Left Hand 5 Double Crochet Bobble Or Cluster Stitch Tutorial

Hey everyone, it's Deja from CrochetEverAfter.com and I'm going to show you how to make this five double crochet bobble. That's not the technical name, you could call this a bobble, a puff, a popcorn, there are a lot of different ways to make a three dimensional type stitch. I'm calling this a five double crochet bobble because technically I'm putting five double crochets into one stitch to make this bobble. You'll see this bobble used in two of my patterns, so if you've bought those patterns before, this is a visual on how to do that stitch. So the Tree of Love Afghan, which is popping up right now, as well as the Hooty Hoo Owl ornament. So if you have those patterns and you wanted to see how to do that stitch easily, I'm going to show you how to do that right now. So when you're working this bobble stitch it's always important if you're just going to use this stitch and make your own pattern to start with the base of stitches that are shorter than the stitch that you're using for your bobble. So I used a row or lots of rows of single crochet in between my bobbles and that gives them lots of three dimensionality. So to begin the bobble, you'll see that I'm on the wrong side of my work because the bobble is going to naturally pop to the back of whatever row I'm working and you'll see how that works right now. So to begin, I'm going to yarn over just like I'm going to do a regular double crochet and insert my hook into my next stitch. Then I'm going to pull up a loop And I'm going to start doing a double crochet. So I'm going to yarn over and pull through just those first two loops. I'm not going to finish the double crochet, though. I'm going to stop there, and I'm going to start my next double crochet. I'm going to yarn over and put it back in the same exact stitch, and pull up another loop, and yarn over and go through those first two loops. So it's almost also like a double crochet five together, where I'm just doing the first step of each double crochet, and at the very end I'm going to join them all together. So you see I just did another half of a double crochet. I'm going to yarn over and go in again. And you don't have to keep track of how many you're making, just keep going until you get six loops on your hook. That'll mean that you have your original loop. And then five of your half-made double crochets. This is my last one. So now I have six loops of my original loop, and I have the five half-made double crochets, and now I'm going to turn it into a bobble. I do that by yarning over, and I turn my hook face down towards my stitches, and I'll be able to easily pull that loop that I just did the yarn over through all of the loops on my hook. And that's going to create the bobble. Now to make it stick out really far, the next step is the important one. I'm going to insert my hook in my next stitch and do my single crochet. And I'm going to pull it down nice and tight. Usually you don't pull your stitches tight, but the stitch after a bobble, you can pull that down nice and tight and you'll still be able to work in it when you come back on the opposite row. But that's going to help make your bobble pop out It'd be really three-dimensional. And just single crochet across, then I'm going to do another bobble for you. Oops, caught here. Fix that. Okay, so yarn over, put through the next stitch, start that first two loops, yarn over, pull up the loop, go through the first two. After a while, it gets very easy to do. You just have to make sure you're only pulling through those first two loops. Remember, you don't have to count. You just keep going until you get the six loops on your hook. And you can change this up. You can do just three. For however many you want to do, that's going to be good for your project. So if you don't want like a super huge bobble like this one, try just three double crochets and see how that sticks out. Remember, pull down that single crochet after your bobble. Only pull down the one after your bobble. Don't pull down any of the other single crochets. So now I've got two more bobbles. On my row, and the important thing is when you go back, you'll see that my bobbles kind of sit on top of each other, but they're not puckering my work. If I just did bobbles after bobble after bobble, because I can push these to the other side if I need to, and push them to all one side if I wanted to, you're going to get a very puckered fabric. So an important thing to do is a row of just regular single crochet. So after you do a row of bobbles... Single crochet back across. You'll see this was one of the stitches that I pulled down really tight. It's very easy to insert my hook. There's no problem putting my hook through that stitch that I had to pull down tight. The bobble stitch is really large because it pulled all of those double crochets together. So just single crochet a row across and then do your bobbles again to keep from getting puckered up fabric. So that's how you're going to do your five double crochet bobble. I'll do other videos on other types of three-dimensional stitches, like puffs and popcorns. But just to get you started, this is it. And if you have any questions, leave them below. And thank you for watching.