In this episode you will learn how to UK treble crochet which is US double
crochet working in rows how to correct your work and how to tie off it's
important to know that there is a difference in UK and US terms the
techniques are the same they're just different terminology being aware of
this from the beginning will help you when learning to crochet welcome back to
the third episode of the absolute beginners series today we're going to
learn how to treble crochet which is a UK term in the US this is known as a
double crochet it is the same stitch just a different term we're going to
begin by creating a slipknot and doing a foundation chain I will demonstrate this
to you today but if you want a more in-depth demonstration with more detail
please go to the first video in this series so you want to wrap your yarn
around your finger and pinch this with your finger and your thumb you're going
to wrap the yarn around your finger again and pinch with your finger and
thumb bring the back loop over the front loop and you have created your slipknot
go ahead and take your hook insert into your slipknot and pull tight on your
knot for the treble crochet which is known as double crochet in the US we
are going to start off by chaining 12 so you're going to yarn over and pull
through the loop that's on the hook yarn over and pull through the loop that's on
the hook and then yarn over and pull so that is three chains please remember if
you want a more in-depth explanation of this go to video 1 of this series
remember to move your fingers up the chain as you are working that's 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 and 12 so for the treble crochet we're going to work into the
third chain from the hook we're not counting the one that's on the hook we
have our first one here our second and this is our third we're going to be
working into the top loop of the chain there are different techniques you can
use for this as an absolute beginner I recommend
working into this chain you're going to wrap your yarn around the hook and I
recommend that you place your finger onto this yarn which is just here it
just makes it a little bit easier we're going to insert our hook into that chain
and you'll look like you have three loops on the hook yarn over and pull
through your chain you'll then have it three loops on the hook yarn over and
pull through the first two loops on the hook you'll be left with two loops on
the hook yarn over and pull through both of those loops on the hook you have now
just made your first treble remember this is known as double crochet in the
US we're going to move across to our next chain and we're going to yarn over
put our finger on this yarn insert your hook into the loop yarn over and pull
through the chain you'll have three loops on the hook yarn over and pull
through the first two loops yarn over and pull through the next two loops that
is your second treble crochet we're going to do exactly the same thing all
the way along the chain so move your finger over don't forget to pinch tight
here so that you're not affecting the rest of the chain yarn over insert your
hook into the chain yarn over and pull through that chain you'll have three
loops on the hook yarn over pull through the first two loops and then yarn over
and pull through the next two loops we've now just done three treble
crochets move over into the next chain and do exactly the same thing so insert
the hook yarn over and pull through yarn over and pull through the first two
loops and yarn over and pull through the next two loops I'm going to repeat this
all the way to the end please feel free to pause the video whenever you need to
in order to catch up
so we have now just completed the first row of treble crochets you can easily
see the stitches here we have one two three four five six seven eight nine and
ten and then we have this section at the end here this is known as our turning
chain turning chains are simply to get up to the height of the stitch in order
to work the next row so for row two we want to do our turning chain again so
we're going to chain two yarn over and pull through and yarn over and pull
through you're going to turn your work like a book we are now going to work
into the next stitch alone so not into the base of the chain like you would do
in a double crochet or US single crochet we're going to move over into this
stitch if you turn your work onto the side it will look like you have these
across the top of your work and that's what we're going to be working into so
yarn over place your finger on this piece of yarn and insert into the top of
that stitch from the last row this time you look like you have a little V on
your hook you'll also have another two loops on your hook just here yarn over
and pull through you'll have three loops on the hook yarn over pull through two
loops on the hook you'll have two loops left on the hook and then yarn over and
pull through those two loops again yarn over insert your hook into the next
treble again you'll look like you have a V on your hook yarn over pull through
yarn over pull through two loops and then yarn over pull through two loops
and you're just going to continue this all the way along so insert your hook
yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two
if ever you make a mistake it's pretty simple to correct you want to take your
hook out and then you want to pull on your yarn like so you can see that this
just takes away one stitch at a time once you
get back to the stitch width which you are happy with you want to insert your
hook into this loop which is left just here and then you are ready to continue
on your way again I'm going to build the rest of this row and show you how to do
your stitch into the last stitch of the row because this can look a little bit
different feel free to pause the video and meet me
once you get to that point so that we can do it together
so I'm now at the end of this row this first stitch that we did here was
actually a chain two which is a turning chain so we miss this one out and
count one two three four five six seven eight nine we're then left with our last
stitch to do and this is going to be in the turning chain from the previous row
so you want to take a look at this stitch you may have to pull it out
slightly in order to get in there with your hook but this is where we want to
be working you're going to yarn over insert your hook into that chain two yarn
over pull through yarn over pull through two and yarn over and pull through two
it's really important that you are counting your stitch at the end of each
row and remembering not to count that chain two as a stitch this will stop
your work from either getting bigger and fanning out or getting smaller and
working its way in so count your stitches at the end of each row to
ensure that you have done it correctly we're now ready to move on to row 3 and
it's exactly the same as before we're going to chain two yarn over pull
through and yarn over pull through and turn the work
we don't work into the base of this chain two instead we're going to move
over into this first stitch yarn over insert your hook into that stitch
remember you look like you have a V yarn over pull through that stitch yarn over
pull through the first two loops you'll have two loops on your hook and then
yarn over and pull through those two loops I'm going to continue to build
these stitches and work a few more rows so that you can see what the work starts
to look like I will then show you how to finish off your work I have now built
four rows of this stitch to make a square so these stitches are a lot
larger than what the double crochet would be in the US that is a single
crochet so we have one two three and four rows we're now going to tie off our
yarn so we want to yarn over and pull through and pull up a loop you then
want to take your scissors and leaving a good amount of yarn snip off your yarn
you can then pull your hook out and this creates a knot in the end of your work
we're now going to sew this in so you want to take your darning needle and
thread up your yarn we're going to work in a rule of three so you simply want to
take your darning needle and weave in and out the fibers of your yarn you want
to come inwards and pull your yarn through if you pull your yarn too tight
then just pull back and make sure that your work is sitting properly we're now
going to go back this the opposite way going into different fibers if possible
and then back the same way once again you can go down the stitches if you want
to but you're going to go back in the opposite direction in order to do the
rule of three go ahead take your scissors and snip off your yarn and then
you can do exactly the same with the opposite end
so there you have your treble crochet I would recommend that you practice this
over and over until you feel comfortable with it in the next video of this series
I'm going to show you how to do a half treble crochet so this is going to be a
stitch which is slightly smaller than this but also slightly bigger than a
double crochet so make sure you check back to watch that video