- [Kristen] Let's make a magic circle.
A magic circle can start many projects
with a tight circle and no slip knot.
Hats featured can be found in links below
on the marshmallow crochet baby hat.
Stay to the end for a slow motion version.
Let's crochet.
Normally, we start with a slip knot,
but today we're gonna lay the working yarn
behind our hand here and in front of our fingers like so.
Now, wrap this around your first finger and criss-cross it.
See how there's an X here at my knuckle?
Now, we're gonna put the working yarn
between these two fingers here
and pinch them between our second and third finger
to get our tension.
Put your hook under
this first loop here
and then grab the other one that had crossed over.
Now, we're going to yarn over and pull through here,
and now that magic circle is locked in.
We have a circle here
and we can hold our yarn however we want.
We've got our circle and we're ready to begin.
This tail here, you're gonna trap it in with the circle
and it's gonna become a drawstring.
I want you to yarn over and pull through one, two chains.
So, we're chaining two,
and we're gonna do eight double crochets into the circle
Make sure and hold that open.
Pull through your yarn.
Got my tension,
pull through two and two.
That's our double crochet.
Let me just slow that down.
Be sure and go through this hole here.
We're going to yarn over,
go through the circle, pull through one,
yarn over again, pull through two,
yarn over, pull through two.
One more time, yarn over,
go into the circle, yarn over, pull through,
yarn over again, pull through the first two,
yarn over, pull through the second two.
Now we have one, two, three double crochets.
We're gonna finish this out with eight.
Go ahead and continue all the way around.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Seven and eight.
Now that we have got our double crochets done,
we can take our tail and pull on it
and it becomes a drawstring to close this circle up.
We have the middle of this circle closed
and we want to close this pie shape here.
We're gonna go into this chain here, on the first section,
and we're going to slip stitch.
So, what we did here, slow that down again,
is we went into this chain,
yarn over, pull through,
and then pull through that one on the hook.
Now we have a nice circle to begin our work.
This will end up getting woven in and cut later on,
so for now you can just let it lay.
You're all done, now let's slow it down.
(laughter)
Okay, so we're going to take our yarn again,
we're going to lay it over the front
of our hand and follow along.
(relaxed piano music)
Now that we have got our double crochets done,
we can take our tail and pull on it
and it becomes a drawstring to close this circle up.
We have the middle of this circle closed
and we want to close this pie shape here.
We're gonna go into this chain here, on the first section,
and we're going to slip stitch.
To continue on, just follow your pattern.
You can also make a magic circle with single crochet
just by chaining up one and doing about six chains
or follow your pattern.
Thanks so much, have a great day and happy crochet, bye bye!
(relaxed piano music)