WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.580 Hello there ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another video and in this video as you can see that 00:05.580 --> 00:08.640 You can sort of tell that I am somewhere else right now 00:08.640 --> 00:14.480 It's a little bit different from my usual videos because usually for my other videos or my other crochet tutorials 00:14.480 --> 00:17.620 I'm usually at my sister's desk 00:17.620 --> 00:20.320 But like of course when I'm at my sister's desk 00:20.320 --> 00:27.520 Here's like a sort of a time pressure because my sister needs her desk back obviously for work or whatever and so today 00:27.520 --> 00:34.620 I decided to film today's crochet tutorial out of nature as you can see I'm out on my balcony 00:35.400 --> 00:39.500 Which is pretty nice. So like don't mind the background noise 00:39.500 --> 00:44.300 But I feel like it does add a little something extra and so we get to enjoy 00:45.060 --> 00:51.660 Nature and the bushes around us as we crochet a beginner's sphere today, which is what I'll be showing you guys today 00:51.660 --> 00:52.980 It's more of a beginners 00:54.080 --> 00:57.880 Thing it's a pretty easy thing to do. You won't be needing very much yarn actually 00:57.880 --> 00:58.880 I think this is a little bit 00:59.700 --> 01:04.880 Too small, but I'll be making like a small size sphere today just to sort of 01:06.320 --> 01:11.400 Give you guys sort of a chi chi if you guys are needing a sphere in your project 01:12.120 --> 01:19.140 So what we're gonna be doing is we're going to grab our two or the two fingers of her non-dominant hand make the pew pew 01:20.260 --> 01:21.260 grab your yarn 01:22.700 --> 01:27.820 Put it around your fingers like this and as you can see on these sides of your fingers 01:29.200 --> 01:34.760 Okay, don't mind the car passing by so there should be like a cross over this size 01:34.760 --> 01:36.900 On this side of these two fingers 01:37.700 --> 01:43.500 And on the other side you will have just sort of two straight lines or cross on this side and two straight lines on the side 01:43.500 --> 01:44.840 And you'll take your hook 01:45.300 --> 01:47.420 Go under these two 01:48.160 --> 01:50.360 This first strand grab the other one 01:50.360 --> 01:52.300 Pull it up like this 01:52.300 --> 01:55.560 Wait, pull it up take your fingers out 01:55.560 --> 01:59.080 You just want to sort of pinch this part as you pull your fingers out and 02:00.100 --> 02:06.760 How do you hold your yarn? You want to take your hand of your non-dominant hand put it over these two fingers and 02:07.340 --> 02:09.400 wrap it around your index like this and 02:10.700 --> 02:12.480 There you sort of 02:13.300 --> 02:14.300 There wait 02:16.140 --> 02:17.180 There and 02:17.180 --> 02:21.660 As you can see you sort of have this circle you want to keep this circle there because you don't want to pull on tight 02:21.660 --> 02:22.940 Now that you're here 02:22.940 --> 02:27.980 You just want to sort of pinch this part make your loose smaller and you want to grab your yarn and 02:29.100 --> 02:32.860 Pull through it like this make a chain and there you have your magic ring and 02:34.120 --> 02:34.920 so for 02:35.720 --> 02:38.460 What we're going to be doing into the magic ring. We're going to be putting 02:38.980 --> 02:42.040 Five single crochet into it. At least this is a my case 02:43.000 --> 02:48.120 You can also do six or four or seven or ten. This just depends on 02:48.640 --> 02:52.240 How big you want your sphere to be but I'm going to be making like a mini one today 02:53.020 --> 02:57.840 So I'm going to put five single crochet into the magic ring. So we're going to go into the ring 02:58.700 --> 02:59.560 Grab your yarn 03:00.220 --> 03:02.120 Pull it up. I hope you guys can hear me. Well 03:03.220 --> 03:08.700 Grab the yarn and pull through those two remaining loops on your hook and for the first round 03:08.700 --> 03:13.200 You want these stitches or for the yeah for the first time you want these stitches to be really loose 03:13.200 --> 03:17.820 So that once we pull our magic ring closed as you will see later on in the video 03:17.820 --> 03:23.720 I'll show you guys how that's done. So it's just easier. So make these stitches super loose 03:25.160 --> 03:27.100 Pull up the yarn and 03:28.740 --> 03:34.620 Pull through so now we have two stitches. I'm going to do that three more times so they get five 03:38.180 --> 03:41.860 Okay, so I have now made my five single crochet into the magic ring 03:42.660 --> 03:43.400 if you 03:43.400 --> 03:50.780 Have lost count as you can see on this if you flip your project to the side like this you can see that 03:50.780 --> 03:53.740 You have a bunch of these v-shaped 03:54.720 --> 04:00.520 Things and these are all stitches. So this v right here. That's a stitch. This is another stitch 04:00.520 --> 04:06.020 This is another stitch is another stitch and if you don't know if how many stitches that you've done 04:06.020 --> 04:10.980 You should have five you could just count those V's so here. I have one two 04:12.080 --> 04:13.040 three four 04:13.960 --> 04:17.860 Five so there I have five stitches and that's just how you can sort of 04:17.860 --> 04:23.220 Check that you did this correctly and so to close our magic ring you want to grab this loose tail end 04:23.860 --> 04:26.840 pinch this part of your project right here with the other hand and 04:27.700 --> 04:28.640 Pull it close 04:33.000 --> 04:37.220 Okay, so I have now pulled my project close what we will be doing for round two 04:37.780 --> 04:40.540 Always in the round two of making a sphere 04:40.540 --> 04:45.020 You would just be doing cure increases in the whole round if you want a perfect sphere 04:45.020 --> 04:51.020 This is how it always is no matter how big you want it to be how small this is how it's always going to do 04:51.020 --> 04:52.240 So now what is an increase? 04:52.860 --> 04:59.120 You're going to do two single crochet into each stitch. That's all an increase is so grab your arm pull it up 05:00.080 --> 05:05.300 Make a single crochet that stitch now you're going to be going into that same stitch 05:08.260 --> 05:10.060 And make an increase 05:11.420 --> 05:14.860 Or just another single crochet and you're going to go to the next stitch 05:15.780 --> 05:20.160 Make a single crochet and make another single crochet into that same stitch and 05:21.120 --> 05:27.220 Then move on to the next stitch and do two single crochet into that stitch and so on until you have five increases 05:29.120 --> 05:33.160 Or basically ten single crochets, but in five stitches 05:34.180 --> 05:36.420 Let's do the next stitch wait up 05:37.080 --> 05:39.260 This is my fourth increase 05:39.260 --> 05:46.220 So you crochet one so you crochet two to that same stitch and now let me make the last one. Oh my 05:48.660 --> 05:52.720 And of course if you have if you have made more 05:53.240 --> 05:56.380 Then five single crochets in the beginning into our magic ring 05:56.380 --> 05:58.340 I did five single crochet into the magic ring 05:58.340 --> 06:04.720 But say if you wanted a bigger circle and you made six single crochet into the magic ring or seven or whatever the amount is 06:04.720 --> 06:07.960 That's the same amount of increases you will have to be doing 06:07.960 --> 06:13.620 So if you do 17 crochet to the magic ring, you have to also do seven increases as an example 06:14.480 --> 06:19.260 So round three what we'll be doing once you crochet one increase 06:19.260 --> 06:23.900 So what that means we're going to be going to that next stitch and doing a single crochet and 06:25.260 --> 06:32.600 Then in the next stitch we'll be doing an increase and we'll be following this pattern throughout the whole round 06:33.480 --> 06:37.820 And so in the next stitch as you guess, we will be doing up. Oops 06:38.340 --> 06:40.200 We will be doing one single crochet 06:41.540 --> 06:44.200 And to the next stitch we'll be doing an increase 06:47.880 --> 06:48.920 Oh my 06:50.840 --> 06:51.280 And 06:51.960 --> 06:55.700 There you have it, so you just be doing that for the whole round and I'll meet you at the end 06:56.660 --> 07:01.960 All right, so I've now done so I have now done one single crochet one increase into every stitch and 07:02.580 --> 07:06.360 For the next round we will be doing two single crochet one increase 07:06.360 --> 07:10.740 So the last round we did one single crochet one increase and for this round 07:10.740 --> 07:15.220 We're going to be doing two single crochet increase and then for the next round we'll be doing three single crochet increase 07:15.220 --> 07:19.940 Then for the next one we'll be doing four single crochet increase, but of course I'm only going 07:20.560 --> 07:26.880 to until two single crochet increase and how many rounds that you go depends on how much 07:26.880 --> 07:28.360 bigger you want your project to be. 07:29.020 --> 07:32.380 So let's say I only want a mini circle, I mean a mini sphere. 07:32.940 --> 07:37.440 So I'm going to be doing one single crochet, one increase, and then two single crochet 07:38.440 --> 07:41.300 increase, and that'll create our sphere. 07:41.300 --> 07:45.880 But if for example you want a bigger sphere then you'll just keep going on for how many 07:45.880 --> 07:46.560 rounds going. 07:46.720 --> 07:49.660 Three single crochet increase, the next round four single crochet increase, the next round 07:49.660 --> 07:55.840 five single crochet increase, until you have the width of your sphere big enough, until 07:55.840 --> 07:58.200 you like how big it's turning out. 07:58.720 --> 08:02.560 And so as you can see my project is not curling at all, it just looks like a plain 08:02.560 --> 08:03.840 circle not like a sphere. 08:04.440 --> 08:08.380 So for the beginning stages the one single crochet increase, two single crochet increase 08:08.380 --> 08:15.240 those first stages, it'll just be turning out as a circle which is how we want it, but when 08:15.240 --> 08:21.200 you look at it from this angle that's how wide your sphere will also be. 08:21.880 --> 08:27.000 And then once we just do pure single crochet I'll teach you how to do that later, that's 08:27.000 --> 08:27.920 when we elongate it. 08:27.920 --> 08:31.520 So now we're just widening it and then later we'll elongate it and then with 08:31.520 --> 08:34.920 stuffing then it'll become round and turn into a sphere. 08:35.940 --> 08:40.380 So I'll do my two single crochet increase for this round and I'll meet you at the end. 08:41.940 --> 08:46.360 Alright so now that I have done my two single crochet increase and I've come to the end 08:46.860 --> 08:50.980 of the round, as you can see I added a stitch marker, this is just to mark the first 08:50.980 --> 08:52.200 stitch of each round. 08:52.880 --> 08:57.080 And as I said if you want to continue in the next round you want to do three single 08:57.080 --> 09:01.000 crochet increase in the next round you want to do four single crochet increase and 09:01.000 --> 09:06.540 so on, but since I want a mini sphere I would just be start elongating this thing 09:06.540 --> 09:08.040 because I just want it like this. 09:09.040 --> 09:13.640 But once you have reached your desired size of your project then you will just want to 09:13.640 --> 09:16.760 start elongating it and that's what I'll be doing here. 09:17.120 --> 09:21.620 And for the next round you do not want to be doing any increases or of any sort you 09:21.620 --> 09:23.640 just want to be doing pure single crochet. 09:24.240 --> 09:28.720 So in the next stitch yeah I would just be doing pure single crochet for the whole 09:28.720 --> 09:33.820 round. Excuse me if I'm going a little bit slower than usual this time like in this 09:33.820 --> 09:38.800 tutorial but I guess that's better for you guys kids. Damn it is hot out here like 09:38.800 --> 09:43.040 my hands are literally sweating right now but like that's alright though I'll do 09:43.040 --> 09:47.540 it for you guys. I thought that it would be a little bit cooler. Now it's like 09:47.540 --> 09:51.600 4 p.m. or like 5 p.m. right now and it's a little bit cooler than it usually 09:51.600 --> 09:56.560 is at 12 but it is still cooking that's what you get guys in the middle of 09:56.560 --> 10:02.460 the summer here in Mexico at least where I am but wait no now it's fall happy 10:02.460 --> 10:07.680 September guys I totally forgot oh my god well then scratch what I just said then 10:07.680 --> 10:12.880 well I'll meet you at the end of this round and yeah. So I have now finished 10:12.880 --> 10:18.020 my round of single crochet so as you can see last round we were just having a 10:18.020 --> 10:22.340 pure circle but once you do this round of single crochets your project will 10:22.340 --> 10:28.860 just sort of curve as you can see it has curved a lot and so should yours and as 10:28.860 --> 10:33.720 you're crocheting you want the side so your project has two sides it has the 10:33.720 --> 10:37.200 wrong side and the right side so how do you know which one's the wrong side 10:37.200 --> 10:41.900 and the right side the wrong side is the one where your yarn tail end is 10:41.900 --> 10:47.260 sticking out and so as you're crocheting you want this side the wrong 10:47.260 --> 10:51.180 side where your yarn tail sticking out to be to be on the inside of your 10:51.180 --> 10:54.860 project so you want to sort of be working around it and not like this but you 10:54.860 --> 10:59.120 want to be working like this so just make sure is like that so it's like a bowl 10:59.120 --> 11:02.640 and you just want to put your noodle into that bowl so you can do that that's 11:02.640 --> 11:07.460 just sort of like a phrase and so for the next round I hope it's not too 11:07.460 --> 11:13.000 loud and for the next round we'll just be doing pure single crochet for the 11:13.000 --> 11:16.220 next round just like we did for the last round and that'll elongate our 11:16.220 --> 11:21.860 sphere even more until you have reached the desired size and also if you do not 11:21.860 --> 11:25.540 want to make a sphere for example if you just want to make like let's say you 11:25.540 --> 11:31.760 want to make like a cylinder or like sort of a 3d oval then you could do more 11:31.760 --> 11:35.300 single crochet rounds and it'll just sort of elongate it until you close it up 11:35.300 --> 11:39.180 at the end but I'll just be doing one more round of single crochets because we 11:39.180 --> 11:44.560 want a sphere and then I'll show you guys from then on alright so I have 11:44.560 --> 11:48.500 now done so I've made another round of single crochets and now we're just going 11:48.500 --> 11:54.300 to be doing one more round of single crochets I know that so as you're 11:54.300 --> 12:00.080 making the circle you just want to sort of sort of feel depending on how large 12:00.080 --> 12:04.100 your circle is turning out sort of depending on how big is turning out you 12:04.100 --> 12:08.500 want to know that's how you sort of figure out how many rounds of single 12:08.500 --> 12:12.400 crochets that you want to do so I feel like if I were to close up my sphere 12:12.400 --> 12:18.200 right now and just sort of end up like a flat hat pancake type thing so I just 12:18.200 --> 12:21.420 want to do one more round of single crochets I swear this is the last one 12:21.420 --> 12:26.200 and then I'll start showing you guys how to do the decrease stitch and we will 12:26.200 --> 12:32.020 close up our our hole of the or the hole inside of the sphere and that will 12:32.020 --> 12:38.300 create the sphere so now that is three rounds of single crochets okay so for 12:38.300 --> 12:45.560 round round I don't know let's see one two three four five six and for round eight 12:45.560 --> 12:50.900 we will be doing one single crochet decrease so it's not one single crochet 12:50.900 --> 12:55.020 increase it is one single crochet decrease which is a new stitch I will be 12:55.020 --> 12:58.500 showing you how to do now so for the first stitch of the new round we will 12:58.500 --> 13:04.680 just be doing a single crochet as usual always mark the first stitch of your 13:04.680 --> 13:11.860 round which I'm doing and then in the next stitch we'll be doing an increase I mean a decrease sorry 13:12.660 --> 13:15.880 so what you will be doing is you want to go into the next stitch 13:16.680 --> 13:23.640 grab your yarn pull it up and then you want to be going into the next stitch with your hook 13:25.160 --> 13:29.480 grab the yarn and now you should have three loops on your hook and once you have three 13:29.480 --> 13:31.780 loops on your hook you just pull through all three 13:34.360 --> 13:41.200 there now you have your decrease and so what a decrease does is just all does is decrease the 13:41.200 --> 13:47.220 size of your project or make it smaller if you at the ends that becomes a sphere so when you 13:47.220 --> 13:51.500 increase that's what makes it bigger and a decrease is what makes your project smaller 13:52.060 --> 13:56.500 and just let me show you guys one more time how to do a decrease let me do a single crochet here 13:57.180 --> 14:03.040 so you want to go into the next stitch grab your yarn and go into the next stitch 14:04.100 --> 14:10.900 grab your yarn and once you have three loops on your hook just pull through all three there we go 14:10.900 --> 14:18.500 that's the pattern that will be falling for the entire round okay and so I will see you at the end 14:19.320 --> 14:23.200 all right there we have done our round of decreases so as you can see 14:23.200 --> 14:27.820 it is now turning out a lot more like a sphere so when we were doing the 14:27.820 --> 14:33.080 single crochet rounds it was just sort of coming out and then sort of down like that like sort of 14:33.080 --> 14:38.660 like a lego head but now as you can see as we have done that round of decreases it is sort of like 14:38.660 --> 14:44.720 curling down like this and just sort of closing up and yeah that's exactly what we want because 14:44.720 --> 14:49.440 it's looking just like a sphere and so for the next round the next round is going to be pretty 14:49.440 --> 14:55.700 easy we're just going to be doing pure decreases so no increases no uh single crochets we just 14:55.700 --> 15:00.100 want to be doing pure decreases just to show you guys how to do the decrease one more time 15:00.100 --> 15:04.540 I'm going to go into the next stitch pull up the yarn go into the next stitch pull up the yarn 15:04.540 --> 15:09.280 and once you have three loops on your hook you want to pull through all three and that is the 15:09.280 --> 15:19.000 same stitch you will be doing for the entire round so all right we have now come this far and 15:19.000 --> 15:24.000 is looking so much like a sphere or and that's the great thing about sphere is an amigurumi you 15:24.000 --> 15:29.320 can turn them into the so many things like this could be like the head of a snowman or like 15:30.340 --> 15:36.140 like spheres you can use for like any head actually so it's a nice thing to know and so once you 15:36.140 --> 15:42.320 have come this far you want to stuff your project wait let me bring out that stitch marker get 15:42.320 --> 15:50.260 your stuffing um for me when I have stuffing I usually use um poly fiber um but you can also use 15:50.260 --> 15:56.420 like I don't know you could use scrap yarn you could use um cotton come back when I didn't have um 15:56.420 --> 16:03.240 poly fiber I used to just like rip up cotton pads and I mean it works I mean it sounds bad but like 16:03.240 --> 16:08.900 I was like a beginner in crochet and whatever and like I didn't have any good materials so I mean 16:08.900 --> 16:16.320 gotta improvise you know so you just want to stuff that nice and nice and firm but also of 16:16.320 --> 16:22.000 course the less that you stuff the more squishy that it will be so I don't like to over stuff and I 16:22.000 --> 16:25.760 don't like to under stuff because if you don't because if you under stuff then it will of course 16:25.760 --> 16:30.440 it'll just sort of like be limp and just sort of I don't know it won't hold its shape but if 16:30.440 --> 16:36.160 it's too firm it'll just be sort of like rock hard and we don't want like a rock hard um stuffed 16:36.160 --> 16:42.100 animal or plushy or whatever you're making I mean just soft and squishy is just nicer in my opinion 16:42.640 --> 16:49.480 so um it's just stuff that okay I think that's good enough here take up there 16:50.140 --> 16:56.220 this sort of light stuffing all right so now that once you have done that you want to put 16:56.220 --> 17:02.120 your hook back into that loop where you were and just sort of pull on your yarn so that the 17:02.120 --> 17:08.280 loop closes oh my god and now what we will be doing oh my god take your hook out you want to 17:08.800 --> 17:13.860 cut the yarn so you want to be and make it like a decent size I don't know like roughly 17:14.780 --> 17:23.720 size of my hand I guess like like if I don't know like sort of two-thirds of a foot I guess 17:23.720 --> 17:29.460 something like that um now you just want to take your loop that you have here that you're using 17:30.000 --> 17:34.610 to crochet you just want to put your hook into that loop and just sort of 17:36.580 --> 17:42.980 pull it out like that and so now as you can see you have made a knot and that's what does it now 17:42.980 --> 17:48.600 you want to take out your stitch marker we won't be needing that's anymore and you want to take 17:48.600 --> 17:55.720 your darning needle which you should have right here on side and you want to thread that yarn 17:55.720 --> 18:02.480 onto your needle I like to use a plastic needle but you can also use a regular metal needle but it 18:02.480 --> 18:08.300 doesn't work that amazing with um chunky yarn like this because the holes are like really small and 18:08.300 --> 18:13.840 those kind of needles so like I recommend getting some of these plastic ones and now what you want 18:13.840 --> 18:20.500 to do is you want to go into each stitch from outside in like under each and every single stitch 18:20.500 --> 18:21.800 pull it out like that 18:23.740 --> 18:27.640 of the whole round you just want to be going into every single stitch 18:29.280 --> 18:33.660 until you get back over here so I'll just be sort of showing you guys 18:35.900 --> 18:40.020 you don't have to pull on tight as you're doing this just sort of do that lightly like 18:40.020 --> 18:44.700 don't pull too hard at all just sort of like you're playing we're just playing here 18:51.810 --> 18:55.750 all right so now once you have done that you have gone through each and every single stitch 18:55.750 --> 18:59.890 you all you want to do is just take your yarn that you have here and pull on it 19:02.190 --> 19:08.210 and so once you have pulled on your um your yarn the hole just just sort of close up mine 19:08.210 --> 19:13.770 is closed up like this and yeah once you pull your yarn it just it just closes up automatically 19:13.770 --> 19:18.890 like that so once you have this extra yarn we'll be doing what's called weaving in so you just want 19:18.890 --> 19:23.550 to go into that same stitch that you're already in as you could see you want to go into that 19:23.550 --> 19:28.010 same stitch and come out some more random some more completely random 19:29.630 --> 19:33.310 and just go into that same stitch right there that you're in 19:34.630 --> 19:40.710 and come out some more some more random again and you could do this repeat this process a couple 19:40.710 --> 19:49.230 times until until you're happy and then once you've done so you just want to cut the yarn 19:53.550 --> 20:02.330 oh my god if these scissors all right sorry we had a little bit of um technical difficulties because 20:02.330 --> 20:08.110 my scissors decided to stop cutting um so once you've cut the yarn if you have any yarn tail 20:08.110 --> 20:12.990 ends that are sticking out just sort of poke them back in and there you have it there you have 20:12.990 --> 20:19.990 your sphere um spheres like i said spheres are amazing for anything you can use them as like 20:19.990 --> 20:26.690 the head or like the stomach of your um stuffed animal or like i don't know you could use it for 20:26.690 --> 20:31.830 anything or just throwing at people i don't know or a hacky sack yeah also if you don't have stuffing 20:31.830 --> 20:37.030 and if you want to turn this into a hacky sack even you could just fill this up with um with 20:37.030 --> 20:42.870 uncooked rice obviously uncooked you just fill it up with rice or yeah i think it's rice usually 20:42.870 --> 20:49.590 usually traditionally and there you have a hacky sack right there so yeah i hope you really enjoyed 20:49.590 --> 20:56.230 this video i thought it was really nice crocheting out here in the nature of course it is scorching 20:56.230 --> 21:02.990 hot but like we're just gonna ignore that okay and so i hope you guys enjoyed this video i'm 21:02.990 --> 21:05.010 gonna go sit in the freezer for a while bye