In this tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to do the braided slip stitch
which is an absolutely beautiful join perfect for joining granny squares like
this or other pieces that you want to join together especially for blankets
and things it just creates this stunning effect I've used it for my circle of
hope granny squares to join these if you want to know how to make this this is
also on my channel I'll leave it a link in the description box below for you so
that you can go and check that out so I'm going to be using my 4 millimeter
crochet hook which is what I used for my granny square and then you will also
need a pair of scissors for cutting off your yarn you may also want to use some
stitch markers I don't particularly use them but if you have larger projects or
if you struggle with finding where the corners are to your projects then I
would suggest using it some stitch markers so as always I'll leave links in
the description box below where you can find some additional information also
the written instructions of how to do this which will be on my blog
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friends ok let's get started okay so what I have done already is already done
some of my rows you'll notice that I've only done the rows and then we have
these sections still which aren't connected so I'm actually going to join
all of the rows together and then worry about these after so I'll show you
this bit first and then show you how to do this section it's pretty easy to be
honest so now I have one last row to connect and I have my loose granny
squares here which I'm just going to lay out what you want to do first of all is
create a slipknot with your yarn so just using the yarn colour which you have
chosen for your projects and you're going to put that onto your crochet hook
like so now what I would say is when your working
the stitch it's actually really handy to either do it at a work top like this or
on a chair it's just not as easy to do this if you're just holding it in your
hands and doing it on your knee so I would definitely suggest you doing it on
a flat surface so what we're going to do first of all we're going to take a look
at our granny square and we can see that we have the corners here now the corners
here for me are a chain two if they're a chain three I would suggest that you
start in or work into the two chains either side so leave the middle one
uworked for now and then do the one either side but mine is just two chains
so it makes it pretty easy we're going to be working into that chain closest to
that side so what we're going to do here is insert the hook from the front side
of the work to the back like so and then I'm going to grab my yarn and pull it
through and through so just do a slip stitch and that starts off the join
we're now going to take the loose square and we're going to find the exact same
stitch on that other side so I'm actually holding mine above my yarn like
this so the strands that we have that were holding for our tension I'm
holding the square above I'm finding that chain which is in the corner and
I'm inserting my hook from the right side to the wrong side of the work and
then I'm yarning over and pulling through all of those loops on the hook
for a slip stitch and we have just started our join now what we're going to
do is find the top of the next stitch so we have our treble crochet here I'm
going to insert my hook into that stitch yarn over and pull through and through
now you do have to be careful of your tension here if you do it too
tightly it can distort the actual pattern itself so try and keep a fairly
loose tension we're now going to find the corresponding stitch on the opposite
side so we go into the top of that stitch yarn over and pull through and
through and we can see that we're starting to get this braided look now we
go into the opposite side from front to back yarn over pull through and through
find the stitch on the opposite side yarn over pull through and through and
we're just going to continue in this way all the way along the edge so again by
having the yarn sitting behind the work it makes it much easier for you so pull
through and pull through working into the corresponding stitches one side and
then the other so you're going to continue that all the way until you get
to the other side or to the end of this row so go ahead pause the video work
just up until you get to the corner and I'll show you how to go from this set of
squares onto the next set of squares okay so I've just worked my way across
now and I've just done my last slip stitch in the trebles I'm now going to
go into that first chain from the corner on this side and then the first chain of
the opposite corner on the other square now what we want to do is because we've
finished on the opposite square we now want to work over into this square so
for this we're just going to go simply into that chain the second chain of the
corner for that square bring in our next square and then find the chain
so sometimes here you can see how it's quite loose I like to get into position
pull it through and then bring the tension in after so just pull slightly
on my yarn to tighten it up and then we have joined all of those now we can just
go into that next treble and do the slip stitch and into the treble on the
opposite side and do the slip stitch and just working your way all the way along
until you get to the very end of these squares and then you'll do your joins in
exactly the same way so the general rule is you work from one side to the other
one side to the other and you'll be keeping in with the pattern of the braid
so go ahead pause the video work your row if that's what you're doing and then
I'll meet you back and show you how to finish off the row which is pretty
simple you're just going to tie off and then I'll show you how to do this other
join to connect all of them together again okay so I've just come to the end
of that whole row now what I'm going to do is chain one and snip off my yarn
leaving a longish tail end for sewing in and now I have done all of my squares
together in that one direction so I've done all of my rows so all of my squares
are connected one way but now I need to connect them the other way as well so
this is going to be pretty simple very well exactly the same as before but I'm
just going to show you how we would go ahead and work over this so I'm going to
go ahead and create my slipknot again just as I did before and begin as I did
before as well so I'm going to go into that first chain front back or right
side to wrong side pull through and pull through and then also select the
opposite chain
in the other corner and pull through and through and through so holding it behind
the other square is going to be slightly more difficult here so you do have to
work a little bit slower so we're just going to do exactly the same method as
we did before but you might just want to lift up each time here in order to make
sure that you are going into the right square so it's exactly the same as what
we've done before you just might have to take a little bit more care when working
into that opposite side and also making sure that your tension is correct so go
ahead work up until you get
to the join and then meet me back once you're ready okay so now I have done my
last two trebles I now have these corners so I'm going to
go into that first corner and make sure that I bring that through like so and
then I'm going to go into the next corner and this time I'm going to come
underneath the join just here and bring that through and through so that now we
can work over into the next corner of the opposite side of the next square and
then continue with that join so slip stitch in one side slip stitch into the
corresponding stitch
so there we have that nice neat join you can rewind the video if you need to
watch that again but you're going to go ahead and do that all the way along for
each of the joins and then also for each of the rows as well I'm just going to
pause the video and continue along just so that you can see what it looks like
once this is all been finished okay so now you can see this join which has gone
this way okay so now that you can see the join you can see that it's just
absolutely beautiful it's definitely one which I'm going to be using in multiple
projects it just looks so gorgeous it also looks really nice on the opposite
side as well it's just so neat and also really sturdy as well I also like the
fact that it's quite flat to the surface so quite flat to the touch
because sometimes I think some of the normal slip stitch joins can can distort
the look of the work slightly so I just think this is absolutely perfect if you
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