- [Kristen] Today's crochet tutorial
is all about the garter stitch,
but it's the mock garter with a crochet hook.
So this gets you the look
of all the ridges with garter stitch.
Although it is crochet and the back is not quiet reversible,
but it is kinda cute-looking.
It's got this nice firm back
with sort of a pinstripey look to it.
I'm gonna teach a bonus,
not only how to do this, but make a double height one,
so that you can get...
It'll be less ridges, make it a little bit taller,
and it has this really nice cool effect.
So if you wanna make a blanket out of it,
ta-da!
Isn't that cute?
All right, we're gonna do that today
on GoodKnit Kisses.
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and love your stitches.
For mock crochet, you can use whatever yarn size
and hook that you wish.
Just pick your yarn that you wanna use,
and get a hook that appropriate.
I do suggest getting a locking stitch marker,
because it's just a great visual,
especially when you get started,
so that you get the bumps on the correct side,
and you'll see why in a moment.
So get your hook and your yarn,
and click down on links below
to get the written instructions
on how to make this mock garter.
All right, let's begin.
All right, first, we're going to make this one here,
and then we'll do the double height one here in a moment.
So I'm just gonna set this aside.
And you notice that it kind of curls a little bit.
Now this can come out in blocking.
I purposely did not block this.
I did weave in my tails,
but I wanted you to see
that it has a little bit of curve to it.
You could add borders if you want,
but blocking or washing it,
it will probably fall out just fine.
But it is crucial to know
that your tension makes a difference
because this one right here.
Pardon that, I did not turn that out.
This one, see how it's tighter.
It's because I was not paying attention
to my tension to my tightness here.
And I was doing this thing like really, really fast.
So it does curl a little bit more
when you're tension is too tight on your yarn,
what's coming from the working yarn.
So make sure it's nice and loose.
So let's grab our yarn, and we'll begin.
I'm going to use...
This is a super bulky weight six yarn
and an eight-millimeter hook.
This is an M size hook from Furls,
but an eight-millimeter is what I'm using.
Again, you can use whatever weight yarn you like
and appropriate hook.
All right, go ahead and make your slip knot.
I'm gonna loop mine around my finger twice.
Take the back loop over the front loop,
and take the back loop over the front again,
make our slip knot.
And for slower tutorials on basics,
please click down in the links below.
For that, you can also use the controls
and slow down this video, pause and rewind as needed.
We're going to chain the link of the foundation chain
the width that you want your garter stitch.
So I'm gonna go ahead.
And for these purposes, I'm gonna do eight.
So if you wanna do a small sample, go ahead and do that.
So I've got one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.
Okay, so it's gonna be the width that you want,
and then add one more chain.
So this is gonna be nine.
And we're going to go into the stitch here,
the stitch stitch from the hook,
okay, the second chain from the hook.
So this is one, two.
We're just gonna take our hook
and go right into that stitch,
and we're going to yarn over, and pull up a loop.
And then now we're going to slip it.
So pull that loop through the first one.
Okay.
And that's it.
You're gonna do that across all stitches.
Now in this particular stitch,
you can do the garter stitch.
You can go through this loop here, which is what I'm doing.
This is the back loop, okay,
and keep it nice and loose.
But you can go through both loops on the front as well,
but it gives a nice foundation like this.
So let me show you what it looks like
when you don't do that, which is totally fine,
but this sample right here shows it.
And you can see how it's a little loose,
and it has that extra bit of a curl.
So this one still has a bit of a bulk
and a little bit of a curl, but it makes sense,
especially when you stop your crochet at the end,
and you can kind of match the beginning to the end
easily that way.
So just going through the back loop only,
go across slipping all stitches.
Pause your video and meet me when you're at the end.
Okay, go through this last one,
and then don't go through the slip knot.
If you need to, you can count across
and make sure you have your original number,
which would be eight in my case,
and that first extra chain that you would add,
it does not count.
Now we're going to chain one,
and we're going to turn.
This is going to be the wrong side of our work.
So when we turn, this would be the right side.
So go ahead and lay down your own
and get your locking stitch marker,
and just slip that in in the front
of one these stitches here,
kinda closer down to the bottom of the chain.
Okay.
And now we're going to go into the front loop.
Okay, let's look at this here.
So my thumb right here is on the first stitch,
not the chain, but that first stitch.
Let me roll it and turn it,
and you can see that there's that V-shape.
This is the back loop back here
and this is the front loop.
But if I rotate it,
you can also see another loop down here.
We're not going to that third loop, that one below.
We're just gonna go into the front loop, which is this one.
So we're gonna go up into that,
right through the center,
yarn over and pull through,
and then slip the stitch.
Okay.
Once you get the first couple of stitches going,
you'll see it much easier.
So now that we've got that,
when you can see the very next one is in plain sight,
so we're just gonna right up through there,
and yarn over, and pull through,
and then slip the stitch.
Go through the next one,
yarn over, and slip.
The next one, go through, yarn over, and slip.
And go across all stitches.
Pause your video as you need,
and meet me at the end of this row,
and go all the way to the very end.
Make sure you've counted all of your stitches.
It may be harder to see that last one,
but make sure you get it,
or your crochet work is going to get smaller and smaller.
Okay, go ahead and slip that last stitch,
and we can look at work.
You can see it's nice and bulky here.
This is going to rotate and expose a ridge here in a moment.
Go ahead and chain one at the end of that row, and turn.
Okay.
Now we're going to work through the back loop.
If you rotate your knitting,
you can see the back loop.
Not this first chain, but this one right here at the back
is where we wanna go.
And we're gonna yarn over and pull up a loop,
and slip that stitch.
And then once you've done that,
you can see the next one is very easy.
Just go through that next one.
Yarn over, and pull up a loop,
and slip, and go across.
Okay.
So as we are going across,
I'm just gonna chat for a moment.
Pause your video if you need,
but I recommend listening to this.
So you can see right now I can feel that I have this
stitch marker back here,
and that is a visual indicator
that you need to have all of your loops
that you slip on that side.
So wherever the stitch marker is,
that is the loop you choose.
If it's in the back, you're gonna use the back loop.
If it's in the front, you're gonna use the front loop.
So I'm all the way down at the end,
and it looks like I'm done, but let me just make sure,
because I think I actually might need to do one more stitch.
So let's count.
I've got one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.
Yeah, that looks like it's done.
Okay, so sometimes it's a little bit harder for me to see,
so I just double click in the beginning.
And then as it gets longer, it's easier to tell.
Okay, so we're gonna chain one,
and we're going to repeat.
You're simply working on the loop
that's on the side of the stitch marker.
So in this case we're gonna do the front loop,
because you can see my stitch marker.
So we're gonna come down here
and skip that first chain that just made,
and we're gonna go into the front of this stitch,
which is right here.
Oops, go up through there, and yarn over, and then slip.
Go into the next one, yarn over, and slip.
And see how I'm leaving kind of loose tension here.
I make sure that I've pulled enough
and loose from my ball of yarn.
And I don't wanna pull this super tight
because then it will make my work curl.
But we're just going right into that stitch,
and slipping through, and going across.
It's pretty simple.
So once you've got enough height,
you'll start to see these ridges emerge,
and we'll see this here in just a moment.
I wanna do this front row, this right side row,
and then we'll do a wrong side row,
and then look at our work.
So continue working,
chain at the end of the round or at the end of the row,
and turn, and then we're gonna do a back row
doing the back loop
slipping across.
Pause your video as you need.
I'll just keep going.
Okay, so we're at the end.
I'm gonna chain one, and we're gonna turn.
And you can see how I've got a nice ridge
really pronounced here.
It looks like a knit stitch and a purl stitch combined
to make the ridge just like in knitting.
Okay. And then the reverse is a little bit more solid
like I was showing in the very beginning.
So that's it.
You just keep going.
And when you're ready to end,
just end after a wrong side row,
after you've done that back loop,
and then it'll have that nice finished edge on it.
Okay.
So that's how we do that.
And if you want to stick around,
I'm gonna show you how to make this a double height,
and get that ridge a little bit more pronounced
and set apart like that.
Okay, so you wanna know how to make a double height.
Here's one example and here's another one.
You can see how this ridge is more pronounced.
There's more height to it.
And then this sample,
which is fairly similar in height as this other one,
there's far less ridges in it.
So in order to get it that way,
we're gonna add a little bit extra yarn
right before we slip the stitch.
You're just yarning over before you do it.
Now let's go into that.
So you've chained, all right.
You've already chained your stitches.
I've got nine on here,
because remember mine was eight plus one,
and then we're going to yarn over
before we go into that back loop.
So let's go right in that back loop,
and then we yarn over again just like normally slipping,
and then we just slip through these two stitches.
Okay.
It's a yarn over slip stitch, okay.
It's almost like half of a half double crochet.
It's a quarter crochet.
I don't know if that's a thing,
but that's what we're doing.
We're yarning over and slipping.
So we're going to yarn over, go into that back loop.
Yarn over and pull up a loop,
and then just slip right through both of those.
Okay.
So do that again.
You're just going to yarn over,
go into that next stitch or next chain,
pull up a loop and go through both.
So continue going across.
Remember this is the wrong side row.
So we don't put in our stitch marker just yet.
Pause your video as you need,
because I'm working a little bit fast right here,
but I know that the first several times I did this,
slipping through both of these is a little bit hard,
so you may have to do what I'm doing.
I just take my fingers,
and then I just pull downward, and pull through,
and it kind of elongates that sort of teardrop shape.
It's just a little bit harder to do it
because we're not used to doing it that way.
So again, yarn over, go through that back loop.
Yarn over, pull up a loop,
and then kinda pull down,
and then guide it through both those loops.
Okay.
So we get to the need of the row.
You're still gonna chain one as before.
Turn.
And now we're going to put in our stitch marker,
and note that this is a right side row.
I'm just putting that in,
and then we know which side of the loop to go in on.
So now we know this is the front loop.
So we're gonna yarn over,
go into this front loop here,
that very first stitch, not the chain.
Let's see.
Go right in there.
It's being stubborn with me, sorry about that.
Okay, going through, pull up a loop,
and slip through both.
It's just the same thing, just the front loop.
Yarn over, go into that first stitch or the next stitch.
And in that front loop, pull up a loop, and slip.
Yarn over, go into the next front loop,
yarn over, and pull up a loop, and slip.
And then continue across.
Pause your video as you need.
If you need to count your stitches,
be sure and do that so you don't get short on this one.
Make sure you get this very last one,
and pull through, and chain.
And now I'm turning, and we're on the wrong side again,
so we're gonna do that back loop.
So yarn over, go into that back loop right there.
Yarn over, pull the loop, and pull through both.
Yarn over, go into the back loop,
yarn over, pull up a loop,
and slip right through both, and continue.
And after you finish one of these back loop rows,
you'll see that it's established your
ridge pattern in the front,
and that's always a good row to end on.
If you're gonna go into the next stitch pattern,
you can go on to either one from there.
It just depends on what stitch pattern you're on
if whether you end on a row
with the back loop or the front loop,
but this just establishes the border down below.
See how it's got that pronounced line down here
and then this one here?
So you're gonna have to go through and do two more
in order to get this loop
more pronounced standing out here.
So see you've got this height here.
Now you've got this ridge.
You would need to two more rows to get it up to here,
and then it would end at this point, right?
So if you wanna have two lines,
you will need to come all the way up to here,
and so on and so on.
So I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial today
and it's helped you in making a mock garter stitch
for your next crochet project.
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