Part 3 Left Hand Motif of the Month May 2013: 3D Crochet Granny Square Tutorial ~ Free Purse Pattern

Okay, finished that last corner. Now you can see I have a very cool 3D effect. It almost looks like a little flower. And my patterns tell me that I'm going to join in my previous color on this next round. So instead of just slip stitching and finishing it off with the green, you're going to slip stitch. So you're going to enter your hook into the same spot where you joined your yarn. And instead of yarning over with your green, what you can do so that you can make an easy color change right now is to join in your previous color. Grab it real quick. Just grab part of the yarn, leave a nice long tail for weaving in. Lay it over your hook so that you can change it. Just pull it through that spot and then pull it through the yarn on your hook. You can tighten those down. You can even double knot these if you want. I'm a big double knot fan. I probably shouldn't double knot as much as I do, but I like to do it. So I'm just going to cut a little tail. I can usually weave it in to where you can't really see it, so that's my excuse. But take your tail of your new yarn, tail of your old yarn, just do a nice little tight double knot. I keep my hook on there so that I don't pull my new yarn out of place or make my loop too tiny. Double knot that, and I'll be able to weave that in, plus it's on the wrong side, and since this is a bag and not a blanket, you're only going to, well, the pattern that I include with this is for a bag, so you wouldn't see it anyways. But now I am ready for my next round, and you can see that the green lays flat where the purple is nice and three-dimensional, so it's a really neat effect. Plus you have these nice big holes where if you're making the pattern That I include with this motif, it's great for running your yarn through. So you have all these holes that you can run different color yarn through in your bag to separate them. Now, we're going to chain four. So our pattern tells us to go ahead and chain four, and then treble five times in the same stitch where we just joined our yarn. So now we're going to increase. This treble six together back into six trebles. So we have one here, which is the chain four, and then we're going to treble five times. So it's like we're opening it back up. I'm gonna do five quick trebles in that spot. Don't worry, no matter how tight you made it, you will still be able to fit your hook in. It starts to magically open because all of your loops will move around to make room for it. Four, I'm trying to keep my tail out of this. This green tail keeps hopping over my hook. I want to keep it out so I can just sew it in later. Sometimes when you half work in your tails, it makes it hard to sew them in later because they're in kind of weird positions. So I say either sew or crochet them in only or weave them in only to make it easier for you at the end. So now I've opened up my treble six together. I've opened it And the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to skip, tells me three trebles, chain one, three trebles. So basically I'm just skipping this side of my square, and then I'm going to be working into the corner here. So this is work all of these stitches into the chain two space at corner, I'm going to treble six times, chain two to make another corner, and then treble six times again. So I don't do any chains before I get over there, I just start trebling away. And sometimes your loops can get kind of big like that. If you like it, no problem. If you don't like it, just pull it out and kind of hold on to it before you start. And that'll make sure that you pull it close as you work your treble, and it'll keep that loop a little smaller. Totally up to you how you like it to look. It's not that big of a deal. But if you are super particular, like I am sometimes, Then you might want to hold on to it a little tighter. Three of my first six. This is considered an intermediate pattern, but it's really just a lot of treble crochets. It's being able to read the pattern that's kind of the intermediate part because it can get kind of confusing where you're supposed to be putting your hook. Once you watch the video though, you can probably, if you're a beginner that can do treble crochet, You should be able to. Put this pattern together because it's really just about where you're putting your hook. That's the difficult part. So it's a great challenge for a beginner and if you're an intermediate then this should be no big deal. So I did my chain two to make my corner. Now I'm doing my six trebles on the other side. Trebles are great because they're very easy to count and just count how many posts you have. Usually when I start trebling I always end up Starting with one yarn over for quite a few stitches, because I'm used to double crocheting mostly. So it takes me a while to get into the habit of doing the double yarn over, so make sure that you're paying attention and not doing double crochets instead of treble. So now I've got that all done. Now it says skip three treble, chain one, three treble, which are those stitches that we did here. Now we're back at this spot where we slip stitched. And of course, we're going to open up our treble six together, so we're going to do six trebles into that spot. Again, you can pull your loops tight so they don't stretch out too far from this big jump that we're making. And right in that same spot that I made my slip stitch. And I just kind of pull everything tight so all my loops are the same size, and I start doing my six trebles. So that's my pattern for this round. I'm going to six treble in my treble six together to open that back up and then I'm going to do in my corner six trebles, chain two, six trebles. So I'm going to do that all the way around and then we'll meet up for round five. Alright, finished off my last corner, now I'm finishing round 4 by joining a slip stitch at the top of my chain 4, which was my very first treble crochet, and I'm going to join my new color when I do this, just like I did in the previous round. So I put my hook through, and the reason that I go at the top, you'll see that these are all joined up at the top here. That's why I'm not joining in a stitch down below. So I want it to look the same, so I'm joining up here at the top of that stitch. So instead of slip stitching with the same color, I'm going to come in with my new color. It's a nice, pretty gray. Lay that over my hook and pull through. I'm even going to double knot this also because I have a paranoid fear of all of my ends coming undone after I'm done. So whoops, hitting my camera. Cut off that end and then keep my hook in place, double knot that. Now I'm ready to move on to round five. And round five is going to involve working into round three. So round three, remember, is our green round. So when it says round three, that's what we're looking at is this green round. So the first thing I'm going to do is chain one, and then I'm going to single crochet into these six treble crochets. Make sure you get both loops, and make sure you grab your working yarn. Don't grab your tail like I just did, because you're not going to get very far. Start that one again, chain one, and then begin. Even as experienced people still mess up from time to time, and I get the benefit of doing it on camera. Everyone can see. So once I do my six single crochets, it tells me to double crochet in the chain one space base of row three. So if you remember, we made that little chain one spot in between our three trebles. So what I'm doing is I'm going to yarn over once for a double crochet. And I'm going to go inside through that chain one. I'm not going to just catch the chain one. I'm going to work all the way through the chain one space. And I'm catching my round four also. So we yarn over, pull up the loop, and now I have attached round three and round four together in this stitch. I finish off that double crochet, and you can see it's kind of made this fill into that hole that I had. So as I work around, I'm going to be pulling these up so that they fill into those holes that we had there. So then, grab my pattern here. Our next step to do Is to single crochet into our next six trebles again, and then we're going to make a corner. So we're going to six times in here, or in our next six stitches, not six times in one stitch. And I did what I do a lot. You can learn from my mistake. Make sure that when you get this very first treble, it stitches actually back here. It's not this one. My double crochet kind of covered it. So make sure that when you start off that you're coming and pulling this double crochet over a little so you can find the beginning of that first treble. So that's going to be our very first one, and then we do five more. So if you only count five, you skipped that very first one, so work unravel and go back to that first one that you missed. Then for our corner. All we are simply going to do is put Let's see, there are three single crochets in that chain two spot. And that's kind of what we're going to do all the way around. Every time we come to one of these chain ones, we're going to double crochet to attach it. Remember pull your corner over so you can get that first stitch. Six into, basically you're going to single crochet into every treble crochet that you come to. So that's kind of the pattern. Double crochet in every treble crochet you come to. When you come to one of these gaps, you're going to double crochet and catch that chain one of round three. So we're going to do that all the way around and just do three single crochets in each corner to continue your corner as shown there. So let's keep working around.