Sugarplum Cowl

Hi, everybody. Welcome to our live crochet events. I'm Brenda KB Anderson. And today we are going to be working up the sugar plum cowl. Did you guys know it's the day after Halloween?

So, you know, you gotta get started on those winter holidays like pronto, right? All right. So this is what we're gonna be working up. Um What I really loved about this cowl is for me, the yarn was so fun to work with. So, um if you've never worked with a very lofty, super soft, this is almost like cotton candy kind of feeling.

Um It's very light. It is just a real treat I have to say. Um but it was also really fun making these really cool puff stitches. So the puff stitches are made sideways and which is just kind of fun in itself and I've never done that before. So there are a couple of new things for me for this project, the yarn and the sideways kind of puff stitches.

Um So I'm excited to share those things with you. Uh This is a live event, of course. So as I'm going to be going through this project, I'm gonna be showing you all the steps you need to know. Please let me know um in the chat box. If there's anything that wasn't clear or if you have any questions, maybe you just have comments or maybe you have suggestions for us, that would be great.

You can put that in the chat box. Um Also I want to mention that there is a free copy of the pattern, a download in the description. So just look for the link in the description um to get that. And so it kind of helps sometimes if you can print, get out before I start talking um about all the steps so that you can follow along, but it will be available always so you can get that whenever if you don't feel like doing that. Now, that's ok if you just wanna watch.

All right, so um let's talk a little bit. Oh, we've already got a couple of highs. So we have Sea Wolf pack three saying good morning from Central Pennsylvania where there's definitely a chill in the air. Yeah, it snowed like two inches I think yesterday here, which was kind of surprising usually it doesn't snow before Halloween. But yeah, that actually that snowed the day, but like the the the night before yesterday is what I should say, we woke up to snow on Halloween and Ashley is saying hi hi, Ashley, welcome.

I'm glad you guys are here. Um Yeah, so I felt like this morning. I was like, well, you know, we're just moving right on to the winter holidays. So it feel it felt normal to me yesterday because there was, there was so much snow everywhere. All right.

So, um, I would like to start by talking about the materials. I know I mentioned the yarn just a little bit, but we're gonna go into that a little bit more now. So in the pattern, I have listed the exact brand, the type, the color everything that I used um for this. So if you're looking for a yarn substitution or if you just wanna see exactly what I used and get that that is inside your pattern um in your pattern download. But I'm gonna talk about the properties of the yarn just a little bit.

Um So like I said before, this is a very lofty fluffy yarn. It is made by like a hollow mesh and then they blow fibers into it. It's a 70% acrylic and then there's some, I think nylon and a little bit of wool as well. So this is a very, even though it's really light and airy, it's very warm, it's surprisingly warm. Like when I was working on it, it was sitting in my lap and I was like, wow, is this like having a lamp blanket?

And it's not even that big? I was surprised at how warm it was. Um But it's just, and it's insanely soft. It's just, it's, to me it's not itchy at all. If you have, if you're allergic to alpaca, um, or really allergic to wool, then it, you know, might not be super comfortable for you.

But this to, to people who aren't allergic is, is, is extremely soft. Um, but if you're looking for a substitution for this yarn, I just want to mention that although this is listed as the number five. So this is a bulky weight yarn. I would try substituting if you're not gonna find something that's kind of the similar structure like very light and airy with the, the kind of um mesh tube with the fibers blown in. Um If you, if you don't wanna um find something like that for a substitution, then maybe start looking at the heavy worsted weight yarns.

Instead I think it'll help you match gauge a little bit better because this is so fluffy when I crocheted it up, it actually seemed more like a number four, a worsted weight yarn to me than a number five. in this pattern, maybe it's different if you're working something else up. Um We probably knitting with it. It would probably stay a little bit loftier, but with crochet because we're making almost like knots, we're twisting the yarn up. It seemed like it was taking up a little bit le less um space.

So, um I actually am gonna be doing a demonstration today making the stitches with this yarn because I thought it would be easier for you guys to see what I was doing because there's a couple of little areas where we're inserting our hook into a very specific spot. And I was worried you wouldn't be able to tell what I was doing with this very fluffy halo um going on here. So I'm mostly going to be using this yarn. This is a one ply and I do mention in the note section of the pattern, what this is in case you're wondering if you're thinking about substituting, this is uh a worsted weight wool. It is uh I feel like it's maybe a little thicker than some worsted weight.

So it, it just works up to be the same size as this number five bulky weight. Um So it worked, worked out very well for this pattern and it looked good here. Let me show you a larger swatch of it. I have the cow in progress just so you can see what it looks like. And this, this is gonna have more drape once I block it, but it has a similar look.

It just doesn't have that very fuzzy fluffy dreamy halo thing going on that, that other yarn does. So this is a little bit more, I don't know, it's just kind of wooly wintry. It's nice. I like it too and this kind of kind of yarn. Um OK, so the other little variation I wanna talk about about this yarn, this the same yarn, the same brand, the same type of yarn.

It also comes in an hombre cake. So I just wanted to show you that which is right here and that's what I'm gonna be using later on when I use this sample. I just thought maybe some of you are gonna be looking up this yarn later and you might see this and be tempted to use it. So I wanted to do a sample so you can see what it looked like and it looks awesome in this yarn. Um So if you're gonna be substituting with the ombre cake, this is twice as much yarn as the, the ball of yarn that the the this mustard is actually the same yarn that I use for this, just a different color.

Um This is twice as much. So you will only need one of these and then once you run through the whole hombre, then you will, you can get a matching uh ball of this that matches the darker color here because they pair their hombres with solids so that you can work your way through the hombre and then finish up with just using the solid, which is great because then you don't have, I mean you could buy two of these, but that would cost more than buying one of these and one of these. OK? Because you're gonna need three of these for your project, three of this size for your project. If you're not doing the Ombre, you need three.

But I do wanna say too that I was cutting it pretty close with using three and I had to undo a little part of my gauge swat actually not very much like two inches, but I'd like to give you guys a little bit of a buffer in there just in case your gauge is not exactly the same as my gauge. Um Just so that you don't run out of yarn. I don't want you guys to be mad at me for running out of yarn. That would make me sad. Ok.

So anyway, that's all about the yarn and you're gonna of course, need a crochet hook. I am using an H hook, which is a five millimeter hook. This is a size that I normally use for a worst weight yarn. Um Even though this is a number five, it just like I said before, it's so lofty and fluffy. I felt like I needed to kind of downsize just a little bit so that I didn't have um larger holes between my stitches.

Um but you will use whatever crochet hook that you need to in order to get the same gauge that I have listed in my pattern. Um, gauge isn't like super important except that if you only buy the three skeins of the yarn or the cake and then the smaller skein you might run out of yarn if your gauge is bigger than mine, first of all, um, or your cow will and, you know, and also the other added thing to watch out for is your cow will end up at a different size than what I have listed. So, if your gauge is bigger, your cow is gonna be bigger. If your gauge is smaller, your cow is gonna be smaller. So, um, I would say just at least do a little gauge swatch and check it out.

Um It's ok if it's a little bit off because it's a cowl and it'll be fine if you're fine with it being a little bit, you know, the size being a little bit different than mine. It's not anything to worry about. All right. Oh, we've got lots of comments here. Um, Denise says good afternoon from Scotland.

Excited to be here. Welcome, Denise. I'm glad you're here and see wolf pack is saying my sister in Appleton, Wisconsin also had snow. The grandkids were trick or treating in the snow. Yeah.

My kids were trick or treating in the snow too. It was kind of crazy. Um Moon is saying lots of kids last night and it's chilly outdoors also here in Canada. Oh, I bet. Yeah, and, and also good morning, good morning, moon and see wolf.

He is saying I immediately have a question about if this could be done in the round and not flat. Yes, you can do this in the round if you want the reason that I decided not to do it in the round was because when we work in the round, um with the stitch pattern with double crochets or single crochet is half, double crochets. Most of our basic stitches when we're working in the round, as we're continuing working, our stitches around and around and around. If you're right handed, crochet or your stitches will start to kind of stack up, going slightly to the right or if you're left handed crochet, they will go slightly to the left and I wanted my, um, baubles or my puff stitches to be vertically aligned. Um, instead of kind of slightly tilting off to the side.

So that was the reason that that was the main reason that I chose to do it. Not in the round. Usually I work things in the round. I usually try to avoid seaming things unless it's a struct for a structural reason or because of how the stitch pattern looks. Um, just because I know people aren't like huge fans of the sewing.

Well, some people don't like the sewing. I actually kind of enjoy it. But, um, but you could certainly switch this to being all in the round. If you want to, it will affect how it looks just a little bit because you're not gonna be seeing the reverse side of your single crochet stitches, which so we're, um, basically the stitch pattern is mostly double crochets and single crochets and then these little puff stitches thrown in, uh but it's not gonna hurt, it's not gonna mess with the pattern or anything like that. It'll just look a little bit different because you'll see the front sides of the single crochets.

It might change your gauge just ever so slightly. Um And you will also start to see those puff stitches kind of um instead of being very vertically aligned like how this is, they will start to kind of move off to the side. But to be totally honest, I mean, this is what it's gonna look like when it's on, you all snuggled up, who's gonna, I mean, you will not know if the puff stitches are moving off to one side. It's not gonna matter. Nobody's gonna be wearing the cowl flat like this.

So, um, I, you know, there really isn't a real reason. It's just, I just wanted it to look like this so you can certainly change it. That was a long answer for that, uh, for that question you had there. But anyway, ok. So, uh, let's see, back to the supplies.

So all you need really is the yarn, the hook and then a couple of stitch markers just so that you can mark the beginning and end of your row. That just helps you to see those stitches, especially if you're working in this lo lofty fluffy yarn. It might be easy to miss a stitch. So I would recommend that especially if you are newer to crochet just to put in, uh, a stitch marker in the beginning and in the end, um, of each row. And we'll get to that when we start working our way through the, the pattern.

And the last thing you're gonna need is a yarn needle. So you just need a yarn needle to sew that seam at the very end and to weave in your end. So that's it. Not a lot of supplies for this one. All right.

So let's get started. Um First thing you're gonna do is you're gonna ch chain start out with a chain of 91 stitches. Oh And I also wanna mention too, I know a lot of you guys like to customize stuff. Um This stitch pattern has a pattern repeat of 10 stitches. So if you wanted to make this cowl like a really long cowl or you wanted to make it a little bit closer to your neck a little shorter, you can add or, or remove stitches from the original foundation chain in groups of 10.

OK? Because you're gonna need 10 stitches for the pattern repeat um, for the stitch pattern. All right. So I have here, a chain of 91 stitches here. It's rather long.

Um If you would like to substitute that with a foundation chain like a single crochet foundation chain, you can absolutely do that. Another tip that I have since this is just so long um is to maybe every 20 stitches or so, put a stitch marker in or just however many stitches you decide know that or write it down and then you'll put a stitch marker in. So that way you won't, you get confused about how many you have, you can go back and count them up quickly when you're getting closer to the end. The other thing that I wanted to say is don't be afraid of chaining on extra stitches. That is completely fine.

I do that all the time. Actually, when I'm making a long, very long chain, I'll just chain on some extra just in case I forgot um or got confused and then I won't run out of stitches as I'm working my first row and then I go back and I just pick out the stitches that I don't need. You can just unravel them by kind of pulling on loops. So, um yeah, so I would recommend doing that if you're like, oh, did I change 91 or was it like 89? I don't know.

And just put a couple extra on there and then you'll be fine. All right. So to start. Well, we got another. Ok, Elaine is saying, oh, sorry, I'm late.

No problem. You can join any time. Um And you, you've downloaded the pattern. Awesome. So you can follow along.

We're happy to have you here, Elaine. OK. So we're gonna start by working into the bottom bump. Um, some people call this the back of the chain. So it is.

If you look at your chain, you'll see all those little vs kind of going in a line if you roll that over. So the vs are touching the table, you'll see all those little horizontal dashes on the back of your chain. So we're gonna start in the second one because we're skipping the first one that's just gonna count as a, a turning chain. It doesn't actually count as a stitch or anything. We'll never work into it.

So we're gonna skip this one right here. We're gonna work into the second one and we're gonna just make a single crochet. So to do that, we will insert our hook yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through two. That is our first stitch of the row. And I would recommend just putting a stitch marker in there just to keep track.

And then we're going to continue making single crochet stitches in each of those back bumps across. So insert, you're an over, pull up a loop, you're an over and pull through two, insert yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through two. OK. So we're just gonna continue all the way across into each chain all the way to the very end, working those single crochet stitches. And the reason that I'm working into the bottom of my chain, most of the reason is I mean, partially out of habit because that's just really how I like to start, but I really like how nice and sturdy this little V is the, the edge that you get.

If you work into the bottom of the chain, you get the same kind of edge on the bottom as you do on the top. In this cowl, we are going to be creating the stitch pattern. We're just gonna be working a big rectangle first here, I'll show you what it looks like. Um So we're just gonna be starting here working away our way up or maybe I think actually I started at the white and work my way to the, the purple. Um And then later on after we get that done and sew it together, we are gonna work the edging, which is this little rolled hem edging.

We're gonna work that in the round to kind of fish. It finish it up very nicely. So it does not make a difference. If you don't wanna work into the bottom of your chain, that's fine. You can work into your chain.

However, you like, you are just going to have to um work into the opposite edge of that chain eventually. So you just need to have little bits exposed there, you know, whether it's one loop or two loops or however you do it. Um We are going to be working into this edge later. I just wanted to let you know, OK, So you're gonna be working single crochet all the way across and you will have a piece that looks like this very long little yarn snake. Ok.

So that's what it looks like. I'm gonna put my hook back in here and then we are gonna start working in that puff stitch pattern here. I call him sugar plum. Actually. I think, I, let's see.

I abbreviated it. I think SPS, as I think what I did here, let's just check. Yep. SPS, the sugar plum stitch because it isn't like a real true regular puff stitch. It's sideways and it's made kind of funny.

You'll see in a minute. Um, so I called it something else and I just thought they looked like little sugar plums and they were really cute. Um So, you know, I couldn't help giving them a cute name. All right. So let me move this out of the way here.

All right. So we have gone all the way across making a single crochet and each stitch across. You should have 90 single crochets at this point because we skipped that first chain. That was a turning chain and we started out with 91. So now we have 90 and we're gonna, um, just chain one and then we're gonna turn our work.

It's like turning a page in a book to work across the other side. Now, um, if you, OK, so I start out this row making something called a Stacked double crochet um or a stacked, standing double crochet. What did I call it in here? Let me just double check. I don't wanna tell you something that's confusing.

Yep. Stacked standing double crochet. So what that means is we are not going to be chaining two or chaining three. How you normally start? Uh We are gonna start with this other little beginning here um to take the place of the first double crochet of the row.

So here was our charting chain right there. We're not gonna work into that chain. We're gonna work into the stitch and we're gonna make a single crochet there, just a regular single crochet. So we're just gonna insert our hook yarn over, pull up the loop, yarn over and pull through two that makes her single crochet. And now the second part of this stitch we're still doing the same stitch.

Um Is we are gonna make a single crochet basically right into the top of the single crochet we just made. So we are gonna insert our hook right in between those two loops on the front here. Let me make that stitch. I'm gonna make that single crochet one more time, but I'm gonna tighten up this loop. So it looks a little bit more clear so you guys can see a little better.

OK. So here's our single crochet stitch and there's the top of our stitch and then on the front of the stitch, there's a little V here. So here there's one leg of the front of the stitch and then the other leg right there. So we're gonna be putting our crochet hook between like right in the middle of that V right there. But when we pu push it through, we don't wanna just push it through that one strand, we wanna also push it through.

There's another little strand towards the back. Let me grab it here. There's another little strand, see how I have two strands. I'll try to separate them here. So you can see them.

There are two strands of yarn right there on my needle that I'm pushing through. There's one here and then there's another one here. So look for that second strand. It just makes it a little more sturdy and it'll sit right if you can get your hook through there. OK?

So we're gonna put our hook right through there. Oh I only made it through one. So now we're gonna put it through the second one and then there it is. So there, there we have the original loop and then the two strands we're inserting um through and then we're gonna yarn over, pull up our loop and then we're gonna complete our single crochet like normal with a yarn over and pull through two. So what we just made that is the stack standing double crochet.

That is how we're gonna begin all of our double crochet rows in this pattern. And the reason is because this is a little bit thicker, it's a little more substantial. And then when we do that seam later, it's just a little bit less noticeable. There's more to grip into, more to stitch into at this point. Um, if you're like, yeah, that seems like a lot of fussiness.

I don't think I want to do that. That is totally ok. You don't have to do it this way. You can, you can begin your double crochet row, however you like to do it. You can either do um you know, a turning chain that counts as a stitch if you want.

But, but um you may see a little bit of a hole next to that because that turning chain is just not as wide as either the stacked double crochet or, or a regular double crochet. It's just not quite as thick. Um You've probably noticed that before if you work that way and you count your turning chain as a stitch. When you're working in, in turned rows, a double crochet, there is kind of like a little hole that kind of shows up on the edges. Um If that bothers you, you can just make your turning chain and then work into the first stitch and count your turning chain only as a turning chain, just a ladder to get up to the next row.

You will not count it as a stitch, which means on your next pass on your next row, you will not work into your turning chain. OK. So, um if you want to substitute, that's completely fine. Otherwise, if you want to follow the pattern, we're just making this stacked double crochet stack saying double crochet in the very first stitch that counts as our first stitch. And the cool thing is, is when you work in the opposite direction, it's really easy to see the top of that stitch, which is awesome.

OK? So I'm gonna put a stitch marker there and then we are going to continue. We're gonna make six more double crochets. So we'll yarn over insert, you're an over, pull up a loop, you're an over pull through two youn over, pull through two. That's a regular double crochet.

Now we'll do that five more times in uh you aren't over insert, you're over, pull up loop, you aren't over, pull through two. You aren't over, pull through two. OK? Here's our third, double crochet, our fourth, double crochet, our fifth, double crochet and one more. Our sixth.

OK. So now what we have are six double crochets plus the um stack standing double crochet at the beginning. So that is a total of seven stitches that we have so far. Now we're gonna do this, the exciting part. We're gonna, we're gonna make that sideways.

Puff stitch the sugar plum stitch. So what I like to do is I like to turn my work sideways so that I am looking at it in this direction. It just seems to help me make my loops a little bit better. Um, but you'll find whatever works for you. You might, you might find that it's just as easy to keep it horizontal like that.

I'm gonna turn it vertical and I like to pull on that beginning loop just a little bit. The reason is, is we are gonna start making a bunch of loops around that last post that we made and I, I like to pull them up. So they're a little taller. So they really kind of widen out that puff stitch a little bit. Um If you don't start with this stretched out just a little bit, it really constricts your, you can't move your hook up.

And so when you're trying to make those loops longer, it's really difficult to do that. So I just pull it up just a little bit to make it a little bit. You know, it looks a little sloppy, it's a little bit longer there. Um But a little, it'll look good once we get those um, other loops on our hook. All right.

So now we're going to insert our hook right here. So that is in the space right before that la last double crochet right before the last po uh the post of that double crochet. So we're just gonna put it right there, yarn over. Pull. Oops.

I'm sorry, we need a yarn over before we do that. Ok. So stretch out your loop, yarn over insert, yarn over, pull up a loop and you were pulling these up a little bit taller. Ok. Than, than just a regular stitch yarn over insert, you're an over pull up.

That was twice, three times, four times, five times and six times. So the amount of times that you do that, that's gonna make your puff stitch, you know, puffier or a little bit less puffy. So if you're working with a different yarn and you're like, well, that's too much. It's too crazy. Or if you're working, you know, with a different yarn and you feel like it's just not bubbly enough, you could try doing some extra yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up, it won't affect the rest of the pattern.

You can put as many loops on there as you like. But for this pattern, I am just doing those, you know, repeating that six times and we'll go over this because I'll be working across. So if you forget that's OK. Um So next thing we do is we are going to skip the following stitch. So that's right here.

We're gonna skip that stitch and then in the next stitch, we're gonna insert our hook, we yarn over and pull that through and then we're gonna pull that through all of our loops like this. So that just kind of anchored everything to the side and then we are gonna finish that up with just a chain one. So every time after you make a puff like that, you're gonna do a chain one. And the reason is we had to skip that stitch down here because of the height of this puff. So we're skipping a stitch, but then we have to add it back in.

Otherwise we're gonna mess with the stitch count. OK? So you skip the stitch here, then you add that little chain one at the end and then you end up with exactly the same amount of stitches as you had before. Ok. And then now we're gonna work eight more double crochets.

Hm. Let's see. Oh, Wanda is saying hello from New York City at a rainy crisp, 43 degrees autumn is here. Excellent. I feel like we, we are not having autumn over here anymore, but I kind of hope it returns for like one last time before actual winter, but I hope that you are enjoying.

That sounds lovely. Angela saying hello, first time here. Welcome Angela. I'm glad that you're here. I always love to welcome first time people and I'm glad that you spoke up and said hi.

Um Diva 9000 X. Hi y'all from Houston first time here as well. Welcome. Awesome. I'm so glad to have some new people and I'm always glad to have this, you know, returning people come back too.

That's, that's very awesome. Ok. So now we're gonna work after the puff and the chain one, we're gonna do eight double crochets. So we're gonna yarn over, insert into the next stitch yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two. So there's the first one and we're just gonna continue making seven more one two.

mm three four five six seven. Can hear my stitch marker making a lot of noise here. All right. So we should have a total of eight. Now, let's count 12345678.

All right. So after we do eight, we're gonna go back and make another one of those puff stitches. All right. So we'll elongate our loop. Then we're gonna yarn over insert right before that last double crochet, yarn over, pull up a loop and pull those loops up a little higher.

It'll make it a lot easier to get your hook through. Plus it makes a nice puffy puff stitch. All right. And then we're gonna do that five more times. So, one, 23, four, five.

OK. So we've done that a total of six times. We're gonna skip the stitch inserter, hook into the next stitch yarn over, pull up a loop and then we're gonna pull that through all of our loops here. And I, when I do this, I find it easier to, to kind of pinch right here at the base of that. Um the kind of hidden double crochet there.

I pinch right there and that seems to hold everything pretty well. And I'm able to pull up a little bit because this is just a lot of loops to pull your hook through. And if you're newer to doing this, if you haven't made a lot of puff stitches before you might find that the, the nose of your hook is getting stuck on all those loops because it is a lot. Um, but if you hold this and put a little tension between all those loops, then it's a little easier to pull it through and not get stuck and then we're gonna yarn over and pull through just for a little chain stitch there after the puff. OK.

So we're gonna do that again. So we're gonna do eight double crochet here. One to three, four, five, six, seven, eight. All right, we've got eight and oh, we've got some, some more new people too. It looks like.

All right. Oh, I missed a bunch of you guys. That was quick. All right. Um Kiona says, oh, I'm late.

I'm going to go back a little so I can catch up. All right. Awesome. Um And hello everyone as well. My first time here joining live crochet along like this.

Awesome. We got a lot of new people. This is very exciting while we welcome you. Um Felicia saying hello from Greensboro, North Carolina. Hi, Felicia and Kiona sing.

Nice to meet you guys from New York. Awesome. Wow. Lots of lots of new people here, Monique. First time here, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Welcome. That's awesome. I'm glad there's so many new people and you guys are speaking up. Ok. All right.

Hopefully you'll come to my next one and then you won't be new anymore. And then I can say, hey, I've got a lot of returning people. All right. So we've got eight double crochets there. We're gonna be long, get that loop just a little and then we're gonna make all those um loops on our hook.

So we can start out with a yarn over insert. You're an over, pull up loop, you're an over insert, you're an over, pull up loop 3456 times, skip the next stitch insert into the following stitch yarn over, pull that loop through, pinch here and then pull through all those loops and then we chain one. So as you're making these, it really does help just a little to kind of give them a little bit of a poke from the backside to make sure they're really um that those puffs are kind of moving to the front. Otherwise they could just sort of poke backwards a little, which is fine. I mean, you can still see them, but I just really like them to look like little, like little snowballs on the cowl.

So I really like them to come forward. So I just give them a little poke with my finger when I'm done. Um And then it, it, they stand to the front. All right. So we're gonna repeat that same thing.

We're gonna do this all the way across making our eight double crochet stitches and then we're gonna do a puff. So we've got three oops or five, six, 78, elongate the loop and then we'll make that sugarplum stitch by pulling up those loops. 456, skip a stitch. Go to the next one yarn over, pull up a loop, pinch at the base of that double crochet, pull everything through and then chain one and repeat. OK.

So we're just gonna continue working those all the way across. Um And then I'll show you actually, I'll just finish up doing that so I can show you the very end. It won't take too long here. 123. So I, another thing that I like to mention in these lives is if you guys have ideas for future lives, I love it.

When you guys make suggestions. We had some suggestions a while ago, maybe a couple of live events ago. Um A couple people were interested in making some ornaments or Amaga roomy. Also, somebody specifically, I think a couple people actually specifically wanted to make birds. So we're gonna have that coming up in a live event um inspired by you guys and your requests.

I often like to, you know, I always look and see what you guys are hoping to make and I like to I like to dabble in all kinds of different things. So I am very excited to get different viewpoints on the types of things that you guys like to make and um design around that. So it's always fun for me to see what your suggestions are. OK. So we've got, we're back to the double crochets here.

123. So there's as you're working your way across, um you're gonna repeat this because we did, uh we have a stitch repeat of 10 stitches and we chained on 90 then we, uh, well, we chained on 91 but then we didn't um use that one last stitch that turned into a turning chain. Um So what that means is we're gonna have nine repeats of those 10 stitches. So you to know that you're on track, you can, um, just count up your sugar plums and you should have nine of them dispersed across the length of your co or the width really of your cowl. So we're skipping that stitch, inserting into the next and making that.

Oops. Actually, I messed that up. I was talking too much here. I'll put my hook back through and actually I would not, I've done this quite a few times where I just shoved my hook back through there and I've, I've done this enough to know if I'm missing a loop, but I would not recommend doing what I just did if you guys do the same thing that I did and you don't pull through this whole section. If you do a chain one there, um Don't try to fix it by putting your hook back through all that unless you wanna double check it because you might be missing a loop and it might pop out later.

Um So we're gonna skip the stitch, go into this next stitch you over and we're gonna pull it through all of that. OK. And then we'll chain one. I think I forgot that part. It's kind of sometimes I, you know, it's still, even though I've done a lot of these lives by now, it's still is can trip me up sometimes when I'm talking about something and then trying to crochet at the same time.

You know, it's how like when you're counting your stitches on the couch and then somebody interrupts you and you just can't answer quite yet because you're counting. All right. 12345678. All right. We're gonna pull up a loop.

Well, we have a couple questions here. Um Why are we doing a double crochet rather than the stacked? Oh OK. Heather. Um we only do the double crochets.

I mean, sorry, we only do the stacked crochet right at the beginning and it's because a turning chain, it just looks a little bit more like a double crochet um, than a turning chain would or than a turning chain plus a double crochet. So that's only the very first stitch of those double crochet rows is the stacked stitch. I think that answered your question. If that did not answer your question. Pop back in.

Laura is saying the sugarplum pattern talks about 13 loops on the hook. I'm only seeing six. Yes. OK. Let me clarify that.

That is a very good question. Laura. OK. So when I get to the next one, I will show you, I will show you what I mean. It's actually um we're putting 13 loops on our hook, but we're only repeating emotion those six times.

And that's why it's confusing. But I will, I will break that down for you. That was a very good question. I'm sure other people are having that question too. This is see, this is why I love doing these lives because um 123, something that might be perfectly clear to me because I imagined up the pattern is not always perfectly clear to everyone.

OK. Here we have 12345678. We've got our eight double crochet. So we're ready for that sugar plum. So stitch or loop number one is already on the hook.

So that's one and then we yarn over, that's two. And then we go through here and get the, the loop that's three. But we only did that motion once so far because we already had a loop on the hook. So we've got three loops on our hook. Um, we can count them this way too.

So we've got 34, five, six, seven, eight, 9, 10, 1112, 13. Ok. So those are the 13 loops. I just did exactly the same thing I've been doing, but I was counting differently. Thank you for bringing that up because this might make it easier for some people to understand what, what I, what I'm talking about when I say those 13 loops.

But those are, even though we're making that motion six times, we already started with a loop on the hook. And every time we make that motion, we're actually putting two loops on our hook because we're yarning over before we insert and then we're yarning over after we insert. OK, we're skipping this stitch. We're going into the next stitch you over, pull up our loop and pulling through everything and we're gonna chain one. OK?

And then continue with our eight double crochets. Um Colette is saying hi, I'm also from England. UK. Will I be able to watch this again? Yes, you will always be able to watch these again.

Um They're just, yeah, you can always access this again. It'll be free, always just hanging out there waiting for you. Oh And Divo would like to learn the herring bone stitch. OK. So there, there are two different herring bone stitches.

I'm assuming you're not talking about the half double crochet. Herring bone but um there is actually the half, half, double, hearing, half, double crochet. Herring bone stitch is um there's a new video of me doing that on the creative crochet corner website. 123456. I call that one the not a double crochet because it's confusing because there's another herring bone stitch which I'm guessing you're talking about.

Um If you happen to know you can, you can jump back in here and let me know which one. But, um, there's a herring bone stitch where you are working in one direction and then you kind of work across the, I don't know how I won't be able to explain it. I'll just have to, I will file that away though and I will, uh come up with a pattern that, that uses that 1234567, eight. There's our eight double crochets. Thank you for the suggestion, Diva uh 9000 X.

And then we have Joan saying, have you done socks or slippers as yet? Um I actually have a sock class on the creative crochet corner website. I think it might also be on craftsy as well, but I have and I, I did one live event with socks, but I think that might have been on Craftsy. I'm pretty sure that was on Craftsy. So it wouldn't have been on the creative crochet corner website, but that is a good suggestion as well.

Yeah. Slippers would be good. Too. OK. Thank you for the suggestion.

I will remember that. OK. Oh, and so that made sense to you, Heather. OK. Good.

All right. So we've got our eight stitches pulling up a loop. You're an over insert, you're an over pull up. You aren't over insert. You're an over pull up 456, um, skip the stitch insert into the next stitch.

You're over, pull up a loop and pull through everything. Chain one and then we have one stitch left that we have not worked into. And that gets a double crochet right at the very end of the row. So there's our last stitch. So now we have nine of these cute little puffs, the sugar plum stitches across our uh piece so far and then we're just gonna chain one and we'll turn our work like we're turning a page in a book and then we're gonna work a single crochet into each stitch across.

So this one is pretty easy to see. You've got your, you know, we're not, we're not gonna be working into the turning chain we just made. So we're gonna work into the top of that last double crochet making a single crochet and then just know that the puff stitch has kind of a wider, um the top of the stitch is kind of wider here. It gets a little stretched out because we pulled up on that loop. Um And then there's a stitch in front of it that we're coming to and a stitch behind it.

And those are always just a little bit smaller than the average stitch. I'm not exactly sure. I mean, they're, they're close, but it seems like these two always get a little tighter when I'm working on the stitch pattern. So, just try not to miss those because if you miss a stitch then on the next row, it's gonna get confusing with your stitch count and then you're not gonna have equal spaces between all your puffs. And you know, of course, with the stitch count changing, that's gonna change, you know how wide your piece is.

So just take your time, especially when you're getting to that little section right before and right after your puff. Really take a look at where you're stitching. You know, look, look at the top, here's that little guy. Make sure you stitch into that one here. Is that longer stitch?

OK? And it is a little, you know, it does take a little while to get your hook underneath. Just those two and not accidentally, you know, getting into that business, you just wanna go underneath those two loops on the top, make your single crochet there and this one is a little bit small usually. So you gotta look for that one right after that puff. Don't miss that one.

OK? So you'll just be working single crochet all the way across. Just look at, you know, being careful for those little sticky spots, um, work all the way across and then if, you know, go ahead and count up your stitches at the end, it's probably worth it to do that for a couple of rows until, you know, you're really getting all those stitches, um, until you're used to the stitch pattern and you're used to looking for those little, um, those kind of smaller stitch tops and this is what your piece will look like after you are finished with your single crochets. OK. So right now we're, we're looking at the wrong side of our fabric and wrong side and right side, you know, sometimes there's like a really obvious right side and the wrong side on your fabric.

And really that all, all it really means is like whatever the designer decided is looks best is the right side, you know. Um but in this case, uh in this stitch pattern, you can see there's sort of like a longer vertical strand that's from when we do that chain one right after we make the puff. So that to me looks like the wrong side. I mean, both sides of this fabric look really nice. Let me show you the inside here, see both sides look good, but you do see that little vertical line there.

So I feel like this side doesn't look quite as good as the other side. So I consider this the outside, but I mean, it's, it's really not that noticeable and it doesn't really and you know, it doesn't look bad or anything. It's just like a little extra line there. Um So if you were thinking about using this for a scarf or something like that, you could certainly use it for a fabric where you're seeing both sides. All right.

So there's our last single crochet. So we're gonna chain one turn our work, like we're turning a page in a book and now we are back to doing another double crochet row because we're alternating between single crochet, double crochet, single crochet. And we're gonna start with that um stacked stitch. So we've got our chain one that we're not gonna work into, that's just turning chain. We're gonna make our single crochet into that first stitch right there and then we're gonna insert our hook between those like right in the middle of that V and then it's gonna come out behind that vertical strand kind of on the back of your stitch.

Just make sure when you put your hook through there. If you're doing the stack, standing double crochet, you should have two strands going in front of your hook here. And also that original loop that was on your hook. So we're gonna yarn over and pull up a loop and then complete our single crochet by yarning over and pulling through two. OK.

So that's taking the place of a double crochet that's gonna count as the first double crochet of the row. So we're gonna make another double crochet. So we yarn over, insert into the next stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two. And then because we are sort of staggering where we put these little sugar plums, we are gonna put a sugar plum right here. So right on that very first actual double crochet that we made, we're gonna make a little sugar plum stitch there.

So we're gonna elongate our loop. You're an over insert, you're an over pull up. OK? And do that five more times right there. Skip the next stitch insert into the following stitch.

You're an over, pull up a loop, pull through everything and then chain one. So you can see there was our puff stitch on the last row that we did that have puff puff stitches. There's one right here. So this one should be like there's gonna be one right here. So it's gonna be halfway between these two puffs.

OK? Because they're just kind of alternating back and forth. And now we're gonna do eight double crochets here. One, two, three or five, six, seven, eight. We got some more.

Hellos here. Um Let's see, Mafla Jla or Hala. I'm not sure how to say that. Hello from California and Gla Ricci. Hey, I arrive late.

That's OK. There is no late here. You can always go back and watch it. It's OK. Um You're from Brazil.

Awesome, welcome. Um See Wolf Pack three is saying you mentioned your mention of pattern details being obvious to the maker. Remind me of a recent interview Roxanne Richardson did with some yarn technical writer editors. Fascinating stuff for yarn nerds. Yeah, I'll have to listen to that.

But yeah, it's totally true. It's like when you're coming up with the design yourself, it seems so obvious to you. But, and even though I've been writing pattern, I mean, I've written, you know, probably 400 patterns by now, it, you get better at it as you go. But, um, you know, you still, you're thinking from your own perspective, really, you get better at guessing the problems that other people are, you know, anticipating, um what other people are going to think from what, what they're reading but you, you miss stuff sometimes. So it's always good to have people asking questions.

Ok. So Diva 9000 is saying half, it might be the half Herring Herring Bone. Ok. Well, if it is, um I, I have a couple of patterns um that I've made with that. I made a pair of mittens.

I'm trying to think the Wassel Mittens. They're free pattern download from the craftsy website. Um And they are using the half, half, double crochet. Herring bone stitch. That is a great stitch.

I love that stitch so much because it is so nice for things. It's like got a lot of drape and it doesn't leave big holes between your stitches, which is awesome. Um But if you're not really sure, I mean, I've been thinking about designing a, a pattern that's the other hearing bone stitch. Um So that I, I'm putting that on my list so you can come back for that. Um I'll, I'll think of something for that one and maybe we'll have like a little this herring bone or that herring bone moment in that live and talk about the difference.

OK. So we've got our eight double crochets. I elongated my loop and now I'm gonna make all those yarn overs until we get 13 loops on our hook, which means we do this motion six times, skip the next stitch, insert into the following stitch. You're an over, pull through and pull through everything and chain one. So this is exactly the same thing that we just did on this row except we just started out with that one.

That one we start out with, of course, with their standing double crochet, but then they're right here hidden underneath is the first double crochet that we did. And then we work that sugar plum around that. So I wanna point out and I do mention this in the pattern as well, but here I'll just keep stitching while I am talking. Um I do want to point out that when you are counting up your stitches don't be fooled by thinking you only made seven double crochet stitches between your puff or between your sugarplum puffs. Because remember when we're making that sugar plum stitch, we are actually kind of enveloping that double crochet into the stitch.

It's like hiding in there. So let me just check here. 12345678. Ok, we've got eight. So, you know, when you're, when you're doing this, you're covering up that last double crochet.

So you're not going to be able to see that when you're counting your stitches. So don't, don't be confused by that because when I first did this, I'm like, why do I keep ending up with seven double crochets between I know I did eight but it's because one's hiding in there. Ok. So there's always when you get to the puff stitch, just count that extra double crochet because you'll see, see that you can only see seven here, but there are secretly eight between making your puffs, it's just hiding. So um hopefully that'll help, help you guys when you're trying to make sure that you're on track.

Ok. So you're just gonna continue working this all the way across and then at the very end of the row, let's see, should have six stitches. Let me just double check to make sure I'm telling you the right thing. Let's see. Yeah.

Mhm. Ok. Yep. So at the very end of the row when we come all the way across here do do do do do, do all the way to the end, we're gonna have a puff stitch and then we're gonna end with six double crochet. OK.

So you'll see that that is gonna be like a little bit of a theme here depending on what repeat you're doing. Because at this point we've worked. Number row, number one was single crochet. Row. Number two was the first row of those sugar plum stitches.

Row number three was single crochet Row. Number four was this sort of shifted over version of the sugar plum stitches. OK. And then after that, you're gonna repeat those rows over and over. The next row would be single crochet and the next one would be, and then following stitch, uh following row would be a repeat of this row.

OK? So you're gonna end up with puffs here and here on the next puff stitch row and then you do another row of single crochet and then the next row of puff stitches will be back over here. OK? So you're just repeating those four rows back and forth and just know like it helps a little bit just to know on this row, you start out with your um you're stacked double crochet or, you know, just a regular double crochet or turning chain to double crochet. However, you want to start and then you're doing six double crochets before starting the puff.

OK? And then you're gonna end on that on that type of repeat with one double crochet. OK. In the last stitch, this the next row that you do these puff stitches in you start with the stack standing double crochet and then you do one more double crochet and that's where you work your sugar plump stitch around that stitch. And then you're gonna end with six double crochets at the end of that row.

If you're like, whoa, that's too much. I can't remember all that. That's OK. I'm just throwing that in there for those of you who like to know the numbers at the beginning at the end of those repeats. So that, you know, you know, because in the middle, you can see if your bauble is lining up but just making sure that you have the right amount of double crochets um on the edges, you know, can be a little bit tricky.

So that's all in the pattern. You don't have to if you can't remember. That's OK. It's all in the pattern. All right.

So you're just gonna continue doing that repeating those rows until you have a total of 14 rows that include puff stitches. And let me show you what I mean by that. Let me pull this one in here. So here we go. So we've got 123456789, 1011, 1213, 14.

OK. So we've got 14 rows that include puffs and you're gonna end with a single crochet row. Sorry, this is the way I worked it from the white to the purple. So we ended here with the single crochet row. Here is our ending tale.

So, whoops. I just undid two stitches. All right, we'll throw those back in there. Here's our last two single crochets. Ok.

And then you are just going to cut your yarn, leaving a fairly decent yarn tail because you're gonna use this for sewing and then you're just gonna pull it through that last stitch like that and tighten it up. OK? To fasten off. Let's see. Oh Sea Wolf pack has a future idea.

Maybe making those ornaments using some kind of crocheted color work. OK? We could do some color work ornaments that could be fun. Um Twyla is saying good morning from the San Francisco Bay area. Welcome back.

Twilla. I'm glad you're here. All right. So, so with our yarn tails. Oh, I wanna mention too if you decide you wanna make this cowl in the hombre yarn, like how I'm doing this sample right here at the very beginning before you start working spool off a little handful of the yarn of the lighter color because we're gonna be adding those rolled hem edges and you're gonna want one that matches most likely you want one that matches this end and then you'll want a purple one that matches this end.

OK? So whatever end you start with just spool off a little bit and make a ball and then you can go ahead and start on your, um, you know, on the pattern and that way you'll still have this reserved for when you start making those, uh, the edging on it. OK. All right. So I'm gonna turn this sideways.

That's easier for me and we are going to just whip stitch this together. So this is how I like to put it together. But if you have a different method that you like to seam things together in that is totally fine, do it however you like. Um So I'm just gonna do a little whip stitch. So I'm gonna put my needle through this edge and put it back through this edge and pull through and I find this yarn is pretty strong.

It's, it's, it is definitely good enough for sewing this together. Um But if you are using a different one ply and you find that it's kind of weak. If you have a one ply, you can twist it to gain a little bit of strength or you could sew it together um with something else, another matching uh color and yarn. So, oh, the other thing I did because this is an Hombre is I left a longer yarn tail at the very beginning when I first started working. So that way I would have a little bit of this to sea from this end as well.

I wanted to mention that as well. OK. So if you would like to pin your pieces together, you could use stitch markers to, to clip them together. What I'm doing is I'm looking at this line here that's created when you work those single crochets. It's, to me, I can really see that line and I'm just making sure that they match across that gap.

So when I'm sewing it together, I'm just checking to make sure that those match. You can, of course, just if, especially if you're newer to seaming things or you're having trouble distinguishing that line, you know, go ahead and pin pin that together, use stitch markers or quilters pins or you know what, whatever method you like and pin it all together and then you can go ahead and steam it up. I just have a hard time sometimes getting my keeping my yarn tail from getting stuck on the pins and to me it's just easier to just hang on to it. But I've also done a lot of seeming before. So it's easy for me to make sure that I'm on track.

Um, and getting my piece stitched together. All right, I'm gonna, so just a little bit more. So we have this mostly put together on this end. Um You would definitely wanna just go ahead and take your time and do the theme all the way across before doing the next step, but just in the interest of time, I am gonna, I'm gonna pause for a little bit on the seam. Here we go.

So you can almost, not even see it actually because there's so much halo, which is nice. That's a nice thing too about this yarn. All right, I'm gonna pull my needle off of here just oops, just to get it out of the way. Ok. So you would wanna continue that all the way across.

Um, if you're doing the hombre yarn, you'll kind of meet somewhere halfway where the color seems, you know, stitch as far as you can until the color starts to bother you. I would probably stitch to about here and then you can use the lighter color to stitch this other side. Another thing you could do is you could break off a little piece in the middle when your Hombre is changing and then, you know, just, just stop in the middle, cut your yarn, take a little length out for seeming later if you, if you're being like super careful about it, but I, I guess I'm not that careful. It's not really gonna bother me. Ok.

So now the last step is to work on the, um, the edging, let me pull off a little bit of this here. So in the instructions, I have you kind of spool off about 35 yards. If you don't know what 35 yards is, this is plenty. Um, if you're using the, if you have three of the, of this size yarn and you're using the same yarn I am, you can just take whatever's left over and then divide it into two equal balls and that should be good because I used a pretty much all of those 33 balls of yarn. Um, and we're gonna be holding two strands together, OK, to do this whole section of the edging here.

So we're gonna insert our hook through any of the stitches really. But I like to start where the seam is just because then I keep all the sort of, you know, imperfect parts in one spot and we're, oh, actually, yeah. So we're gonna just pull yarn over and pull up a loop. OK. I'm just gonna let these yarn tails hang off there and then we're gonna chain one and then we're gonna start with the same stitch.

We're just gonna make a slip stitch there. So we just yarn over, pull up the loop, pull through that loop on the hook. So, you know, we're using twice as much yarn here and we're, we're just gonna continue working our slip stitches into each stitch around. Um So like, uh sorry, what I was trying to say was that we're using twice as much yarn here. This is twice as thick as it was before yet.

We're using the same hook. So it's going to feel a little bit, you know, it's gonna feel thicker. It's gonna be, it's gonna resist a little more to pulling through because you're, you're trying to pull through, you know, a thicker amount of yarn and you're using that same hook. So it's keeping the loop fairly small. You just wanna watch and make sure it's not gonna be pulling too tightly.

You don't want to constrict the edge of your cowl. Um, you don't want it to cinch in too much. A little bit, I think, looks really good and I allowed it to kind of pull in a little, let me show you, I'm gonna bring this in a little bit here. See how it's kind of a little bit smaller here. It kind of pulls it in just a little bit.

I like that and I like that when I'm wearing the cowl when I flap it on over my head that it just has a really nice um It just hangs really nicely when that's just a little tiny, bit smaller than the rest of the cowl. Um So I would recommend letting it pull it in just a little, but not a lot because you don't want it to be, you don't want it to be like hard to get over your head or to look funny, it'll start to look funny if it's too small. So if that's happening to you and you're feeling like, oh, this is getting too small, switch to a different hook, a bigger hook um to help you keep those stitches bigger. So I am kind of, and when I make slip stitches, I intentionally am making them so that they are not pulling on this loop right here. When I pull through.

Um, what I mean by that is when I go through here, grab that loop, when I'm pulling through here, watch what happens to this loop on my hook. If I just keep pulling, see how it's shrinking, getting smaller and smaller and now it's like not even there, you can barely get your hook in. You just wanna avoid doing that. I know that that was very exaggerated and nobody is gonna be making their slip stitches like that. But I, you know, if you're trying this on your um on your own at home, I highly recommend just seeing how you can affect the size of that loop that's on your hook by the way that you pull the loop through it, you know, by, by how, how hard you're pulling, if you're stopping right after your hook comes through like that, you can also kind of elongate this loop by pulling it up in this direction.

Um You know, there's some different things you can do to play around with your, the way that you're pulling loops through in order to kind of control how big your slip stitches get. Because I know this is, you know, I've designed a lot of things with slip stitches or slip stitch edging. Um And I know that this is a very common problem for a lot of crocheters is when they're making their slip stitches. They are just getting too tight, too small. All right, I'm gonna work my way, all the way around, placing a slip stitch in each stitch around and then I will show you the beginning of the next round so that, you know, um how to complete it.

Let me just check in here. Oh, and Kona is saying this is so much fun. Love this so much. Awesome. Thank you.

I'm glad I'm having fun too. It's fun to crochet together with you guys. I'm just gonna imagine that you guys are all crocheting too. I mean, I know not all of you are, but I bet some of you guys are crocheting while you're watching this. All right, we're almost there.

Just a few more slip stitches. So this is a really fun. Um Actually when I first started making uh making crocheted things with that rolled hem that the rolled hem that I'm showing you now, it sort of happened by accident because I was trying to see what would happen. I was experimenting a lot with slip stitching at that at that point. Um And I was getting so annoyed because that fabric that I was making just kept curling forward and I was like, this is driving me crazy.

And then I later I was working on a different project and I'm like, oh, if only I could make a rolled hem that curled like that and then I thought, oh what I did it by accident before and it was driving me crazy. But now I wanna use that stitch, use this, you know, the, the positives of that, look at it in a different way and use those properties to do what I, what I'm looking for. So I've learned a lot since then, you know, that the structure of your stitches really affect how things curl or how they sit. A lot of times you can block things so that they don't curl so much. But I've also learned that it's good to see what the properties are of the stitches and use them to the, to the best of their abilities.

Right? OK. So we've gone all the way around. We just finished our very last, um working into our very last stitch and now we, we're gonna continue making slip stitches, but we're just gonna work underneath the front loops. So that's right here instead of working underneath both loops, which would be here underneath both those stra.

Um Well, it's really four strands because we're working doubled, but we're just working underneath the front part of that stitch. OK. So right there and we're gonna yarn over, pull through and pull through to just keep working slip stitches and we're working them underneath, just that front loop. And the reason we're doing that is because it's pulling the fabric to the front. It, uh you know, every time we're making these slip stitches, they just wanna sit on the front of our work, even the last row that we did the V, if you just take a look at it when it's sitting here, the V is kind of tilting this way.

It's not really sitting straight on top of our work. It's kind of pulling to the front and sitting right on the front of our work, which is good in this case because as we go around, we're gonna keep building those slip, stitches on the front, on the front, on the front. And what we're doing is we're creating a curve that rolls underneath. Ok. So it's gonna start, you're gonna start seeing those little vs stacking up on the back and then every time you go around because we're gonna go around a total of four times on each edge of, of doing slip stitches and it's just gonna keep curling.

So let me show you what it looks like when we've gone around a little more. See, it just wants to curl to the front if you let it go, it just does it automatically, you don't have to block it that way or anything. We're just kind of using the properties of the stitch pattern to do what we want it to do. And it makes this beautiful rolled. He, this is a fun thing to do for the, the edges of a hat.

Um, you know, or the neckline of a sweater. It looks really good too and it makes it, it is still a stretchy, you know, you can still stretch it, but it, it's a little bit more substantial, which I like in the top of a cowl because I don't like my cowls to get all stretched out. It's great if they're stretchy enough to pull over your head and feel really like, kind of loose and, um, you know, drap and stuff. I love that, but I really like to have the tops and the bottoms of my cowls feel a little bit more substantial. Um So that way when you throw it on it just hang, it just makes it hang really nice.

All right, it looks like I'm all caught up in our questions. Um Well, this has been super fun. Um So, oh, I should just, of course, mention one little thing after you weave in your ends. Um Usually this is the part that I talk about blocking and with this particular yarn, I just steam blocked it. You can also wet block it if you want to.

Um just do it gently if you're just gonna wear it, you know, if you wanna wear it right away, I would say just steam block it or you can just kind of spray it with a little water and let it, you know, kind of pat it into place and let it dry. So the only thing you really need to do is you're just kind of evening out your stitches and making it look you know the way that you want it to and giving it a little shot of steam. You just kind of, you can just fill up your iron and steam it a little bit, move it to the side and kind of pat it in place and that just sort of um, makes, makes the fibers relax into the shape that you want them to be in. So that's the whole purpose of blocking it at the end if you finish your call and you're like, looks great. You don't have to block it.

I actually found with this yarn, it's just, it hardly needs any blocking for when I'm stitching it up. But if you're, you know, if you're having some trouble with things being uneven, maybe you're having a little bit bit of trouble. Um When you seam it together, that would be a, let me see, let me look for my seam here. That would be another place um that could benefit from blocking if it seems kind of bumpy or something or it got pulled in a little. If you spray it down or steam it, you can kind of shape that a little bit better.

Um And make it look lovely. So. All right. Well, thank you guys. So, oh, wait, wait, I have another question here.

Is that hemp stitch, the slip stitch, how you do it? Ok. So I think that's what I OK. So that's what I was just talking about when you're all you need to do is after, um, I've instructed you so far to do on that one row of slip stitches, the second row we worked into that front loop and then you're gonna do two more rounds. Um, so you have a total of four rounds of slip stitching.

The last three, you're gonna be just working into those front loops only and that's what makes it curl and it looks awesome. So it's really fun to do. I definitely recommend giving it a try because it's just a really fun skill to have. So. All right, I think we're all done.

Oh, thank you, Denise. I'm glad you had a good time. Me too. All right. Thank you everybody.

Thank you guys so much for joining me. I'll see you at my next live. Bye.