Hello there ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another video and in this video as you can see that
You can sort of tell that I am somewhere else right now
It's a little bit different from my usual videos because usually for my other videos or my other crochet tutorials
I'm usually at my sister's desk
But like of course when I'm at my sister's desk
Here's like a sort of a time pressure because my sister needs her desk back obviously for work or whatever and so today
I decided to film today's crochet tutorial out of nature as you can see I'm out on my balcony
Which is pretty nice. So like don't mind the background noise
But I feel like it does add a little something extra and so we get to enjoy
Nature and the bushes around us as we crochet a beginner's sphere today, which is what I'll be showing you guys today
It's more of a beginners
Thing it's a pretty easy thing to do. You won't be needing very much yarn actually
I think this is a little bit
Too small, but I'll be making like a small size sphere today just to sort of
Give you guys sort of a chi chi if you guys are needing a sphere in your project
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
grab your yarn
Put it around your fingers like this and as you can see on these sides of your fingers
Okay, don't mind the car passing by so there should be like a cross over this size
On this side of these two fingers
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
And you'll take your hook
Go under these two
This first strand grab the other one
Pull it up like this
Wait, pull it up take your fingers out
You just want to sort of pinch this part as you pull your fingers out and
How do you hold your yarn? You want to take your hand of your non-dominant hand put it over these two fingers and
wrap it around your index like this and
There you sort of
There wait
There and
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
Now that you're here
You just want to sort of pinch this part make your loose smaller and you want to grab your yarn and
Pull through it like this make a chain and there you have your magic ring and
so for
What we're going to be doing into the magic ring. We're going to be putting
Five single crochet into it. At least this is a my case
You can also do six or four or seven or ten. This just depends on
How big you want your sphere to be but I'm going to be making like a mini one today
So I'm going to put five single crochet into the magic ring. So we're going to go into the ring
Grab your yarn
Pull it up. I hope you guys can hear me. Well
Grab the yarn and pull through those two remaining loops on your hook and for the first round
You want these stitches or for the yeah for the first time you want these stitches to be really loose
So that once we pull our magic ring closed as you will see later on in the video
I'll show you guys how that's done. So it's just easier. So make these stitches super loose
Pull up the yarn and
Pull through so now we have two stitches. I'm going to do that three more times so they get five
Okay, so I have now made my five single crochet into the magic ring
if you
Have lost count as you can see on this if you flip your project to the side like this you can see that
You have a bunch of these v-shaped
Things and these are all stitches. So this v right here. That's a stitch. This is another stitch
This is another stitch is another stitch and if you don't know if how many stitches that you've done
You should have five you could just count those V's so here. I have one two
three four
Five so there I have five stitches and that's just how you can sort of
Check that you did this correctly and so to close our magic ring you want to grab this loose tail end
pinch this part of your project right here with the other hand and
Pull it close
Okay, so I have now pulled my project close what we will be doing for round two
Always in the round two of making a sphere
You would just be doing cure increases in the whole round if you want a perfect sphere
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
So now what is an increase?
You're going to do two single crochet into each stitch. That's all an increase is so grab your arm pull it up
Make a single crochet that stitch now you're going to be going into that same stitch
And make an increase
Or just another single crochet and you're going to go to the next stitch
Make a single crochet and make another single crochet into that same stitch and
Then move on to the next stitch and do two single crochet into that stitch and so on until you have five increases
Or basically ten single crochets, but in five stitches
Let's do the next stitch wait up
This is my fourth increase
So you crochet one so you crochet two to that same stitch and now let me make the last one. Oh my
And of course if you have if you have made more
Then five single crochets in the beginning into our magic ring
I did five single crochet into the magic ring
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
That's the same amount of increases you will have to be doing
So if you do 17 crochet to the magic ring, you have to also do seven increases as an example
So round three what we'll be doing once you crochet one increase
So what that means we're going to be going to that next stitch and doing a single crochet and
Then in the next stitch we'll be doing an increase and we'll be following this pattern throughout the whole round
And so in the next stitch as you guess, we will be doing up. Oops
We will be doing one single crochet
And to the next stitch we'll be doing an increase
Oh my
And
There you have it, so you just be doing that for the whole round and I'll meet you at the end
All right, so I've now done so I have now done one single crochet one increase into every stitch and
For the next round we will be doing two single crochet one increase
So the last round we did one single crochet one increase and for this round
We're going to be doing two single crochet increase and then for the next round we'll be doing three single crochet increase
Then for the next one we'll be doing four single crochet increase, but of course I'm only going
to until two single crochet increase and how many rounds that you go depends on how much
bigger you want your project to be.
So let's say I only want a mini circle, I mean a mini sphere.
So I'm going to be doing one single crochet, one increase, and then two single crochet
increase, and that'll create our sphere.
But if for example you want a bigger sphere then you'll just keep going on for how many
rounds going.
Three single crochet increase, the next round four single crochet increase, the next round
five single crochet increase, until you have the width of your sphere big enough, until
you like how big it's turning out.
And so as you can see my project is not curling at all, it just looks like a plain
circle not like a sphere.
So for the beginning stages the one single crochet increase, two single crochet increase
those first stages, it'll just be turning out as a circle which is how we want it, but when
you look at it from this angle that's how wide your sphere will also be.
And then once we just do pure single crochet I'll teach you how to do that later, that's
when we elongate it.
So now we're just widening it and then later we'll elongate it and then with
stuffing then it'll become round and turn into a sphere.
So I'll do my two single crochet increase for this round and I'll meet you at the end.
Alright so now that I have done my two single crochet increase and I've come to the end
of the round, as you can see I added a stitch marker, this is just to mark the first
stitch of each round.
And as I said if you want to continue in the next round you want to do three single
crochet increase in the next round you want to do four single crochet increase and
so on, but since I want a mini sphere I would just be start elongating this thing
because I just want it like this.
But once you have reached your desired size of your project then you will just want to
start elongating it and that's what I'll be doing here.
And for the next round you do not want to be doing any increases or of any sort you
just want to be doing pure single crochet.
So in the next stitch yeah I would just be doing pure single crochet for the whole
round. Excuse me if I'm going a little bit slower than usual this time like in this
tutorial but I guess that's better for you guys kids. Damn it is hot out here like
my hands are literally sweating right now but like that's alright though I'll do
it for you guys. I thought that it would be a little bit cooler. Now it's like
4 p.m. or like 5 p.m. right now and it's a little bit cooler than it usually
is at 12 but it is still cooking that's what you get guys in the middle of
the summer here in Mexico at least where I am but wait no now it's fall happy
September guys I totally forgot oh my god well then scratch what I just said then
well I'll meet you at the end of this round and yeah. So I have now finished
my round of single crochet so as you can see last round we were just having a
pure circle but once you do this round of single crochets your project will
just sort of curve as you can see it has curved a lot and so should yours and as
you're crocheting you want the side so your project has two sides it has the
wrong side and the right side so how do you know which one's the wrong side
and the right side the wrong side is the one where your yarn tail end is
sticking out and so as you're crocheting you want this side the wrong
side where your yarn tail sticking out to be to be on the inside of your
project so you want to sort of be working around it and not like this but you
want to be working like this so just make sure is like that so it's like a bowl
and you just want to put your noodle into that bowl so you can do that that's
just sort of like a phrase and so for the next round I hope it's not too
loud and for the next round we'll just be doing pure single crochet for the
next round just like we did for the last round and that'll elongate our
sphere even more until you have reached the desired size and also if you do not
want to make a sphere for example if you just want to make like let's say you
want to make like a cylinder or like sort of a 3d oval then you could do more
single crochet rounds and it'll just sort of elongate it until you close it up
at the end but I'll just be doing one more round of single crochets because we
want a sphere and then I'll show you guys from then on alright so I have
now done so I've made another round of single crochets and now we're just going
to be doing one more round of single crochets I know that so as you're
making the circle you just want to sort of sort of feel depending on how large
your circle is turning out sort of depending on how big is turning out you
want to know that's how you sort of figure out how many rounds of single
crochets that you want to do so I feel like if I were to close up my sphere
right now and just sort of end up like a flat hat pancake type thing so I just
want to do one more round of single crochets I swear this is the last one
and then I'll start showing you guys how to do the decrease stitch and we will
close up our our hole of the or the hole inside of the sphere and that will
create the sphere so now that is three rounds of single crochets okay so for
round round I don't know let's see one two three four five six and for round eight
we will be doing one single crochet decrease so it's not one single crochet
increase it is one single crochet decrease which is a new stitch I will be
showing you how to do now so for the first stitch of the new round we will
just be doing a single crochet as usual always mark the first stitch of your
round which I'm doing and then in the next stitch we'll be doing an increase I mean a decrease sorry
so what you will be doing is you want to go into the next stitch
grab your yarn pull it up and then you want to be going into the next stitch with your hook
grab the yarn and now you should have three loops on your hook and once you have three
loops on your hook you just pull through all three
there now you have your decrease and so what a decrease does is just all does is decrease the
size of your project or make it smaller if you at the ends that becomes a sphere so when you
increase that's what makes it bigger and a decrease is what makes your project smaller
and just let me show you guys one more time how to do a decrease let me do a single crochet here
so you want to go into the next stitch grab your yarn and go into the next stitch
grab your yarn and once you have three loops on your hook just pull through all three there we go
that's the pattern that will be falling for the entire round okay and so I will see you at the end
all right there we have done our round of decreases so as you can see
it is now turning out a lot more like a sphere so when we were doing the
single crochet rounds it was just sort of coming out and then sort of down like that like sort of
like a lego head but now as you can see as we have done that round of decreases it is sort of like
curling down like this and just sort of closing up and yeah that's exactly what we want because
it's looking just like a sphere and so for the next round the next round is going to be pretty
easy we're just going to be doing pure decreases so no increases no uh single crochets we just
want to be doing pure decreases just to show you guys how to do the decrease one more time
I'm going to go into the next stitch pull up the yarn go into the next stitch pull up the yarn
and once you have three loops on your hook you want to pull through all three and that is the
same stitch you will be doing for the entire round so all right we have now come this far and
is looking so much like a sphere or and that's the great thing about sphere is an amigurumi you
can turn them into the so many things like this could be like the head of a snowman or like
like spheres you can use for like any head actually so it's a nice thing to know and so once you
have come this far you want to stuff your project wait let me bring out that stitch marker get
your stuffing um for me when I have stuffing I usually use um poly fiber um but you can also use
like I don't know you could use scrap yarn you could use um cotton come back when I didn't have um
poly fiber I used to just like rip up cotton pads and I mean it works I mean it sounds bad but like
I was like a beginner in crochet and whatever and like I didn't have any good materials so I mean
gotta improvise you know so you just want to stuff that nice and nice and firm but also of
course the less that you stuff the more squishy that it will be so I don't like to over stuff and I
don't like to under stuff because if you don't because if you under stuff then it will of course
it'll just sort of like be limp and just sort of I don't know it won't hold its shape but if
it's too firm it'll just be sort of like rock hard and we don't want like a rock hard um stuffed
animal or plushy or whatever you're making I mean just soft and squishy is just nicer in my opinion
so um it's just stuff that okay I think that's good enough here take up there
this sort of light stuffing all right so now that once you have done that you want to put
your hook back into that loop where you were and just sort of pull on your yarn so that the
loop closes oh my god and now what we will be doing oh my god take your hook out you want to
cut the yarn so you want to be and make it like a decent size I don't know like roughly
size of my hand I guess like like if I don't know like sort of two-thirds of a foot I guess
something like that um now you just want to take your loop that you have here that you're using
to crochet you just want to put your hook into that loop and just sort of
pull it out like that and so now as you can see you have made a knot and that's what does it now
you want to take out your stitch marker we won't be needing that's anymore and you want to take
your darning needle which you should have right here on side and you want to thread that yarn
onto your needle I like to use a plastic needle but you can also use a regular metal needle but it
doesn't work that amazing with um chunky yarn like this because the holes are like really small and
those kind of needles so like I recommend getting some of these plastic ones and now what you want
to do is you want to go into each stitch from outside in like under each and every single stitch
pull it out like that
of the whole round you just want to be going into every single stitch
until you get back over here so I'll just be sort of showing you guys
you don't have to pull on tight as you're doing this just sort of do that lightly like
don't pull too hard at all just sort of like you're playing we're just playing here
all right so now once you have done that you have gone through each and every single stitch
you all you want to do is just take your yarn that you have here and pull on it
and so once you have pulled on your um your yarn the hole just just sort of close up mine
is closed up like this and yeah once you pull your yarn it just it just closes up automatically
like that so once you have this extra yarn we'll be doing what's called weaving in so you just want
to go into that same stitch that you're already in as you could see you want to go into that
same stitch and come out some more random some more completely random
and just go into that same stitch right there that you're in
and come out some more some more random again and you could do this repeat this process a couple
times until until you're happy and then once you've done so you just want to cut the yarn
oh my god if these scissors all right sorry we had a little bit of um technical difficulties because
my scissors decided to stop cutting um so once you've cut the yarn if you have any yarn tail
ends that are sticking out just sort of poke them back in and there you have it there you have
your sphere um spheres like i said spheres are amazing for anything you can use them as like
the head or like the stomach of your um stuffed animal or like i don't know you could use it for
anything or just throwing at people i don't know or a hacky sack yeah also if you don't have stuffing
and if you want to turn this into a hacky sack even you could just fill this up with um with
uncooked rice obviously uncooked you just fill it up with rice or yeah i think it's rice usually
usually traditionally and there you have a hacky sack right there so yeah i hope you really enjoyed
this video i thought it was really nice crocheting out here in the nature of course it is scorching
hot but like we're just gonna ignore that okay and so i hope you guys enjoyed this video i'm
gonna go sit in the freezer for a while bye