Hello ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another video and in this video I will be
showing you guys how to crochet an oval.
So like many of you guys do know how to crochet a circle or already a sphere or something
that far.
Well I mean those things are not that difficult because all you need to use is the magic
ring and then you work your way on from that.
But an oval I feel like is something a little bit more difficult for beginners and because
you do not use the magic ring we'll be doing a slip knot.
So yeah I feel like that's a little bit more difficult for beginners and but it's
also a pretty valuable thing to learn especially if you don't want the head of
your project or something to be too round it'll be like more oval shape and you
create like an oval like sphere thing which can work for some projects and it's
going to be really easy.
This is going to be a pretty short tutorial.
All you need is yarn obviously your hook which is the appropriate size for your yarn scissors
and a stitch marker that's all literally all you will be needing.
Also you could be using a darning needle if you'll be weaving in if you're making
an actual project but I'm not making an actual project.
This video is just going to be like a demo a little demonstration like a cheat sheet
for beginners on how to crochet an oval.
So what you're going to want to do is you want to take your two fingers from your
knot down in hand.
When I taught my sister how to crochet we call this the pew pew.
So just make like your pew pew hand you know.
Take your yarn wrap it around oh wait wrap it around your two fingers twice so
that you have like an X on this side of your fingers.
Now flip your fingers over and on the other side you should have like two
lines.
Grab your hook go under the first line grab the other and pull it up like this.
Now you want to just pinch this part right here and you're going to take out
your fingers and grab both of these yarn tails and just pull on it.
There you have it or not.
Now you just want to take the long tail end and just pull on it.
This will make the loop smaller as you can see.
So there we have our slip knot.
The first basically every single crochet project anything that you can make
in crochet start to either with a magic ring or slip knot.
And they're both very similar when it comes to making them.
So now what you're going to do is make chain eight.
So in my case I'm going to chain eight but if the amount of chains
that you do just depends on how long or big that you want your oval to be.
So I'm just going to make like a mini oval just this demonstration for you guys.
Or actually I'm just going to do four because this is just like an absolute
beginner so I did six there.
Now that we have our chains or your desired amount of chains depending on how
big you want your oval to be you're going to go into the second chain from
the hook so that means when you're right here you don't you just want to go
into the next chain right there and you don't want to go under two loops.
You just want to go under this one loop right here and make a normal
old single crochet.
So you're going to grab your yarn pull it up and pull through those two loops.
So now you want to do that four more times or at least in my case
it's four more times because I did six chains.
So if for example if you do if I do six chains I have to do five single
crochet down the down the chain so I'll always be one stitch less.
Do it all the way to the end only going in the first loop there.
So I've not got my five.
Let me go get my stitch marker.
All right there we have it just put it into your
this stitch right here so basically under these two loops of that stitch
that you just did and close it up.
You could also use and from things like an earring or a bobby pin
or scrap yarn as a stitch marker but um yeah there's many options
and now in this stitch you want to make go into this exact same stitch
and make three more single crochet so you want to do four single crochet
into the same stitch so as you see I've already done three single crochet
into the same stitch and as you single crochet your project will flip
so you see our project has just flipped automatically as you can see
we are working from here along here in the beginning
so we we have just worked across here and then I did my two increases
into the same stitch or my four single crochet into the same stitch
and our project has just flipped so now we are on the other side
and that's how it should be.
So in the next couple stitches you just want to keep single crocheting across
until you get to the end until you get to the end of the oval
as you can see it's already starting to form okay so we have now gotten to the end
you want to go into the very tip and make an increase
you always making an oval you always want to make an increase
at the end of each side of the oval because I'll keep the oval coming out
because if you don't do this and your oval will just sort of curl and come down
so there just keep single crocheting across so now we have done so
and so so the reason why you want to increase on both sides is just that it opens up and it comes
and it becomes bigger but if you do not want that to happen and you've gotten to the point
where your oval has become bigger enough and now you want to just elongate it
that's when you do not do any more single crochets on the sides because I'll just elongate your oval
and turn it into like a 3d form but this will just be
the 2d version and from then on for now on whenever you get to the end of the round
you will not be doing four single crochet into the same stitch at the end of each side of the
oval you'll only be doing a normal increase which I'm doing right now
and then you just normally single crochet to the other end and then increase on the end of that oval
and so on once you have reached the desired length of your oval once you have increased
on both sides and you've got the desired length then you can just go pure single crochet
no increases at all and you don't have to do this but this is if you want to elongate your project
and turn it into an actual 3d form so here's just a mini example here's a little chicky that my
sister is currently working on and so as we were crocheting this chicky we started off with the
magic ring and we were widening the head and that's what we're doing right now we're just sort of
but an oval form we're just sort of widening and then when you just do no more increases and when you
what it means to just do pure single crochets that's when you've gotten to this point and this is when
you start elongating and going down I hope that makes enough sense
so yeah that's basically all that it is so yeah now that you have single crochet to your end
which I am doing
there you have your oval that is the end of today's tutorial ladies and gentlemen thank you very much
for watching I I hope this was helpful for you guys I hope this was a little cheeky because
sometimes um written patterns are not as helpful um it might be a little bit difficult to understand
if you're reading a crochet pattern and not like visually watching it so I hope that by presenting
this to you guys visually that it was pretty helpful so thank you guys for watching I hope
you enjoyed the video and I'll see you guys in the next tutorial bye