For this tutorial you will need your selected yarn I'm using the chunky style
craft yarn and for this particular yard it tells you to use a six millimeter
crochet hook so just make sure you check the label to see what size hook you need
for your particular yarn so as I say I'm using a six millimeter crochet hook you
will need some scissors and a darning needle just to sew in your ends to begin you
want to make your slipknot and you can do this whichever way you prefer insert
your hook and we're going to start off by doing a chain so you can adapt your
projects however you want but you want to chain multiples of eight and then add
seven onto the end so it will be yarn over and pull through yarn over and pull through
yarn over pull through and yarn over pull through that's four and so as I say
you want to do five six seven and eight so you want to do multiples of eight
until you get to the length that you want and then you want to add seven more
so go ahead and pause the video work to your chain whichever you want if you're
making a blanket you can lay your chain down and on the floor or on the bed
wherever you're making your blanket to get the size of what you want so pause
the video and I shall meet you back in a moment
so I've just done my chain I've done two multiples of eight plus seven just
because this is a sample piece but this would make a really good size for a cowl
or a scarf so what we're going to do now is do some treble crochet all the way
along this chain so remember that's treble crochet in the UK in the US this
is known as double crochet so we're actually going to skip two chains to
begin with skip this chain and this chain and we're going to do our first
treble into third chain from the hook so it's yarn over insert into that third
chain grab the yarn and pull it through and
you'll have three loops on the hook grab the yarn and pull it through you'll have
two loops on the hook and then grab the yarn and pull it through again and
you'll be left with one loop on the hook and this first row is just going to
consist of one treble into each chain along your foundation chain so it's a
really easy row to do so if you want to go ahead and pause the video and work
your way along your foundation chain and I shall meet you back at the end and now
at the end of my row and I've done one treble into each of those chain spaces
we're now ready to start the actual pattern so you're going to go ahead and
chain two and then turn your work now when we're working along this pattern
we're going to be working into what's called the front post and the back post
when i say front post what it means is that you put your hook around the back
like this of the actual post of the stitch and if i say back post it means
that the hook goes around the back of the stitch just like this so that will
make sense a little bit more as we move along so first of all we're going to do
trebles into the front post of the next four stitches so we're ignoring this
very first stitch here and we're working in around this second one here so we're going
to yarn over and insert our hook underneath that stitch so this is called
front post treble we're going to grab our yarn and pull through so you have
three loops on the hook yarn over pull through two and yarn over pull through
two so it's exactly the same as a normal treble we're just going around the front
post rather than into the chain space so again we're go and see yarn over and do
another treble into that post front of that post so
that's our second stitch and we're going to go ahead and do two more so yarn over
insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two and yarn over pull
through two and then once more so we have our four front post trebles just
here we're now going to do four trebles again but this time we're going to work
into the back post so this one can be a little bit more tricky what you want to
do is yarn over and then your hook comes around the back of that stitch like so
you grab the yarn and pull it through so you have three loops on the hook as
normal grab the yarn pull through two and grab the yarn and pull through two
so what that means is it actually pulls the stitch backwards and it creates that
ribbed effect on the work so again we're going to do three more of those so yarn
over insert the hook around the back of the post pull through yarn over pull
through two and yarn over pull through two we'll do two more make sure that you
are not skipping any stitches which can be easy to do so make sure you take your
time and work around the correct post so that is our four back post
trebles we are then going to do another four front post trebles so around the
front of the post four times
and last one and if you haven't guessed already we're then going to do four back
post stitches same stitch just around the back of the post one two
three
and four so the reason I get you to do an extra seven chains on top of the
multiples of eight that you've just done is so that we always end on the same as
what we've begun with so it makes it even so you'll end up with the four
front post stitches if that makes sense so what you're ready you want to go
ahead and do your last four front post stitches obviously if you've done a
bigger piece this is going to take you longer but this is just a sample piece
for me so I'm going to go ahead and finish off this round so once you've
done your last four front post stitches you should end up with your chain three
from this very from your last round so you want to do a half treble into
this stitch so yarn over insert yarn over pull through and then yarn over
pull through all three loops on the hook so that is known as a half double in the
US we're then going to chain two and turn our work and what we're going to do
this time is continue to build that pattern so it looks the same from the
front obviously we're looking at the back at the moment so what we do is as
you're looking at these here they actually look like they're back post
crochets but remember we're looking at the back so we're going to back post in
the front post from the previous round so it would be yarn over and insert your
hook so do four back post crochets treble crochets
and then four front post treble crochets
so that's two
three and four and you're simply going to repeat that all the way along so as
they appear of back post crochets you again do the back post and then front
post back post work your way along and I shall meet you at the very end and then
I'll show you how to do your next row I'm now at the very end and again you
should notice that you have one last treble from the previous row so you want
to do a half treble crochet into that stitch remember in the US that is half
double and you're going to chain two and turn so now what you should have is a
nice texture to your pattern and what we're actually going to do is make the
actual pattern of the basket weave now so we're going to do opposites so what
you can see here is your front post trebles so what we're going to do is
work for back post trebles it would be yarn over insert around the post yarn over
and pull through yarn over pull through two and yarn over pull through two
that's one
two sorry three and four and now we're going to do four front post crochets one
two three and four and then you would do back post and front post so you just
repeat the same thing all the way to the end pause the video and I'll meet you
back at the end of this row and I'll show you what to do for the next row I'm
now at the end of this row and again I'm going to do a half treble into that
last stitch I'm going to chain two one and two and this is actually our fifth
row but this is the fourth row in the four row pattern repeat so for this row
we're going to start off with four front post stitches so one two three and four
and then we would move on to our four back post stitches or back post trebles
three and four as you would repeat that all the way to the end so go ahead
pause the video meet me back and I shall show you what
to do to finish off so this is what it looks like with a few more rows added
I've then just done a row of treble crochet along the top just to finish off
the work you would just want to yarn over and pull through and just snip off
your yarn to finish off and pull that out and then you just sew in and the
ends to finish off your project I really like the look of this if I was to do a
scarf I think I would probably use a bigger hook maybe even an 8 or up to a 10
just so it's not so and firm but I love the way this is turned out if you liked
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