in this video I will show you how to create a baby blanket using a double
crochet stitch the blanket ended up being 30 by 40 inches for this project
you will need some yarn specifically for baby blankets you will need an 8
millimeter hook a large needle and some scissors so I'm starting with this kind
of blue and white mixed yarn because the couple that I'm making this for has that
as their theme and if you turn this around and look right here you'll notice
that it's asking for an 8 millimeter hook so that's what we'll be using today
that's pretty large hook but you can also see that the yarn is pretty big as
well so you do need a larger hook and we're going to be using a double crochet
stitch for this so to start we need to make a loop so I'm gonna wrap that
around my thumb and just have the yarn behind come through so you're really
just making a slipknot now just make sure that the knot is not so tight that
you can't move the hook but not so loose that the hook just falls out so now
we're gonna take this longer end here there's many different ways to do this
but I'm gonna wrap this around my pinky the back of my pointer finger and then
pinch it with my thumb and my middle finger now your pointer finger is gonna
be the tension so let's see if it's too loose you can't really do a Tong so by
keeping this tight here it'll just allow you to easily hook this so the first
thing we're going to do is make a chain so we're going to hook and pull that
through and hook pull that through so it's really simple you're just really
hooking that and pulling it down now if you notice when I hook I'm facing it up
and then I turn it down that's because if you go like this it will get stuck
other times it might just fall off so you really want to hook it and turn it
down and then pull it through so you just want to keep making this chain
until you get the length of the blanket that you want now I've completed that
and I have a chain of 64 so you can see it's really long I wanted my row to be
60 until I did 64 because we're going to go back into the fourth loop and if you
can see a little kind of a dot right there so that's one two three four so
it's really where my thumb is right there so we're gonna help
and we're gonna go into the fourth one now when it comes out the other side I
know this is really hard to see but that's why definitely make sure you
watch some of my other videos I'll link them in the cards and the description
you might want to try those ones first but now that you're through you're gonna
hook and you're pulling it back through the exact same hole and now we have
three of them on here so now you're going to hook it again and you're going
to go through the first two and now the last two so if you're able to repeat
that over and over the first two the last two it'll help you remember so you
hook it and now we're going into the very next one right here and again it's
out with the other side and I'm going to hook it again and pull it back through
the hole so I have three now we're going to hook pull it back through the first
two and now the last two so it all kind of starts jumbling together a little bit
but once you get this first role you'll actually be able to hang on to this
piece which makes it a lot easier right now you're really not hanging on to
anything so I'm going to go through that a few more times so you're gonna hook it
go through the hole it's going to come out the other side and you're going to
hook it and pull it back through that hole so now you have three and you'll
hook go through the first two and then we'll hook and go through the last two
so you're gonna hook it go through the hole it's gonna come out the other side
and you're going to hook it and pull it back through that hole so now you have
three and you'll hook go through the first two and then we'll hook and go
through the last two okay so I'm gonna keep doing that I have to do 60 of these
so kind of a lot but if you're able to just kind of watch a movie or some TV or
something you can just kind of go through these and it is very relaxing
once you get the hang of it so I'm gonna do a few just you can see
roughly what it looks like so we're hooking through the whole hook
back through the hole we're gonna do the first two and the last two get in hook
through the hole we're gonna hook it again and back through the hole and now
we're gonna do the first two and the last two
so if you need to just rewind this video and watch the first few that I did on so
you can see it more slowly but just keep doing that and then I'll show you what
we do for the next row so I finished the entire first row so you can see so to go
to the next row we're going to loop one two so pretty much you want it to be
about the same height as the first one and then you're gonna flip your work
because you always want to go from right to left so now that you have that first
one I don't know if you can see right in the base of it there's a hole right here
okay so it's right there that's what we're gonna be going in each of these
little dots right here again like I said if you are a beginner and you've never
crocheted or anything you may want to start with the one one of the other
videos because this yarn is a lot thicker and it can be more difficult but
so what we're gonna do is hook this and go right into the base and when it comes
out the other side you're gonna do the same thing you're gonna hook and pull it
back and then you've got your three so now we're going to hook and go through
the first two and then you're gonna hook and go through the last two so pretty
much you're just repeating what we did already
for the next row so we're gonna hook you're going to go into this next little
hole here when it comes out the other side you're going to hook it and pull it
back through and now you should have three again so we're going to hook and
go through the first two and then you're gonna hook and go through the last two
okay so you can kind of see what it looks like and we're gonna keep going
so we're gonna hook go into that next hole when it comes out the other side
you're gonna hook and pull it through now you have three so we're gonna hook
and go through the first two and then we're gonna hook and go through the last
two so I'm going to go ahead and just keep doing this and then I will show you
again how to flip to the next row when I'm done with this one so now I've
completed the second row so we're at the end again and we're gonna do the same
thing so now I'm going to hook it once and twice and we're gonna flip our work
so everything should be on the other side so that you go right to left so
we're going to hook this and go right into the base of this one here
and when it comes out the other side you're gonna hook it and pull it back
through so now you have three on again and you're going to go through the first
two and then we're going to go through the last two so you can kind of see and
I put it straight I know it looks weird now but when you have it longer you just
want to make sure that this is straight and that will be straight as long as you
have the same amount in each row so again we're going to hook and go through
the hole when it comes out the other side you'll hook it and pull it back
through again and then you'll hook through the first two and then hook
through the last two okay so you're gonna keep doing that and you'll go back
and forth so pretty much you're just gonna keep doing this for the rest of
the blanket you'll go all the way to the end do the two stitches flip it over and
just go back and forth and if you need to feel free to rewind the video if you
want to watch how to start the next row over again but I'm gonna go ahead and
finish this blanket and then I'll show you how to end it I have now finished
the blanket so we're gonna need to tie off the end piece so what I'm gonna do
is take a long piece of the yarn and cut that off and now we're gonna just weave
this tail through here we're gonna put it through the hole and pull snug this
is pretty much gonna make a knot on the end to ensure that it will not come
undone and now we can weave the tail in and out on the end here I usually like
to do about three to four inches just to make sure that it will not come undone
you know months or years later so we're gonna take our large needle and try to
get that in there so this yarn is a little more difficult because it's
extremely fuzzy and now we're gonna weave it so I'm just going to take this
and we're really there's not really a specific way to do this you just kind of
go back and forth and make sure that it's getting through the middle of your
yarn or your pattern here and you're not gonna be able to see that you can see
it's really hidden really well but like I said do as much as you can at least a
few inches just to make sure that it's nice
we tucked in there and it won't come undone even if this end piece does this
little tail comes out at some point just remember you already had that knot in
there so the chances of this command on are very slim now that we're done we're
just gonna cut that off now we need to do the other tails this is one of the
tails from me connecting two balls of yarn so I'm gonna go ahead and do the
same thing and I'm probably gonna go opposite directions just so it doesn't
look weird so I'm gonna kind of weave those in on opposite ends one thing I
wanted to mention is in this scenario if you did end up making these tails really
really short what you can do is you can actually just weave them in and out
first your needle and then you just weave this in here that way it's a lot
easier to do and that's it the baby blanket is done so hopefully you guys
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