For this tutorial you're going to need your selected yarn this is stylcraft
special DK in raspberry you will need your corresponding crochet hook I'm
going to use a five millimeter today you will also need some scissors and a
darning needle just to finish off your ends to begin with you want to make a
slipknot now you could start with a Magic Circle if you wanted to I'm going
to start with a chain instead and you're going to start by chaining four one two
three and four and then insert your hook into the first chain to make a circle so
when we're working we're actually going to be working into the very center of
this circle and we're going to be working around the actual chain itself
to make a circle section so this is going to consist of treble crochet
this is a UK term so in the US this is known as double crochet and to start
off you're going to chain three and this is going to act as our first stitch
and in this round we're going to have twelve in total so we're going to start
off by doing another eleven trebles so you want to yarn over insert your hook
into the very centre of that circle yarn over and pull through and you'll have
three loops on the hook yarn over pull through two and yarn over pull through
two so that's your first treble crochet and then you want to continue all the
way round until you have done another 11 stitches and with that first chain three
that we did that counts as the twelfth stitch so pause the video work your way
around and I'll show you how to connect and do your next round okay so there are
my eleven stitches plus that chain three which equals
12 so now what you want to do is insert your hook into top of that chain 3 grab
the yarn and pull it through for a slip stitch and that creates your circle so
the general rule of what we're going to be doing here is increasing our stitches
or increasing our rounds by the amount that you've done in your original round
so we've done 12 here and we're going to increase the next round by 12 so the way
that we do that is we always start off with a chain 3 to class as our first
stitch and what we're going to do now is increase each stitch as we
work our way around so in that very same space where you've just done that
chain 3 you're also going to do another treble crochet so that's an increase
there then when we look at the top of the next stitch we're going to do
another increase there so you're just going to do two trebles into that space
one and two and again two trebles so an increase into the next space and you
will continue to do two trebles all the way around into the top of each stitch
from the previous row and you'll end up with 24 in that next round so you've
added 12 so pause the video work your increases into each space and meet me
back at the beginning so now you finish that round you're going to go ahead and
insert your hook into the top of the chain 3 and just slip stitch that
together and you're going to start off again by chaining 3 2 3 and that
classes as your first treble we're then going to increase in this space again to
begin with and because we are increasing by 12 each
time this is 12 this is 24 and then this round will be 36 so we don't
want to do an increase in every space because that will double the
amount of stitches so what we do this time is we do an increase and then we
just do one treble into the top of the next stitch and then we increase again
so that's one and two into the same space and then do a treble into the top
of the next stitch and then you increase again one and two and again a treble
into the top of the next stitch so it's an increase a single and increase a
single and increase a single all the way round and then you'll end up with 36
stitches so pause the video and meet me back at the beginning so I've just
finished that round and I'm going to slip stitch into the top of the first
chain three that we did and then I'm going to start the next round by
chaining three to start as our first treble I'm then going to do a another
treble into that same space so that we do an increase and this time again
because we only want to increase by 12 what you're going to do is do a treble
into the next space and then another treble into the next space and then
start again so increase 1 2 so 2 into the same space and a single treble and a
single treble and an increase
and single treble and a single treble
so pause the video work your way round meet me at the beginning and I'll show
you one more row of how you would keep increasing your circle and then
hopefully you should get the hang and of how it works so pause the video and meet
me back in a moment okay so just finish this round as with
the rounds before I'm going to slip stitch into the top of that chain 3 make
sure you pull on that nice and tight so you can still see where your first
stitch is going to be you're going to chain 3 for your first stitch and then
do your first increase into that same space and then if you've not guessed it
already this time we are going to increase to 60 and you're going to start
off by doing a single treble into the next three spaces so that's an increase
one two and three and then an increase so two into the same space and three
single stitches one two
and three so you would do that all the way around now you would connect and
then the next row would have an increase and four stitches and the next row after
that would have an increase and five stitches so this is how you would make
your flat circle and obviously you can keep going to however big you would want
it to go the main reason why I did this tutorial was because people were asking how
they can make their coasters larger so you would just do your circle to the
size that you want and then you would go and work on the outer rounds of the
coaster I shall leave a link in the description box to the coaster tutorial
but you can add the fancy stitches around the edges to whatever size circle
you want so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial I hope that you've found it
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shall see you again next time bye