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Hello ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another video and in this video I will be

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showing you guys how to crochet an oval.

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So like many of you guys do know how to crochet a circle or already a sphere or something

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that far.

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Well I mean those things are not that difficult because all you need to use is the magic

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ring and then you work your way on from that.

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But an oval I feel like is something a little bit more difficult for beginners and because

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you do not use the magic ring we'll be doing a slip knot.

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So yeah I feel like that's a little bit more difficult for beginners and but it's

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also a pretty valuable thing to learn especially if you don't want the head of

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your project or something to be too round it'll be like more oval shape and you

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create like an oval like sphere thing which can work for some projects and it's

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going to be really easy.

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This is going to be a pretty short tutorial.

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All you need is yarn obviously your hook which is the appropriate size for your yarn scissors

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and a stitch marker that's all literally all you will be needing.

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Also you could be using a darning needle if you'll be weaving in if you're making

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an actual project but I'm not making an actual project.

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This video is just going to be like a demo a little demonstration like a cheat sheet

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for beginners on how to crochet an oval.

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So what you're going to want to do is you want to take your two fingers from your

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knot down in hand.

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When I taught my sister how to crochet we call this the pew pew.

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So just make like your pew pew hand you know.

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Take your yarn wrap it around oh wait wrap it around your two fingers twice so

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that you have like an X on this side of your fingers.

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Now flip your fingers over and on the other side you should have like two

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lines.

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Grab your hook go under the first line grab the other and pull it up like this.

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Now you want to just pinch this part right here and you're going to take out

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your fingers and grab both of these yarn tails and just pull on it.

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There you have it or not.

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Now you just want to take the long tail end and just pull on it.

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This will make the loop smaller as you can see.

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So there we have our slip knot.

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The first basically every single crochet project anything that you can make

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in crochet start to either with a magic ring or slip knot.

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And they're both very similar when it comes to making them.

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So now what you're going to do is make chain eight.

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So in my case I'm going to chain eight but if the amount of chains

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that you do just depends on how long or big that you want your oval to be.

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So I'm just going to make like a mini oval just this demonstration for you guys.

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Or actually I'm just going to do four because this is just like an absolute

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beginner so I did six there.

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Now that we have our chains or your desired amount of chains depending on how

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big you want your oval to be you're going to go into the second chain from

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the hook so that means when you're right here you don't you just want to go

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into the next chain right there and you don't want to go under two loops.

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You just want to go under this one loop right here and make a normal

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old single crochet.

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So you're going to grab your yarn pull it up and pull through those two loops.

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So now you want to do that four more times or at least in my case

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it's four more times because I did six chains.

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So if for example if you do if I do six chains I have to do five single

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crochet down the down the chain so I'll always be one stitch less.

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Do it all the way to the end only going in the first loop there.

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So I've not got my five.

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Let me go get my stitch marker.

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All right there we have it just put it into your

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this stitch right here so basically under these two loops of that stitch

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that you just did and close it up.

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You could also use and from things like an earring or a bobby pin

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or scrap yarn as a stitch marker but um yeah there's many options

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and now in this stitch you want to make go into this exact same stitch

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and make three more single crochet so you want to do four single crochet

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into the same stitch so as you see I've already done three single crochet

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into the same stitch and as you single crochet your project will flip

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so you see our project has just flipped automatically as you can see

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we are working from here along here in the beginning

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so we we have just worked across here and then I did my two increases

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into the same stitch or my four single crochet into the same stitch

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and our project has just flipped so now we are on the other side

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and that's how it should be.

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So in the next couple stitches you just want to keep single crocheting across

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until you get to the end until you get to the end of the oval

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as you can see it's already starting to form okay so we have now gotten to the end

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you want to go into the very tip and make an increase

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you always making an oval you always want to make an increase

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at the end of each side of the oval because I'll keep the oval coming out

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because if you don't do this and your oval will just sort of curl and come down

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so there just keep single crocheting across so now we have done so

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and so so the reason why you want to increase on both sides is just that it opens up and it comes

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and it becomes bigger but if you do not want that to happen and you've gotten to the point

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where your oval has become bigger enough and now you want to just elongate it

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that's when you do not do any more single crochets on the sides because I'll just elongate your oval

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and turn it into like a 3d form but this will just be

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the 2d version and from then on for now on whenever you get to the end of the round

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you will not be doing four single crochet into the same stitch at the end of each side of the

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oval you'll only be doing a normal increase which I'm doing right now

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and then you just normally single crochet to the other end and then increase on the end of that oval

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and so on once you have reached the desired length of your oval once you have increased

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on both sides and you've got the desired length then you can just go pure single crochet

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no increases at all and you don't have to do this but this is if you want to elongate your project

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and turn it into an actual 3d form so here's just a mini example here's a little chicky that my

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sister is currently working on and so as we were crocheting this chicky we started off with the

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magic ring and we were widening the head and that's what we're doing right now we're just sort of

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but an oval form we're just sort of widening and then when you just do no more increases and when you

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what it means to just do pure single crochets that's when you've gotten to this point and this is when

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you start elongating and going down I hope that makes enough sense

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so yeah that's basically all that it is so yeah now that you have single crochet to your end

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which I am doing

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there you have your oval that is the end of today's tutorial ladies and gentlemen thank you very much

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for watching I I hope this was helpful for you guys I hope this was a little cheeky because

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sometimes um written patterns are not as helpful um it might be a little bit difficult to understand

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if you're reading a crochet pattern and not like visually watching it so I hope that by presenting

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this to you guys visually that it was pretty helpful so thank you guys for watching I hope

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you enjoyed the video and I'll see you guys in the next tutorial bye