For this tutorial you will need your selected yarn I'm using Paintbox simply
DK in dusky lilac you will need a pair of scissors and a darning needle for sewing
in your ends and for this yarn I'm using a 4 millimeter crochet hook but
obviously you can check the yarn band of whichever yarn you're using to get the
size recommended for your crochet hook I will leave a link in the description box
below of everything for this tutorial including the free written pattern which
you can find on my website so take a look in the description box below for
the links to that and as always if you like my videos then leave me a comment
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of my latest videos ok let's get started so you're going to begin by creating a
slipknot and you can do this in whichever method you prefer go ahead and
insert your crochet hook and we're going to start off the foundation chain in
multiples of 4 so that's yarn over pull through yarn over pull through yarn over
pull through and yarn over pull through so that's 4 chains you want to pause the
video work your chain to the width or the length that you want your project to
be so for example if you're making a scarf you would make it the width of
what your you want your scarf to be pause the video work those multiples of
four and then meet me back in just a moment so I have just done my foundation
chain and I've done 20 that is a multiple of 4 so we're going to go ahead
now and start with row 1 so for row 1 we're going to work into the second
chain from the hook so not the one that's on the hook this is the first and
then this is the second we're going to do a double crochet now I'm talking in
UK terms so in the US this is known as a single crochet so insert the hook into
that second chain from the hook yarn over and pull through you'll have two
loops on the hook and then yarn over pull through both loops on the hook so
you're going to do that into the second chain from the hook and then we're also
going to do a double crochet into the next two stitches so this is the next
chain and then the next chain so in total you've done three double
crochets so far for row one we're now going to do a pattern repeat we're going
to chain one we're going to skip the next chain and then do three double
crochets one, two and three and we're going to repeat that again chain one
skip a chain and then three double crochets one, two and three you're
going to repeat that all the way along so pause the video work chain one skip a
stitch three double crochets and I shall see you in just a moment
so once you've come to the end of your chain you will have finished on these
three double crochets or single if you're in the US we're now ready for row
two so we're going to chain three one two and three and turn the work this
chain three is going to class as your first stitch so this is will class as a
treble crochet or if you're in the u.s. this is known as a double crochet so
because this is classed as the first stitch we're then going to go ahead and
work a treble crochet into the next stitch so not the one at the base of the
chain three the one across so for the treble we yarn over insert into that
space yarn over pull through you'll have three loops on the hook yarn over pull
through two loops on the hook and then yarn over pull through two loops on the
hook so we've just done a treble and we've got the chain three so
that's two trebles well then do another treble into the next stitch and then
we'll do a treble into the chain one space
and we're just simply going to do one treble into each stitch and to each
chain one space all the way to the end so go ahead pause the video work those
trebles and meet me back in just a moment so I have just come to the end of
my work now and I've just counted my stitches I have 19 stitches in total so
I suggest that you count the number of trebles that you have to make sure that
you are continuing that throughout the work and you're not dropping any
stitches but it should be 1 less than your starting chain so for row 3 we're
going to go ahead and chain 1 and turn the work this chain one does not class
as a stitch we're going to do our first double crochet into this very first
stitch so remember that's the US single crochet so were go straight into
that first stitch and do a double crochet
were then going to do what I call the forward arrow stitch so the first stitch
and the last stitch of these particular rows are worked slightly differently to
the ones that are in between so we're going to do the forward arrow stitch
which is basically a double treble which is treble crochet in the US but we're
going to work it into this stitch here or underneath the actual
stitch itself so what we're going to do is we're going to yarn around the hook
twice move over to this chain one space but we're not going to go into that
chain one space we're going to come onto that bottom post and then come through
so we've gone back to front and then yarn over pull through you'll have these
four loops on the hook yarn over pull through two three loops on the hook yarn
over pull through two two loops on the hook and then yarn over pull through
both of those loops on the hook so we've now got that stitch and it's coming all
the way over to here so this is part that's a forward arrow stitch were then
going to go into the next stitch along so you might need to pull your stitch
back to make sure where we're working into here so we're going to do a double
crochet into that next stitch along were going to chain one skip this
stitch and then double crochet so what we're doing here as well as doing the
creating the arrow stitches we're also creating the basis to then complete that
stitch again when we move up with the row we're now going to do an arrow
stitch which is basically two double trebles together but we're going to
work over these chain spaces so you're going to yarn over the hook twice this
time we're going to work into the chain one space previously so the same one
that we've just worked into we're going to go under the same as we have before
and through
and yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two we're going to leave
these two stitches on we're then going to yarn over the hook twice again and
then move over towards that chain one space the next chain one space from two
rows below go under and through yarn over pull through you will have five
loops on the hook yarn over pull through two four loops on the hook yarn over
pull through two three loops on the hook and then yarn over pull through all
three loops on the hook so you have basically doubled trebled those two
stitches together and that is what I call the the arrow stitch so the full
arrow stitch we're going to skip the next stitch so if you pull this forward
you're going to skip that stitch and then do a double crochet chain one skip
a stitch and double crochet were then going to repeat that arrow
stitch so it's yarn over the hook twice into the previous chain one yarn over pull
through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two leave those two
stitches on the hook yarn over the hook twice find the next chain one space
from two rows below and pull through two pull through two pull through all
three skip the next stitch double crochet chain one skip a stitch double
crochet and then repeat that arrow stitch again so I'm going to go ahead and do
another arrow stitch that will take me to the last chain one and we're going to do
something slightly different right at the very end so go ahead pause the video
work your way up to that very last chain one space and then meet me back once
you're ready okay so once you've finished that last arrow
stitch on that last repeat you'll have done the arrow stitch skip a stitch
double crochet chain one and double crochet we're now ready to do the
backwards arrow stitch so is yarn over the hook twice into that chain one space
just as we've done before and then it's yarn over pull through two yarn over
pull through two and then yarn over pull through two you'll skip the next stitch
and then you just want to do a double crochet into the very last stitch which
is the top of the chain three then if you go ahead and count all of your
stitches across the top here so these V's you should have the same amount of
stitches so I have 19 stitches from now on it's just a two row repeat so we're
going to go back to row two and we're going to chain three one two and three
turn the work and then do a treble crochet into the next stitch and then
each stitch all the way along remember that that chain three does class as a
stitch so you're going to go into that chain one space which you've just
created from the last round and then into each and every stitch all the way
along so go ahead pause the video work those stitches and come back and I'll
show you how to start your next row again with the repeat of row three okay
so I've just completed that row again I'm going to chain one and then turn my
work I have counted my stitches to make sure I have the right amount of stitches
so remember that chain one for this row does not class as a stitch and we're
going to do a double crochet into that first stitch and then we're going to do
the front arrow stitch so it's going to be slightly different in this row just
because our chain one is looking slightly different so we're going to
yarn over the hook twice here's the chain one we want to go underneath that
stitch from front to back and then back through to the front again so yarn over
pull through remember this is the forward arrow stitch so we're going to
complete that double treble crochet
we'll do a double crochet into the next stitch chain one skip a stitch and
double crochet we'll then repeat our arrow stitches so yarn over the hook
twice into that same chain one space that we've just worked into but we don't
quite complete that double treble we then find the next chain one space which
is between the arrows just here yarn over the hook twice go into that
chain one space and complete that stitch by double trebling them together we
will skip a stitch do a double crochet chain one skip a stitch double crochet
and then continue with our arrow stitches so you need to rewind the video
if you need to in order to follow this pattern and what to do at the end but
you're basically going to repeat row two and row three I'm going to go ahead and
build a few more rows of this pattern so you can start to see what it looks like
okay so there we go I've added a few more rows of that design it just looks
so effective I just really like this I think it'd be good for a number of
projects so don't forget I'll leave a link in the description box of the
written pattern and also everything will be on that blog post for you so if you
want to come back to the video then you can do there'll also be a pinnable image
and things like that so go and check that out don't forget to like this video
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