- [Kristen] The marshmallow crochet stitch
is a quick and easy way to add texture to your design.
We're gonna make it in a medium weight yarn today.
You may have seen the popular
marshmallow crochet baby blanket,
and you can now enjoy it in any other weight yarn.
Join me right now.
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In this video, we'll cover the main stitch pattern.
To get the video or patterns
for the marshmallow crochet baby blanket
and also the accompanying border,
please click down in the description below.
To begin your crochet, you'll need your hook and yarn.
I'm using the hook that's recommended with my yarn.
I'm using Red Heart With Love Premium, colored Jadeite.
This is a medium 4 weight yarn,
and I'm using the recommended hook,
which is a letter K or US 10 1/2,
which is a 6 1/2 millimeter.
And this is my Furls hook.
It's an Odyssey hook if you're interested.
They also have a wood one,
which is a little bit lighter weight.
To get your pattern and row repeat,
also the links for any of the products you see,
click on that link in the description below.
Alright, grab your supplies, and we'll begin.
We're gonna start by making a slipknot
however is comfortable for you.
I just wind it around my finger twice.
Lift the back loop over the front loop just a little bit,
and do it one more time over the tip of our finger.
Then we're gonna insert in the crochet hook
and tighten up.
To have slower tutorials on the
single crochet and double crochet,
be sure and click on our Beginner Video Series,
lessons one through eight.
Lessons one and two will be single and double crochet.
We're gonna begin with an even number of stitches.
I'm going to do 10 plus the 3 (10+3 multiple)
for the plus on the multiple.
So, we're going to do 13 stitches here for this test,
and 13 is really easy to follow along with
if you wanna try it.
Alright, so go ahead and chain 13.
One, two,
three,
four,
five,
six,
seven,
eight,
nine,
oops,
10,
11,
12,
13.
Okay.
And so, I'm going to do this.
This is actually an update to my other pattern,
I go into the fourth chain from the hook,
and we're going to double crochet
into that fourth chain from the hook.
If you see my marshmallow crochet baby blanket video,
you see me go into the third chain from the hook.
This just is an improvement on that one.
So, fourth chain from the hook.
We go one, two, three.
And on the foundation chain,
we're just going into that first little stitch here.
Okay.
So pull up a loop.
And to double crochet, we're going to yarn over,
pull through two, yarn over, pull through two.
Okay.
And then we're gonna skip the next two chains.
So don't look at that one
that you were going to that stitch there.
We're gonna skip one, two,
and we're gonna go into that third chain.
We're gonna start with a single.
So go right in there, yarn over, pull the stitch,
yarn over, pull through two for one single crochet.
And then to that same stitch,
we're going to do two double crochets.
So we're gonna yarn over,
insert into that stitch,
pull up another stitch.
Go three on the hook.
Yarn over, pull through two.
Do it one more time.
Yarn over, insert into the stitch.
Yarn over, pull the stitch.
Yarn over, pull through two.
Okay.
And so now we want to go into the third chain from there,
so we're gonna skip this one right here
that's very enlarged.
We got one, two, go into the third one.
And repeat this same little cluster that we did.
We're doing a single
and two doubles into that same stitch.
So let's set the stitch there as one double,
and second double.
And that is repeat for that particular stitch
just by itself.
And at the end of this row,
pause your video if you've done it longer,
and meet me back up when you have three chains.
But at the end of row one,
we're just going to do one single crochet
into that very last stitch.
Not into the slipknot, just that last stitch.
So pull the loop, pull through, and single crochet.
And that's the first one.
Go ahead and kinda pull on that.
You've got that foundation chain.
It could be a little bit tight.
You can also go up a hook size just on that first chain,
and then go down a hook size
when you're finishing, when you're starting row one.
Okay, so we're gonna begin row two.
Row two is what gets repeated through the rest
until you get to the length that you want.
So, begin row two.
We're going to chain two,
one, two, and turn.
We're gonna make two double crochets
into this first stitch here,
so this little hole down here at the bottom of the chain.
Yarn over, insert into the stitch.
Make sure you have two loops on top of your hook here.
Pull up a loop.
Yarn over, pull through two.
Repeat that again.
Double crochet, yarn over, put it into the stitch.
Yarn over, pull up a stitch.
Yarn over, pull through two.
And now we're gonna repeat what we've done before.
We're going to skip two stitches.
In this case, not the bottom chains.
We're gonna skip over this one here and this one here.
And we're going to the third one.
When you pull out your stitches,
you can see it right here very easily.
Not down here into this hole,
but right here.
Okay, you can see there's kind of a curve,
and you're really gonna see it once you're knitting.
I'm sorry, once your crochet goes along,
you're really gonna see these little scallops going.
So you're just going where that little valley is.
So we're going to single crochet into that.
Okay.
And then two doubles into that same stitch.
One double
and the second double,
and then skip over those next two stitches.
So, one, two.
I'm gonna go into this one, single,
and then double,
and then double.
Okay.
And pause your video until you get to the end of the row.
And when you get there,
it'll look like this.
Okay.
So we can see this beginning chain from the row one,
and it'll look similar to this when we come back.
Along on the next row, we're gonna come back to this size.
You're gonna have a turning chain
when you finish the next row.
So you're just going to go right into that turning chain
and single crochet.
Just like that.
So that finishes our row two.
You can kinda tug on this now.
That should keep this nice and straight.
You shouldn't have it too terrible tight at the bottom.
So row two gets repeated.
Repeat row two.
We'll do it one more time,
and then I'll talk to you about
changing color if you need to.
Okay, chain up one, two.
We're gonna go a little faster.
Turn it.
Two double crochets into that first stitch.
So we got one double crochet and two double crochet.
Alright, go into this next one.
You see that little valley, single crochet.
Two doubles into that same stitch.
One,
two.
Repeat that again.
Single,
double,
and a double.
Okay.
Then this is the last stitch.
Go right into that last one
and single crochet.
Okay, so that's the end of your row two.
We actually have three rows on here right now.
If we were going to do a color change,
this is where I would be recommending to do a color change.
And when you pull through this last stitch,
you would actually pull through the next color.
If you're doing a single color, just keep going.
If you were fastening off and getting ready to finish this,
all you would do is clip your yarn,
yarn over, and pull it through at this point,
and you would be done and ready
to weave in your tails with your tapestry needle.
So I'll do a few more.
You'll see how this straightens out a little bit.
It looks a little bit short here.
I'll do a few more.
Pause your video and I'll see you in just a moment.
There you go.
You can see how it's nice and straightened out.
And it makes a really pretty little textured stitch.
You can see how every other row is bumped outward,
and you can see that little texture.
When I flip it over,
you can see that this part that's bumped outward
is kind of in the middle where those other two were.
So, in order to finish this off,
if I was to stop it at this point,
I would just cut my yarn here,
and
go ahead and
fasten it off by pulling through that last strand.
Okay.
And then we just weave in our tails with a tapestry needle,
and that's it.
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