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Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel i am so excited to be introducing the crochet society
advent crochet along with you today this is day one and we're going to be going right through to
Christmas day which is day 25 we'll be building a project and it's going to unfold in front of your
eyes i am so excited for you to see so the way this is going to work is you're going to have a
either a video on this channel or check out the community tab on this channel because it
will give you some guidance of where you can find the instructions for that day
but you are going to have help for every single day of this crochet along so you can join in
with this whether or not you have the advent calendar or not you can just select your own yarn
but this is going to be so fun so don't forget to join in the crochet society facebook group because
you'll all be chatting in there and helping each other out if you need the additional help
so without further ado let's get started so in this video we are going to be making
seven of these snowflakes so your snowflakes want to measure around 11 centimetres from point
to point so what i would suggest is that you make your first snowflake
measure it if you are coming out larger then drop down a hook size if you're coming out smaller then
move up a hook side so this is really going to depend on personal tension so i'm going to be
using the four millimetre crochet hook which is what comes in your advent day one but as i say you
can adapt this it's really important that you're not coming out too large because that will affect
your quantities when it comes to making your project so do your first one without fastening off
measure it if it's okay then move on if not you might want to think about adapting your hook size
okay let's get started okay so for day one we're going to be making some snowflakes so for this
we're going to use the colour from day one and we're going to be making seven of these snowflakes
in total so you want to be using your four millimetre crochet hook and we're going to begin
with our magic ring so for the magic ring you want to lay your yarn over your hand like so wrap it
round so that you make an X on the front of your hand and then you've got two strands on the back
i'm going to take our hook and go underneath the first strand pull the second strand through
and then twist your hook round so you have a twist in your yarn just here
grab the working yarn and pull through and there you have your magic ring or your magic circle
so we're just going to leave that open for now and we're going to start off by chaining two
so we've just done our first chain and we'll do our second chain here so that's two chains
we're then going to do a treble crochet so remember i'm working in UK terms in
the US this is known as a double crochet so it's yarn over into that centre circle
yarn over pull through we'll have three loops on the hook yarn over pull through two loops
you'll have two loops on the hook and then yarn over pull through two loops on the hook
so this is going to class as our first cluster and i'll show you what i mean by a cluster in
just a moment we then have a little pattern repeat so for this we're going to chain three one two
and three and now we're going to do our treble crochet two together so we're going to yarn over
insert into the magic ring yarn over pull through you'll have three loops on the hook yarn over
pull through two you'll have two loops on the hook and we're going to leave it there for now
we're going to yarn over insert into the magic ring again yarn over pull through you'll have
four loops on the hook yarn over pull through two you'll have three loops on the hook and
then we're going to yarn over pull through all three loops on the hook and that is our
treble two together treble crochet two together which we are calling a cluster in this pattern
so we're going to do that little repeat five times in total so we've just done
one which is the chain three and then cluster we'll do that again chain three one two
three and then cluster which is our treble crochet two together so yarn over pull through two don't
finish off that treble crochet yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two
three loops on the hook and then yarn over pull through all three loops on the hook so
you want to go ahead and repeat that until you've done it five times so chain three cluster chain
three cluster five times in total and then meet me back and i'll show you how to finish off round one
okay so i now have my beginning cluster and then we have one two three four five
and now what we're going to do is we're going to chain three one two and three
and join to the first treble with a slip stitch so we're going to go into the top of that stitch
and join we can now cinch in that centre circle
and now you can see the shape a little bit better so now we're ready to move onto round two
so for round two we're going to chain one which does not count as a stitch and then
we have a pattern repeat we're going to do five double crochets in the chain three space
so we'll find that chain three space which is here and we'll do five double crochets now remember i'm
working in UK terms in the US this is known as a single crochet so we go into the stitch yarn
over and pull through you'll have two loops on the hook yarn over pull through two and again
yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through those two loops so that's two three
four and five we're going to chain one
miss the cluster and then repeat that again so five double crochets one two
three four five chain one miss a cluster and then five double crochets again
so you're going to repeat that all the way round until you are in your last chain three space
so go ahead pause the video do those five double crochets in that last chain three space and
chain one and then meet me back and we'll finish off this round okay so once you've worked your way
all the way round we've done our last five double crochets here and a chain one now we're going to
join with a slip stitch into that first double crochet so we're just going to locate that here
and slip stitch and that is the end of round two for round three we're going to
start straight off with a pattern repeat so double crochet into the next stitch
chain five one two three four and five then it's saying one double crochet chain nine and
one double crochet into the next stitch so we'll move into this next stitch here
we'll do a double crochet chain nine one two three four five six seven eight and nine
and double crochet into that very same stitch that we've just worked into
we're then going to chain five one two three four five double crochet into the next stitch
and then slip stitch into the next stitch so that's just insert pull through and pull through
so this is what that section is looking like we're then going to do a
raised half treble front post which will be a raised half double front post in the US
around the cluster so to do that we're going to yarn over go around this cluster from
a few rounds before so we'll go from front to back to front again yarn over and pull through you'll
have three loops on the hook and then yarn over pull through all three loops on the hook and there
you have your raised half treble cluster and then we're going to slip stitch into the next stitch so
that will be the first double crochet from the next set and then we're going to repeat again
so i'll show you this pattern repeat once more and then you can continue round
we're going to double crochet into the next stitch chain five one two three four and five
we're then going to work into the next stitch so if you want to try and figure out if you're
on the right track this next one should be in the centre of those five double crochets
so we'll go into that next stitch and we're going to do a double crochet
chain nine one two three four five six seven eight and nine and then do
a double crochet into that same stitch that you've just worked into so double crochet
chain five one two three four and five double crochet into the next stitch
slip stitch into the next stitch
and then raised half treble front post around the cluster so yarn over front to back to front
yarn over pull through and then yarn over pull through all three and then slip stitch
into the next stitch so you're going to repeat that all the way round
until you get to your last section so go ahead pause the video work that pattern repeat all
the way round and then meet me back once you're ready once you've gone all the way round your
last slip stitch should be into the join where your first stitch was and then you can yarn over
grab your scissors fasten off and then pull out and then there we have our first snowflake
so there we go this is day one you want to go ahead and make
seven of these snowflakes please don't forget to tag crochet society myself and Rosina Plane
in your progress so that we can see where you're up to and then i shall see you in the next video