Welcome back to the crochet crowd. I'm your host Mikey.
You ever have holes like this in the center of your crochet projects?
Maybe the top of a hat, maybe Amigurumi or anything that goes in a round circle, just like so.
Some patterns, it's ok. But some things, like on the top of a hat, it's not really that cool.
So you can eliminate that by getting rid of that.
So how you got that is like you chained 4, you created the ring and then you went around it.
The problem is, is that when you chain that 4  that first chain kinda creates the circumference where everything goes around.
You can eliminate that by using a magic circle.
And this is a magic circle here, which I'll show how to use.
This yarn here is going to the yarn ball, ok, so your hook would be up here.
And once you get all of the stitches on board, all you have to do is take this other string that is hanging out, and I'll show you how to do that, and we'll just have to pull it shut.
And it brings that whole center into an absolute close, just like that.
And you can slip stitch it as normal and voila you have like the perfect center piece for your hat or  project whatever you're working on.
So in todays tutorials we're going to be doing Magic Circles.
We're going to be doing a single crochet magic circle today so if you have to start off your ring in the center as a single crochet, this is how you do it.
This is one of the very few tutorials where I will slow it down in slow motion after to show you the concept. Because I think you just require it.
Now normally what I would have you do is that I have you do the slip knotting when I show the tutorials, just like so, bottom over top, to create your first loop, just like so.
So the reason that I'm showing you that is that I've been teaching how to do that for almost 5 years.
In this concept, instead of going up like this with your straggler over here,
what I want you to do is that I want you to come in from behind and bring the straggler in front of your hand. Just like this.
Now look at the top of my fingers.
I'm just gonna kinda clamp everything into position over here.
And I'm gonna take this over my finger, and I'm gonna cross it over the top
Just like that.
Now, with your crochet hook,  you're just gonna sink underneath the first one. Like that.
And you wanna grab that yarn that is leading to the yarn ball, which is coming from behind.
Just like that.
And I want to grab the yarn that is coming from the one in behind and I just want to pull it through. Just like that.
And that is beginning.
Sso now I can just take this safely off.
Okay, so the straggler's going toward the left here, because I'm right handed.
And all you just do now is I can single crochet around the ring.
So I'm just gonna go into the center of the ring, just like that, and single crochet yourselves around.
3..4..5..6..7
So you just wanna keep that straggler on top.
You don't wanna get it tangled in, you don't wanna grab any fibers or plys from it.
You want to be able to pull it shut.
When you're done, you're gonna have your straggler going off and all you're simply gonna do it just hold it, just like this, and just pull.
And it will pull it completely shut,  just like that.
And then you can slip stitch it to fasten it off to make the center of your ring.
Just absolutely perfect.
And you can safely cut that straggler that you pulled when you did your magic circle after that.
So...let me show you the slow motion version.
