For this tutorial you're going to need your selected yarn I'm using Stylecraft
special DK in a fuchsia purple you're going to need a crochet hook I'm using a
four and a half millimeter but you can have a look on your yarn label to see
which one is recommended or which size is recommended you'll need some scissors
and a darning needle just to finish off your ends to start this tutorial you
want to make your slipknot and you can do this whichever way you prefer you
want to insert your hook and you're going to begin by chaining four so
that's yarn over and pull through so one two three and four so that's your
starting chain you're now going to insert your hook into the first chain so
just insert your hook and yarn over and pull through and this creates your
centre circle so when you're working into the centre circle make sure you're
working right into the centre and not into the stitch that we've just created
here if you do work into that it will just come undone so we're going to begin
by chaining one and we're going to do seven double crochets in this very
centre circle so this is a UK term this is known as single crochet in the US so
insert your hook right into the middle grab the yarn and pull it through and
you'll have two loops on the hook grab the yarn and pull it through both loops
on the hook that's one and the same thing again two
three notice that I'm working around this piece of yarn here so that
we're crocheting it in as we go along
four five six and seven you're then going to insert your hook into the top
of the first stitch that we created so if you turn your work towards you it
will look like you have a little V so you want to insert your hook into there
and it will look like you have three loops on the hook and you want to grab
it and pull it through all three loops on the hook to create your first round
so now we're going to start our row of bobble stitches all the way round the
first one is going to be slightly different but all the others are going to be
the same so you want to start off by chaining three just to get to the height
of the stitch and what we're aiming to do is actually get five loops on our
hook so we're going to do a treble crochet which is double in the US so
it's yarn over insert into the top of that stitch yarn over pull through and
yarn over pull through two we're not going to finish off that treble
we're going to leave two loops on the hook then we're going to do the same
yarn over insert into the same space yarn over pull through and then yarn
over pull through two that leaves us with three loops and again yarn over
insert yarn over pull through and then yarn over pull through two that leaves
us with four and then once more will leave us with five loops on the hook now
what you want to do is grab the yarn and pull it through it really helps if you
turn your hook all the way down to face the work
and pull it through all five loops of the hook give it a bit of a pull and
chain to secure that into place and what you'll find is it goes flat
on the side that's facing you and it puffs out on the back of the work so
you're actually working with the back side facing you which is different to
what a crochet traditionally is so you want to chain one to move to your next
space and then we're going to do a bobble stitch in there so it's yarn over
insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two and you'll have two
loops on the hook and again the same three loops four loops and five loops
yarn over pull through all five loops pull nice and tight and chain to secure
that stitch and then chain one and move around into your next space
you're going to do this in all of the spaces and you'll find that you'll have
eight bobble stitches so pause the video work your way around to the end and I'll
show you how to connect and do your next row so I've now done my eight bobble
stitches and I've chained two so one to secure the stitch and one to move over
to the next space and what we're going to do now is connect the the circle so
you want to insert your hook into the top of the first stitch and do a slip
stitch to tie those together you're then going to chain three one two three and
that's to work up to the height of the stitch and now what we're going to do is
we're going to work a bobble stitch into the top of a bobble stitch and in
between the bobble stitch so we're increasing the size of
the circle so I'm going to do my first one in this very same space here so
remember this first one's different because we've already done a
chain three so you just want to continue as normal and all you're
looking for is getting five loops on the hook so that's four and five so it
just works out that you have to do it once more to get the five so yarn over
and pull through and then secure and chain one now we're going to work in the
gap so bobble stitch as normal three loops on the hook four loops and five
chain one pull through secure and chain and then we're going to work into the
top of this bobble stitch so if you kind of look at the bobble stitch you'll
see one longer stitch and then a tighter stitch I tend to go in the longest
stitch just because it's a little bit easier so what I mean by that is yarn
over and insert into this space here and do exactly the same procedure as you've
been doing already so because we're doubling our bobble stitches you
will end up with eight bobble stitches all together so you want to work your
way around exactly the same as this so one into the bobble stitch one
in-between one into the stitch one in-between all the way around until you
get to the last space so pause the video until you get there and I shall meet you
back in a moment so now I've worked my way all the way around and I've met up
with the original stitch so all I'm going to do is insert my hook into the
top of that stitch and yarn over and pull through to
connect and then yarn over and pull through to make a knot grab my scissors
and snip off pull out the yarn and then pull nice and tight and that finishes
off your circle and then if you flip it round you'll see that it actually looks
more like your bobble stitch so I'm going to snip this off because I
crocheted that in at the beginning and then you would just need to sew in your
end here now if you want to make this into a square like this which is what
people usually do I actually have a tutorial already on how to make a circle
into a square it's for my sunburst granny square but it's exactly the same
process as this so I shall direct you to that tutorial I'll leave the link in the
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