- [Kristen] How to crochet the Garden Party Afghan,
part one of four.
You're invited to the Garden Party.
This colorful tour begins
with a burst of the bloom in the center,
followed by trailing paths of vines,
and finishing up with some neat flower beds for the edging.
It's a crocheters dream garden.
This pattern features many basic crochet stitches
with a few ones looped in
to help you build your next skill level.
It's the one party this year you're not gonna wanna miss.
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We're all about helping you stitch your love
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For materials you're going to need a hook,
and this is a US size six millimeter,
or the size needed to obtain the finished size or gauge.
This is a size 12 inch by 12 inch square,
and we are using for yarn today,
Red Heart With Love Premium.
It's a number four medium or worsted weight yarn.
This is acrylic, just use a four weight yarn.
You'll need a tapestry needle and some scissors as well.
For the Red Heart With Love colors
we are using contrast A, papaya, contrast B, blue Hawaii,
contrast C, jadeite, and contrast D true blue.
You need four colors for this particular square,
or you can use one solid color
for a solid color square.
There are directions in the pattern.
To get your pattern click on the link
in the description below.
Today's Garden Party video,
we're working on part one,
which is the center bloom.
So you have your center circle
and the bloom outside of it.
You're going to need contrast A and B.
First we're gonna work on the center.
You're gonna make a slipknot however it's easier for you,
slip it onto your hook and chain seven.
We've got one,
two, three,
four, five,
six, and seven,
and we're gonna slip the first stitch
to form a center ring.
Let's just slip it right in there,
pull it through,
and now we're going to chain for round one,
we're gonna chain three,
and this will count as our first double crochet,
plus one, and now we're gonna lay the tail
over the top of our ring and double crochet into this ring.
So yarn over, yarn up through the middle of that ring,
yarn over, pull through two,
and then we're gonna chain one more time,
and that makes our second double crochet.
And when you wanna repeat that 10 more times around
to get 12 double crochets total.
Just go right into the middle of that ring,
so chain one more here.
So yarn over, insert into the middle of the loop,
and pull up a loop, yarn over,
pull through two and two, and double crochet.
So I'm gonna continue going through mine,
just pause your video as you need.
I know this is gonna be a little speedy for some
and just right for others.
Don't worry about that.
We're creating a gap here,
and on the next round, on round two,
we're gonna be putting a couple
of double crochets in that gap space.
And for your reference I've got my sample over to the right.
You'll be able to see that.
And for the left-handed video
you'll see it on the left.
So we do have a right and a left-handed video of this,
and don't forget to get your pattern
down at the link below,
so you can follow it as you need,
or check off where you are.
Let's count, make sure you have enough.
I've got 11, I'm gonna get one more.
And now we want to chain that last one
and slip into the second chain,
not the third, because we need that extra space,
and then just slip stitch right there to join.
And now we're gonna chain up two,
and this'll be round two.
It counts as your first double crochet.
The second double crochet is gonna go
into that space that's created there.
So we're gonna do a double crochet there,
and one more into that same spot,
yarn over, insert into the space,
yarn over, pull through two and two,
and then you have a set of three.
So you're just gonna keep repeating that around.
So you double crochet into the top
of the double crochet from the previous round,
just like that,
and then you're going to do two double crochets
into that same chain space,
just like you did before.
And there's that same space again,
yarn over, pull through two and two.
There is no chaining after you're finished.
You just got that set of three there,
and now you're gonna go into that next top stitch,
and two into the chain space after.
Yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two,
two more, go into the chain space,
yarn over, pull up a stitch,
pull through two and two,
and again.
So you get the idea.
You'll just continue to go around
until you get to the end, pause your video,
and I'll meet you back up for the next round,
and of course slipping this one together.
We'll see you in a moment.
So down to the end, we're going to slip
into the second chain again.
Of course there's not a third,
because there's no space that we created.
You're just gonna slip that,
and then we're just going to pull out a long loop,
and use our scissors to cut that,
because we are done with contrast A for this video.
Clip our yarn and then pull out the remainder,
and then now we need to work on contrast B,
and this back part here you can actually
go ahead and clip that beginning tail,
it's now in there really well.
And just grab contrast B and make a slipknot,
and then we're gonna look at this petal real quick.
It's a series of four in this petal-cluster.
It's four treble crochets.
The very first petal we start,
it has to start with a chain four,
but you can see these are nice and long,
and then they join up at the top.
So the first one will be a little bit different.
Go ahead and put your slipknot in
and go to any of the single crochets along here,
and I just put my tail up top,
and it'll just hide in.
So go straight on through and yarn over
and pull all the way through
that first slipknot on your hook.
So we're just slip stitch joining that,
and we're gonna start by chaining four.
And that again will count as your first treble crochet,
three and four,
and then we want to make a treble,
so we're gonna be yarning over twice here,
and we're going to that first stitch
after where we are now.
So the next stitch is where we'll make our treble crochet,
yarn over, pull up a loop,
and then we're gonna yarn over
and pull through the first two loops,
yarn over and pull through the next two loops,
and then we wanna yarn over twice again,
and go through that very same stitch that we went in.
Yarn over, pull up a loop,
and yarn over, pull through two,
yarn over, pull through two,
leave the remaining stitches on there,
yarn over twice,
and let's do it again in the very next stitch,
so this will be the fourth treble that we make,
yarn over, pull up a loop,
and yarn over, pull through two,
and yarn over, pull through two again.
And you should have four loops remaining,
and on all the other petals
you're going to have five.
So once we make this last yarn over
and pulling through all four,
we'll have a nice join here.
So now we're gonna chain four,
yarn over, one, two,
three, and four.
And then we're gonna go into the next three stitches
and do the same thing.
So yarn over twice,
so the very next stitch is one treble crochet,
yarn over, pull through two,
and you've got two loops on your hook,
yarn over twice, go into the next stitch,
pull through.
I'm gonna get rid of this tail here,
not so confusing.
Yarn over, pull through two,
and yarn over, pull through two again,
three loops on the hook, yarn over twice.
I'm gonna go into the same stitch again,
yarn over, pull up, and then yarn over, pull through two,
and yarn over, pull through two.
We've got four loops on the hook,
we've got one more treble, double yarn over there,
and go into the very next stitch,
and yarn over, pull through two and two.
And just remember, you've got four treble crochets
over the course of three stitches,
and so you've got five loops on your hook now,
yarn over, pull through all five,
and then now we just want to join that up,
we've got four chains and then we'll start our next petal.
So Yarn over twice, this is the last time I'll do it.
Yarn over twice, go in that first stitch,
pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two,
yarn over, pull through two,
two loops on the hook, yarn over twice,
go in the next stitch,
and we're gonna make two more trebles,
go in the same stitch again,
so it's always two trebles in that middle stitch.
I say the middle stitch 'cause you've got three.
On that third stitch there,
and this'll be our fourth treble,
pull through, and then you just chain four again.
So you've got them all joined,
and then proceed to the next one.
You just continue going all the way around,
pause your video, and we'll meet back up here
at the end after you've chained four.
And we'll join them together right there.
So you've chained your last four,
you want to go into this join here
from the very first petal we made.
Go right in there, yarn over and pull up a loop,
and then pull through the loop
that's already on that chain,
and you have completed round three.
Just pull up a nice long loop,
and I flatten that out there, that's fine.
Go ahead and clip your yarn
and pull that on through,
and we'll be using that yarn a bit later.
So the next round is round four,
and we'll do that on the next video,
we'll do the next three rounds.
I hope you enjoyed that part of the crochet-along.
And for the next video stay tuned
or click down below to the description for your links.
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