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Summary: In this arts and crafts video lesson on crochet for beginners, watch how to finish your doily project.
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Martha McCue Martha has been involved in crochet since she was very young. She now attends craft shows around the southwest, selling her projects and conducting classes in... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, Martha McCue with expertvillage.com. I’m going to show you how to finish this little project. We are going to keep working on it. I have chained five. This is the third row now I am going to do the double in the same stitch that I just did. Sometimes it does not work. Come on. Sorry about that folks. There we go. Now what we have here is a V so to speak, it is a chain 5 with the double, but now we are going to go to the next double right here. We are going to chain 3 and now we are going to double. Right here in this stitch, in top of this double, right here we are going to right through there. Do a double, chain 2, do it right back in the same stitch. See you have a V there. As you work this around you are going to come back and we are going to put more stitches into these little slots or whatever you call them, I call them slots, but it is a chain 3 space, chaining again like this right now is a very simple stitch. It is easy to learn, main thing most people have trouble with when they first start the crocheting is keeping their tension on the thread. If your tension is not kept, your stitches will not be uniform and it will show. So the main thing as you want you thread to stay taut as you are doing your stitches unless you are in a pattern that calls for loose stitches but this are not very many of them now. Thank goodness because it is hard for me to be loose. Now the double and chain 3 and another V. As you can see it does not take long to do these. You go fairly fast and they make a such lovely little doily. My girls love them. I just cannot seem to get them to learn, they cannot sit still long enough. I guess that is why it is called a grandma’s project because this is what grandmothers do. As you can see I was forming this row, how is that?
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