixth one, you join your white yarn and you can do one single crochet white, one black and the last one white. You did more than a half of the project. The front side will look like this. Row 8, chain 1, turn. You're going to do four single crotchet in white, five single crochet in black and three in white. Row 9, chain 1, turn. You're going to do four single crochet in white, four black, and four white. Raw 10, Chain 1, turn, five white, three black and four white. Raw 11, Chain one, turn. It's going to be one white, one black, three, white, two black, three white, one black, and one white. Raw 12, Chain 1, turn, you're going to do six single crush it in white, one in black, and five in white. Row 13, chain 1, turn. This is your break. It's only single crochet it in white in every stitches, 12 in total. It's finally done. Remove your hook from the loop. You can pull a bit on the sides just to tighten it and cut the ending thread, leaving a good length, and pass it through the loop. Your project is now secure. You can cut the black thread too. You can now weave in ends everything. Black thread and any black loops you see by going back and forth and cut the over rate. You can do this with every thread. With your tape measure, you can cut 26 threads of seven inches long in the color of your choice. I choose a black one. When you have 26 threads, you can put one on each side of every row. You enter your hook in a loop, you fold a thread in the middle, and you take it with your hook like this as long as they're one fringe per row each side. You can use your fingers too if you find it easier. Since we made this fringes on Project 2, we will jump to the finishing. You can measure one inch from the edge and cut all those fringes. That's it, your beautiful Boohoo mug rug is all done. Congratulations. See you in next lesson where you're going to learn how to increase and decrease. 12. Increase & Decrease: [MUSIC] Increase, so to add a stitch, you simply have to do two stitches in the same one. In this case, we made two single crochets in the same stitch. So 1 and 2, that's it. If you want to add stitches in your row, normally we increase at the beginning of a row and at the end. So in this case, instead of doing your single crochet in the next stitch, you can do it in the same one. So you will add a stitch at the beginning and at the end in the little chain one, the turning chain you can do two single crochet. So in this row, you're going to have two more stitches. In this example, I have nine single crochet in previous row, and now I have 11 ones. If you were doing your rows by going in same stitch and finishing just before the turning chain. This time, if you want to add stitches in your row, you can make two single crochet in the same stitch. You continue your row. At the end, you will do two single crochet in the last stitch. You have now two more stitches in your row. There's two ways to decrease or to remove a stitch. So the first one would be to just skip one stitch. At the beginning of your row, you skip a stitch and at the end, you skip the penultimate one, and you make your last stitch in the chain one. The other way to decrease is to do a single crochet into two stitches. You enter your hook in next stitch, yarn over, you pass through the stitch, yarn over, you pass through only one loop on your hook. You go into next stitch, yarn over, pass through the stitch, yarn over, and pass through three loops on your hook. It's called single crochet 2 together. I will show you another time at the end. In the last two stitches, you can do your single crochet 2 together. So you enter your hook in the stitch, yarn over, pass through the stitch, yarn over, pass through one loop only, enter in the turning chain, yarn over, pass through the chain, yarn over, pass through all the loops on your hook. You can see we remove two stitches on each rows. That's how we make triangles shape. It's the same principle. If you're used to start your row in the same stitch and finish the stitch before turning chain. You will skip the same stitch and start your row in the next one. At the end, you are going to skip the penultimate stitch, and you will do your last stitch in the one before turning chain. But you see that it makes a little hole. Then you can do the other way, the single crochet 2 together to have a better finishing. I'll explain it again. You enter your hook in next stitch, yarn over, pass through the stitch, yarn over, pass only to one loop, go into next stitch, yarn over, pass through the stitch, yarn over, pass through all three loops on your hook. So you just removed two stitches in this loop. Let's now practice this in project number 4, the cozy mug. [MUSIC] 13. The Cozy Mug - PROJECT: [MUSIC] The cozy mug is the perfect project to practice increasing and decreasing. You will need about 30 grams of super bulky yarn, a seven millimeter hook, scissors, a yarn needle, a tape measure, a one inch diameter button, and your favorite mug. First of all, you can measure the circumference of your mug with your tape measure. Remember this number or write it down, my mug as 11 inches. Leaving a good length to the beginning trend, let's start by doing five chains. Row 1, single crochet and second chain from your hook, and single crochet in next three chains. [MUSIC] Row 2, chain 1, turn. Single crochet in same stitch, single crochet in next three stitches. Row 3, chain 1, turn, we going to do two single crochet in the same stitch. We now increase. You're going to do a single crochet in the next two stitches, and two single crochet it in the last one, so you added two stitches in this row. For chain 1, turn, single crochet in same stitch and single crochet in next five stitches for a total of six single crochet in this row. Row 5 chain 1, turn, two single crochet in the same stitch. Single crochet in next four stitches, and two single crochet in last stitch for a total of eight single crochet in this row. Row 6, chain 1, turn, single crochet in same stitch, single crochet in the next seven stitches for a total of eight single crochet in this row. Next row, row 7, you're going to repeat it until you reach two inches below your mug circumference. You should have eight single crochet total in all of these rows. When you did all your rows, you can measure to make sure it's really two inches below your mug circumference, so mine was 11 inches and with 22 rows, I got nine inches. I can continue with next row. Row 23 for me, chain 1, skip the same stitch and single crochet in next five stitches. You can do a single crochet two together in the last two stitches. You enter your hook in the next stitch, yarn over, pass through the stitch, yarn over, pass through only one loop. Enter in next stitch, yarn over, pass through the stitch, yarn over, pass through three loops on your hook. You just remove two stitches in this row. Row 24, chain 1, turn, single crochet in same stitch and single crochet in next five stitches. For a total of six single crochet in this row. Row 25, chain 1, turn. Skip the same stitch and single crochet in next three stitches, and single crochet together in the last two stitches. Row 26, chain 1, turn, single crochet in the same stitch, and single crochet in next three stitches for a total of four single crochet in this row. Last row, chain 1, turn, single crochet in same stitch and single crochet in the next three stitches. At the end you're going to do three chains. You turn, and you're going to do a slip stitch in the chain 1. What is a slip stitch? It's just you enter your hook into the little chain, yarn over, pass through that chain and the loop on your hook. It's a joining stitch, we often use it to close a project. You can't fasten up, cut your yarn, leaving a good length and pass the thread into the loop to close your project. This is your cozy mug. We will weave in the ends and put a little button on it. We're going to sew that button with the beginning thread if it's long enough. Otherwise you can just cut a thread to sew it on it. You can go in the middle between row 2 and 3 with your yarn needle, and go into the button hole to sew it on it. Just to secure it a little bit more, you can wrap your thread around the button. We're going to weave in this end behind your cozy mug. Let's now weave in the finishing thread. Don't forget to always weave in on the backside of your project. You've just done a beautiful mug warmer. You can wrap it around your favorite one. See you in next lesson where you're going to learn how to crochet in rounds. 14. Crochet in Rounds: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we're going to learn how to crochet in rounds, which is really practical for hats, mittens, or any round stuff. We're going to start making a slipknot and you will chain too. You're going to do six single crochet in the second chain from your hook. In the same little chain, you will do six single crochet. [MUSIC] You made six single crochet and you're going to join with slip stitch in the little chain one we skipped, the turning chain like this. The first round is made. Round two you're going to chain one. It's now time to use your stitch marker and put it into chain one, just to help you to know where you're going to join at the end of round two. The second round, usually we double each stitch. You're going to do two single crochet in next stitch and in every next stitches. Two single crochets in next six stitches for a total of 12 single crochet. When we crochet it in rounds, we need to increase, otherwise, it's going to look like a little fender hat. But we will not double every stitch each time. We're going to do it gradually and that's what we're going to learn in next minute. After you made your 12 stitches in round two, you see that this thing here seems to be another stitch, but it's not. It's the joining trip, so you ignore it and you join with slip stitch in the chain one where your stitch marker was. [MUSIC] Chain one, report your stitch marker in this one. [MUSIC]. For round three, we're going to add a stitch, every other stitch. In the first one, you're going to do two single crochet. Next one, only one. [MUSIC]. Next two single crochet. Next one, only one. Every other stitch we increase. The result will be that we added six more stitches in this realm. We started with six round two 12, and round three 18. We're going to continue to add gradually like this in next round. [MUSIC]. At the end of round three, you can count if you really have 18 stitches and you join with slip stitch in the little chain one. [MUSIC]. Round four, chain one, you're going to replace your stitch marker back on this little chain. This time you're going to add a stitch one time out of three. Two single crochets in the next stitch. One single crochet in next two stitches. Two single crochet in next stitch, one single crochet in next two stitches. [MUSIC]. You continue this pattern all around two single crochet in next stitch, one single crochet in next two stitches, for a total of 24 single crochet in this round. Join with slip stitch in chain one. That's it for this practice. But if you want a bigger circle, just know that you have to always increase by adding six stitches equally in each round until you have a diameter you want. Let's now try with super bulky yarn and we're going to learn another way to start. Here's the magic circle. It's really useful to crochet and round. You wrap your thread around your hook two times, you hold your yarn with the other hand and you yarn over through this circle, chain one, and start doing your single crochet in this circle. We're going to do six single crochet in it. [MUSIC]. When you've done your six single crochet, you can pull on the beginning thread to close your magic ring. That's it. This time we're going to try joining into the first single crochet we made. The seam will look different from the previous method where we joined into the chain one. That's it for round one. Round two, chain one, you're going to do this time your first single crochet in the same stitch and you can put your stitch marker on that stitch. [MUSIC]. You're going to do another single crochet in the same stitch because we want to increase. Two single crochets in next five stitches. All around, we're doing two single crochet in each stitch for a total of 12 single crochet in this round. [MUSIC]. At the end of round two, you can count to be sure you have 12 stitches. You see that trip there again, it's not a stitch, it's the joining trip. You will skip this, you will skip the chain one and you will join into your first single crochet. Personally, I prefer this method to close the round because the scene looks really better, but it depends of every crocheter. Round four chain one, you're going to do two single crochet in same stitch and you can place your stitch marker on the first one right there. You're going to increase every other stitch. Next stitch, you will do only one single crochet. Next one two single crochet, one single crochet in the next one, and continue with this pattern all around. Two single crochet next, one single crochet next. You're going to have a total of 18 single crochet in this round. [MUSIC]. When you did your 18 single crochet, you skip the joining thread, the chain one, and you join in the first single crochet. Again, if you want a bigger circle, you have to increase by adding six more stitches, equally all around. I made you this little chart for you to understand, maybe a little bit better. It's just to show you that we need to gradually increase our circle. If you start with six single crochet, you're going to add six in each round. From round three, we add every other stitch, round four every two stitches, round five every three stitches, round six every four stitches, and it continues like this until you have the circle you want. If you start with 10 single crochet, for example, each round will add 10 more stitches. But don't worry, if you buy a crochet pattern, you will not have to think about it. But it was important for me to explain that to you, for you to be independent and create your own things. Let's practice that by doing these cute scrubbies and you will learn a new stitch in this project. 15. The Scrubbies - PROJECT: [MUSIC] Let's practice to crochet in rounds with these scrubbies. You're going to need worsted weight cotton yarn in the color of your choice. A four millimeter hook, a scissors, yarn needle, and a stitch marker. Let's start by making your slipknot and chain too. You're going to do six single crochet in the second chain from your hook. You can pull on your beginning thread just to close the circle and you are going to join into the chain 1, the turning chain by doing a slip stitch in it. Round 2, chain 1, place your stitch marker on this chain 1. You're going to make two single crochet it in next stitch and two single crochets in every other stitches. In the next five stitches. Just remember that this joining thread is not a stitch and you can count to be sure that you have 12 single crochets in this round. You join into chain 1 where your stitch marker is slip stitch. Round 3 you can remove your stitch marker, chain 1, place your stitch marker back on that chain. They're going to do two single crochets in next stitch. One single crochet in next one. Two single crochets in next one, one single crochet in next one, and you continue this pattern all around. Two single crochets in next, one single crochet, and next. You should finish this round with only one single crochet in the stitch. You should have 18 single crochet in this round. You join into the chain 1 with slip stitch where your stitch marker is. Round 4, you remove your stitch marker, chain 1. Put your stitch marker back on it. Make two single crochet in the first stitch. Make one single crochet in next two stitches. Two single crochet into next stitch and one single crochet in next two stitches. Repeat that pattern all around. At the end, you should have 24 single crochet done in this round. You can join with slip stitch and chain 1. Round 5, remove your stitch marker, chain 1. Put your stitch marker back into the chain 1. You're going do two single crochet in the first stitch, the next stitch. Follow it by one single, crochet in the next three stitches. Two single crochet in the next stitch and single crochet in next three stitches. You can continue this pattern all around. At the end of this round, you should have 30 single crochet. You can join with slip stitch in chain 1. Round 6 we're going to learn a new stitch, a new way to do your single crochet. You can remove your stitch marker, chain 1. We're going to do a reverse single crochet. You can put your stitch marker back on the chain 1. You're going to go backward. Instead doing single crochet from right to left, you're going to do them from left to right. You go backward with your hook. You enter in the next stitch to your right and you do your single crochet as usual. This stitch creates great texture and a great finishing for your edge. You're doing like your single crotchet the same way but backward. You don't need to count. You just need to enter in all of those little V's, all of those stitches all around. When you've done all your reverse single crochet, you can join with a slip stitch. In the first one any loop, you see, it doesn't matter as long as you close it. That's it. You remove your hook from the loop. You can cut the thread and pass it in the loop to secure your little scrubby. You can now weave in ends by entering with your yarn needle back and forth and little loops behind your project. Cut the upper edge and with the beginning thread, we can weave in all around your first round in the little loops in the back. You made a beautiful face scrubby. You can do another one with another color if you want. See you in the next lesson where you're going to learn how to crochet a 3D shape. [MUSIC] 16. Crochet in 3D: In this lesson, you will learn how to do a little crochet ball. Let's try with twist white yarn first. You can start by doing your slipknot and chain 2. [MUSIC] You can do six single crochet in the second chain from your hook. [MUSIC] This time, we will not join at the end, but we will work in continuous rounds. For round 2, you can do two single crochet and the first single crochet of round 1. Place the stitch marker on the first one you made, this one. Since we're doing round 2, you're going to do two single crochet in next five stitches [MUSIC]. It's really easy to see with your stitch marker where your round 2 will start, it's just the stitch before it. Round 3, remove your stitch marker. You will do two single crochet in this stitch and place your stitch marker back on the first one you made [MUSIC]. You will do one single crochet in next stitch and you're going to increase every other stitch, so two single crochet in the next stitch, one single crochet in next stitch all around [MUSIC]. At the end of this third round, you're going to remove your stitch marker and you can do one single crochet in the next stitch. Put your stitch marker back in it. It's now time to shape this little ball. We will stop increasing and you're going to single crochet in each of the next stitches. You should have 18 single crochet in this round [MUSIC]. At the end, you're going to remove your stitch marker, make one single crochet in the next stitch and place your stitch marker back on it. Continue for round 5 to do a single crochet in each of the next 18 stitches. You see when we crochet in round, it forms like a little ball, so you need to roll it to the good side to be able to crochet from the outside of the project. Now for round 6, you repeat the same thing. One single crochet in the next 18 stitches [MUSIC]. Round 7, remove your stitch marker. We're going to start to decrease in this round. You're going to do an invisible single crochet two together by taking the two next front loop of next stitches and you finish your SC2 together. One single crochet in next stitch. Don't forget like me to put your stitch marker back on your SC2 together. Just before the stitch we just made here. We're going to do another SC2 together invisible way. You take two next front loop of the two next stitches and you're doing your single crochet. Single crochet in next stitch, single crochet two together the invisible way again. Single crochet in next stitch, and you repeat that all around, SC2 together. Single crochet two together in next two stitches, single crochet in next stitch. The invisible way to do the SC2 together makes a better finishing, it's more subtle [MUSIC]. It's now time to fill this little ball. If you have polyester stuffing, it's the best way to do it. Otherwise, if you just want to practice, you can just put your yarn leftovers inside. Last round, we're going to decrease on every stitches. You're going to do single crochet two together the invisible way by taking always the two next front loop of next two stitches. With the middle finger of your opposite end, you can push in the polyester fill, do not let it be caught by your hook [MUSIC]. You can finish the last stitch like a slip stitch and you can cut the thread leaving a good length. Remove your hook from the loop and pull the thread to secure it. You can put the beginning thread inside the little ball, and with the finishing thread, pass it in your yarn needle. You're going to go into front loop of each stitches with it. [MUSIC]. [MUSIC] We do that, to close the end of our little ball, and you enter the yarn needle in the middle of the hole and you pull to close it really beautifully. Congrats, you just made your first-level crochet ball. To secure the end of the thread, you can just pass it back and forth into stitches and cut the other edge. [MUSIC] Let's now try with super bulky yarn, we're going to start with the magic ring, so you make two turn around your hook, you pinch the ring yarn over, pass through the ring, chain one, and you start to do six single crochet in this ring. [MUSIC] Once you have done your six single crochet, you can pull on the beginning thread and make a single crochet in the first single crochet around one. You can put your stitch marker on that stitch, [MUSIC] and since we start the round 2, we're going to increase on every stitches so you can do another single crochet in this same stitch, and two single crochet in next five stitches. [MUSIC] Round 3, single crochet in the first stitch, remove your stitch marker, and place it back on that one. [MUSIC] Do another single crochet in the same stitch, and only one single crochet in next stitch and you alternate like this, two single crochet in next stitch, one single crochet in next stitch. [MUSIC] Round 4, you remove the stitch marker. [MUSIC] You can see here, round 1, round 2, round 3. For round 4, single crochet in next stitch, you can put your stitch marker back on it, and you're going to do a single crochet in next every other stitches, so 18 in total in this round. [MUSIC] Make sure to pop your project out, to always crochet from the outside of it. Round 5, same as round 4, you will do a single crochet in the next 18 stitches. [MUSIC] Round 6, you repeat the same thing, single crochet in the next 18 stitches. [MUSIC] Round 7, we're going to start to decrease. Remove your stitch marker and you're going to do single crochet 2, together in the two next front loops of two next stitches. Single crochet in next stitch, single crochet 2, together, the invisible way in next two stitch, single crochet in the next stitch, and you repeat this pattern all around. Basically, the invisible way to do the single crochet 2, together is the same as a single crochet, but it's made by taking two stitches, front loop. If you forgot like me to place your stitch marker back. You can see the shape of the single crochet two together is different, you see that it takes the two previous stitches, and you should have a total of 12 stitches in this round. It's now time to fill our little ball, so you can put in the beginning thread inside and put polyester filling in. Again, if you don't have this, you can take any leftover yarn or your previous practicing and put it inside the ball that will make the jump. [MUSIC] We will continue with the last round, you can put your hook back, and you're going to do AC2 together, the invisible way again into each of next stitches, so you're going to decrease six times for a total of six stitches in this last round. [MUSIC] With your middle finger, you can push in the polyester feel to help it not getting in your way. You can do your last one like a slip stitch just to have a better finishing, and if you forget, you only have to do a slip stitch in the next one. You can cut your yarn and secure it, pass the thread into your yarn needle, and pass this one into every front loop of next stitches to close the end. [MUSIC] Enter your needle in the middle of the hole to close it. You just made a bigger crochet ball, and you can secure this ending thread by passing it back and forth in some stitches like this and cut the other edge. [MUSIC] With the same pattern you make two different crochet ball. Let's practice crocheting 3D shapes by doing this heart keychain. [MUSIC] 17. The Heart Keychain - PROJECT: [MUSIC] Let's practice to do 3D shapes. By doing this cute heart keychain, you will need a bit of worsted weight cotton yarn, a four-millimeter hook, scissors, a yarn needle, a stitch marker, polyester fill, and a key. But if you miss these last two, you can do it anyway. [MUSIC] Let's start by doing the magic ring, so wrap your yarn two times around your hook, yarn over chain one and you're going to do five single crochet in this ring. [MUSIC] Pull on the beginning trip and you will do two single crochet in the first single crochet you made. Place your stitch marker on the first single crochet in this round, this one, and you will do two single crochet in next four stitches for a total of 10 single crochet in this round. [MUSIC] Round 3, you're going to remove this stitch marker and you're going to do one single crochet in next 10 stitches. You can place the marker back on the first single crochet you made and continue crocheting one single crochet in every stitches. [MUSIC] You can fasten up this part and we're going to do another one like this. [MUSIC] You can put this part aside and start a new one. We'll repeat round 1-3. [MUSIC] You can redo the magic ring and five single crochet into it. [MUSIC] Round 2, two single crochet in next five stitches. [MUSIC] Round 3, single crochet in next 10 stitches and don't fasten up at the end. [MUSIC] Round 4, you're going to do a single crochet in next 10 stitches, and we're going to join the other part we left aside. We will continue round 4 by crocheting on the part we left aside. In any stitch you can go into the first one, so you place your hand and you crochet in the stitch on the other part. You will do a single crochet in next 10 stitches on this part. [MUSIC] Thanks to your stitch marker, you know where to continue. You will continue round 5 on that stitch, you can remove the stitch marker, do a single crochet and replace it on it. You will do a single crochet in every stitches for a total of 20 stitches in this round. [MUSIC] Round 6, we're going to start to decrease, so remove your stitch marker. You're going to do an invisible decrease, so you go into the front loop of next two stitches to do your single crochet. You place your stitch marker back. You're going to do one single crochet in two next stitches. A single crochet, two together, the invisible way in the next two frontal loops, single crochet in the next two stitches, and you continue this way all around. You will have now 15 stitches in this round. [MUSIC] Round 7, you will do a single crochet in next 15 stitches. [MUSIC] For round 8, we will decrease again, so you're going to do an invisible decrease in next two front loops. You can put your stitch marker back on it, and you will do a single crochet in next stitch. Single crochet, two together in front loop of next two stitches. Single crochet in next stitch, and repeat that all around for a total of 10 single crochet in this round. [MUSIC] Round 9, you're going to do a single crochet in next 10 stitches. At the end of this round, you can remove your hook, and we're going to sew the little hole that the two parts made up in here. With your yarn needle, you can sew this hole by entering in any loops [MUSIC] like this. Bring this tread back inside and you're going to do a double knot with the other ones just to secure well these treads. [MUSIC] Put them inside the heart. [MUSIC] You can now fill your little heart with the polyester fiber. If you don't have it at home, you can take any yarn leftovers to fill it with them. Round 10. You can put your hook back into the loop, and you're going to do five dimensions the invisible way. You're going to take front loop of next two stitches all around. [MUSIC] At the end you can make a slip stitch in the next stitch just to close and give a better finishing through your project. You can remove your hook from the loop, cut the yarn, and pass it through this loop. [MUSIC] With definition thread, you're going to enter it in your yarn needle and you're going to pass into front loop of last five stitches. [MUSIC] Enter the yarn needle in the middle of the hole, and pull it through the top of the heart. [MUSIC] It's now time to put a little key chain on it with the same thread. You can wrap it around two times just to secure it. [MUSIC] Check if it's really solid, and you can secure this thread by going from left to right into some stitches and cut the average. That's it. You made a beautiful little heart key chain. See you in next lesson where you're going to learn how to half double crochet. [MUSIC] 18. The Half Double Crochet: The half-double crochet is a stitch taller than single crochet. You can start by doing 10 chains. [MUSIC] At the end of chain 10, you will yarn over. This step is really important, and since this stitch is taller, you're going to go into the third chain from your hook. Yarn over, pass through the chain, yarn over, pass all three loops on your hook. This is the half double crochet stitch, so you yarn over. You go into next chain. Yarn over, pass through the chain. Yarn over, pass through all three loops on your hook. We will repeat that on every chains yarn over, go into the chain, yarn over, pass through it, yarn over, pass all three loops on your hook. It's really important to yarn over just before going into the chain. [MUSIC] You're going to have a total of eight half double crochet HDC. Now for the turning chain, you will do chain 2, because it's about the length of the HDC turn. You will make an half double crochet in next stitch. This one is the same and this one is the next one. You yarn over, enter your hook into the stitch yarn over pass through the stitch yarn over, pass through all three loops on your hook. You can continue doing your HDC's half double crochet in every next stitches. [MUSIC] The last one will be on top of chain 2 the turning chain of row 1. You can always count the total stitches you have. You are supposed to have eight double of crochet in this row, row 3, chain 2, turn. This is your two chains, the same stitch and you go into next stitch, this one. [MUSIC] Always taking both loops in this practice. [MUSIC] Your last HDC will be on top of chain 2. You can see that this stitch is less tight than the single crochet. Let's try now with the super bulky yarn. You can start by doing 10 chains. [MUSIC] Yarn over, and go into the third chain from your hook. Yarn over, pass through the chain. Yarn over, pass through all three loops on your hook. I'm going to repeat it. Yarn over. Hold the thread with your finger. Go into next chain, yarn over, pass through the chain. Yarn over, pass through all loops on your hook. Continue making HDC half double crochet in each of next chains. [MUSIC] You should have eight HDC's in this row. Next row, chain 2 turn. This time we're going to try to do our first HDC in the same stitch. You see your chain 2 and this is the same stitch. Yarn over, go into the stitch yarn over, pass through it. Yarn over, pass through all three loops on your hook and continue making your half double crochet in each of next stitches by taking both loops. This time the last one will be in the stitch just before the turning chains. [MUSIC] Your last stitch is here. You should have eight half double crochet it in this row. I will now show you how to decrease with this stitch. It's called HDC 2 together. Yarn over, go into next stitch, yarn over, pass it through the stitch, yarn over, pass it through only two loops on your hook. Yarn over, go into next stitch, yarn over, pass through the stitch, yarn over, pass through all four loops on your hook. I will repeat it for you. [MUSIC] That's how we decrease with half double crochet. I will now show you some variations on where to do your half double crochet. First of all, we're going to try to do our HDC by going into the back loop only on next stitch, the back loop is behind there. You can try another one in back loop only. This time now we're going to try in front loop only. The loop was facing you like this. You can do another one, front loop only. Now we're going to try in the middle loop because you see HDC creates a third loop behind the work, but in this case, it's in front of us. You see the little v. There is another loop behind it. It's called the middle loop. By entering in it, it creates a different texture for your project. You can see the design it makes on the front. It's look more like a knit stitch. You can chain 2 turn. We will now try to do our HDC between each stitches. You go into the hole, that is between two different stitches, I think it's the most easy way to crochet because you can't miss a stitch. Let's try now front post HDC. You enter your hook from front to back around the next stitch. It creates great texture. From front to back and you yarn over around this stitch. Let's now try the back post half double crochet, so you yarn over. You enter your hook from back to front of next stitch and you yarn over around this stitch and you finished your HDC. You can try again. You pass from the back to the front and you yarn over this stitch. You can see that the same stitch, but made in different places, can create different texture, different style. Let's now practice doing half double crochet by making these cute newborn heart. [MUSIC] 19. Newborn Hat - PROJECT: [MUSIC] Let's now crochet this newborn hat. You will need 50 gram of super bulky yarn, a seven millimeter hook, scissors, a yarn needle, and a stitch marker. [MUSIC] Let's start with the magic ring. Wrap your yarn around your hook two times, hold it and yarn over and pass it through the ring, chain two and you're going to do 9.5 double crochet in this ring. Yarn over, enter your hook in the ring, yarn over, pull it through the ring. Yarn over, pull it through all three loops on your hook. [MUSIC] At the end you can count to be sure you did 9.5 double crochet. You can pull on the beginning thread to close the round and join with slip stitch in your first half double crochet. Round 2. Chain 2. [MUSIC] You're going to do to half double crochet in the same stitch. [MUSIC] You can put your stitch marker on the first HDC and make another one in the same stitch. [MUSIC] You will do two half double crochet in every next stitches for a total of 18 stitches in this round. [MUSIC] Round 3, you're going to slip stitch in your first HDC. Remove your stitch marker chain 2. [MUSIC] You will do two half double crochet in same stitch and you can put your stitch marker on the first one. [MUSIC] One half double crochet in next stitch. Two half double crochet in next stitch, one One in next stitch. You continue like this all around. [MUSIC] You should have 27 HDC's in this round. You can join into your first HDC with slip stitch. [MUSIC] Round 4-7, you will do the same thing. Chain 2, half double crochet in the same stitch. Put your stitch marker back on it, and half double crochet in every next stitches. You should always have 27 stitches in these rounds. You can pause the video and come back when you're done with your round 7. [MUSIC] We can count together our rounds. Round 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Now we're going to do round 8. We will now work in single crochet, you will chain 1. You will do a single crochet in the back loop only of the same stitch. You put your stitch marker back on it and you will continue doing single crochet in every next stitches back loop. [MUSIC] Join with slip stitch in your first single crochet. You can remove the stitch marker. [MUSIC] Round 9, we repeat the same thing. Chain 1, single crochet in the back loop only of the same stitch. Put your stitch marker back and single crochet in back loop of every next stitches. [MUSIC] You can join with slip stitch and the first single crochet you made. That's it. Your new born hat is done. [MUSIC] You can cut definition thread and pass it through the loop. We can weave in all ends. [MUSIC] Flip the hat on the other side too with the hands there. [MUSIC] To even the beginning thread on top of the hat, you can turn around taking some loops to secure well this thread. [MUSIC] That's it. You will just have to find a new baby to give it to him. See you in next lesson where you're going to learn how to do double crochet and treble crochet. 20. The Double & Treble Crochet: [MUSIC] Welcome to lesson number 8. You will learn how to do double crochet and treble crochet, and you can guess that these stitches will be longer than half double crochet. Let's start by doing 10 chains. Let's start by making a double crochet. Yarn over, and you will enter your hook into fourth chain from your hook. Yarn over, pass through the chain, yarn over, pass through two loops on your hook, yarn over again and pass through two loops on your hook. That's it. That's a double crochet. Let's try another one. Yarn over, you can go in the next chain, yarn over pass through the chain, yarn over pass through only two loops on your hook, yarn over pass through the last two loops on your hook. You can continue to practice. Since we skipped three chains for the turning chain at the beginning, we will have a total of seven double crochets in this row. Next row, you're going to chain three, so the turning chain is longer when the stitch is taller. You turn, and we're going to do our dc in the next stitch, this one here. We yarn over go into the stitch, yarn over pass through it, yarn over pass it through two loops, yarn over pass it through two last loops. You can continue to practice your double crochet in both loops of each next stitches. Your last double crochet will be made on top of chain three for a total of seven double crochet in your rope. Let's now try treble crochet or triple crochet. You're going to do four chains because it's a taller stitch. It's the same principle of double crochet, but you will yarn over twice on your hook before entering in the next stitch. You go in the next stitch, yarn over, pass through it, yarn over pass through two loops in your hook, yarn over pass through two loops on your hook, and yarn over pass through the next two loops on your hook. You see it's a long stitch and you can continue practicing it in every next stitches. Yarn over twice, go into next stitch, yarn over pass through it, yarn over pass through two loops, yarn over two loops, and yarn over pass it through last two loops. The last one will be on the top of chain three from last row. You just learn double crochet and treble crochet. Let's now try these with super bulky yarn. Start with chain 10. You can yarn over and enter your hook into forth chain from your hook. Yarn over pass through the chain, yarn over pass through two loops on your hook, yarn over pass through the last two loops on your hook. Let's try again. Yarn over, go into the chain, yarn over pass it through it, yarn yarn over pass through two loops on your hook, yarn over pass through last two loops on your hook. Continue to practice your double crochet in every other chains. You should have a total of seven double crochet made in this row because we skipped three chain at the beginning. Next row, we're going to try treble crochet. Chain four, yarn over twice. This time, we're going to try in the same stitch. You can go in this one, yarn over pass through the stitch, yarn over pass through two loops on your hook, yarn over pass through two loops, and yarn over pass it through the last two loops on your hook, and you can continue to practice this stitch. Yarn over twice, enter in next stitch, yarn over pass through it, yarn over pass through two loops, yarn over pass through two loops, yarn over pass through last two loops on your hook. I will show you a little bonus. You can do a double treble crochet if you want. If you yarn over three times on your hook and you do the same steps by always going through two loops on your hook, it makes a stitch even more longer. You see that it's the same principle and you can do a very long stitch. I will continue doing the treble crochet now, the last one will be in the stitch just before the turning chain. You should have again, seven tribal crochet in your row. Let's now learn how to decrease with double crochet stitches. You will yarn over go into next stitch, yarn over pass through it, yarn over pass through two loops on our hook, yarn over pass through only one loop on your hook. Yarn over again, go into next stitch, yarn over pass through it, yarn over pass through two loops, yarn over pass through all three loops on your hook. That's how we make a dc two together. I will repeat it again. Let's now try doing our double crochet in different places. You can chain three, turn. We're going to try this time into back loop only, so the loop far away from you. You can try another one in back loop only. Let's now try into front loop only, so the loop facing you. We can do our double crochet also between stitches, so in this space created by stitches of previous row. We're going to try another variations, gently turn. We are going to do front post double crochet, so you enter your hook from front to back and you yarn over around the stitch. There's the back post double crochet. You enter from back to front around the stitch. You see that it creates different textures. Lets now try doing something with double crochet, the headband [MUSIC]. 21. The Headband - PROJECT: Let's practice to make double crochet by doing this comfy headband. You will need 60 gram of super bulky yarn, a seven millimeter hook, scissors, a yarn needle, and a tape measure. You can start by doing 10 chains. [MUSIC] Row 1 make a double crochet in the fourth chain from your hook. Yarn over, go into the chain. Yarn over, pass through it. Yarn over, pass through two loops on your hook. Yarn over, pass through last two loops on your hook. You continue doing double crochet in each of next chains. [MUSIC] You should have a total of seven double crochet in Row 1. [MUSIC] Row 2, Chain 3, done. You're going to do a double crochet between stitches. You can go in the first space between two stitches and continue to do double crochet into each of next spaces. [MUSIC] Last one will be in the space between the turning chain and your first double crochet of Row one. You should again have seven double crochet it in this row. [MUSIC] Row 3, Chain 3, done. You're going to do double crochet in each of the next spaces between stitches of previous row. You will have repeat that row to Row 23, or until your work measure is 19 inches long. [MUSIC] When you finish your 23 rows, you can measure your work to be sure it's 19 inches long. You can fasten enough. Cut the yarn, pass it through the loop. [MUSIC] We will suit the end and the beginning together like this by entering your yarn needle into each loops of the ending row and the beginning of row. [MUSIC] You can pinch this part in the middle by folding it on itself and so this part together to make it stay in that position. [MUSIC] You can now weave in ends. [MUSIC] Congrats you made a beautiful headband. See you in next lesson, where you're going to learn how to mix stitches. 22. Learn to Mix Stitches: [MUSIC] In this course, you learn how to do a single crochet, a half double crochet, double crochet, a treble or triple crochet, and even a double treble crochet. Basically, everything you see in crochet is made from these stitches. Different textures or design will be made by mixing them, by taking the thread differently, or by making the stitches in different places. After this beginner course, you can do whatever you want in crochet. In this lesson, I will show you two of my favorite mix of stitches. We will start with the moss stitch. You can do 11 chains, as long as it's an uneven number, it will work. You will do a single crochet in the third chain from your hook and you will do chain 1, you're going to skip one chain and do a single crochet in next one, chain 1. Skip the next chain, single crochet in next one, chain 1. Skip next chain and single crochet in the next chain, chain 1. Skip next chain and single crochet in the last chain, for a total of five single crochet made in this row. Second row, chain 2, turn. You will do your first single crochet in the first chain 1 space here. Chain 1. You're going to go in the next chain 1 space there. Do a single crochet, chain 1. Go into the next chain 1 space, single crochet, chain 1, single crochet in the next chain 1 space, chain 1, and the last single crochet will be in the chain 2 space, the two chains we skipped at the beginning. That's it for row 2, chain 2. You should have five single crochet made again in this row. Row 3, you're going to do the same thing. First single crochet in chain 1 space, chain 1, single crochet next chain 1 space, chain 1, and you continue like this. You see that it's a very easy stitch and crochet because you can't miss the chain 1 space. Your last single crochet would be in the chain 2 space at the end. I really like the moss stitch because work is done quickly and the result is beautiful. Let's try now the bobble stitch, it will be five double crochet in this same stitch together and they will pop out like a bubble, so let's do it. You will yarn over, go into next stitch, yarn over pass through the stitch, yarn over pass through two loops on our hook, yarn over pass through only one loop. Yarn over, go into the same stitch, yarn over, pass through the stitch, yarn over pass through two loops. Yarn over pass through only one loop on your hook. Again yarn over, go into the same stitch, yarn over pass through it. Yarn over pass through two loops. Yarn over pass through only one loop, another one. Yarn over pass into same stitch, yarn over pass through the stitch, yarn over pass through two loops, yarn over pass through one loop only. Yarn over again for the last time, go into the same stitch, yarn over pass through the stitch, yarn over pass through two loops, yarn over pass through all the loops on your hook. You will do a single crochet in next stitch. That's the bubble, it really pop out of your project. [MUSIC] It's now your turn to try different mix of stitches. In this example, I'm doing several stitches in the same one by going from small stitch to a DC, and I go back to single crochet in same stitches, it's form like a half circle. You can play with this stitches and crochet any shapes you want. Let's now practice the moss stitch with this washcloth. 23. The Washcloth - PROJECT: [MUSIC] Welcome to your last project. Everyone loves a handmade washcloth. You will have fun making it and you will practice the mustache at the same time. You will need 25 gram of worsted weight cotton yarn, a four-millimeter hook, scissors, and iron needle. Let's start by doing 33 chains. Row 1, you will do a single crochet in the third chain from your hook. Followed by Chain 1, you will skip a chain and make a single crochet in the next chain. Chain 1, skip a chain single crochet in the next chain and you will repeat that on all the starting chains. The last single crochet will be in the last chain, so you should have made 16 single crochet in total in this row. Row 2, Chain 2, turn and you will do a single crochet in the Chain 1 space in every Chain 1 space. Single crochet, Chain 1 single crochet in the next Chain 1 space. Continue like this for the whole row. Your last single crochet will be in the Chain 2 space like this. You will repeat the same thing for Row 3-26. So chain to turn, you're going to do a single crochet in the first Chain 1 space here. Chain 1, single crochet in the next Chain 1 space, Chain 1, single crochet in the next Chain 1 space, and your last single crochet will be in the Chain 2 space. So you should always have a total of 16 single crochet made in each row. See you at the end of Row 26. You can easily count how many rows you made because we see well the little V that each row made. At the end of Row 26 you will chain them because we will do a little loop to be able to hang this little wash cloth. After your 10 chains you will slip stitch in the last single crochet of Row 26. You can now fasten up and weave in all ends. Don't forget to weave in both ends on the same side. Congrats, you made a gorgeous classic washcloth. Oh, I think I heard your dishes calling you. Come back right after towards the last lesson, how to read a crochet pattern. 24. Read a Crochet Pattern: [MUSIC] Welcome to the very last lesson of the How to Crochet course. I will show you how to read crochet patterns because there is a crochet world just waiting after you, and it's so fun to find out what the designers come up with and to be able to crochet. Let's take a look on the crochet patterns I wrote for this class. The layout of each designer's pattern can differ, but the basis will remain the same. Once you follow one pattern, you can easily follow another one. On the front page, you should clearly see what you're going to do, and which skill level it will take. Thanks to this course, I'm sure you can do any level. Next page is really important because you will know what materials you're going to need, you will know all the abbreviations used in the pattern, and just a quick note about US and UK terms, they differ a little bit if you buy US or UK pattern. You just have to know that these terms, like single crochet is variant dc in UK. For them our single crochet means double crochet. But you will do a single crochet. I just want to let you know that if you buy a UK pattern one time, you can refer to this chart or you can search on the internet to be sure to make a good stitch. In this page, you will also know if there are some rules to be applied on all the pattern. In this example, I specify that every stitches will be made in both loops unless contrary indications. Sometimes you will read that the turning chain is counting like a stitch. It all will be specified in this page. You're also always going to have the gauge. It's a sample to be made to have the same result, the same measurement as the one who wrote the pattern. Most skip this step because the general rule is to make a four-by-four inches square, and that takes time. So I would tell you that it's very important to do it if your crochet is close or large pieces because a small difference can give a disappointing result, and you don't want to start all over again. Then for small crochet projects, I like to give a small sample to do, which is super quick, and will give you an idea if your yarn and your hook will be suitable for the project. If your sample is smaller than the measurements given, you can take a larger hook or a slightly thicker yarn. If it's larger, you can take a smaller hook or a thinner yarn. It's now time to read a pattern. So you'll see it's super easy because you know the abbreviation, you know the rules, so you're going to see which hook you'll have to take, which yarn, which color, and a pattern always start with how many chains you have to do. In this case, you're going to do chain 13, row 1, single crochet in second chain from hook, and single crochet in the next 11 chains. I like when the designer put the total stitches at the M2, it's really helpful to know if you did your row well. You can see that I wrote to turn after a row, although in the course we chain before turning. But it's more simple for you to see well that you have to turn after the row and you will start the next row with a good amount of chain. At the end of the pattern, you will add additional information for what to do next. Let's now take a look on this pattern because there's a lot of color change. I wrote the rule that every stitches are made in single crochet, so I don't need to repeat it in my pattern. I show you which abbreviation the colors have. The starting chain is right here. In row 2, you have this little reminder to always do the first single crochet in same stitch, and you do five single crochet with main color, one in contrasting color, and so on. Here's you have the additional information and pictures with the letter associated with. Let's take a look into a round pattern. This time it will not be right in row, but round, to let you know that you don't need to turn your project, but always continue to crocheting on the same side. You have the choice to do the magic circle or the starting chain to be able to do your stitches in the first chain you will do. Round 1 you will do in this example six single crochet in second chain from hook or in your magic circle. It's specified that you need to join with slip stitch in the chain 1. On round 3, you see those parenthesis, that means you need to repeat that sequence six times. If there's a term or an abbreviation you don't recognize, just go on the first page to see what it means. In this example, screv means reverse single crochet. Pictures are really useful, sometimes it reminds you how to do a certain stitch. That's it for my crochet class. See you in next video for the conclusion words. 25. CONCLUSION: Thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of your crochet journey. I hope you had fun. I can't wait to see picture of the small projects I proposed. If you'd like to share them with me, feel free to post them in the project gallery below. 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