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This is to show how to decorate Afghan
or Tunisian crochet using a woven stitch.
You can use yarn as I'm doing
or you can use embroidery thread
a double strand. The important thing is it fills up the space.
This is a tapestry needle which you could use.
But I'm actually using a darning needle. A blunt nose needle would
be even better since it wouldn't grab
the extra yarn.
Of course, to thread your needle,
wrap it around the base and hold it really tight.
When you pull it off, you can now push that little
bunch of yarn through the needle head or eye.
Pull it through.
This is a basic Afghan stitch so you can see there's a very prominent
vertical line. That is the one we'll be going under.
Just take your needle, insert it under the vertical bar
and pull it through.
I'm going to pull this yarn up and you'll
create a running stitch. That will look like this blue yarn
over here. You'll also notice in the center I have a pink.
That has a little bit of a changed to it.
That is a wrap-around stitch and all you do
is take your yarn again
and go back through the same space
around that same vertical bar.
Lightly wrap it around. Don't pull it too tight so it puckers.
But at the same time you don't want it to hung loose. The most important thing is
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that you are consistent. For that stitch I wrapped it double.
The second stitch was placed underneath the first stitch. So you want to keep doing that across the row.
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Or if you wrap it over the top, make sure you do it that way
so the stitch will stay consistent.
You can use this also
to make other designs. This one is a zigzag stitch
or a zigzag design using
a dark green and a pink thread. Of course, I can do
rows and rows of it. I can repeat the design.
Or I can make another design. You're not limited just to the basic
afghan stitch. I'm going to turn this around.
On this side I have the waffle stitch.
If you need to know how to make the waffle stitch, I have a video showing the waffle stitch.
What you'll notice about the waffle stitch
is it actually has
two threads. Let me
you go down here and you can actually see
I've got two loops. There's a prominent front one
and a not-so-prominent back loop. In this particular design
up across the top,
I'm just running the yarn through the prominent loop.
Again, using the running stitch. When I bring the board down here,
I've worked the wrap-around stitch, but I've now worked it around both loops.
It has a little different look, plus I started to make a design.
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I wrapped around four in one row.
I went up one row above and wrapped around two in that row and coming down to continue design.
Actually my favorite is and I'm going only through
the top prominent loop.
I started to make another zigzag design,
using dark green, medium green and pink yarns.
Of course, you could add more and more rows
to make it very decorative or
you could actually reverse it now and start making diamonds -
a diamond design. So really the possibilities are whatever you
want to do. It does make a nice decoration
and a great addition to your stitch knowledge
and decoration knowledge of various crochet projects.
This gives you a lot of options.
If you'd like to see free patterns, go to
www.SimpleAndSensational.com.