Page Text: HOW TO JOIN GRANNY SQUARES BY WHIP STITCHING THROUGH INNER LOOPS
WHIP STITCH
Can be used as a decorative element/embellishment or to join crochet pieces.
Using a length of yarn and a yarn needle, insert the yarn needle through the crochet fabric from front to back (or back to front) working along the edge. For each new stitch always insert the yarn needle from the same direction. When joining motifs, whip stitches can be worked into both loops, inner loops, outer loops, etc.
WORKING IN ROW ENDS
Sometimes a pattern has you work rows of stitches and then to form a border or edging
you are instructed to "work in the row ends". The row ends are the first & last stitches you did on each row. If the rows are single crochet stitches then the "end of the row" refers to
making the required stitches around the first & last single crochet stitches on each row.
If the first & last stitches on the row are double crochet stitches you work around the post of the double crochet stitches. No matter what kind of stitch you are using you work around the actual stitch on the end of the row... not into the top of it.
The first photo in the following picture shows a swatch turned on its side
with the ends of the rows on the top. I used a white cotton thread to work into the
row ends so you could see where the stitches go. The second photo shows the entire
piece with a border added. I worked one single crochet into each row end, one single
into each unworked loop of the foundation chain, one single in each row end up the opposite
side, and one single in each stitch on the last row I had made. For each corner I worked
3 singles so the motif wouldn't curl up.
WORK OVER
Some patterns use more than one color of yarn. If a pattern instructs you to drop one color of yarn and "work over" it with a new color... lay the unused color yarn along the top of the stitches of the previous row/round and crochet over them as you go.
YARN BUTTERFLY
Using Yarn Butterflies or Yarn Bobbins helps to tame a project that contains multiple colors.
Yarn butterflies are great when you do not have any yarn bobbins.
Hold the yarn tail in between two fingers, letting the end rest along the back side of your hand.
Wind the yarn in a figure eight between your thumb and pinky finger until you have as much as you think you will need.
Clip the yarn leaving a 4-5 inch tail. Wrap that yarn tail around the center of the figure eights a few times, then loop the yarn tail back through the wraps. Pull to secure it. The yarn tail you began with (the one you left resting along the back side of your hand) is the working end. Pull on that end to release more yarn as you need it.
YARN CONVERTER
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