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Welcome to the tutorial for the Daydream Bed Scarf, a soft and elegant crochet bed scarf pattern designed for beginners. This cozy crochet bed runner is made with plush chenille yarn and easy-to-see stitches, making it a relaxing and beautiful project for your home.
The Daydream Bed Scarf adds a boutique-inspired touch to the foot of the bed and is a lovely way to bring handmade warmth and texture into your bedroom or guest room. In this video, I’ll walk you through the pattern so you can crochet your own with confidence.
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In this video, I'm going to show you how
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to make this easy and beautiful chenille
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crochet bedcarf.
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Hello everyone, welcome to the daydream
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bedcarf video tutorial. So for the first
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part of this video, I want to talk about
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chenille yarn. specifically. While this
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is a beginner friendly pattern, chenille
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is not what I consider a beginner yarn
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for a few reasons, and I would like to
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go over that. If you don't want to hear
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all of this, I will put a timestamp on
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the screen where you can go directly to
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the pattern. But, uh, there's some
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things we need to talk about with
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chenille. Not all chenille yarns are
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created the same. the one I use for this
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pattern. This is one of the better ones.
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And I'm going to talk about what makes a
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good one and what makes a bad one. Now,
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we love chenille yarn because it looks
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so velvety. It's very soft, plush
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looking. It feels wonderful against the
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skin and it's something you just want to
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cozy up with, right? But the issues are
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first of all the structure of the yarn.
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These yarns are not like our typical ply
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yarns that have several threads kind of
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spun together. The everyday acrylics you
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might use, some of the beautiful wools
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and cotton, those are a completely
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different animal than um chenille. So
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chenille is a excuse me a think of a
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thread like a needle and thread kind of
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thread that really thin
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string just thin uh thin that you put on
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a needle you might use in a sewing
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machine that type of thread and the
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fiber is connected to that thus making
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it less
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stable when it's frog so the stitches
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pull apart and here I've got one that's
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see the thread underneath hair very thin
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and the fibers connected to it. This
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causes issues when you have to frog it.
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And whether you're a beginner, expert,
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frogging happens. You get distracted.
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You miss a stitch. Stitches are also a
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little more challenging to see with this
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type of yarn.
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And what happens is the thread here
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tangles. And can you imagine trying to
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unnot
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thin string like this? It's It's
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incredibly frustrating and many times
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you'll find you just have to cut it and
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then start working from an untangled
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area of the yarn. So, you're wasting
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your yarn in the process. Now, this one
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from Premiere,
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I find that if I need to frog it, I can
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frog it two, maybe three times very
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gently, and it doesn't lose its
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integrity like some of the other brands
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of yarn.
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Right? These bald spots look awful in
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your finished item. There's not really a
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way to hide it. They're going to show
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up.
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Now, this pattern solves the problem of
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hard to see stitches. So, I created it
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to make it a beginner friendly pattern.
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I had to play around a lot with hook
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size with the actual stitches so that it
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would come out to be an really pretty uh
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home decor style item.
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Now, if you have other challenges with
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Chanel, I'd love to hear about it in the
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comments. I think I've addressed the
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main ones that bother uh us as makers,
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but we're we are going to end up with a
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really pretty bed,
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either a bed runner or a bed scarf,
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whatever you like to call it. And I have
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in the pattern, you can adjust the width
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that goes across the bed.
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I don't know if we're going to call that
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length or width. I'm calling it the
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length that goes across the bed. And
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then our starting chain is the same for
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all sizes. And then you just adjust if
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you want it to come to the edge of your
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bed or if you like a little bit of a
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drape over the side. All right, so get
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your hook. We're going to be using a 7
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mm hook for this pattern and a category
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six chenille yarn. Most of them are this
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size unless you get a really chunky one.
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So if as a safety measure you want to
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get comfortable with the stitch first,
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work a swatch along with me. I'm going
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to show you the pattern repeat, but work
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a swatch with a oh, some kind of sturdy
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just maybe acrylic that you have laying
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around in your stash so that you're not
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pulling out and disrupting the integrity
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of the yarn of your finished blanket,
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right? We don't want any uh bald spots
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and like times are hard. We don't want
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to be wasting yarn, right? And you need
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a lot of yarn to make a blanket scarf,
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right? So to make a little swatch, I've
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chained 15 stitches. This is this the
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same pattern that is in the written
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pattern for the size. Now, if you're
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just ready to dive in and start making
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it, chain 63. That will be your width
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for any size bed.
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Now, skip the first chain, go into the
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second stitch, and work a single
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crochet.
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This is a modified moss stitch. Really
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simple. Chain one,
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skip one. So, let's look at our little
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like caterpillar. Skip this one. Go into
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the next and make a single crochet.
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Pull up that back loop up there. Now,
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don't or the I should say the top part
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of the loop. Don't work into the bump. I
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know a lot of people like to work in the
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back bump for that. Don't do that with
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this
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chain. One, skip one,
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skip this, go into the next.
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Keep stitches nice and loose. We want a
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beautiful drape. Chain one,
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skip one, go into the next. Okay, so I'm
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going to keep doing this to the end of
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the row. Chain one,
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skip into the end.
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chain one, skip,
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work in the next single crochet. Right,
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so I'm coming to the end and you will
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end with two single crochet. So I
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finished my chain one, skip one, single
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crochet, and now I have one stitch left.
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So I'll put an extra single crochet in
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there.
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Chain one, turn, and then we start on
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row two. All
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right. So, now let's look and see where
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we are.
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We've got our first stitch here. So,
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I've chained one.
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I'm going to go in there and work a
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single crochet. Always first and last is
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just regular single crochet. So, on the
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previous row, the stitch before the last
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was a single crochet. So, we need to
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create a space on top of that with a
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chain one.
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Then, we'll skip over it. So, you always
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know it's a stitch by looking at it this
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way instead of this way.
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There's going to be a V here that goes
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with this stitch up here. That is the
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stitch. The space between is between the
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V here and the V here.
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So, I'm going to go into the space and
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pull up a loop. And this is called an
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extended single crochet. This is, you
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can think of it as a hybrid of a single
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crochet and a half double crochet. So,
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you start the stitch like you would a
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single crochet. All right, that's what
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I've done. Then, yarn over, pull through
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that first loop. Now, you've got two
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loops on hook like you do with a half
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double crochet. Yarn over, pull through
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two.
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All right. And then here we've got the
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V. What's my cat doing?
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Chain one.
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Skip that stitch. And here's the space
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between the two V's.
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All right. My cat gets a little jealous
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when I'm distracted by other things that
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aren't him. All right. So, I've chained
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one and now I'm looking for my next
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chain one space. So, here's my B. Here's
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my B. And then here's the space. So
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again, let's work an extended single
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crochet in there. Draw up a loop.
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Yarn over, pull through one. Yarn over,
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pull through two. Chain one, and then
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skip this V here, that stitch. Go into
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the next, and another extended single
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crochet
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V here. So, we're going to do a chain
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one and skip over it. Then find that
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space and work another extended single
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crochet.
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Chain one,
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skip this, and there's my space.
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Extended single crochet.
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Chain one.
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V. So, we've got one chain one space
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left and the last stitch. So, we'll work
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two stitches at the end. first extended
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single crochet and then always start and
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end with the single crochet.
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And that is row two. All right. So next
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we have row three. This will be your
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pattern repeat. You will work this for
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the entire
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uh width or length depending how you
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refer to it of your piece. All right.
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Always start and end with single
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crochet. Right.
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So now let's look at our work. The next
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stitch is the V.
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So we're going to chain one, skip one
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over that because there's already a
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stitch there.
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And we need to create that chain space
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above it here. Here's our first chain
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one space. So go in and work that
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extended single crochet stitch. Chain
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one, skip the next V, and work the
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extended single crochet in next. Right?
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So, we're just going to repeat this to
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the end of the row.
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Chain one, skip, extended single
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crochet.
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There's V.
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Extended single crochet. Chain one. Skip
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chain one,
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skip,
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and now there's just the last stitch of
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the row left, which is the single
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crochet stitch.
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And if you want to just check your
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stitch count.
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Okay. Stitch one, stitch two, space.
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That's 3
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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13 and the last stitch is 14. So the
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starting chain was 15 and the swatch
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size is a 14 stitch count. Okay. So then
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just repeat row three for however far
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you want to take it.
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Right. So I've reached my length. My
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length is for a queen bed and I've made
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it 96 in long or across. But I'm calling
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the shorter part your starting chain
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your width.
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Although I guess technically it is the
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len I don't know that's just what I'm
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calling it in the pattern. Okay.
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Um so for your final row once you've
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reached that keep keep going your uh
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right to left and work now do your chain
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one and work half double crochet all
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across this row.
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And then when you get to where your
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chain one space is, go down into that
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chain one space.
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And then your regular stitch, just work
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into that half double crochet all the
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way across
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just like so.
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Nice and easy.
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All right. So, I'm finishing my row of
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half double crochet.
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Here's my last stitch.
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Then I'm going to chain one, turn, just
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one quarter turn. So, now we're going to
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go down the long side
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and work slip stitches. So, to I'm off
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camera here. I'm so sorry. Go into the
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stitch. Now, kind of space these so that
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you don't have any flare that you're
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uh staying flush with things. Whoops.
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Not too tight.
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Pull through next stitch. Going to get
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that hook in there. Find a place for it.
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Slip stitch.
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Keep my loop
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not too high, but high enough that it's
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not going to pucker. Don't want to
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pucker on our bed scarf left. And you
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can just Now, this is where you might
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have to frog at some point. So, work a
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few stitches. See how it's looking with
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your spacing and your tension and see if
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you have to adjust. All right, that
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already looks like it's puckering a
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little. Gently pull it out. So, I need
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denser
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spacing of my slip stitch.
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Pull up. Pull through. Pull up.
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Okay. Pull up.
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Like so. I've got a long ways to go. So,
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I will meet you when I get back to the
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end of this.
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All right. My uh I'm refilming this
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section. my file corrupted for what
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happens when you get to your
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um the end here of your slip stitch row.
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So, I'm on the wrong side.
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Yeah, I had to adjust all that. This
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this piece is so large trying to put in
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this filming area. All right. So, here I
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finished the slip stitch row and then
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you're going to of course match and work
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another half double crochet. This is the
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shorter end. Your starting length, your
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62 stitches. All right. So, I finished
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my slip stitches here.
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Now,
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the end of the last half double crochet
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row or the first row that you worked
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before the slip stitch, it was a chain
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one, turn, then you would have worked
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about two slip stitches here. Here,
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because of the height, you'll need to
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chain two. That way, we want to ensure
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we don't have any buckling. This will
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keep it. See how it's just nice and
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straight and square? So, this is the
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first row coming down of the slip
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stitches that you worked the first. Yes.
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Chain two, turn. Then work your 62 half
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double crochet across.
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Then chain one, turn. I wo in my end.
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And work your two slip stitches in that
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half double crochet so you don't get any
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buckling. Then you'll slip stitch nice
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and loose, even spaces down. And I'm
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coming to where I'm going to join the
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final stitch to the first row of half
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double crochet.
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So at the very end, once you've
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completed your second row of slip
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stitching, you'll see you have your
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little kind of gap here. So this is the
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this was chain one, half double crochet,
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and you look at the spacing here.
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There's two stitches. So, you're going
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to work two stitches into the side of
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that half double crochet. And it should
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line up perfectly
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like that. Then you'll cut your yarn and
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weave in your end. You'll probably have
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quite a few tails from all the joins of
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new skins. So, use your
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um wideeyed tapestry needle or you can
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use the method I'll link it where I like
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to use my little small 2mm crochet hook
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to do detail work like weaving in. If
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you don't have a large tapestry needle,
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I will link that and you can see how I
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use it to weave in ends. And then you're
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done. You have your beautiful textured
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drapey chenille bed scarf.
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