Left Hand Motif of the Month October 2015 Daisy Square Motif Crochet Tutorial

Hey everyone, it's Deja from CrochetEverAfter.com. Today is the newest motif of the month. It's October 2015 and this is the daisy square motif. So daisy because it looks kind of like a little daisy in the center and square because it's a square. So pretty easy motif. You'll use two colors. I'm using medium worsted weight. You can use whatever. The thickness you want, just change your hook accordingly, and for this I'm using a US J or a 6mm hook, so let's go below. Alright, I'm going to get started on our slipknot. Start off with 5 chains. 5 times. Chains, remember if you forget counting, look for chains to be able to count them and count the loop on your hook. That's going to join a ring with a slip stitch in the first chain, so stick your hook anywhere in there. Yarn over, pull through, and then pull through the loop on your hook to slip stitch. And now we have our ring for round one. So for round one, we're going to do a chain one, and then we're going to do 12 single crochets inside our round. So we have that nice big hole to work through. You notice I hold on to my loop when I go to reach through the hole. If I don't, sometimes my hook will just slide right out of the The loop that's on the hook, so I always hold onto it when I'm inserting my hook in just to keep a hold of it. Then I'm going to yarn over, again it's kind of like a layover, and I pull up that loop, two loops on my hook for a single crochet, yarn over, back to front again. This is more like kind of a whole wrap around, more like a yarn over. Then I'm going to point my hook down to get through and pull through for a single crochet. Notice every time I do my stitch, I always push my loops to the shaft of my hook. So I insert, I pull up, I push to my shaft, I yarn over, I pull through and I push to my shaft. This gives me even stitches. They're all going to be the same size height because I'm making them the size of the shaft. I don't pull up and reach through and pull up. So this is going to give me a big, gigantic stitch if I do that. And I also don't do my stitches on the skinny part of my hook. If I do that, I'll have... Small stitches. So if I stay like right here, and it's hard to do, but pull through here, it's gonna give me smaller stitches than the rest of my stitches. So I always reach through, yarn over. So if you lose count, remember turn sideways, count those Vs. They're sitting right on top. Chain one here. So I keep on going. I'm going to do nine more and then we'll come back and join for the next round. 11 single crochets. I just need to do one more. If you find yourself running out of room, because these worked around the chain and not into the chain, you can pull your stitches over to slide so you have more room to work. So if you find it difficult to figure out where to put your hook for your slip stitch, just count backwards again. Use those Vs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. So that I know when I hit 12 is where I want to put my hook because that is the first stitch of the round. So I reach through, I'm slipstitching, I yarn over, pull through, and then pull through the loop on the hook. So now that is the end of round one. Round two is pretty easy as well. It's going to be the same stitch over and over again. So the first thing we're going to do is chain 11. You want to count while I do this so I don't lose my, so they're all the correct size. But make these, but not tight, but the size of your shaft. Keep them even. So push, pull to your shaft, push. You can just keep going back to your shaft so that they're all the same size. Because these are going to make the loops of the daisy, we don't want them super loopy because then they'll be all different sizes. We want to keep them all consistent. So notice I don't pull too tight on my tail. I keep it just tight enough to be able to keep this loop the same size as my shaft that I pull through. So remember, point your hook down at the stitch and you'll get through much easier than if you're going sideways. So we need to do 11 of these. Let me see how many I have. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Two more. Eleven. And then the pattern says to join with a slip stitch in the same stitch as my join. I do a slip stitch in the same stitch as my join. So kind of pull up if you forget where that slip stitch is and it makes a hole. So I'm going to insert my hook right there. That's that very first stitch of the round. Slip stitch that So that's my very first loop. And I'm going to do another 11 of these. The next time I do my slip stitch, though, I'm going to my next stitch over here is where I'm going to be doing it. So I'm going to do 11 real quick. And you'll see as I get further up in my chains, I bring my hand up to kind of keep them nice and the same size. So I move my hand up as I'm making the stitches to keep it taut. So then again, I'm going to insert my hook here, slip stitch. I'll do one more so you can see it, and then we'll do the rest on our own. So again, I yarn over, pull. Usually I can get about four or five before I need to move my hand because it gets too far away. So I grab to where, right below where I'm working, and it helps me keep the tension all even. It keeps me in line. Again, I didn't count, so I'm assuming I have one, two, three, four, five. Again, I go to the next stitch, my next chain, or my next single crochet, and slip stitch in there. And you'll notice I kind of like turn it upside down to get through nice and easy because I'm still trying to get through this loop. If I try to do my slip stitch right here, I get stuck and if I turn it down, I can lose the loop. So you'll see that I kind of turn it upside down when I'm pulling through so that I can get right at the bottom of that chain to get through nice and easy. So we're going to do nine more of these and then we'll have a full flower at the end of the round. This is the last chain 11 and I am slip stitching on the last. Yarn over and pull. Okay, I've got my green, and we're going to start with a standing stitch. A standing stitch is very cool, it creates a really nice looking join because it looks like a stitch, it doesn't look like a chain. So the first thing we do is put a slip knot on our hook, and we're going to start working a single crochet. So pick any of your chain 11 spaces, so this is the entire space when it says chain 11, and you're just going to start working a single crochet. I'm going to insert my hook through. I already have a loop on my hook, so it's kind of like as if I was working and the yarn is already attached to my pattern. I'm going to yarn over and I'm going to pull up a loop, so I have two loops just like a normal single crochet. And I'm going to yarn over and I'm going to pull through and I just joined with a single crochet and I can keep going. So the next thing we're going to do is chain three, a single crochet, and do the next chain one, joining all of these petals to our green to create that square. In the next thing, we're going to make a corner, so we're going to chain 3 to get to the next bend. We're going to do our corner pattern repeat that we're doing. So we're going to double crochet, and it's going to give us the height to make the turn. So yarn over, insert all the way through the chain 11 space, pull up the loop, yarn over, pull through the first, yarn over, pull through the second two. Now we're creating a corner with another chain 3, and then we're going to do another double crochet in that same petal. So that's kind of what we're going to be doing all the way around. We're going to chain 3, chain 11 space, crochet, and then do our corner. Obviously we're going to have 4 corners at the end, and then chain 3 with a single crochet in between that pattern all the way around until we get to the end. Okay, I just finished the repeat, it says to work everything to the last chain 11 space. So this is the last chain 11 space that I just did my corner. And then at the very end it says chain 3 one more time, because we need that slip stitch The top of my single crochet so that standing stitch helps create an easy stitch to work into for your slip stitch. Now we have our square. Doesn't look like a mess but once we put our double crochets in it's going to get more of a square look. So we're going to start with our next chain three. So that's going to count as a double crochet. If you know how to do a tall chain from my other videos you can do that instead. Use that instead but we'll just stick with a chain three. And then it tells us to double crochet in every stitch around. So that means we're going to do three double crochets in every chain three space. It says do five double crochets in each corner chain three space. And that's just to create the amount of stitches you need to make. This chain three counts as a double crochet for the single crochet. So we're going to start doing our three double crochets in our chain three space. Because they go all the way around, you can move them around if they get too crowded. yarn over through the first two, then for the single crochet we're actually going to work into the loops. If you get crowded with your double crochets you might have to pull them over a little bit to expose your stitch. Remember we have the two, it kind of looks like a V itself for the single crochet. So right above that is our loop, is our V on top of the stitch. So that's the loop you want to go under. We'll go all the way to the corner before you are on your own. You get to work into these double crochets as well. We have a double crochet and then the V on top. So if I stopped here and started working the next stitch, you'll see that it kind of doesn't even make it. We've got to put two more in there to double crochet. So you can see I kind of pulled this over because these double crochets were covering my stitch. So you can see how it's kind of halfway covered right here. I just pull these over and then I can see the whole stitch. Now you can see I have it better. So I'm going to keep going around until we get back to the beginning, and we'll fasten off and weave in ends and check out what we've been trying. Okay, I've finished all my double crochets all the way around, and now I'm going to do a slip stitch top of my chain three. So I count one, two, three. Insert your hook, yarn over, pull through, pull through, and then we're going to fasten off. Not too many ends to weave in since we only used two colors. This is kind of how it looks when you first finish because these loops can be adjusted. So what I do is I just grab all this one. I just did a little bit more just until I got it. This is why you want to keep your chains even so that your loops are not, um, your loops look all the same. Otherwise, if you have like one that's really big, one of these daisy loops is going to be out of whack. So to get this even flatter or more square, I would block it. So I would pin it out and steam it or wet block it. And then you can connect them however you want so you can connect. If you decide to make a scarf or part of a blanket, you could use these as like an accent so you could do a fully solid blanket and then have these in between so it's not such a holey blanket because this would probably not be too warm if the whole blanket was made of this, but different options. So this is the Daisy motif. If you have any questions, leave them below and thank you for watching.