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 worsted 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 for the split knot chain eight. Normally you chain 4 for an open circle, but this motif has a big open circle, so to do that we need to chain 8 so that we can get a nice big open circle. So yarn over, turn your hook down, pull through, make nice even chains. Pretty small hook, a 4mm is worth the weight because I want my pretty, sparse motif so it'll look nice and crisp when it's done. I'm going to join my round anywhere, as always. So this is nice and big. And we're going to begin the pattern repeat. So we're going to do a treble crochet, we're going to skip our next treble came out of the join. So this next stitch you work into the stitch after, and we're going to put a treble crochet. So to do that, we yarn over twice, from backhand two, and then insert our hook into that second yarn over, pull up a loop, and we've got a bunch of loops on our hook, but you'll see You can 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 on the loops, 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, chain eight again, chain eight between each treble, skip another stitch, we just worked into that one, we're gonna skip this one and work into the next. We're doing another treble, yarn over twice, 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 eight trebles by the end of the round, since we skipped one stitch between. So 16 stitches total. Turn 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, so I'll need to put one between the last treble and the next treble, the first treble or the first chain 4, so now we need to join up, so to do that we're going to count up 4 chains, because remember we're counting this as a treble and we want to join at the top of our treble like how Like how all these other chain mates are joining. We're going to count upwards, this little tiny one is our first one, two, we're going to also count backwards, eight, we're set, 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 the 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 each stitch, so we yarn over, pull through the three, now we're going to do three trebles, so this is going to make the third treble is going to be the very top of the petal. So we're going to be going over twice. 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. Insert your hook right through that first chain, yarn over, pull through. 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 off my... So now I've got my little point, and 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. Two, double, 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. So 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 joining up, so I'm going to do a slip stitch in the very first single crochet that I made. I hook under both, yarn over, pull through, and I'm ready to fasten off. So I usually just make a chain, and then I pull it, cut it off. I'm just going to weave in the two ends that I have. Weaving. Weaving. 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 lay 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 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!