Left Hand Motif Of The Month January 2015: Flemish Motif Crochet Tutorial

Hey everyone, it's Deja from crocheteverafter.com. Today we're going to do the newest motif of the month, and it's the Flemish motif. So this is kind of an old-school motif, like the Irish crochet rose, you know, old thread-based crochet motifs that have been around forever. And this is called the Flemish, and it's really simple. It's three rounds, works up really fast, but it's really pretty. It's a really nice little flower that you can use for an applique, or you can... Connect them together to make a real openwork kind of shawl. Lots of different things you can do. But I'm using some more stiff weight yarn. I'm using a small hook this time. I'm using a 4mm USG hook, so that way I get nice tight stitches. So it tries to be a little bit more stiff than my normal motifs. You can download the pattern right below. So let's grab everything and get started. The first thing we're gonna do is put a slip knot on our chain eight. So normally you chain four for an open circle, but this one has a big open circle, so to do that you need to chain eight, yarn over, turn your hook down, pull up some chains, a pretty small hook, a four millimeter, with this horse to weight, because I want my motif to be really, really pretty, farce motif, so it'll look nice and crisp when it's done. I'm going to join my round. Flip it around and just stick my hook anywhere because we're going to be covering this part. I guess we're beginning this. It's nice and big for crocheting your tail into the ring. Of course it's not going to, so it's up to you. I like to leave it out and just weave it in at the end so I can pick when it to go. But we're going to keep single crocheting, so we reach through, pull up, yarn over. This yarn, the plies are really loose. It's Caron Simply Soft. So a lot of times you can split the yarn. Whenever you do that, just pull your hook out and start over. So when I pull through, sometimes it wants to pull on those plies. So just point your hook straight down to pull through the loops and it'll get through easier. We're going to do 16 single crochets in the ring. Going around the do. If you're running out of room in your ring, just grab the last stitch you made in the ring on the other side and pull. Because they're around the ring, you can move them over. Another trick is if you're brand new to crocheting, which you probably are if you're watching a video, that you may not be able to keep your stitches. So stop counting. Looking at the front of the stitches, especially when they're all bunched up like this, they're really hard to count sideways. Count the tops of your stitches, which look like they're all the way around. Don't count that very first chain one V. It's a little tiny squished one. Make sure it's coming up from the top. Once you get to 16, then you're done. Now we're going to join our round. So I'm going to go under the very first single crochet we made, not the chain one, the actual stitch. Yarn over. You'll see that looks like a V, so it goes over the top of that first one we did. Now we're ready for the next round. Okay, now we're ready for round two. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to chain 12. So the first four chains that we do are going to count as a treble. It's one of the trebles that we're going to make in this round. The remaining eight are going to be a bridge between each treble, so we're going to do another eight and then we're going to begin pattern repeat. So we're going to do a treble crochet, we're going to skip our next stitch, treble came out of the join, so we're going to skip this next stitch and work into the stitch after, and we're going to put a treble crochet. So to do that, we yarn over twice, from back to front, so one and two, and then insert our hook into that second stitch. Yarn over, pull up a loop. We've got a bunch of loops on our hook, but you'll see that this chain likes to curl around the front. So there's two things you can do. I'll show you the first option on this one. You just push the chain back and keep your fingers on the loops to keep them visible. So you see I have four loops on my hook, so I yarn over, I pull through the first two, second two, yarn over, pull, then a chain eight again. I'm going to do a chain 8 between each treble. We're going to skip another stitch, so we just worked into that one, we're going to skip this one and work into the next, we're doing another treble, insert your hook, and this is the other option you can do when your chain starts wrapping around your hook, work and don't even worry about it, it's going to move out of the way. So yarn over, pull through the first two, go through, yarn over, pull through the next two, you might need to move this just to keep an eye on only going through two, you should have two left over at the end, you don't want to pull through too many, and then pull through the last two. So that's what we're going to do all the way around. We're going to have 8 trebles by the end of the round since we skipped one stitch between. We have 16 stitches total. Yarn over, skip that one, and so do your 8 trebles and then we'll come back and join up at the end of the round. Okay, I just did my last treble, so now I'm just going to chain 8. Don't need to put one between me and the last treble in the next row. Chain four. So now we need to join up. So to do that, we're going to count up four chains. Because remember, we're counting this as a treble and you want to join at the top of our treble like how all these other chain links are joined. Count upwards. This little tiny one is our first one, two, three, and you can also count backwards eight. One, two, three. Now we're set for our final round. Which is going to make the pointy petals, so they're going to be, it's going to be the same thing for every single petal that we come to, so the first thing we're going to do is start building up our petal by doing each of our stitches to increase our height, so our very first stitch is a single crochet, so I reach through that whole big petal opening, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two, then we're going to do a half double crochet, so we yarn over before we insert our hook through, pull up a loop, Yarn over, pull through all three. Point your hook down when you pull through so you don't get caught on the loops. Now we're going to double crochet. We're going up in height by a stitch. So yarn over, pull through the first two, the second two. Now we're going to do three trebles. This is going to make the third treble is going to be the very top of our petal. We're going to yarn over twice and do two times. And then once we get to this third, we're going to put a little point on our petal. So to do that, we're going to picot. So to picot, you're going to chain three, and then you're going to slip stitch in that first chain that you just made. So you're going to slip stitch right through that first chain, yarn over, pull through, and then pull through the loop on your hook. You'll notice when I do these close together kind of slip stitches, I grab hold of what I have down here and it makes it easier to pull through. So if I just try to pull through here, I sometimes lose this loop. So by kind of holding on to everything as I pull through, it doesn't fall. So now I've got my little point. Now we're going to go down. So now we're going to do two trebles, a double, a half double, and a single. So we're just doing the opposite of what we just did. Except for we're not doing three trebles, we're just doing two trebles and a single. We're going to do that for all eight petals. We're not going to do anything in between the petals. So once I finish this single crochet, I'm going to insert my hook into the next petal and start my single crochet. There's no bridge, no chains, no nothing. So just keep following that pattern of single, half double, double, three trebles, picot, two trebles, double, half double, single, and you'll finish each petal as you go. So do all eight and then we'll meet up right here at the end to join up. Okay, I just finished the petal joining up, so I'm going to do a slip stitch in the very first single crochet that I made. I hook under both loops, yarn over, pull through, leave on my hook, and I'm ready to fasten off. So I usually just make a chain, and then I pull it really long, cut it off, and I'm just going to weave in the two ends that I have. So if you want it to be more stiff, you could either block it with starch, or you could use a different type of yarn. So crochet thread is Typically what this was made out of way back in the day, so if you use crochet thread then you wouldn't probably have to block it at all, it would be nice and stiff, it'd be much much smaller, so if you want a smaller motif, that would be perfect, but using like a wool, wool is very stiff when it's in there, 100% wool, you can do that, but any type of yarn will work for this, so you can go big or small, whatever you like. But that is the Flemish motif, and thank you for watching!