Motif of the Month September 2016: Bobble Flower Crochet Tutorial

Hey everyone, it's Deja from crocheteverafter.com. Today is the newest motif of the month. It is September 2016 and this is the Bobble Flower. This is a three round motif. It's very easy. You can use one color or up to three colors. We're using a J hook, a 6mm in this medium worsted weight yarn. It's very fast, very easy. You can get the pattern in the link. Alright, so the first thing we're going to do is make a slipknot for our hook. So take my yarn and twist it and just reach through and grab the yarn that's tied to my ball. Pull that tight at my hook and then pull the tail that's attached to my ball to close that down. We're going to make an open ring for our bauble flower so we're going to do some extra chains because I want it kind of big so we're going to chain six. Clench your head down to get through. We're going to join that with a slip stitch in the first chain that we made, just stick that anywhere in that first V that you see, all going to get covered up, then we yarn over, which is kind of like a layover, it's not really wrapping it around, we're just laying it over the top and then twisting our hook to catch it, and pull through, and I always stop because it's hard, you can't pull through the second loop, kind of got to push Push out a little bit, turn it, and then get through. Round is simple. It's easy to see our nice big hole that we're going to work in. Alright, so to begin round one, I'm going to do a chain one, and then I'm going to do 12 single crochets around the entire chain circle that I just made. So it's nice and easy to see my hole in the middle, so I'm going to reach through, yarn over, and pull up a loop, and I'm going to pull it on top of my chain. I don't want to do it down here, because I'm going to have to squish stitches. Stitches. Stitches. Stitches. So pull it up top. Yarn over, point your hook down, pull through to get through both loops. So we're going to do 12 of those, and because these are on the loop instead of attached to it, you can see I'm running out of room already. I can grab it and just pull it over. So just make room as you go for your 12. Alright, I finished my 12 single crochets. So one thing when you are working and you're a beginner, trying to count the front of these stitches is nearly impossible in single crochet. So always turn your work and just count the tops of your stitches. And that's also for joining. Because you have 12, you want to join in the first single crochet you made. And it might get a little confusing over here because it looks like we have... A bunch of stuff going on. Which one of these is our chain one? Which one is our first single crochet? So just count backwards until you get to 12 and then you'll know that's the stitch you need to work into. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ten, eleven, and twelve. So this one definitely looks like it could be something but that is just the chain one. If I try to work into it it's going to be really difficult because there's no legs to it, so that's another clue. But just count backwards to 12 And then you know to reach under those top two stitches, just like as if you're going to make a single crochet, and then instead, flip stitch. So yarn over, or lay over your yarn, pull it through. And notice, for this type, I go sideways, because our stitch is running that way. Our biggest space is right on that side, not pointing down. I'm going to get stuck, so sideways, push through, then turn down, and pull through, and you get through nice and easy. Alright, so now it's time for the bobbles. So these are really easy to make. The instructions look very difficult, but it's not. It's basically like a DC five together. So double crochet five together, but all in one stitch. So I'll explain that as we go. So the first thing we're going to do is a tall chain. So we're going to pull up our loop and just lock it in. And then we're going to start our first bobble. Also, when you're looking at instructions, you'll see that it says bauble. If you are just going through the instructions really quickly, you might be like, what? Bobble am I doing? Or what is a bobble? Look around your instructions. So for any pattern, if you see a new stitch that you've never seen before, or a new word, look around for a section that may say special stitches, might be in the abbreviations, wherever it may be, it will tell you how to work that stitch step by step. And it's all just yarn overs and pulling through, all crochet is just basically yarn overs and pulling through two loops or whatever it may be at a time. So you're never going to not know how to do these stitches, you just have to take them step by step and it will be easy once you actually do it. So for a bobble, it tells us to yarn over, insert our hook into the stitch, and it'll say in the next stitch, but our instructions say bobble in the same stitch as our tall chain, so that's why I'm going right back in to where we joined. So then it says to yarn over, pull up a loop, Yarn over, pull through the first two loops, and it says to do that five times, so again, yarn over, insert into the stitch. Yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two. So if you notice, I'm doing a double crochet up until the last step, and then I stop. So that's why I said it's like a double crochet five together, because we're just doing this five times into this stitch. So again, yarn over, insert in, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through the first two loops on your hook. You can see I have three plus our tall chain, or the loop that was on our hook. Again, we do the same thing two more times, so we're just doing a double crochet up until the last step and then we stop. So now I have six loops on my hook, that's how I know I'm ready to go. So I have five partial double crochets and the loop that was already on my hook. Now I'm going to yarn over and pull through all six loops on my hook. So this is where pointing down becomes important because if I try to get through all these at once, it's really difficult if you're not pointing down. Pull through the whole thing, and that's our bobble. Very simple, just it looks intimidating when you see the instructions. So then the next thing we're doing is chaining five. We have one. And then it says to skip the next stitch. So when we look at our stitches, this is the stitch we just worked into. We turn our work if we're having a little trouble seeing the fronts. There's our next stitch, that V. So I'm skipping that one, and then I'm going to repeat what I just did in this next stitch. So we're going to end up with six bobbles all the way around because we're going to skip a stitch between each one. So again, we yarn over, insert our hook into the stitch. Yarn over, pull up, and notice how I'm keeping all of my loops the same size as my hook. I am a writer, so if you check out my golden loop method video, there's yankers, writers, and lifters. Now I'm a rider, which means I keep my loops the same size as my shaft, which keeps my stitches nice and consistent. So when I work off my two loops, you'll see that these are the same size. I just go to a 45 degree angle to keep those loops the same size. And what that does is it gives all of my stitches the same height. Nothing wrong with being a yanker or a lifter if you're trying to make gauge off of a designer's pattern. Checking out the golden loop method might help you to do that if you can't figure out why your height gauge is off. So we've got two and we're going to chain another five. One, two, three, four, bar stitch again, and then go into the next. Again, I'm going to do this five times. This is what we're going to do all the way around. Very basic once you understand the steps. So just keep going and we'll meet up at the The end. Okay, it's doing the last bobble, and then I just need one more chain five so that I can get back over to the beginning bobble. Now I'm going to join with a slip stitch in the top of our first bobble. So if you look, you'll see kind of long chains and then a little short one. That's the top of our stitch chain that we're going to do. Now we have just one more round to go. So we're going to chain one, a single crochet in that same stitch that we just did. We're going to do seven. Single crochets around the chain 5, and we're going to do that all the way around, not worrying about working into our bobbles, and that's just to give a finished kind of look to our flower. You'll notice I'm already kind of at the next bobble, so just pull it over to make room for more stitches. That'll just give it more of a poofed out kind of effect, single crochets in there because we only have 5 chains. Single crochets in them. So we're just going to skip our bobble and we're just going to go ahead and do another seven. And just continue that around. And then this motif will be done. All right, it's finished the last seven. I'm going to join with a slip stitch in that very first single crochet and fasten off. I just have two ends to weave in. So you can technically do this in three colors if you want it to look more like a natural flower. The You could do, like, this part in, like, yellow, and this color, and maybe assimilate the leaves, whatever it may be, or just keep it all one color, because it'll be easy to weave in the ends. But this is a good motif for, like, a spring-type shawl, even though it's starting to get a little bit warmer, colder. Join these, and if you use different, make it in different sizes, use some of my other open work, just join them however you want. Space them out, put little ones and big ones next to each other, because this is so movable it will accommodate lots of different sizes being sewn together, so you can find lots of different ways, like have like a mini motif that would work really good, probably like the wagon wheel would work really well, so lots of different ways that you can piece this with other motifs, or just use it to sew on top of stuff. You can put it on a beanie. Winter is coming, winter is coming. So you put on a beanie, a little flower beanie. The center one I like to go just kind of around the ends. If you want to sew it to something, you can use those ends to sew it. There is our finished motif. So you can either pop the baubles to the back, like how it is right now, or you can pop them to the front. Baubles going on. Cute, very fast. That is our motif of the month. 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