hello welcome welcome i am just gonna get my
screen on here if you've seen any of my other live videos you know that i have to watch
myself be live so that i can catch the chat otherwise on my little tiny phone i don't actually
see it so i'm just gonna grab that on my screen and then we'll get started and i should put the
link the link is well i did this last time and then i thought that was silly but look at me do it
again um i'm going to be working on heart levels 40 today which is 40 refers to the windows when
you're doing interlocking crochet and we're doing mosaic crochet so 40 isn't necessarily helpful
but when you have all of the squares that are 40 you know that they're going to be the same size
so there's that um i was going to say oh the lie the link so i haven't updated this one to have
center out yet and that um it will get updated currently i was just working on it today
and it's almost ready and then i thought hey my kids are out i should go live what should i
do today and it won't be a very long live i know sometimes i have really long lives um this one is
they're just at the park so when they come back i'm gonna say okay i'm all done goodbye so just
be ready for that so i put the link that's the the pattern i'm gonna work on when it's updated it
will have the written instructions for center out right now it only has like the regular bottom
up and it'll have center instructions for interlocking and mosaic you can see these are
almost the same size this kind of fits in there the interlocking has these mesh dots this
little heart is about to be created here i'll have charts and written
instructions for the center out for both techniques then so right
now it's regular up and down and i wanted to just show you because the
beginning of it is a bit weird um maybe you're familiar with mosaic crochet center out what look
at which look what i'm doing i wanted to show you this so i should have undone it first but i
thought maybe you could just listen to me talk um oops my little thing i'm just
going to try again go back try again see if that's going to work this
time now it's giving a commercial boring uh i don't really like the commercials on
my channel but it was giving me commercials anyways and now i sometimes make money
from the commercials so i do like that part i'm just pulling this all out because i wanted
to show you guys this pattern is not going to be the only pattern that starts weird i have
not published it yet but i have a different pattern as well where the beginning starts
with a couple rows that are all the same color and i thought maybe that's weird for some of you
people oh you don't even start with a slip knot okay losing my mind here i am i think i've
been live long enough that anybody who's going to join us is ready and if you heard
it already the pattern link that i put there is not um full it's not updated so when we
do mosaic crochet this is going to be my main color m c really it just means first
first color and we're going to start with uh what do you call this thing again
some magic ring you're just sort of making a loop this loop you can tighten when
you're done and that keeps the middle really tight so we are going to start center out mosaic
crochet eight single crochets in this magic ring two oh i was going to mention well i
guess i did show you the pieces uh i removed the mesh dots for the interlocking
version this is the chart that should go with this pattern all these little dots i've removed them so
that's why it's very solid if i kept the dots in you would need to switch back and forth right from
the get-go come on little papers get out my way um i just need to focus focus focus focus four hi
i'm ashlee brotzell and i don't focus very well but i do have fun one two three four five sometimes i count that beginning one
and sometimes i don't one two three four five i think this is a also a stitch here six we'll keep going i need eight seven eight so you can tighten it at this point but
you don't want to pull too tight because you still need to get into that final stitch
and when it's really tight it's hard hello welcome to my live video it's exciting to have
you if you want to grab a hook you can crochet with me but i think that sometimes my live
videos aren't very good for crocheting with because i'm not organized enough ah cindy
you're funny my laughter is contagious here around my house we just say that
um everyone likes to laugh at mom i have to be silly because i have little
kids and too much stress to be too serious so now that i've gone in there
i can pull this really tight and normally this would be the point where we join
our other color if you've done a different one we have the little inner circle this counts as row
zero it's the dot in the middle and in order to do the next part you don't have the pattern
in front of you because i didn't update it but i have the pattern and it says that
the next row we're not switching colors rows one through four we're still going to be
using this one so instead we are just going to we're going to you don't really need to do this
part but i found that when i was doing it i like to have it really tight on the back because it
keeps things from twisting and that would be we would normally be tightening it if we had changed
colors so now we're just tightening it for nothing there's no change colors and we're just going to
grab the next back loop only because this mosaic crochet let me see if i can bring it close enough
so you can see the normally this is like a v right we're just using the back loop for mosaic the next
stitch is actually here it's very tiny because we've been tightening things but it's still good
to use him so we're going to go in the back loop and row one starts with a corner a single
crochet corner means you do a single crochet a chain and a single crochet and then i only write out one side of the square
because we're making a square but each side is the same so the next instruction says single crochet
one if you read the key you would know that it means back loop or if you're familiar with mosaic
crochet and that's the side so now we turn it and we do the next side we're going to do it four
times corner means we do a single crochet a chain and another single crochet all in the same spot
then there's only one stitch along the side a single crochet and we're done so
we turn it and it's making a square we first started with a nice circle and right
off the bat we're turning it into a square this part i don't know maybe you think it's
boring i'm used to doing more intricate things where you start off right away with things being
confusing so i actually thought it was kind of nice when i was doing my swatch earlier that the
beginning you could kind of just go now you see this is loosening i pulled it tight again but
it'll loosen if i don't weave it in before you finish your project you must weave it in it'll
be fine if you're just crocheting right now but before you actually put this in the washing
machine you've got to weave that tail in to join we're going to take our hook out which
is scary and if you look really close you can see this was our corner we have a single crochet
a chain one and then the first single crochet he's kind of smooshed to the side so that's where we're
going to go under they call this an invisible join i don't know who they is but that's what
i learned they call it an invisible join the magic ring yes no tails when you're doing
overlay mosaic in the round send her out whatever you want to call it right that's the best and
you could just start working but this is where i found it was handy to like make a chain and
really tighten it up just to keep things from twisting i don't know that's just my own little
thing so that's what i have in the pattern when the pattern is updated you can look back at
this video and go oh that's what she's doing so we're going to do it again this was the
corner this is a single crochet a chain and then the single crochet he's going to smush
down here so we're using the chain space for all the corners we're just using the back loop and
we're doing another corner single crochet chain single crochet that's our corner now we are on
round two so we're gonna do three single crochets that's the end of the side very um simple if
you know what you're doing but if you're new to crochet or you're new to overlay i feel like that
might be something that feels overwhelming still so i thought a video might be handy a video before
the pattern's ready because i'm crazy like that one two three corner one two three so then our last side is
the hardest one because i feel like you really do have to count to make sure you
don't forget the last stitch we've got one two and if you weren't paying attention you
might think you were done the third one this is the front loop that you're going to leave
available so you have to kind of pull things apart to find the back loop he smushed he's
smooshed in there to get your third stitch so that's the third single crochet and then of
course we still have to join the rounds to close it off i pretty much always pull my corner out to
make sure that this is corner chain oh yes this was my first single crochet stitch of the corner
and you go under both loops when you're joining it we're not ready to change colors
yet so we're still gonna just tighten it up for no apparent reason we are now on row four now people will also say
well how can i count i forget which spot i'm on so you have to kind of look let me
see how big how close can i bring it come on camera focus is it gonna
focus so this was our inner round and you can see the front loops they make
a bit of a bump and that would be one and this front loop is two so now we're on front
loop three we're going to make round three you can also at these early stages you can just count
find your corner and your other corner and figure out how many stitches are between it so that
you can pay attention to which row you're on now i pretty much always count in the corners
like i was saying define that chain one corner so row three says five single crochets
it gets you to the next chain space the chain pretty much always flops out
a little so he is not too hard to find and this yarn is a worsted weight yarn i'm using a
five millimeter hook but i'm actually finding it a bit tight i would have preferred to go up a hook
size but i'm crazy and i'm mixing yarn weights because my contrasting color is a three weight
it's a thicker three weights and it recommends a five so i probably should have stuck to using
the same kind of yarn but i like this pretty stuff and i didn't have anything to go with it that's
how i do things so now we're back at the corner i'm gonna go corner oh i think i did miss a loop
there um didn't miss the loop but this part of the string you know my yarn split this is bernat satin
but it's like really old i'm pretty sure it was in a bag given to me so they probably changed
their formula for how they make yarn by now and if you're counting that's
five you can see it's square i don't know i just think it's so fun to start
new projects so i have like a million things i'm supposed to be finishing and instead i decided to
start a new one i also was supposed to be doing the weeds in the garden they are out of control
but i didn't do that today either well i did weed like four potato plants that's not really enough
those potatoes are being dwarfed by the weeds so one two three four and our fifth one is always
hard to find so this would be the front loop you can push this stuff out of the way if you pull on the front loop sometimes you
can see which back loop moves until you get familiar with it it's very hard it's probably
the trickiest part and i'm probably getting my big finger in the way so you can't even see
what i'm doing come on loop and ta-dah we did it so that's the side now we'll join it now do you remember which which row i
was on that's the corner here's the one oops i find i look at what i'm doing instead
of looking at the camera sorry about that so that is three this would be zero one
two three so we're doing bro the blue again i just tighten it up this was the corner space
here doing a single crochet corner single crochet chain one single crochet then this one says seven
which is easy you knew you had one then three then five then seven because we're always increasing
by one on each corner so by two every side two three four five six seven corner one two three four five six seven corner one two three four five six seven and because i on i told
a little i pulled everything apart so now my tangle yarn keeps coming at the side uh corner
that's where i'm at one corner does three stitches now we're gonna go seven again one two three four five six the seventh one he is there i promise
if you really have a hard time finding him you could probably pick a different
loop and it would not be super noticeable and we join them together now this time finally
we get to add our next so that was the single crochet of the chain which means that first
single crochet he's kind of hiding down here so to add my next color first i got
to find it all right yarn tangly mess ooh tangly mess you can do it don't tangle too
much we did it almost okay there we go here it is i'm using this mandala sparkle i guess it's
called mandala sparkle i like the color striping self striping yarn for center out because then
it shows off the fact that i was doing center out if you've seen this in a different video all i
do is pick up the loop i hold the pink one so that i can tighten this blue one okay that's too
messy let me see if i can do that better so that you guys actually can see what i'm doing
so this is the blue one i was just doing this is what it looks like on the front this
was our magic ring is it going to stay in focus so the the yarn if you look at the back
this is where it's been tightening up it's slightly noticeable if
you're really staring at it otherwise if you kept it tight it keeps things
snug we're just gonna pull up a loop of the pink like so and then i hold it so that i can tighten
the blue one and i bring that blue one forward because i want to carry it and then make sure you
don't lose this tail because it'll pull right out i just do a chain that pulls really tight because
then now it's locked in so i've got this one carried to the front this one locked in and i'm
ready round five says using our cc contrasting color which for me is this pink stuff i'm gonna
do a single crochet corner and then nine single crochets it's not so hard so it's the same spot
the chain stitch from before only this time i'm keeping this little the blue tail in front so
i can go over him for that first single crochet then i put him to the back chain one single
crochet in that same spot that's the corner this one's now ready for the next
round and the pink one we're just going to do all the way across if you want
to count you can it's nine one two three four five six seven eight nine so you can see that the blue it's all
single crochet rounds and you get this front loop making like a ridge and i like the
texture but i want people to be aware that that's what's going to look like because
it's slightly different than other center out where you get a lot of double crochets
and it keeps things pretty smooth right so that's why i wanted to show it off and
i will keep going because we have time the kids are still at the park mama time and the next
one goes in that chain space it's a corner single crochet chain one single
crochet in the same spot one two three four five six seven eight nine so
this is that chain space he kind of he sticks out a bit right that's the
one we're gonna put the corner in seven eight nine my yarn's a bit stuck here like
pull on it there we go and i even got my scissors out because i was like oh i'll need these i'm so
prepared and then i realized i don't need scissors only i will so it's like a trick and then a double
trick because i don't know what i'm doing zara's in the house welcome welcome we're going to do
that corner so if you missed it at the beginning i'm working on the mosaic crochet version center
out of an old pattern called heart levels 40. the 40 refers to how many windows it starts
with when you're doing interlocking crochet regular back and forth and it does have
a mosaic version already in the pattern but the mosaic version currently is back and
forth and it includes the mesh dots so this is interlocking it has all these dots you can crochet
mosaic like that but then you would still see those polka dots so this one now is going to be
updated it'll be solid and it'll be centered out so here is where it's important to count because
you want to make sure you don't miss that last one it'll ruin your count so this was our corner
two in the same stitch with a chain in between one two three four five six seven eight i already
knew i needed a ninth one but i wanted to show you this is the front loop of it
we need to grab the back loop if you have a really hard time finding that
loop you could try using stitch markers to give you something to hang on to the next
time there we go you like my colors they're much better than my other video these are
more me look at this sparkly pretty rainbow i'm a child at heart i had a pink truck in high
school i usually like pink i like to be flashy but understated navy with pink to me is a bit flashy
but understated i don't know now to change colors pull the blue one up tighten the pink one bring
it to the front these are just extra tails chain one but tighten it
tighten it really really a lot because it's going to be shown on the back and
you want it to stay flat and out of the way now we are on round six we're using our main color
which is the blue one i know you don't have the pattern i'm just telling you but later oh there's
an ant on me or a spider i don't know what he was i was in the garden ah don't panic maybe you've
seen my other live videos i'm not a fan of spiders okay focus focus i flicked him off me now
he's on my yarn somewhere else and he'll bother me again later anyway round six we
are going to do a single crochet corner so when we look at the corner we have two
stitches in there this one's the single crochet that's the chain and this was the
single crochet from before so you could put a stitch marker in there now if you're thinking
you're going to lose hit for the end of the round the chain space is where we make our corners
i keep that tail one one stitch locked in then get it out of the way chain one single
crochet in the same space to make our corner and this is the first round where it's not
all single crochets we're gonna do three single crochets to start it off one two three and
then we'll have five doubles and when you do your double you want to make sure that everything is
lining up because you want it to go straight down these do line up straight down so that's
the loop you want to pick up the blue one and we're going to do five if you want to lock
them in there's lots of different options i really prefer not locking them in i don't mind the flaps
on the back they're not giant enough for anything and it takes time some styles of locking in take
extra yarn and it does squish the stitch so you can see how the top of my stitch does not meet up
with the top of this one so if i was to pull it and lock it in it does squish it down to lock
it in so i just don't i just don't like to then this is a mirror image it's
actually if you were looking at the chart only you would need this much of the chart and
you would mirror it and repeat it on all the sides but i write out one side at a time so i have three
five and then three and you want to make sure that you're skipping the stitches behind sometimes if
you things are leaning you grab this loop but he's actually already taken so make sure everything
is straight and ready or you can count from your corner find that chain space that's the corner one
one two three okay those are my tips and tricks and we're gonna do it for all four sides
it's not so big so i'm just gonna keep going my kids are at the park who knows how long they'll
be depends on how many mosquitoes bother them or if they say i'm i'm thirsty i want a snack and
then dad eventually will give up and come home so here we go dropping it down one two three four five and we have three more on the
side and this is actually making a little heart if you saw the pattern
which i mean you can go check it out on ravelry it's not exactly what
we're making here but it's close or if you saw the beginning of the video when i
show my interlocking square that i had started i'm not sure if i'm going to take that one apart and
do a video with it it feels weird to do a video and like start again because then i'll have two
squares that i don't really know what to do with and i'm only you know 10 rounds in or
whatever it is but if i part that feels weird too because that's like 10 rounds
that i'm just pulling apart for nothing it's very strange so i'm not sure what to do with
him today i pulled it apart we'll see now tomorrow my husband is taking the kids to nana's for art
class so i will be hopefully making another live video or i will be finishing a pre-recorded video
that is going to be used in october i know that's a really long time to wait so i'm not really sure
where was i yes one two three okay i am glad you find my tips and tricks helpful cindy that is why
i tell you guys how many mistakes i make because then you learn some tips and tricks any tip
and trick i have is because i made that mistake and trust me i make tons of mistakes all the
time so here's where it's important to count because it's a squished one right one two
that third one here he is if i bring it close that's the front loop and the back loop it does
not want to focus on that i don't know how to tell my phone to focus on this little piece
of string but you can sort of see it i think then we join it using this one on the side oh how do i get rid of that um let
me just do something about that your junk isn't wanted here thank you very much
report as disgusting thank you and also remove it remove them okay i don't know how to deal
with spam they're disgusting interrupting my video with your gross little
comments do you know people still message me on like instagram too hey pretty lady and i'm like
i do crochet patterns i show my pictures i show my husband i don't want your stinking messages
go away not interested so here we are um i have to bring up my screen again because i moved it
to get that message hopefully gone i don't know if it even went away or if it's only a way for
me but i attempted to save your eyes i'm sorry so we are on you can count that middle circle is
zero it counts as round zero the foundation then when it starts to make a square that's one and
you can see that the front loops didn't get used so they're all still here so that's one two three
this is the front loop over here so that's four the pink one is five which if you look back
at the pattern that you don't have but i have that's when the contrasting color starts
so you know yes five was contrasting color so we just finished round six this will now
be round seven with the contrasting color and spoiler alert when we're finished this round
we're gonna cut the pink one oh thank you joan yeah that's just so irritating hey
reported blocked go away get off my channel this is going to start with a
single crochet corner again i just hold that blue for one stitch just to
lock it in for the next round and we're gonna do three single crochets then we're gonna drop
one down five single crochets drop it down three single crochets so what we're making is just
a line on the tips of the pink if that helps oh yes zara's going to go to sleep have a good
rest i will get this pattern updated on ravelry soon and then this video will be more helpful
i think it is a paid pattern but obviously depending on how far i get on the video maybe
you won't need to buy it you can just follow the video i don't know whatever you like so
we'll see you around go have a good sleep that is the whole side it's just kind of
doing that now we're going to do it again oops come on yarn there we go and
the corner single crochet corner does single crochet chain one single crochet right on
the corner spot then we're gonna go three one well three singles one double i shorten it
in my head and then i realize that not everybody can read my mind isn't that crazy
one double crochet five singles one two three four and five my yarn is a bit
tangled over here drop it down one of the issues when you've covered this up
if you're tilting things and pulling on them the mistake that i've made is that i'll grab the
loop that's actually hiding it looks like this one is the loop that i want to pick and then
i mess things up so make sure that everything is laid out straight when you're picking up your
loop then we have three more to get to the corner and here we go the cute little pink hearts
i just think they're cute chain single three one five one three that's
what we're saying in my head one double see this is here when you start to look
because of the way things are pulling it looks like it could be that loop but you have to follow
it down oh really get your spam off my account hmm hide user if i hide user does that mean that
you guys can see it still or does that mean only i hid it i don't really know that's why
i didn't i don't know i tried hide user this time maybe that user will go away because they can
just get off my channel i don't need your messages corner chain there we go and this is the
one where it's important sometimes to count to make sure you don't
miss the last one one two three i feel like if i was advertising for
that this would not be my audience what a waste of time go advertise where
they're actually wanting that goodness gracious one two three four five yes so double crochet down i didn't do an intro on like what these stitches
mean or anything i didn't read the key out that's how i do things i just jump right in figure
it out or s or drown is that how it works you're gonna learn how to swim or you're gonna
drown right now but we're just doing crochet so if you drown it's not so bad you just try again it's
okay a little yarn got a bit tangled over here and this little paper fell off but put it back
oops just bouncing everything around okay so we have to make sure that we get three here so
this little stitch does need a single crochet and then we join it nope stay in the camera although it's gonna i don't know how to make it stay focused on me
here um if i get too close then it doesn't focus if i get too far away then it doesn't focus and
if i get too close then i can't see what i'm doing so i try to show you what i'm doing that's
the point of the video there now here is our blue one we're going to pick up the blue one
and we can carry this pink one under again and tighten it up but now we
actually don't need this pink one because he's not going to be used for a couple
rows and i would prefer to weave it in you can carry it up the corner if you like
but i'm just getting rid of him i need my pattern back up there so we're
on round eight we're using the main color this first round we're going to cover some
of the pink so we're starting still with a single crochet corner so i find the double
crochet corners a little harder to use but i don't know i like crocheting
but it seems like a win when it's like oh good it's just a
single crochet corner i don't know it says that i need to do five five and
five so five singles then five doubles and it's a mirrored image so
five singles on the other side i did see a message from my husband
but i don't know what it said he could be saying we're on our way home
when i see my kids at the door because the wooden window is really right in front
of me when i see my kids i'll just let you guys know that that's the whole video
today and we'll come back to it later it will not get the whole
square in one video because it's kind of a big square but maybe if you
however far we get you can make a couple squares of this size and join them together
and they'd still be really cute so one two three four five then doubles and if i get far
enough i'll show you the difference in texture now texture is one thing that crochet designers
hopefully do put a little bit of thought into i know with some designs like hooked on
sunshine obviously texture right some designs you'll see that the these are all
single crochets the texture is different even though the color is the same so a row of
double crochet and single crochet is different texture i don't think it matters for this project
so that's why i decided not to do double crochet over the pink like you could do that here and you
would just have rounds of pink that would show at the back but then the front would all be blue
still anyway so it seems like a waste of time and pink yarn so i just changed the pattern to
say we'll just start with a blue inside square and i'm the designer i can
change it it's my pattern nope it's not really changed from anything it's
just changed from my normal template i suppose when i take the pattern and read it technically there should be single crochet pink that
gets covered but i thought that's silly and i know that i am crocheting very
fast if you're re-watching it later you can slow it down i don't really know how
many of you will need to re-watch the video once the pattern is uploaded you'll either
read the chart or read the written pattern or you'll go to a different video of mine
that teaches you how to do the technique and i'm not sure that this video in
and of itself will be super helpful except for maybe to reassure you that this
is what it looks like in the middle right that's kind of what i was thinking if i have
enough time i'll go through the whole square here on various lives it might take a couple
because i don't mind i think some people don't want to buy the pattern and
maybe they'll just watch it and some of you will watch enough video to
say okay i'll go buy the pattern right three four come on yarn five and my children stayed away a really
long time i didn't think we were going to get more than 20 minutes so
happy go lucky us here we are i don't know so that's four you have to still find
that fifth one is that going to focus so this is this is the front loop here so you have to go find
that back loop helps to hook it this direction or pull on the front loop whatever you need to do
pull this out of the way is usually what i do and i use my fingers and the hook and just
stretch it out so that i can get in there single crochet five then we have to join it under the single crochet from before put it on and we're not changing colors
so that's round eight round nine 10 11 and 12 are all going to be blue again and it'll
do we'll have single crochet so if you're if we don't get that far you can just keep going the
pink one we're just going to leave it down here we'll have to weave these in after and this one
at the end you have to make sure it's all woven in i just chain one and tighten it because it
keeps the bump looking the same all the way up and gives me space to maneuver without pulling
things and making it a gappy loop so this is the single crochet that's the chain space the other
single crochet is already smushed down here really more spam i'm not gonna do live videos
if these people don't get their act together hmm well i don't know if it'll show
those it says hide the message so hopefully on a replay you
won't have that it's just spam so we're going to do our single crochet corner then we're going to just go
across if you want to count it i do have in the written instructions the number
let me go back to that this is round nine so we'll have 17 single crochets plus the corner which
is a single crochet chain and a single crochet so you can count them if you are not sure
that you're going to get every stitch i'm pretty confident that i can find each
stitch and i don't really need to count them sometimes on the last round i'll double check
my count because i do second guess myself when it gets to that squishy corner and i want
to make sure that i'm not losing a stitch and if i have problems later i don't really want
to be taking four rows out because i messed up my count so i will sometimes just add an extra stitch
in or take a like a do a decrease stitch and that way i don't have to take the rows
apart because it's really nobody's going to be counting your stitches long as you're
not out by like 20 one stitch here and there you can probably just fudge it do um if you've
done any amigurumi there's like a decrease is very common and an increase is common in amigurumi i'm
not sure if they're very common in other patterns technically we are doing increased stitches on
all the corners right we're putting more than one stitch into the same spot that increases it
decreases might be a little bit more tricky you might not be familiar with them unless you're
doing amigurumi or something else that's shaped i find it easy to know which one is my
corner because it sticks out the first single crochet seems tighter the chain is a
bit looser and then the next single crochet is easy for me to find when i get to near
a corner you can use stitch markers every time you do a chain you can put a stitch marker
there if you're not sure or if you just want that assurance that when you get to the
next round you'll know where to put it people laugh when they're like you use
that many stitch markers that's crazy and i'm like do whatever works for you if you need a hundred stitch markers and you
got your project done who cares there's no stitch marker police you don't get
charged extra well i guess if you have to buy them but you can use so many things for stitch markers
like i have actual fancy stitch markers because i treated myself and i said i'm a designer i need
stitch markers and they're pretty colors they're smooth i was using safety pins before that because
they're aplenty i've used extra yarn i've used toys we had some small toys if they were small
enough i used to stick them through like an arm that's desperation really just get up and get a
stitch marker right don't use your child's toy it doesn't work if the child
comes along and takes the toy so here's where i would count if i
was unsure i am very sure that this is the stitch i need to use right here
so i don't know if it'll focus on it not very focused if you have a project in front
of you my big advice is like pay attention to what you're saying and look at the things so
that you can get familiar with the anatomy of stitches and how your project looks i can show
you in videos i can make the video crystal clear and it still is not enough for some people right
so knowing what your project looks like is the best way to figure out what you're doing same with
gauge swatches people are like well if i change this and that will just try it obviously you don't
want to try making an entire sweater to figure it out but that's what a gauge swatch is for it's
a small section that you can try it out with that way you can have an idea of what it's going
to look like later if you wanted to count then we'd have to do 19 on this round because we're
always increasing by two so last round was 17 this one's 19 the next one will be 21 then 23 then
25 right so that's helpful to find your round like what round am i on well you can count how many
stitches you have on the side and match it up or you can count these these front loops knowing that
the front loop would have been here at the bottom and then the next one will be at the top the
top again right so you just have to know the anatomy of what you are working on and that
comes with experience but sometimes just saying well i've crocheted for 30 years and i
still don't know well then you probably didn't look close enough 30 years of experience is
not enough if you're not actually examining it just being familiar with how to
crochet is not enough sometimes pay attention pull things apart you know
like what part is going through what oh well that's the loop at the top you know that
sort of thing that's how that's how you learn that's how you get more experience
that's how you'll be become an expert now this if you were carrying your pink
up the corner you would have a small amount of pink showing at the back but then you
wouldn't have to weave in any tails at the end so that's the trade-off there and i would
say it probably uses less yarn to carry it because you would only need to carry it this
far as opposed to leaving a tail to weave in and then at the beginning you also have to
leave a tail to weave in right so you're saving maybe three millimeters worth of yarn
no probably three centimeters i don't know but it's not much yarn it is more time to weave things
in it looks nicer on the back so i say cut it how long do you think it's going to take me to
get this pattern updated on ravelry should we take bets i know some people have been waiting a really
long time for me to get the double wedding rings updated on ravelry double wedding rings is taking
a long time because one it's a bigger project and two it has many more options of sizes and that
really through my computer system for a loop and i had to do a lot of adjustments to try and get all
the options in there and then i had to do a lot of things manually because it just wasn't working
so there was a lot of learning and trial and error and this one on the other hand is just a square
and i just did my computer macros once they're set up i can use them over and over again and it's
easier to get the instructions for center out the double wedding rings is not my first center
out thing but i think it's my second or third i suppose i don't know but um i have more experience
now so i learned a lot but the learning process takes time and i didn't want to publish it without
being sure so it also took a lot of crochet time and then because it has interlocking version and
the mosaic version and they both are very large if you're going to be doing the repeats but the way
the repeats work is actually slightly different so the patterns are kind of waiting on each
other just to make sure everything is ready and it should be i'm hoping this week but honestly
no no guarantees this little hearts level 40 update i think that'll be this week too actually
although no guarantees on that either and by this week i think it's thursday today isn't it or
friday today's thursday so by this week i mean before next thursday in the weeks
time i don't mean by tomorrow tomorrow dad is taking the kids to town we live
in a small village about an hour from the big city so that'll give me quite a bit of time
because that's two hours of driving plus two or three or four hours of entertainment
while they're there they're going to be doing playing with the cousins or grabbing groceries
that sort of thing art class with nana so that'll give me time to work on stuff and i will
probably do a youtube live and an instagram live and a facebook live which means i'll
have to like do my hair or something and that's always like ugh takes so long i have
to actually spend time on my face just so i can be on a video today conveniently i'm not sure if
you noticed i'm not showing my face yep that's me showing my crochet because
that's what you're here for supposedly people like to see faces
and it gets better engagement and better algorithms and blah blah blah and i'm
like well that's just too bad because i'm a human and my face isn't presentable for a video
for everyone to watch a hundred times but this is looking cool it is a bit um wavy the
tension isn't great which i mentioned earlier it's because my yarn is technically too
thick but it's not so bad it's not horrible so we're at the corners you can count them if you
want i'm just going to keep going my kids are not home yet and the more i get done in this video
then the next video will be able to see something more interesting than just single crochet rows if
you're re-watching this i have no hard feelings about you skipping it it's okay and i suppose
if i was really cool i could add in some time counts i can't do it live but afters afters that's
not a word afterwards i can add in time counts you're going to interrupt my video again well that's irritating i've never
had that on my videos before and i don't watch enough live videos from
other people to know if that's a common thing i wonder if there's like settings i
can make it more strict or something so no idea i could make someone else a moderator
but i don't know really what that means either i don't know is pretty much my
mantra no is that the right word you like have pick your favorite quote
for the year that'll guide your life mine would be i don't know i don't know
what i'm doing i'm just gonna do it anyway i had a dream last night that my aunt and
grandma had bought me a guitar only it wasn't a real guitar it was like way too long and like
a very rectangular box type thing with strings and i don't know how to play the guitar but
in my dream i picked it up and i started doing some whatever whatever it sounded just like
my husband's magical little guitar daddies he knows how to play guitar
he did a lesson this morning and in the dream it felt like well of course
that's just how you play guitar and that's just a little thingy dewy and then i woke up and i was
like yeah right i do not know how to play guitar i could learn if i wanted but guess what my
hands are busy and i would rather crochet we're almost at an hour i definitely did not
expect to get an hour of crochet time my kids randomly went to the park and Mitch was
like hey we're going so you can get more work done or nap or whatever and i was like
nap you're funny i'll work i'll get work done nine ten 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20.
There's always an odd
number so we got to do 21 and knowing that i have 21 also tells
me by looking at the pattern that you guys don't have sorry um it'll
be updated soon there you go that tells me that this was row 11 and
we have to do row 12 all in blue as well so this was single crochet chain
in the corner so the next the first single crochet that i want to join to
feels like it's right down on the side i just chain one to tighten everything up doop and
we're going to do 23 single crochets on the side it's just repeating and i know that's kind of
boring to watch i could tell you more stories do you have any questions do you have something
you'd like to hear you want to hear a funny story about my children my garden my face i don't know
whatever you want i will entertain the masses obviously not the masses but i will
entertain the five people who are watching me um my husband this morning when he was
going out the door to do his music lesson he said okay i gotta go i said okay we'll
be here doing the same thing we always do trying to take over the world which is like
not the exact quote but it was kind of in the pinky and the brain type whatever and my husband
got the joke and he laughed and everything he said something back about taking over the
world i don't know my little boy who's five said mom don't take over the world it'll fall
apart oh it's like is that supposed to mean like if i take over the world i can't handle it and
it'll fall apart or the world is on the brink of collapse i shouldn't bother like what where
you come up with these sort of silly things children just say things i don't know and i also registered my two youngest
Melody is two and a half and Remi is five he's the one i was just talking about
and i registered this morning for an outdoor tumble class i don't really know what they
call it it's in saskatoon of course because that's the near city to us it's an hour away
which means on thursdays we're gonna drive all the way there and one parent has to be
present and the kids are in different age classes so first it'll be Melody and i will
go with her probably i'm assuming it'll be me doing the tumble classes but i i guess
i don't really know the kids just usually like me i they like dad too but for a new
event like that probably they'll pick me and i don't think i have to do tumbling but
i have to be there to probably make her not run away or you know help with okay now we're
kicking a ball or whatever it is i guess you don't kick a ball in tumble class i don't know
what we're doing i've never done this before i paid the money we're gonna show up and hopefully
the kids will like the activity like that we're doing something just one-on-one ish in a group and
like learning how to listen to a different teacher because otherwise they just hear my voice all the
time and after Melody's 45-minute class there's like a half an hour break and then Remi's class
will start so not entirely sure how that'll look my other kid Alice she's seven they didn't have
a class for her age so she just has to come to town and hang out with the other grown-up and
child they'll probably go grocery shopping or buy donuts or play at a nearby park you know maybe
they'll see some cousins or friends or something there's always stuff to do and it's in the
summer july to august it's like seven weeks we don't do a lot of activities well for
two years we haven't done any activities but then we were also moving and trying to get
settled so i feel like it's about time to start putting some more structure into our
lives and i hope the kids will like it but already i'm like oh that means all
thursday i don't get any crochet work done does that make me a workaholic does it count as
being a workaholic if it's your favorite pastime i really like to crochet i
really like to make patterns i really like to be in my house i'm an introvert
and i like to stay in my house and be comfortable hopefully the kids will have fun and
we'll take pictures to prove to them when they're old that we did stuff that's
what they're for right you spend 100 bucks on a class so that you can prove to your
kids that you did something i don't know now if we were counting you would know
that there's more stitches to go here we can go back and count if you like i know that this one is my um it's not the
super tight stitch it's just a relatively tighter end stitch in that row and then
the weird one to catch is down here oh yeah my knuckle does get in the way
i'm sorry i don't know how to fix that because i have to actually use my
fingers and they get in the way so this should be let's double check or count
oh it's cute right it's a little wavy on the edges but not so bad that circle in the middle
is zero then the the first box is round one two three four we're counting the front loops the
front loops are hidden here but that would be four then it would be five well okay maybe i'll use
this bring it closer you don't have to count the loops if you know that on the pattern it says
cc5 so that was pink and cc7 so that's seven then you could skip counting all the middle
right then the next loops is eight nine 10 11 and the top loop that's not been used is 12.
So for
round 13 we do have to join our other color again and whenever we join another color we know
that the first round is going to be single crochets why is that the nature of overlay mosaic
crochet means i can't do a dropped double crochet because the pink would have no pink to drop
into now technically you could do the stitch but it's not proper it's pink always gets
dropped into pink and there's no pink to drop into so you already know that you're not
going to be doing any double crochets this round so i've locked everything in it's relatively tight the corner you can look this was
the single crochet the chain and that was the first single crochet it's very
tight there yeah it's very not in focus hey it's not a very good teaching video
if you can't see what i'm doing i guess i might move away from doing live videos
the video quality is just not good enough i'll have to pre-record which means that you'll just
get the videos a couple days later but that's okay so this one we're going to do all single
crochets if you wanted to count them we'll have 25 it's not extremely interesting to watch but
my kids aren't home so i'm going to keep going i think zara might have went to bed she said it
was like two in the morning and she was tired oh it's stuck in there this is mandala sparkle and
it has this little gold thread running through it it's actually kind of scratchy on the fingers i
don't think it's my favorite thing to crochet with but it looks pretty the pink
or i mean the blue one is satin brunette satin so it's quite a lot softer anybody got a fun story questions comments
concerns i could tell you advertising words i suppose that's what i'm supposed to do right
advertise for myself boring technically right now the only promotion that i have
on is with the o canada blanket so i updated the old canada one a couple
days ago or i don't know how long it's been if you bought it a long time ago or if you
recently bought it because of the update you will have the opportunity to use the code
ohcan o-h-c-a-n and that will get you 30 off your cart so if you already own or on ravelry only
it only works on ravelry if you already own the old canada throw blanket pattern then you can get
30 off anything you like until june 19th 18th or 19th i don't actually remember what i typed i just
pick random days when i do this sort of thing if you are using etsy only you can get that pattern
for 30 off but it doesn't apply to anything else so it's better deal on ravelry ravelry just has
better capabilities for that sort of thing and always i have this promotion on my
small squares they are 20 window squares this one is technically a 40 window of course
we're not using windows but the size is still four times the size so on a 20 window squares
i believe the promotion is that you can buy six but you put six in your cart and you
only pay for four which makes it 30 savings so if you're paying attention to these
stitches this is two in the corner which means this is the chain space between
them so that's where the corner goes and i have been working on a million projects
at once as usual so this week i sent out was it six patterns two testers
more than six testers six patterns technically well i mean if you want to get really
technical one pattern always has two techniques so i need always at least two testers per pattern
one of my patterns that's going to be coming out someday is gonna have the regular bottom up
for both techniques plus a center out for both techniques so that's four options and sometimes
when i do things like that i realize that it's a little overwhelming not only for me but for you
guys when you go to buy it and then there's so many files so i'm probably not gonna offer four
options on all of my patterns it's just too much um i need to do that final stitch the fluffy one now this i mean you could just
say hey that's a fun square cut off your yarn join a few together you'd
be good to go but we are going to keep going and i always pull this tight bring it to
the front to carry it the blue one is just going to be another boring round i find them a
little bit boring when the rounds are so similar so that pink was round 13.
The blue one now
is just going to be single crochets again because when you go to do the next
pink one you'll cover up some of them so we're using blue we've got to get that pink one
away i imagine that my family will be home soon and it might interrupt this
row but i don't know we'll see the cat is home hello cat our cats go indoor
outdoor they're supposed to be mousers but mostly they just sleep in the house all day and then they
meow at me when they want someone to love them and then they want in and out to play so i don't
know about how many mice they're catching lately they did catch a few mice when we first
moved in but maybe they're on holiday if you were counting there'd be 27 single
crochets across this row plus the single crochet for the corner so if you don't count the single
crochet chain space single crochet there's 27 and when i finally do update my double wedding
rings i'm still on the fence about whether i need to increase the price because technically more
work has gone into it but if you were buying the pattern would you be buying it because it has all
four versions and therefore i should charge you for all four versions or would you just be buying
it for one version and the other versions that are there it's just in one file because ravelry
doesn't want me to list it four different times i could i've seen other people do that on ravelry
they have a listing for you know their pattern that shows a heart in this technique and then
the pattern that shows the heart the same in the other technique but from what i understand ravelry
does not like that and they want you just have one listing and even i made all these alphabet squares
they were 20 window alphabet squares there's just um like one it's like a square a a through zed
plus a heart and a star and an ampersand i think i can't remember if the ampersand is in that one
anyways so each letter is listed individually plus there's an e-book so that you can just get
all of the letters and i tried to list a blanket so for example with mosaic crochet if you're not
doing the center out like we're currently doing normally at the end of each round you'd have
to cut your yarn and if you cut your yarn at the end of each round then you have to weave
it in or use an envelope border or something to deal with those tails and if you're making
a b c d and you want them to join together you have to deal with the tails before you join it
together it's like an extra step if you put an envelope border it makes it bigger because now the
envelope border is taking up space so i made an all-in-one blanket and ravelry rejected that they
said you cannot add this blanket pattern because you already have so many other things that's
pretty much what they said you already have all of these other things listed you can't do that
and i was like well they're different patterns and they said no i was like okay rivalry sometimes
frustrates designers and i've heard other designers have various other frustrations lack of
support rejection of patterns that make no sense changing pattern listing descriptions that sort
of things people i don't know but people seem to still love it and i do prefer it etsy has
issues as well people seem to be really upset about that and they complain a lot so to me they
both have issues and i don't know why one gets a really bad rap and the other one doesn't they
both have issues they both have pros and cons and they both at the end of the day have a lack of
customer support for the designers etsy obviously doesn't only deal with designers but sellers
of anything lack of support is a problem and i find that ravelry claims to have support but as an
official stance they don't have that much support usually you have to wait a really long time to get
an answer or you have to ask them five different times on a message board or an email here or try
this email or maybe that email maybe you'll get a response here and no one seems to be really upset
about this unless it happens to them and then they're like what what kind of customer service
is this i'm like yeah it's been like that forever so that's just my whine nobody was saying anything and that's what i defaulted to
just started whining oh no hey we are not going to count because i trust
that i know what my stitches look like my pink one keeps getting
caught with the blue one there i thought i heard a noise outside so i think
my family is probably on their way home so what's better should i end it
at this round or interrupt around well if i can show you one side of the round
and then if i get interrupted i don't have to finish that round on camera because you'll have
already seen one side of it right so i'll just keep going it's not very chatty in the chat today
but somebody might want to watch this again later and if you don't i suppose i wasted an hour
crocheting it doesn't feel that bad to me it's no harm off my back that's not even the
word is it no skin off my back i don't know what the sentence is i don't say things
so let me double check where we are this pink one oh there's my family this pink one
was 13.
This blue one was 14. on the next video i'll show you the next bit probably i'm
hoping to get the pattern updated before then so then you could just buy it and you can crochet
without me but if you're waiting for that update that'll be how we do it thank you for joining
me thank you for watching i'm sorry about all those spam comments i don't know how to
get rid of them but that's it bye guys