Left Hand Treble Crochet Tutorial #12: Magic Adjustable Loop in Treble Crochet

Hi everyone, it's Deja Yettmer from CrochetEverAfter.com and I'm going to show you how to magic adjustable loop in treble crochet. This is also called the magical adjustable ring. It's just going to basically give you a very closed, completely closed hole on the first round of your treble crochet. So let me show you how to do that right now. Alright, I'm going to show you how to do the magic adjustable loop with treble crochet. You might not use this a lot, but just in case you need it, here it is. I'm going to keep my tail short so that you can see where it's at as I work, otherwise I would make it much longer to weave it in easier at the end. But I'm going to hold my yarn with both hands, with my tail on the bottom and pointing to the left, and I'm just going to take my right hand and twist down. I have created my first little crossover loop here. My tail is to the left, and it's underneath the working yarn, just to sew. Next, I'm going to take my hook and I'm going to reach through the center of that loop that I just created and grab my working yarn and pull it through. Now I have kind of a pretzel twist going. So I pull that through and then what I like to do is just create a slip knot to kind of fasten it down so I don't lose it. So I just pull through and tighten that down and then I have a nice slip knot that I can pull on and adjust the size of my ring. Now, I need to start making my magic, I'm sorry, my treble crochets into my magic adjustable loop. The first thing I need to do, though, is chain 4. So I'm going to chain 4, and that's going to count as my very first treble crochet. That's also where I'm going to join my round when I'm done, and it's going to give me the proper height for the rest of my treble crochets. So I'm going to yarn over twice, and to begin the first treble into my loop, I need to reach through my hook, through the center, and then yarn over and pull that loop up. And this can get a little bit difficult because the loop is not a stationary stitch, so it might want to try to get away from you. I like to just hold on to it with both hands, and that kind of keeps it steady. So as I pull my loop through, I'll grab it with my other hand to steady it up while I make my treble crochets. So depending on what your pattern tells you, you're going to make as many treble crochets as needed into the center. Just keep working around. If you've made your loop too small in the beginning, so say my loop is really tiny already like this, you just pull on it and it's going to open it back up. So you can adjust it to the size you need so that it's easier to work into. Or if you have it really huge and you're finding it hard to hold on to as you work you can pull on the tail and make it smaller. But you just continue around with the amount that you need. I like to do 16 treble crochets to make a nice flat disc. Probably won't do 16 right now. I'll just do enough to demonstrate how to make the circle. I'll stop right here. So once I make the amount that I need, I just grab my tail and this is where you create your actual round of treble by pulling on that tail it's going to close down the hole that we made and it's going to bring your trebles into a circle and as you can see because I don't have enough trebles made I can't even complete my So I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. So as you can see, I have a half circle, because I only have 8 trebles. But this is also good to know, because say I want to make a half circle shawl, and I don't want a big center ring at the top. So instead of doing chaining and working into the chain, I can do a magic adjustable loop and close it down so I have no visible hole at the very center of my shawl. So I would just keep working in half circles all the way around. So that's also another benefit of this technique. But if I wanted a full circle, I would just work another 8 into that loop and close it down. And then I would just join the round by doing a slip stitch in the top of my chain 4. That's how you're going to do a magic adjustable loop and treble crochet. If you have any questions or any comments, just leave them below and I will try to get back to you as quickly as I can. Thanks!