00:08Hi everyone! Today I'm going to show you how I do what I call the Merry-Go-Round
00:15crochet technique. I'll be demonstrating that with this really super bulky,
00:22actually it's jumbo, jumbo yarn and with a huge 15 millimeter hook. So let's get
00:31started. This pattern will be worked in a continuous spiral and the only time
00:41you're going to join a round is at the very end when you're finishing the last
00:48round that you have. All right, so what you're going to do is start with a magic
00:54ring like so and in the magic ring you're going to chain one there's my chain one
01:11then single crochet and chain two four times. So this is the first time we're
01:19going to single crochet, chain two, one, two, single crochet, chain two, one, two,
01:42single crochet, chain two, and here's the last one, single crochet, and chain two, one, two.
02:07All right now at the end you're just going to pull on this little yarn in that we
02:17used to start our magic ring. Just pull it tight there. All right we'll weave this in
02:26at the end then you're not going to join we're going to keep working in the round
02:33all right now for this next row round I mean sorry you're going to find the first
02:42chain two space so this is the first single crochet area then here's that chain
02:50two space just gonna stick my finger in so you can see it I'm going to in that chain
02:57two space I'm going to single crochet chain two let's do this step by step so
03:05single crochet chain two and then single crochet chain one all right now find the
03:23next chain two in that next chain two space you're going to repeat so we're
03:34gonna do a single crochet chain two one and two single crochet
03:50chain one chain two single crochet chain two single crochet chain two single crochet
04:17chain one chain one chain one and last time here's that chain two single crochet chain two
04:26chain two space so in that space do the single crochet chain two and single crochet
04:47chain two chain one and then you're going to do a single crochet chain one and then you're going to
04:49see a square
04:54a somewhat square kind of form and it'll get clearer as we keep working so we just finished round two
05:02now let's go to the third round what you're going to do is find that chain two space right here
05:12oops hold on I just did a single crochet I forgot to chain one at the end there
05:16chain one okay so in that chain two space that's actually going to be the corner space
05:24so every time you see a chain two that is the corner of your square there's going to be four
05:32corners of the square
05:34obviously so in this first chain two space you're going to single crochet
05:45chain two single crochet chain one
05:55that brings us to the next part which is actually a chain one space you see that it goes on
06:03the top of
06:03the square that part is not a corner so instead of doing two chains two chains in there you're just
06:12going to single crochet in there and chain one okay and then you see in this next space
06:25in the corner you're going to insert your single crochet do two chains that helps make them a corner single
06:38crochet
06:44do one chain there you go and now we've come to the other side of that square in this chain
06:53one space
06:53all you do is a single crochet and then a chain one next you come to that chain two space
07:03insert the single crochet
07:07chain two
07:14single crochet
07:21chain one
07:22chain one all right
07:26and let's keep going to the end there
07:31so after you chain one you see this chain one space just one single crochet in there
07:39single crochet
07:42single crochet in that chain two space then you do that corner with two chains
07:49and single crochet in that same spot
07:56all right
07:58chain one
08:00single crochet in the in the chain one space
08:04and chain one single crochet in the corner
08:14chain two
08:18single crochet in the same corner
08:21and i'm kind of hopping from the round three to round four now
08:26um as you keep going you're going to notice that you're working in a spiral
08:35and you've got a square shape going on
08:38so if i hide this tail end here let me just pull it in
08:43it'll be easier to see
08:51all right so here's what i have so far
08:54just gonna stretch it on the ground a little bit
08:58and if i keep going around i will be making my square bigger and bigger
09:03i'm gonna go around a few more times and i'll show you how you can finish your square off by
09:11um
09:12fastening off
09:13okay so bear with me for just a little bit more i just want to make the square a little
09:18bigger so
09:19it's easier to see
09:21if you're still trying to figure out um the repetitive part of this pattern um let me help you out
09:28and
09:29let's go through for another round
09:32so here you have a chain one space
09:36it's not the corner of the square so you're just going to insert a single crochet
09:43and do a chain
09:46in this chain one space not a corner you're going to just do a single crochet
09:53and a chain
09:56oh look we've come to a corner of the square so in here you're going to do that single crochet
10:05chain two
10:16all right corner made there's my corner let me go through this side
10:25we're on the flat side of the square so just chain one
10:31single crochet in this chain one space
10:37chain one
10:40single crochet in this chain one space
10:45chain one
10:47oh look we are at the corner so we're gonna single crochet
10:52chain two
10:57single crochet
11:04and there you have it you've got another oops there's another corner made
11:11um i'm gonna come over to this side
11:15and i'll show you how to fasten off on this corner
11:21so let's
11:22make our way over chain one
11:26single crochet
11:30this is some huge yarn and i'm
11:35trying to wrangle it right now
11:39all right now chain one
11:43and oh look we've come to this corner
11:49so when you reach let's say you're satisfied with how large your square is
11:57so i'm looking at this and i'm thinking oh i'd like it to be about this size i don't want
12:02it to get any bigger
12:04so once you're feeling or thinking that way you're gonna fasten off
12:09to do so you're gonna slip stitch to join the yarn in one of the four corners okay
12:18so i'm gonna finish off here with a single crochet
12:24oops
12:26actually i'm sorry not not with a slip stitch join you're gonna do just a single crochet join
12:32and after you do that single crochet in the end um you can just cut off your yarn here and
12:40pull it
12:43pull it out weave in the ends and you've got a nice little square made
12:51you can use this to make a rug you can use this to make a blanket whatever you'd like
12:58and um if you check out or both sides look really pretty so you can check out the um
13:07the pattern and the stitch and if you'd like a written pattern feel free to hop over to my blog
13:13i'll put a link in the description box below and um you can find a written tutorial to go with
13:19this
13:20um pattern all right thank you so much for watching hope you have a wonderful time crocheting bye now
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