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. Daisy because it looks kind of like a little daisy in the center, and square because it's a motif. You'll use two colors. I'm using medium worsted weight. You can use whatever thickness you want, just change your hook. For this I'm using a USJ or a 6mm hook. I'm going to get started on our We're just gonna put a slip knot on our hook. Start off with five chains. So we yarn over, back to front, hook down and pull through. Do that five times. We're gonna get a open ring. Change, remember, the Vs on the front chains to be able to count them. Loop on your hook, that is a stitch. Then we're gonna join our ring with a slip stitch in the first chain. So stick your hook anywhere in there, not a big deal where. 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 bead hole. If I don't, sometimes my hook will just slide right out of the loop that's on the hook. So I always hold on to 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 one's more like kind of a whole wrap around, this one's 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, 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 throat. If I do that, I'll have small stitches. So if I stay right here, and it's hard to do, but pull through here, it's going to give me smaller stitches than the rest of my stitches. 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 one. Eleven 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 so they slide, so you have more room to work. 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, 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 slip stitching, 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 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. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, so 2 more. 10, 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. Stitch that close, 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. Then again, I'm going to insert my hook here, lip stitch. I'll do one more so you can see it, and 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 and keeps me in line. Again, I didn't count, so I'm assuming I have one, two, three, four, five. So 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 whole flower at the end of the line. Okay, I just finished the last chain 11 and I am slip stitching on the last. I'm going to copy Daisy, but once we get going, 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 start working a single crochet. So pick any of your chain 11 spaces, so this is the entire space when it says chain 11 I'm going to leave some space on the pattern. 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 then I'm going to yarn over and I'm going to pull through both. And I just joined. So the next thing we're going to do is chain three, crochet, do the next joining, all of these petals. to our green to create that square and the next thing we're going to make a corner so we're going to chain three to get to the next we're going to do our 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 yarn over close to the second now we're creating the corner with another chain three then we're gonna do another double 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 and chain 11 space, obviously we're going to have 4 corners at the end, chain 3 with the single crochets 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 to change three one more time, because you knew that. In the top of my single crochet, so that standing stitch helps. Create an easy stitch to work into for your slip stitch. So now we have our square. It doesn't look completely like a square. It's like a mess. But once we put our double crochets in, it's going to get more of a split. So start 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. There's five double crochets in each corner chain three space. Match this to create the amount of stitches you need to make. This chain three counts as the 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. 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. That's the loop you want to go under. We'll go all the way to the corner before you are on your own. We get to work into these double crochets as well. We have a double crochet and then the V on top. So if I'd stopped here and I started working the next stitch you'll see that it kind of doesn't even make the turn. We've got to put two more in there and then we'll do that one in double crochet. So you can see I kind of pull 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. You can see the little hole that I need to work through 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 then check out what's going to happen. 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. How it looks when you first finish, because these loops can be adjusted. So what I do is I just grab the coral, this one, I just did a little bit more, I just kept pulling on it until I got it to where I wanted it. So this is why you want to keep your chains even, so that your loops are not, the 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 You can steam it or wet block it and then you can connect them however you want so you can connect the sides 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.