 Hi everyone it's Tasha with start of school crochet. Welcome to the jingle all the way crochet along live. This is my first time using StreamYard and streaming to a bunch of different platforms so I'm a little nervous and I've had anxiety about it all day but I'm going to jump right into it. So the jingle all the way crochet along is a four-week crochet along for this pattern which is a VW bus and I added some plaid to it. There are, hi there, there are three different versions of the bus pattern. There's one that has just a retro pink and then there's one that has a solid red classic VW bus. So this pattern is a free pattern on my blog and it's start of school crochet.com and I put all the links in so you can see them. Hello everybody. So what I'm going to talk about today is how to read a graph. I'm going to show you how to reduce from both sides. This is a rectangle and not a square so the last, hi Melissa, the last blanket I did was a complete square which is different. It's easy to reduce from both sides on a square one but not necessarily on a rectangle. So I'm just going to show you real quick how to do reducing from the corners when it's a rectangle and then I'm also going to play the basic C2C video that I created and it's on my YouTube channel. So the basic C2C is just going to teach you how to do C2C and reduce and decrease. So let's get well also before I get started on all that I wanted to tell you guys about the holiday bundle. If you haven't seen this one yet this is a 45 pattern bundle that's taking place right now and it ends on Friday. Okay. Melissa said the video is all the video we all need. Oh okay. Well this bundle ends Friday so if you guys haven't checked this out check it out. You can go to my blog and there's a post on there that will tell you everything about this bundle. So I'm going to jump right in then and show you guys a picture or show you guys what is in the C2C or the Jingle All the Way C2C blanket pattern and I'm going to here I am again. I'm so new to this. This is kind of cool. So this is basically how you do C2C. Your first step is to chain five and then you're going to double crochet into the third chain from the hook and then double crochet in the next two chains and then your row one is complete. So you have three double crochets. So after that for row two you kind of flip it up and then you work into the now let's get to watching the video. So I'm going to add this video to the stream. Hi everyone. Let me know if you guys can hear it or not. Today we're going to do a little tutorial for C2C in companion to my corner-to-corner calculator for how big your blanket size will be. So what this is a corner-to-corner is used as a graph and Tasha here from Stardust Gold Crochet. Today we're going to do a little tutorial for C2C in companion to my corner-to-corner calculator for how big your blanket size will be. So what this is a corner-to-corner is used as a graph and it works from one corner to another corner and it goes diagonally instead of working in rows. But you can obviously work a graph in rows too. But the corner-to-corner blanket works this way which is really interesting. You can create some really great patterns with it so for the tutorial I want to just give you an idea about what C2C is how to make some color chains and also how to do some decreasing and some increasing and what that means with corner-to-corner because it is it can be kind of confusing. So and also another question that a lot of people ask including myself is how big will my blanket be. So that's a universal question because everybody has a different tension and everybody is using a different hook size a different yarn size. So the calculator I made will help you determine how big your blanket will be according to how many squares you have in your graph as well as a swatch that you make. And I'll go into that the link will be down below for the other video on how to use the calculator. It's really simple not complicated at all so don't be scared. So let's get started on this little swatch pattern and I'll show you guys how to do some some C2C. Okay so what we're going to do first is I'm going to work we're going to work three squares using red and to start go ahead and grab your yarn. I'm using 24 seven cotton a four millimeter hook and so the first thing you do like with most crochet is we're going to go ahead and make a slipknot. I'm going to zoom just a little bit and so for corner to corner you can start out using six chains or five chains. The difference between those two will the six chains you'll have a little bit bigger square and the holes will be slightly bigger. I'm going to show you what I mean by that. The holes between each of the squares right here those tend to be really large when you use the um six method when you chain six and then chain three between each of the squares. I like to chain five and then chain two between each of the squares because it leaves a slightly smaller hole. You can see it's pretty can't really see holes that much but so for this tutorial I'm going to chain five one two three four and five and then with CTC we're going to work three double crochets into the very first three chains so you're going to start by counting down one two three and work into the third chain from the hook and do a double crochet and then go into this chain and do a double crochet then the third chain do a double crochet and there's your first square so we've made our first square now we're going to work our second square and a good indication of where you're started is where your tail is so that's going to be your square because your tail comes off and goes to the right so with CTC you kind of work a little backwards and forwards but so here we're going to do the next row technically that would be row one that we just worked which is right here and we worked it's going to lay this this way so now we're going to extend it and then work row two so the way you extend it is you're going to go ahead and chain five again and then work in the third chain from the hook again and do three double crochets in each chain until you reach the base part so there we have our extension and we've actually worked this square so we have this square and this square worked right now and it looks a little crazy and kind of confusing but what you do here is you want to bring up if they were side by side like this on your first square you want to flip it bring it up side by side like that and then work into the space of the last double crochet that you did sorry about that okay and then do a slip stitch and here we're going to make our next square which is going to be this one so we're not going to do an extension we're just going to chain two and then work three double crochets into that space two and three and there we've worked our first little section right there so for the next for the next row we're going to go ahead and change colors and we're going to work it in orange so how to change colors is fairly simple and it's the same that same method you use when you join using row to row crochet and what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and pull out the very top part of our last stitch reinsert your hook and of course you can you know before you even complete this stitch on the next one you can use a new color then add your new yarn to your hook and pull through to complete your your stitch so there we have our new color very easy and so with the pattern you can see we're going to extend off here so we're going to chain five over here and then work our way back up this way so we're going to chain five three four five and here we're going to work back down the chain into the third chain from the hook double crochets three of them in one in each chain the joins are always they always get a little bit loose just no big deal just tug on them if they get loose and so here we've made our first square of the new color and we want to do the same things we did before is join them so how we do that is you kind of you have to flip it and put it side by side and then go into that top double crochet space and then do a slip stitch and that joins them and then chain two three three more double crochets sometimes it's easy to fold this piece back to get it out of the way when you're working and so here we're going to do our join into the next double crochet space there slip stitch chain two three more double crochets and our row will be complete and I recommend marking the front of what would be the front of your project with a stitch marker or loop through a little piece of yarn or something so you know which direction you're facing it really helps when you're working a big graph so here we have our comparison and we've got our one two and three rows it's one two three so now let's go ahead and we'll make changing up the colors again to yellow just so you can get used to color changes so we'll do the next row in yellow so I think I'm going to interject now until everybody to go watch the rest of this video on my youtube channel um it'll be there for a long time but I didn't want to take too long because I want to show you guys how to reduce from um a rectangle version instead of just a square version so I'm going to take that off and so Ruthie Ruthie said Ruthie's on oh wrong one okay Ruthie said I can't read a pattern a written pattern are you going to post videos for the cow so I'm not going to post videos um showing you know crocheting this entire blanket mostly because it's a giant blanket and it would take me probably it took me a month to make my last blanket so um yeah that's probably not going to happen but what I will do is show you how to read a graph and um when you read a graph each square in the graph represents a stitch so when you start the pattern you start if you're a right-handed person from the bottom right hand corner of your graph and then you work diagonally so each stitch goes just like the video that we just saw goes diagonal like that and you work your rows and then when you reach your colors you add your color and then keep going and then you just if you're working from a graph you can cross off your stitches as you go but this pattern is going to is also a written pattern on the blog so what it means by written is it'll basically say a color times the number of squares you're going to uh crochet so for instance this would be the first one would be one square white times one square the second one would the second row would be white times two squares the third would be white times three squares and so on and then when it gets to the changing of the colors it'll say let's say um one two three it'll say white six gray one and then white however many left so it's really easy to work and read um C2C graph gain patterns it's super easy so for Ruthie I think you'll have a I think you'll be okay with this one I don't think it'll have um you'll have much of a problem with it um and so for those who know how to do C2C and want to learn how to reduce from one side and not the other side because this is a rectangle pattern so we're going to be reducing like when we get up to here we're going to be reducing from one side but still increasing on the other side so how that works is I've created a little slot here you're always going to mark the right side of your pattern and inside the pattern um it's denoted with WS or RS right side or wrong side so this will be the right side and so I'm going to do this little spot here and we're just going to decrease from the right side only so that means when it's facing you you'll decrease on that side and then continue increasing on the other side so I've already done this part I'm just going to go through and start decreasing from the right side so the way you decrease is you just it's going to be kind of weird to do it like this um you slip stitch through like that and then you you turn your work I'm going to show you like this and then you slip stitch through all three of the top double crochets that are there like that and I also slip stitch through the chain okay so there that's my decrease that's how you do a decrease and then you chain two just like normal and you do your three double crochets into the next one and that right there is your first stitch of your next row and then you work down just like normal I didn't do this swatch too big because I figured it would be really kind of oh you know so I'm just going to crochet this up super quick and then we're going to increase on the other side and then decrease again when we get back to the other side so if anybody has any questions let me know um somebody said just coming just coming how many rows are you on now before just before December I'm not really sure what that means so far we've posted 68 rows and um there's a rows one through 68 are up and then every Monday through the entire month I'm going to post all the rows and I kind of sectioned them out so that when the larger rows like these rows here are 85 um stitches each so you'll have fewer rows um on week three than you will on week one and week four so so you don't feel overwhelmed because it's going to be a lot um okay so oh thanks Melissa she said I wish I found you and your channel years ago thank you okay so I just finished doing that um that one row and you see we decreased on this side and then we did another increase well we're going we're about to do an increase here so this is going to be an increase so you're increasing when you add five chains and then when we get back to the other side we'll do a decrease and then you set up I've been somebody asked if where were you here years ago I started doing my blog in 2017 so I've been here a while I just did it wrong so I did it wrong to start and what happens when you do it wrong is not a lot of people see you so I've learned how to do it right now and I'm trying to um be more visible I guess I've always had social anxiety so this is kind of a stepping out of my comfort zone right now really bad but I don't mind doing tutorials where just my hands are on camera okay so now I'm back to this part here and so we're going to decrease again from that side so we're creating a straight line over here and we're still increasing on this side so I'm slip stitching turning and then I'm going back through and slip stitching along the edge and that's basically how you decrease in c2c I hope you guys can see this okay thanks Melissa I appreciate that so you can see it's turning into a rectangle so once you once you get to the point where you where it's in the pattern where it says decrease from wrong side then you're going to start decreasing from the other side too it'll it'll denote it in the written pattern you'll see it when when you come across it it'll say decrease from right side or decrease from wrong side and just remember you want to decrease from the side where your stitch marker is and that's it so that's pretty easy I hope you guys get it if not I'll post another video in the crochet along group and oh thanks it just says Facebook user so I don't know who said that but thank you because um yeah it's a lot of social anxiety um I never knew that what anxiety was until I ended up in the hospital one time and um with the entire right side of my body numb or left side of my body and um my heart was racing I didn't know what was going on and the doctors when I left I looked at the paper and it said diagnosis anxiety and I was like I don't have anxiety but of course I know what it is now and I know I did have it but anyway um well I appreciate you guys being here please check out all the videos if you have any questions let me know um I don't see any on here that let's see wait somebody said do you have any left-handed directions um well the thing about c2c for left-handed let's see okay there it is I put it on the screen um c2c is reversible but so it doesn't really matter which way you crochet it um if you're going by the graph I can probably do a written um from left to right written pattern from left to right but if you were to crochet this from corner to corner either corner to corner whichever corner to corner you're going to get the same pattern you would just you know when you lay it on your couch you would just flip it over and it would be the the words would say the right thing so it's the same on the front as it is on the back and there really is no difference between that so you're good on that if you're a left-handed user or a left-handed crocheter um okay let's see crystal says where's crystal crystal there she oh that's the wrong one thank you crystal I appreciate you too where is it okay so somebody said what size crochet hook do you suggest I'm using a 5.5 millimeter crochet hook with the worsted weight yarn from impeccable um and this this suggests to use a uh let's see I think it's yarn suggestion is 5 millimeter but I went up by a 0.5 because and that's an H hook it's i9 sorry 5.5 is an i9 but it says to use an H hook but I went up one thing so um I like it because it creates a looser looser stitch and so wait crystal um it's very easy if you know how to do double crochets you can do C to C what I would do is just practice on um a swatch just create a solid swatch like this and just the only difficult part I could think about it would be to flip it and that's the flipping part I'm going to add this to my stream um kind of strange at first but once you do it I think you'll you'll do fine you just flip it up like with your thumb watch the C2C basics video and I think you I think you'll get it it'll be just fine so let's see but not the picture words and pics coming out backwards wait somebody wrote but not the picture words and pics out comes out backwards hmm I don't know about that I'll have to look into more left-handed C2C and see what the difference is I don't see how it would make a difference because you would just oh I think I know it wouldn't make a difference I don't think I'll have to talk to my crochet buddies about that for lefties okay well I'm going to check it out for lefties and see what there is I know that I can reverse the pattern for you so maybe I'll try reversing the pattern and see if that would that work for a left-handed user to reverse reverse it um this pattern is from right to left so I could do a from left to right pattern perhaps but really I think that if you were to crochet it any way and then just flip your blanket I don't think that the words would come out backwards but maybe they would I'll have to ask my crochet community okay oh thank you somebody wrote for Dora okay well if anybody has any more questions let me know um and if anybody knows about lefties the C2C for lefties please let me know because I'm not really sure who wrote who wrote the comment because it just says Facebook user but I would be really curious to know um what you do if you're a left-handed crochet or who does C2C and I think I think that's all um so in the book it has these sectioned out patterns which I need to actually add to the blog post because I hadn't done that yet but oh Melissa said I wish I knew too I'm a lefty too well guess what I'm gonna figure that out because there has to I don't I'm gonna do so I'll test it I'm gonna do a test I'll create a little swatch of something with a word and then crochet it up and see what happens oh decreasing yeah decreasing is is not as hard as I thought it was going to be um somebody asked if I'm doing the cowl on here and no I'm I'm actually the cowl it takes place on my blog that's where the written pattern is um I pop into the crochet along group and that's where everybody posts stuff and then I come in and do tutorials sometimes or just come in and do a live and crochet and see you know what everybody's working on and stuff like that that's about it I'm gonna rip this back though because this is this is um this this gray color is not this is the true gray I don't know that I like it very much it's kind of scratchy but okay well all right you guys I'm gonna get off here and if you guys have any questions leave them below on the replay just do hashtag replay so that I know you're commenting if you're watching it on the replay and don't forget to check out the winter bundle this is 45 patterns plus you get three free patterns of mine and then watch the c2c video I put all the links down below in the comments so you guys have a happy crocheting and let me know if you need anything from me just leave a comment and I really appreciate you guys being here and all the comments you guys left and the support and everything so I hope you guys are good when are we doing this again um you mean alive I'm gonna come on I'm gonna try to do lives on Wednesdays and Fridays for the crochet along so all the way up through December I just got stream yard so I'm still learning this and what I was gonna do tonight was have two cameras set up and actually do a live demonstration but it was a mess and then there was this echo and it was like and I was like oh my god no I'm not doing this right now so I'm gonna have to learn this and then um what I think my friend Lynette Lynette who did the crochet along for you guys a couple weeks ago she she kind of gave me some pointers thank you Lynette because it really helped um so what I've discovered or what she she would not what I discovered what she told me I could do is upload videos so what I can do is upload a tutorial video and then just upload it and play it during the live and so it'll be just like I'm actually doing it but better lighting because I hate this lighting daylight savings in its nighttime um right in Memphis I'm in Memphis and it's um what time is it it's 8 30 in Memphis so is this a good time for everybody 8 30 good night Diane oh thank you Lynette uh nerve wracking thank god this is not high definition that's for sure I put it on earlier and I was like whoof okay now I need to put on some makeup or something I'm just too self-conscious y'all way too self-conscious all right well let me know if you have any questions and I will see you guys soon bye happy crocheting