for this tutorial you will need your selected yarn and a crochet hook i've chosen to use Caron simply
soft in the colour victorian rose and i'm using a five millimetre crochet hook you will also need
a pair of scissors and a darning needle for sewing in your ends okay let's get started so
we're going to begin by creating a slip knot and you can do this in whichever method you prefer
go ahead and insert your crochet hook and our foundation chain is going to be in a multiple
of four so we're going to yarn over pull through that's one yarn over pull through that's two
three and four and you will continue by doing this multiple of four one two three and four until you
get to your desired width so go ahead pause the video and then meet me back once you're ready you
should now have your foundation chain i'm doing a sample piece so this is 24 chains and we're going
to go ahead and start working into the third chain from the hook so that's not the one that's on the
hook we have one two and three and we're going to work a treble crochet into this stitch so remember
i'm working in UK terms in the US this is known as a double crochet so we're going to yarn over
go into that third chain from the hook yarn over pull through you'll have three loops on your hook
yarn over pull through two loops you'll have two loops on your hook
and yarn over pull through those last two loops on your hook so we have one treble crochet these
chains that we've skipped here they do not count as a stitch so we're now going to go ahead
and work one treble crochet into each chain all the way across so go ahead
pause the video work your treble crochets across your chain and then meet me back once you're ready
so here we are at the end of row one and what you should find is that you have two less stitches
than your foundation chain so i did 24 chains and i have 22 stitches so let's go ahead and move on
to row two we're going to turn our work and then this is the right side facing us now so what we're
going to do is we're going to begin by chaining two one and two and this does not count as a
stitch we're going to treble crochet into this first stitch so go ahead and work that treble
and then we're going to start a pattern repeat so the pattern repeat starts from here we're going to
skip two stitches one and two and then we're going to work into this
next stitch and we're going to do a front post double treble so first of all when you work
around a post instead of going into the stitch here we're going to go from front to back
back to front and then bring that post forward so this is a front postable treble
so a double treble is a treble in the US what we're going to do is we're going to yarn over the
hook twice find that stitch so skipping the two stitches and around the post of that next stitch
front to back back to front popping that stitch forwards yarn over pull through you'll have
four loops on the hook yarn over pull through two loops you'll have three loops on the hook
yarn over pull through two loops you'll have two loops on the hook and then yarn over pull
through those last two loops we're going to do the same thing around the next treble crochet
so yarn over the hook twice find that next stitch pop it forwards yarn over pull through
four loops yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two and yarn over pull through two so
we now have those two stitches and now what we're going to do is work around the front posts of the
missed stitch missed stitches so we'll start with this first missed stitch here which is just there
and we're going to yarn over twice and then come backwards to that missed stitch and then go from
front to back back to front around that post yarn over pull through and complete your double treble
and then again we're going to find that next stitch across which might be slightly hidden
yarn over the hook twice go around that stitch
yarn over pull through and complete your double treble
and then when you bring your hook across you can find that we've made that
stitch that x stitch here now what we're going to do is going to repeat that pattern repeat so
it starts off by missing two stitches so just be mindful we've just worked around this stitch
we'll miss two stitches and then around this next stitch we'll do a double treble
and then around the next stitch a double treble
and then we're going to work into those two miss stitches so the first one first
yarn over the hook twice around that stitch and complete your double treble
find the next stitch yarn over the hook twice pull through two pull through two and pull through two
then we have our second cross you're going to repeat that pattern repeat all the way across
so skipping the two stitches and then working your two front post double trebles and then
working backwards on into those missed stitches with your double trebles you'll work that across
until you have one stitch remaining so remember this is that treble crochet just here and not the
skipped chains so go ahead pause the video work your way to the end of your row and then meet me
back once you're ready okay so now you're at the end of your row we're going to go ahead and work
a treble crochet into that final stitch that's remaining so right into the top of that stitch
and that is the end of row two so for row three we're going to turn our work
and then we have the wrong side facing us now and that's important for us to remember
we are going to go ahead and chain two and treble into that first stitch so that chain
two does not count as a stitch so we treble crochet into that first stitch
and then we're going to do a back post treble around the next two stitches
so a front post treble as we've worked before was front to back back to front well this time
a back post treble is back to front to back like so so we'll do a treble crochet we'll yarn over
go from the back to the front front to the back around that next stitch yarn over pull through
and then yarn over pull through and pull through two so that's our first of our two
we then want to find that next stitch now it might be easy to think that it's this stitch
but in actual fact if we pull apart our stitches we see this one here so it's the next one in line
as we're looking from the front so we want to yarn over
find that stitch go from front to back to front and work our treble crochet
and then we're going to skip two stitches so we have a stitch here and a stitch here we're then
going to do our pattern repeat so we're going to do two back post double trebles so we're going to
be working around these two stitches here which is the front or the most forward of the two stitches
from the front so yarn over the hook twice go from back to front to back yarn over pull through
and then yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two and yarn over pull through two
and we want the next stitch so looking on the right side we have this next stitch over pull
it out the way if you need to you want to yarn over the hook twice go from back to front to back
and then pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two and yarn over
pull through two so if i just turn this round you can see that that just elongates this stitch here
now what we want to do is we want to do back post double treble around the first
of the missed stitch so these are the missed stitches here and this is where you have to be
mindful of what is your right side and your wrong side because we don't want to do a
double treble and come this way we actually want to do it and do the the back post double
treble so you're going to need to bring your hook round towards the right side of the work
find that stitch and go from back to front to back and then complete your double treble
so pull through two pull through two pull through two and then we're going to go around
the back post of this next stitch so yarn over the hook twice find that next stitch
and then work your double treble
like so so if i just turn this round so that you can see the right side of the work we've continued
these front stitches along here and those stitches towards the back are elongated here and that's
going to be important for when we build our work so now we're going to miss these two stitches here
because we're going to start the pattern repeat again and then find those next two stitches
which are just here and then we're going to do our double treble around the back post of that stitch
double treble around the back post of the next stitch and then we're going to work
into the two missed stitches so double yarn over twice go around the back of the work
as it's facing you and complete your double treble and then find that next stitch
and repeat the same thing so you're going to work that all the way across until you have your last
three stitches remaining so remember that this chain two was not a stitch we have
one and then you will have these last two stitches here the ones closest to
you remaining so pause the video work your way across and then meet me back once you're ready
so here we are at the end of row three and in these next two stitches we're going to
do a back post treble crochet so we're going to yarn over go from back to front to back and work
our treble crochet which is a US double crochet and then again around the next stitch
and then the final stitch is going to have a treble crochet in there that is the end of
row three go ahead and turn the work and you can start to see the pattern emerge a little bit here
so what we're going to do now is we're going to move on to row 4 but from now
on it's just a pattern repeat of row 3 and 4 so i'm just going to demonstrate to get you started
but you can rewind the video to row two to get the full details so we'll chain two
that does not count as a stitch we'll treble crochet into that first stitch
and then we'll start off with the skip two stitches one and two and then front post
double treble around the next stitch so yarn over twice into that stitch yarn over pull through
yarn over pull through two pull through two and pull through two yarn over the hook twice
around the next stitch yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two
yarn over pull through two and yarn over pull through two and then we'll work back on
ourselves so yarn over the hook twice the first of those two missed stitches work our double treble
then yarn over the hook twice into that next stitch
double treble and then you would continue so i'm going to go ahead and build a few more
rows so that you can start to see a bit more of this pattern okay so i've now done a few pattern
repeats and it's looking really lovely so once you get to the height of your project you're going to
want to finish off the same as here because this end here can look a little bit odd it's obviously
not straight so for your last round of this stitch you can go ahead and chain one which does
not count as a stitch and then we're going to do some half trebles so this is half double in the UK
yarn over go into that first stitch yarn over pull through you'll have three loops on the hook
yarn over pull through all three loops on the hook and then a half treble all the way across
until you get to the end now the reason why we do half trebles or i like to do half trebles
for the final row is because even though we did trebles for the first row for row one
we actually worked into or around the posts of those stitches
so as you look at them they look slightly shorter then what you would do if you had a normal treble
for example so if i just lay the work down here you can see that this is the treble row
and doing a half treble up here it actually looks the same whereas if we did a treble it would look
too long and wouldn't quite match up so go ahead pause the video and work your way to the end
okay so once you're at the end you want to go ahead and yarn over and pull through
and you can fasten off your yarn and there we have the celtic weave which is absolutely beautiful
now i would probably say you're going to want to block this this stitch so that you can really get
the true beauty of the of the pattern itself and then you can you know really play around
with the placement of where your stitches are so that you really get that nice weave
going through so here is the front of the work and then this is what the back of the work looks like
so it is quite a dense stitch but it is absolutely beautiful so if you like this
stitch then also check out this video because i think you'll probably like this one too