For this tutorial you will use your selected yarn I've used style craft
special DK your crochet hook scissors and a darning needle to start your
granny stripe you want to chain so when you chain start your foundation chain
you want to do it in multiples of three now I'm going to just do a smaller
version make it easier for the tutorial but if you want to make something like a
baby blanket then you probably want to chain about a hundred and twenty plus
two for turning so you want to start off by chaining one two three and I'm going
to do 24 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 so this is just going to be how big I'm doing it so that I can show you
on this tutorial so now you've done your multiples of
three you now want to chain two and this will make the corner so those two will
eventually go up like this this way we're now going to work back along this
chain and we are going to a double crochet so double crochet in UK single
crochet in the US along the rest of this chain so are now going to work along
this chain you're going to skip the first two chain spaces which is this one
and this one so we don't include what's on our hook so you want to insert your
hook yarn over pull through you have two
loops on your hook yarn over pull through now you really have to make sure
that you're not pulling too tight when you're doing this first round so into
the next chain space insert yarn over pull through yarn over
pull through insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through insert yarn
over pull through one over pull through if you find that these stitches are just
getting a bit tight just give them a little pull and you want to continue
this all the way along till you get to the end
now as I mentioned in the foundation chain video don't worry if this starts
to spiral as you're working it's completely normal and as we add more
rows and it will get straighter so I'm going to leave you here if you want to
pause the video and continue to the end and then we'll start the next row so
once you get to the end of your chain however many you've done you will
have the same amount of stitches plus one so I chained 24 then I added two
more chains to that so I will have 24 stitches plus the chain two that I
started with at the beginning of this chain so say for example if you chained
120 you would have chained an additional two so you would have 120 double crochet
or single crochet in the US plus you're chained two at the beginning of that
round what you then want to do is chain 3 so 1 2 3 and then you want to turn
your work so that we can work across the opposite way we're now going to work
treble crochet stitch so in the US this is double crochet so this first chain 3
is going to count as our first treble crochet and then we're going to do a
another treble crochet in this first chain space so yarn over insert into the
chain space so when you insert into this chain space it should look like you have
two loops on your hook so you want to yarn over pull through three hoops on
the hook yarn over pull through two two loops on the hook and yarn over pull
through two so you have what looks like two treble
crochet you're then going to miss two chain spaces so we're going to miss this
one here and this one here and work into the next one so yarn over insert into
that chain space again it will look like you have two loops on your hook there
but you haven't this is going to count as one yarn over pull through yarn over
pull through two yarn over pull through two so you have two trebles here a gap
and then one treble we're actually going to work two more trebles into
this chain space so it makes a cluster of three so yarn over insert yarn over
pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two yarn over
insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through
two again we're going to miss two chain spaces
yarn over so miss one miss the other and then insert into the next one yarn over
pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two and you'll
notice that if your first row did coil then this is starting to straightening
straighten it out so again two more trebles into this chain space
and we are going to simply carry on along this whole first row that we've
made so yarn over miss the next two insert into the one after that
so if you want to pause the video at this point and I'm going to join you
again just before we get to the end if you need to you can rewind the video in
order to see what I did for these first ones now once you get to the end you'll
notice that there's only three spaces left which is absolutely perfect because
what we're going to do is we're going to yarn over again skip the next two and
work into this very last and chain at the end so insert your hook it can be a
little bit fiddly yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over
pull through two and just as we have on this end we are going to work just two
trebles into this corner so into that same chain space okay so that is our
first row of treble and clusters of treble we're now ready for our next
round so what you want to do is chain three and again turn our work so this
time we're not going to do another treble at the beginning of the round
we're just going to leave it as one and then we're going to yarn over and then
insert our hook into this space that we've created here and do a cluster of
three treble
so that's our cluster of three and then we're going to work into the next gap
that we created so yarn over straight into that gap and do your cluster of
three treble obviously in the US this is known as double so you want to work your
way along the whole of this row I'm going to work up to this last section
here and then come back to the video and show you how to finish off this round so
now I'm at the end of my second row of treble crochets and you'll find that
when you get to the end you'll have a little knobbly bit here and what we're
simply going to do is as we started this round with just one treble I know that
was a chain three but it actually classes as one treble we're going to
finish this round with one treble as well so you want to find where your top
chain is from this last treble which is here so you're going to yarn over insert
your hook into that top chain space
yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two
and that is my second row of 3 treble clusters now at this point if you want
to change your colour you can do I'm going to do another row just so you can
see how the third row would look and then I will show you how you can change
your colour so again once you're at the end of this row you are going to chain
three one two three you're going to turn your work and then where you have
got this space here you are going to work another treble into that space so
your first row had two trebles to start your second row had one treble to start
and then your third row has two trebles to start and the what the more you work
up your blanket or the more you build up your blanket you will do this
opposite so it will go to one two one two one and we're simply going to do
exactly the same thing across the whole of this row now so we've done our two
trebles and we are going to do a cluster of three trebles into this space
so again I'm going to leave you to do that and I'll meet you back at the end
so as I get to the end of this round I've started my first treble here and
because I started this row with two troubles I am going to do another treble
and then I'm going to tie off now when it comes to changing colours I do it
a slightly different way just because I like to tie my knot first of all before
I actually start I just feel it will stop it from coming
undone a bit more but there is a way that is technically correct which I will
do a video on and you can choose to use whichever way you prefer and so don't
shout at me you feel like this isn't technically the correct way this is just
the way I like to do it okay little disclaimer in there so to
tie off I am going to just pull that through again take my scissors pull
through and pull tight
and what I shall do to attach my next colour is pop my hook into the
first chain space grab my new colour yarn
pull that through and I'll just tie that off
I'll just pull those threads to the side
insert my hook into that same space that I've just previously gone through pull
the yarn through and then just slip stitch okay so that's going to class as
my first chain so I'll go one two and that makes my first chain three I'll
turn my work and then I shall start working along that row again so yarn
over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull
through two yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two
yarn over pull through two
and as you're working along you can see the difference in the colour and you
would simply carry on with this as much as you want with as many different
colours as you want there is no set rule you could just do one colour and another
for each stripe you could do a block of four or five and continue like that it's
totally up to you the possibilities are endless you can
make it completely unique to yourself