Left Hand Treble Crochet Tutorial #4: TR in Middle Stitch of the Row

Hi everyone, it's Deja Yemir from CrochetEverAfter.com and this tutorial is going to show you how to treble crochet into the middle of your row. If you've never treble crocheted before, be sure to check out my treble crochet for beginners tutorial because this is just going to cover the middle stitches of your row. So if you kind of know how to do it, you're having trouble with this part of your project. This is going to show you how to do just those stitches, so let's get started. We have created our treble into our first, technically second, stitch of our row and now we're working across our row. So to do our treble, we always wrap our yarn twice around our hook and then we insert our hook into the next stitch we come to. And We need to make sure that you are not putting it under all three loops. You have your V, Which is the stitch that you need, this is where you need to place your hook, right underneath that V. But not underneath this little bar here. If you were to place it into this nice big hole, you're going to have a whole different kind of stitch. It will work for whatever you want. If you're designing for yourself and you really want to put it through there, that's fine. You'll have a nice big kind of hole in between each stitch. And that's perfectly up to you, but to do a proper treble crochet, you're going to want to place it in between those loops, so in that hole that's right in between. You can check that you just have those top two loops if you need to. You yarn over, or lay over as I like to call it, because you're just kind of laying it over your hook and turning your hook to catch it. And to keep nice, even, consistent stitches, Bring all of your loops to your shaft so that they are all the same size. And as you work off, you're going to have all the same kind of loops. So you yarn over and you pull through just the first two loops of each draw-through. So yarn over twice, insert into that hole, lay over and pull up that loop, push everything to the shaft, yarn over, draw through just the first two loops, Yarn over again, draw through just the first two loops again, yarn over, now you only have two left, so you're going to draw through everything. So working anything above a double crochet, when you are drawing through, which is what you can call this, you draw through, you draw through just two loops every single time. First two, first two, first two. You do that three times, which is maybe why this is called a treble crochet. But, um, it's not a treble crochet because you wrap three times. Wrapping three times makes it a double treble. So only wrap twice around your hook before inserting your hook. Make sure that you are going between the top two loops and that little bar. Lay over and pull that through. Push everything to your shaft to get those nice even stitches. You can check out the Golden Loop Method tutorial that I have, and it's going to give more information on why I choose to do that type of stitch. Some people will do their stitches a little differently. Nothing is wrong, so however anybody does it, they are correct. That's just the way that I do it, so that I can get nice, even height. I don't have to worry about my stitches going up and down, so if you've been practicing crochet and you notice that your projects are always a little wobbly and your stitches don't stay the same height, by keeping your loops on your shaft, you'll have even stitches always. But check out that tutorial, there's a little link. The Golden Loop tutorial, it'll explain more about what causes the different heights in stitches, how to fix it, what kind of crocheter you are, gives a lot of information on that subject. So, I am going to work right to this stitch and end this tutorial. Because I want to save these last two stitches here for my next tutorial, which is working into the last stitch of your row. So if you need that, go ahead and check that out. But that is working into the middle of your row in treble crochet.