For this tutorial you will need your
selected yarn I'm using the chunky style
craft yarn and for this particular yard
it tells you to use a six millimeter
crochet hook so just make sure you check
the label to see what size hook you need
for your particular yarn so as I say I'm
using a six millimeter crochet hook you
will need some scissors and a darning
needle just to sew in your ends to begin you
want to make your slipknot and you can
do this whichever way you prefer insert
your hook and we're going to start off
by doing a chain so you can adapt your
projects however you want but you want
to chain multiples of eight and then add
seven onto the end so it will be yarn over and pull through yarn over and pull through
yarn over pull through and yarn over
pull through that's four and so as I say
you want to do five six seven and eight
so you want to do multiples of eight
until you get to the length that you
want and then you want to add seven more
so go ahead and pause the video work to
your chain whichever you want if you're
making a blanket you can lay your chain
down and on the floor or on the bed
wherever you're making your blanket to
get the size of what you want so pause
the video and I shall meet you back in a
moment
so I've just done my chain I've done two
multiples of eight plus seven just
because this is a sample piece but this
would make a really good size for a cowl
or a scarf so what we're going to do now
is do some treble crochet all the way
along this chain so remember that's
treble crochet in the UK in the US this
is known as double crochet so we're
actually going to skip two chains to
begin with skip this chain and this
chain and we're going to do our first
treble into third chain from the hook so
it's yarn over insert into that third
chain grab the yarn and pull it through
and
you'll have three loops on the hook grab
the yarn and pull it through you'll have
two loops on the hook and then grab the
yarn and pull it through again and
you'll be left with one loop on the hook
and this first row is just going to
consist of one treble into each chain
along your foundation chain so it's a
really easy row to do so if you want to
go ahead and pause the video and work
your way along your foundation chain and
I shall meet you back at the end and now
at the end of my row and I've done one
treble into each of those chain spaces
we're now ready to start the actual
pattern so you're going to go ahead and
chain two and then turn your work now
when we're working along this pattern
we're going to be working into what's
called the front post and the back post
when i say front post what it means is
that you put your hook around the back
like this of the actual post of the
stitch and if i say back post it means
that the hook goes around the back of
the stitch just like this so that will
make sense a little bit more as we move
along so first of all we're going to do
trebles into the front post of the next
four stitches so we're ignoring this
very first stitch here and we're working
in around this second one here so we're going
to yarn over and insert our hook
underneath that stitch so this is called
front post treble we're going to grab
our yarn and pull through so you have
three loops on the hook yarn over pull
through two and yarn over pull through
two so it's exactly the same as a normal
treble we're just going around the front
post rather than into the chain space so
again we're go and see yarn over and do
another treble
into that post front of that post so
that's our second stitch and we're going
to go ahead and do two more so yarn over
insert yarn over pull through yarn over
pull through two and yarn over pull
through two and then once more so we
have our four front post trebles just
here we're now going to do four trebles
again but this time we're going to work
into the back post so this one can be a
little bit more tricky what you want to
do is yarn over and then your hook comes
around the back of that stitch like so
you grab the yarn and pull it through so
you have three loops on the hook as
normal grab the yarn pull through two
and grab the yarn and pull through two
so what that means is it actually pulls
the stitch backwards and it creates that
ribbed effect on the work so again we're
going to do three more of those so yarn
over insert the hook around the back of
the post pull through yarn over pull
through two and yarn over pull through
two we'll do two more make sure that you
are not skipping any stitches which can
be easy to do so make sure you take your
time and work around the correct post so
that is our four back post
trebles we are then going to do another
four front post trebles so around the
front of the post four times
and last one and if you haven't guessed
already we're then going to do four back
post stitches same stitch just around
the back of the post one two
three
and four so the reason I get you to do an
extra seven chains on top of the
multiples of eight that you've just done
is so that we always end on the same as
what we've begun with so it makes it
even so you'll end up with the four
front post stitches if that makes sense
so what you're ready you want to go
ahead and do your last four front post
stitches obviously if you've done a
bigger piece this is going to take you
longer but this is just a sample piece
for me so I'm going to go ahead and
finish off this round so once you've
done your last four front post stitches
you should end up with your chain three
from this very from your last round
so you want to do a half treble into
this stitch so yarn over insert yarn
over pull through and then yarn over
pull through all three loops on the hook
so that is known as a half double in the
US we're then going to chain two and
turn our work and what we're going to do
this time is continue to build that
pattern so it looks the same from the
front obviously we're looking at the
back at the moment so what we do is as
you're looking at these here they
actually look like they're back post
crochets but remember we're looking at
the back so we're going to back post in
the front post from the previous round
so it would be yarn over and insert your
hook so do four back post crochets
treble crochets
and then four front post treble crochets
so that's two
three and four and you're simply going
to repeat that all the way along so as
they appear of back post crochets you
again do the back post and then front
post back post work your way along and I
shall meet you at the very end and then
I'll show you how to do your next row
I'm now at the very end and again you
should notice that you have one last
treble from the previous row so you want
to do a half treble crochet into that
stitch remember in the US that is half
double and you're going to chain two and
turn so now what you should have is a
nice texture to your pattern and what
we're actually going to do is make the
actual pattern of the basket weave now
so we're going to do opposites so what
you can see here is your front post
trebles so what we're going to do is
work for back post trebles it would be yarn over insert around the post yarn over
and pull through yarn over pull through
two and yarn over pull through two
that's one
two sorry three and four and now we're
going to do four front post crochets one
two three and four and then you would do
back post and front post so you just
repeat the same thing all the way to the
end pause the video and I'll meet you
back at the end of this row and I'll
show you what to do for the next row I'm
now at the end of this row and again I'm
going to do a half treble into that
last stitch I'm going to chain two one
and two and this is actually our fifth
row but this is the fourth row in the
four row pattern repeat so for this row
we're going to start off with four front
post stitches so one two three and four
and then we would move on to our four
back post stitches or back post trebles
three and four as you would repeat
that all the way to the end so go ahead
pause the video
meet me back and I shall show you what
to do to finish off so this is what it
looks like with a few more rows added
I've then just done a row of treble
crochet along the top just to finish off
the work you would just want to yarn
over and pull through and just snip off
your yarn to finish off and pull that
out and then you just sew in and the
ends to finish off your project I really
like the look of this if I was to do a
scarf I think I would probably use a
bigger hook maybe even an 8 or up to a 10
just so it's not so and firm but I love
the way this is turned out if you liked
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