For this tutorial you will need some super giant yarn now I got this extreme
yarn from Wool Couture I'll leave a link in the description box below along with an
awesome discount code they've been kind enough to give us so check that out down
below you want to start off by unravelling your yarn because you don't
want this to pull at all as you're working with it it's extremely delicate
because it's unspun so unravel as much as you can before you actually get
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actually going to be making this on my bed you want to find a nice big
surface nice big clear surface so floor bed big table whatever you can
just make sure that you've got a lot of room and we're going to start off by
making a slipknot so first of all you want to take the end of your yarn and
cross it over so you're making a loop and then you're going to grab the yarn
and pull that through and that creates a slipknot so just like this I'm going to
leave a little tail end so that we can tuck that in at the end so you want your
stitch to be about the width of your the palm of your hand just here what you're
going to do is we're going to create our chain and this is going to be the width
of our blanket so I'm going to be making a little bit of a runner for my bed and
to go along the base so it's going to be wide and fairly thin but obviously if
you wanted to make a square blanket decide how wide you want it to be so
this is our slipknot you're going to insert your hand use your fingertips to
pull this yarn through and do it nice and gently and this is going to be your
first chain so that's one do it again two and I'm using my hand
a guide to see how big these stitches are going to be and I'm going to keep
going until this chain is the length that I want my runner to be so insert
your hand and pull through measure with your the palm of your hand and then pull
through try not to put too much on the yarn because as I mentioned this is
unspun yarn so it's a very very delicate so this is what the chain is starting to
look like what you want to do is continue that until you get to the
length so measuring from here to the end of what you want your project to be
pause the video and meet me back in just a moment okay so I've just done my chain
and I have laid this down on my bed I have a king size and I've done a chain
of 28 to begin with and I just wanted to show you the actual chain itself because
it can look slightly different when it's in this larger yarn so you can see these
kind of V shapes they are each chain and that's how you count them and then if
you turn this round it just looks slightly different you
kind of have a V and a bobble a V and a bobble these bobbles are called back
bumps and that's what we're going to be working into on the way back down the
chain so if I just move this all the way down as I say I've chained 28 I'm
actually going to add one more to that so grab the yarn and pull it through
in order to keep my chain at 28 so that's not going to class as a stitch so
now what we want to do I'm just going to lay my yarn so that it's ready and
easily to access remember you don't want the yarn tugging too much okay so let's
have a look here this is the way that I want my yarn to be laying with these
bumps going down if you have it like yes then it's the wrong way you want to
have it like this and we're going to do what's called a slip stitch all the way
down so you're going to insert your fingers so you're going to keep this
loop on your hand you're going to insert your fingers through that back bump and
don't worry this is the hardest row to do and pull it through so you have two
loops on your hand and then pull that through that loop and again measure
you're going to leave this loop on your hand insert your fingers through pull
it through so you have two loops on your hand and then pull that through again
you're going to find that next bump put your hand all the way through fingers
through grab the yarn and put that onto your hand and pull through take your
time with this keep pulling out the the yarn make sure your chains laying nicely
grab this next bump put your hand all the way through fingers into that bump
and then pull through pull on the yarn
and then pull that through that yarn on your hand okay
when you turn this on the side like this this is what your stitches are starting
to build and look like so we're just going to work our way all the way down
so hand all the way through fingers through that back bump grab the yarn
pull it up a little bit and then pull through that chain that's on your hand
grab your next back bump hand in fingers through grab the yarn pull it through a
little bit and then pull that through that loop that's on your hand you want
to do that all the way down your chain so back bump
hand all the way through fingers through grab the yarn and then pull through that
chain on your hand so go ahead work your way all the way
down and meet me once you get to the end of the chain and I'll show you how to
finish off okay so I've just worked my way all the way along the chain and
you're left with this now when you turn the work upwards like this you should
again see those V's these are your stitches when you count across so when I
count all the way across now I have 28 stitches however this last one just here
if you remember I said that's not classed as a stitch so just remember
that that's that turning one that's like right on the edge is not classed as a
stitch because if you class that as a stitch and do 28 and finish here you're
going to get this flappy bit on the end so this last one is kind of hard to find
but you just have to just find it in there just close to where the knot is
and you're going to go ahead and put your last stitch kind of a little bit
tighter but you're going to put your last stitch in there and this is what it
looks like so you just need to bear in mind that this top section is this bit
here and if you're looking from the side is a little bit tough to see but you
will get used to it the more that you build up and be careful not to twist
this too much if you want to go across and just put something on those stitches
so you know which ones they are then please feel free to do that so now what
we're going to do is go in to grab the yarn and pull it through for a chain and
we're going to turn I work the other way so I'm going to leave my hand in and
turn the whole chain the opposite way so now we are looking at it from the
opposite side and now what we're going to do is work
our way back along this chain so if we look at where we are we have a chain one
and then we have a stitch just here we have a stitch here a stitch here a
stitch there that is what we're going to work along I'm going to go ahead and
bring my yarn round the opposite way you want to get into position so bring the
yarn around the back and go ahead and undo some more yarn as you need it okay
so now what we're going to do is locate that stitch at the base of this chain so
we're looking for that V just there and we are going to put our hand through
that loop and then put our fingers under both of those loops of the V grab the
yarn pull it through just tug on it a little bit and then pull it through
again that creates our first stitch lay this down put your hand in through
through that next V just here so as we're looking V V fingers through that V
pull it through and then pull it through that's two stitches and through into the
V pull through and pull through the stitch that's on your hand next one so
it's always helpful if you find where you're going through with this hand
first go into there pull through and pull through and you can see that this
blanket is starting to build up the rows now so hand in find that next V fingers
in pull through and pull through next one hand through
pull through and pull through and it's just a matter of doing this all the way
along taking your time trying to keep an eye on where the tops of your stitches
are that's why I like to put my fingers in just here so that I know exactly
where I'm going for my next stitch so I'm going to go ahead and finish this
row pause the video and I'll meet you back at the end okay so this is my row
two built I've gone all the way to the end with my 28 stitches what I'm going
to do is I'm going to grab the yarn and pull it through to make a chain I'm
going to lay that down and then pull everything back the other way so now if
you lay this down making sure that your loop is on the top and you can see the
tops of your stitches just here you're going to do exactly the same thing all
the way across and you're just going to keep building and building your rows
until you get to the height of project that you want or until you run out of
yarn so I'm going to go ahead and build this and then once I finished my
runner my bed runner I will come back and show you the finished item and I
will show you how to finish off so pause the video keep working your rows rewind
if you need to and I'll show you my finished work okay so I have now done
all of my rows I have been left with this much
of my ball left I tried to go again to see if it was enough it was about double
the width and it wasn't it got about a quarter of a way so I guess one row of
this is about four lengths of the width so yeah and on my very last stitch
just in here and what I'm going to do is grab the yarn and pull it through
and then I'm going to take a long end and take my scissors this is the scary
part and cut that off pull that all the way through and then I'm just going to
weave this into the work a little bit
so what I'm going to do is go one way
just taking it through the chains just to kind of disguise it a little bit and
then in fact I'm gonna go through this one and then I'm going to work back the
other way so I'm going to take it in here and then up through there and then
I'm going to take it back the other way one more time I'm gonna go in these
stitches in here I think so you're just trying to sort of go into random
stitches so that it's not just kind of straight across so it becomes entwined
in the work okay what I'm going to do now is snip it off and push it in there
we have our finished runner and it's so so beautiful you can just kind of shape
it a little bit and pull it out a little bit but isn't that just gorgeous so
there we go there is my hand crochet tutorial I
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