- [Kristen] Learn to crochet for the beginner.
Today we learn double crochet.
Welcome back to GoodKnit Kisses
where we stitch our love and love our stitches.
I'm your host Kristen and I'm gonna be showing you
a series of beginner crochet videos.
This series is going to be in my style
and I'm so happy to bring this to you
so stay tuned for all the videos that are coming.
As always I suggest that you watch the video
through the first time before attempting
to get the idea and all the tips along the way
then grab your yarn and hook
and pause as needed to crochet along with me.
Today we learn about double crochet.
Last week we learned half double crochet
and the week before single crochet.
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Let's crochet.
To start the double crochet
you're going to use as much yarn
wide as you want with the chain.
So, say you want five inches in length
you're gonna make as many chains
to get those five inches
plus you're gonna add three.
On this one I want 20 stitches wide
and I'm going to add three,
so I'll do 20 plus three so that's 23.
We'll start with the slip knot,
make yours however you're comfortable,
this is how I do mine.
I'm gonna wrap around my finger twice,
pull the back loop over the front a little bit
and then do it again to make a slip knot,
and then just insert my hook and then pull on that
and make it a little tight,
not too tight, just a little snag.
And now I'm gonna make 23 chains.
So, we're going to yarn over, pull through.
One, two, three.
Just keep going until you get that magic number.
Your number plus three.
See you in a moment.
For the double crochet to start on the foundation chain
you need to go down to the fourth chain from the hook.
So you're skipping the one,
you don't count the one on your hook.
There's one, two, three and four.
Now before you go into that fourth one
you can mark it with your thumb.
You need to yarn over first
just as you would with a half double, okay.
So we're going to fourth stitch,
okay, the four chain and
and now we're gonna yarn over and pull through one.
Now we've got three on the hook.
Now we're gonna yarn over and just pull through two of them,
one, two, okay?
Now we've got two on the hook.
Yarn over again so this makes the double.
This is the second time we'll yarn over and pull through.
So, we're gonna pull through one, two again
and that makes our double.
Okay, we're gonna move down here
and we're gonna work to the second stitch here.
So just the very next stitch.
If you're not sure just pull back
and you can see how this one is elongated, this chain here.
That means that this stitch is holding on to this chain
so we wanna move down one more chain.
Yarn over first and go into that chain.
Yarn over and pull through so we have three on the hook.
We're gonna yarn over and pull through two.
Yarn over and pull through two, okay?
Let's do that one more time.
Yarn over, go into the next stitch
or the next chain and pull through.
We've got three.
Yarn over, pull through two.
Try a little slow motion and then we'll move to the end.
Yarn over.
Insert into that stitch or chain.
Yarn over, pull through the chain.
Three on your hook.
Yarn over, pull through just two.
Yarn over and pull through the last two.
Okay.
We're gonna work all the way until the end.
Pause your video and I'll meet you back up
when you've got your first row complete.
All right, we're coming down to the end of our row.
I've got two more stitches left to do
and I want to point out at the top here
you see these chains.
Now we talked about this in previous videos.
Just in case you're catching me for the first time
I wanna point out that each one on the top of these chains
is one stitch.
So if I count all the way back I have 18.
So, we're not counting that first turning chain
that we did when we skipped.
That's not actually counted difference,
this is just the one stitch here
and you can see that one stitch at the top, okay?
Right here this is my double crochet
and then the end so it's a little bit bulkier there.
The second row you're just gonna be counting
all these pieces here and then the turning chain
so we'll see that in just a moment.
Let's go ahead and insert our hook
and go through and create these last two.
Okay.
And in this last one here
we are not going through where the slip knot is
we're just going through that last stitch.
And if you have too many you can actually
undo this stitch here, pull that out.
If you're at where you need
then you can actually take that out
without having to frog and pull everything out.
Frog is rip it, (laughs) rip it back.
So, we're gonna go in here, pull through.
Go through two and two and we're done with that row.
Now if you remember from single crochet
it was half this height
so the double crochet is really is doubling
the height from the single crochet.
It goes really fast.
Now, in order to do the turning chain
we're going to add three,
so we're gonna do three chains.
So chain one, two, three.
With the single crochet it was one,
with the double crochet it was two
and now we're up three
and then we're going to turn our work
and we'll yarn over.
And then we're gonna skip this first stitch here, okay.
You see that stitch holding above there.
We're gonna go into the next one right there,
okay, so we got both stitches on our hook
and then pull through so we have three again.
And yarn over and pull through two,
yarn over and pull through two, okay?
And then we're going to yarn over
and go through that next stitch here
so we're not skipping any stitches in between now.
And we're just gonna pull through
and do double crochets as we go.
And you will see that this turning chain
is actually going to act as one
so I've only done three double crochets
but this turning chain actually will function as one.
I'm gonna do one more row
and show you how we build onto there.
This is critical so that you know
where to continue doing your turning chain
so that your work doesn't get smaller all the time.
You wanna definitely count your work
as you get used to it
to make sure you have the same stitches
in width as you did before.
We're gonna yarn over and go through
just as we had done before
all the way down to the end,
I'll meet you on the next row.
See you in a moment.
And it's very obvious right here
where this next stitch is.
Yarn over and put it right through here.
Now this was not that turning chain for the second row
so I'm gonna do one more row
and show you how to go into the top of this stitch here.
It's usually not here where people mess up,
it's here, okay?
So go ahead and chain three,
one, two, three, turn
and work all the way down.
Remember skipping this first stitch,
moving into the next one
and work all the way down to the end here
and I'll show you how to work into that first chain.
Pause your video and I'll see you soon.
Okay, I'm on my third row
and this is where I need to work
into this last turning chain here.
Now, I want to show you how to count these out
so you can see that this was my turning chain
that I made first.
So we've got one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19.
These are called posts.
This long stitch here that you've created
with the double crochet, that's called a post.
And so I've got 19 posts and I need one more
and you can see this one here.
And I want to look at my stitches closely
and you can see that this is the last stitch I went into
and so, the top of this turning chain
will be this first little stitch here
and then the next one right behind it.
I'm just gonna squeeze it on there
because there's one little stitch on the back, okay?
So each chain always actually has three loops.
It has two on the top and one on the back for a ridge.
And this is where we would pull through
but I've forgotten and I need to get that yarn over in there
so gonna yarn over first
and I'm gonna insert it back through those two loops.
Get those on my hook, one, two.
Make sure I didn't split that.
Think I actually did.
Okay, so let's go through one
and two, okay.
And then we're gonna yarn over and pull through
and now I have three on my hook.
Yarn over, pull through two.
Yarn over and pull through two
and that completes that line.
And so, when this goes along
it's gonna be a very nice, straight edge here, all right?
So to just chain three and begin again.
Two, three, turn
and start on your next row.
All right, I'm gonna show you a larger sample
so I'd like you to work through this
until you get a nice square to complete this
and you'll label it and have it for your reference.
All right, pause your video and I'll see you soon
and we'll finish this off together.
To fasten off your tail
you're gonna want to complete your last stitch, okay.
And then cut about a six-inch tail
and then we're going to yarn over
and pull through completely.
And that is how we fasten off.
And now we're going to weave in the ends
so we're going to take our tapestry needle,
put that in through
and we want to make sure to hide our yarn tail completely.
I'm gonna go on to the backside
and we can go down and through these stitches down here.
And it's best to make a horseshoe or a zigzag shape
so when it kinda come down to through here.
Oops.
Pull through and I'm just gonna kinda zigzag down this way,
kind of hide and bury my tails
and I go through the post
and then I go through the next,
the next row here.
Oops.
Okay.
And then I like to pull on my works
so that it's not too tight
and then we're just gonna go through,
kinda do that horseshoe shape,
we're gonna go around the other side.
And in that way my tails are buried in
and then I like to go back it through,
make sure I lock it into position
and I'll cross through some of that yarn
that I went through before.
And then when I'm ready to cut the tails
just make sure and don't cut it too short.
You can wash it or block it, whatever
and then that extra little tail
will end up working through
and then it won't pop out to the other side.
So just complete the tail on the other end
and you will be done with it.
I hope you enjoyed learning the double crochet.
Stay tuned for our next video on the triple (treble) crochet
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