 Hi everyone, 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 changes 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 7 cotton, a 4 millimeter hook and so the first thing you do like with most crochet is we're going to go ahead and make a slip knot. 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 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 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 the next 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've 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 in 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 do a slip stitch and that joins them and then chain two three three more double crochets sometimes it's easy to fold this little 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 I'm gonna do the same thing and just kind of pull out the last part of that stitch and then go ahead and add the yellow and just kind of pull them tight C2C you have a lot of tails in C2C but if you do color changes but you can also do just a one color blanket or project but the fun of C2C is you get to work any kind of graph that you can so go ahead since we're going to do an extension now or what they would be calling an increase or what I call an increase because we're increasing the length of the blanket and that or the scarf or hat whatever you want to make it into C2C but so when you're doing increases what they mean is you're increasing the size both horizontally and you're increasing it vertically as well so when you do the increases you chain five on one end and then when you work your way back up then you'll be working back down this way and then you would be making your increase here five so let's do this and chain five working to the third chain we're gonna flip it to bring that part up to this part and go ahead slip stitch so I'll cut to the end of this row and when we come back we're going to do a color change in the middle of a row so you can see what that's like and also teach you how to carry colors so when you carry the color behind the stitches right so I've reached the end of my yellow row and so we're actually up here right now and what we're gonna do is I'm gonna work one more yellow there and then we're gonna do two orange or three orange and then we're gonna work another yellow right here so that will show you how to do color changes in the middle of a row and also show you how to carry the color behind there and you'll see that because we're working back down this row back down this way we're gonna do our increase right here so remember you'll keep track of that just by marking the front of your your work so you know where your tail is always going to be coming off the bottom right hand side so one two three four five and then we're gonna work back into the chain just like we did before move the little graph for a moment okay so here is where we're going to make our color change and we want to flip our work again and bring it up next to it but we want this next square that's going to be right here to be orange so I'm gonna grab the orange yarn and we're gonna do a color join and we do the color joins when you make the slip stitch into the space of the double crochet so instead you can just let the yellow drop add the new color over your hook pull it through and complete your slip stitch with the new color like that let your tail drop and then just kind of grab them so they're tight and here's where you're gonna chain two and then complete so well before we do the completion of the the thing the yellow color you can carry underneath and in the stitches of the next yarn too so you can actually pick it back up over here so we're gonna do that so let's take the yellow and just like we carry colors when we're doing rows you're gonna work it into the stitches as you do your double crochets like that and then we do our join and when we do our slip stitch join into the next we're just going to let the yellow yarn kind of lay alongside it's always tempting to just do a single crochet isn't it so chain two continue doing your three double crochets hiding that yellow yarn inside carry it up one more time some people don't like to carry yarn in C2C some people do it's completely your preference it depends on the colors really sometimes if you have a light color with the black behind it you might not want to carry that black because it really shows up but with this color here you can hardly see the yellow even transitioning up through those stitches through the back so it's just your preference and trial and error really trial and error error error so here we're gonna switch back to yellow because our last square is yellow so that's what we're gonna do is do the join and we've carried our yarn in back you can pull it loosen it stretch it however you want you might want to stretch it just a little bit because you want your blanket to be flexible and if that's too tight it's gonna pull on it and mess up the tension of the blanket but okay so here we're going to drop our yellow I mean our orange just pick up the yellow I did that off-screen so we're gonna drop the orange insert pick up the yellow and pull through and then just chain two and work your last square as normal there we go you can just pull that tight and so there we've completed our little squares like that pretty awesome huh and so the next one we'll do is we'll work back up using the yellow and since we're at a point right now where we're gonna start working decreases that's what we're gonna do because our blanket stopped right here right our little swatch so we have one two three four five one two three four five so our next one is gonna be working up this is actually not as complicated as it sounds so if you look at it like it kind of looks that way and it was to me at first I was like oh no how do I do that so what you're gonna do is this square is right there so we're gonna fill in this square so what would you do to get from point A to point B the most simple solution to get from here to here and what that is is a slip stitch so go ahead and turn and then slip stitch into the top three of the double crochets and then once into the double crochet space there we have it so now we're up to this point where we can just create our new square right there and we do that by going ahead and chaining two and then working your regular old double crochets into the edge and then continue on working into each one of the spaces there I'm gonna pause it and we'll come back at the end of the row now we've worked up to this point I'm gonna flip it so you can see because we're actually this is the front and we've done this square right here and we're working our way back up this way see because C2C is directional so we just we did this one and now this one's working back up this way and so here we've only have one two three four squares one two three four squares we've done it but we're not connected right there so let's go back and we're going to make our connection with a slip stitch just like before like that and so ourselves well how do we get from here to here because our next our next square is going to be right here so we're like oh how do I get there how do I get there well slip stitch so flip it and work back down the other way slip stitching into the top three tops of the three double crochets and then once into the double crochet space and there we are we're back at the beginning so we can make our next square which is right there okay so now that we've done that I'm gonna rip it back you can rip it back with me too if you want and we're gonna we're gonna rip it back to the point of the corners right here right there and there and I'm gonna show you how to do it as a rectangle so when you have two different sides that are asymmetrical so say the one two three four five six squares and this one's one two three four five so a lot of the graph side I work are 80 squares by 90 squares so this will help you work a pattern that's rectangular so let's rip it back till we come to our square corners okay so now we have our one two three four five that's one two three four five and we have five one two three four five that way so what we're gonna do because this graph has six horizontally and five vertically we're gonna leave five alone and we're gonna extend on numbers on the horizontal row which is six so we're gonna do an extension here by chaining five and working our normal double crochets back into that chain then we're gonna join like we normally do chain two and work your double crochets join I'll cut this and we can come back okay so now we've actually worked our six down here we've got one two three four five six so you see we've made that extension there or increase there and then we're gonna we already worked back up this way and now we have the flat end there so similar to what we did before with making the square we're just going to join into the top of this double crochet there slip stitch it turn it and slip stitch back down those three to get us back to our beginning point where we can make our next square without doing an increase right there so that puts us right back there so we've got to this way and it's longer this way and stays the same height and gets longer and then you just work your normal rows down and if it extends out further then you do more extensions and if not you bring it back in like we did before so golly I really hope that this helps you guys it took me a minute to get C2C especially the increasing and the decreasing because the terminology I didn't quite understand I was like but you're not increasing but I didn't see it the way that they that it was supposed to be seen which is you're increasing the width or you're increasing the height and all the flipping and stuff got confusing but it just takes practice trust me you can get it if I can get it you can get it I know you can all right so please subscribe if you have any questions about this video or anything I'm happy to answer them any tips and tricks you have on C2C leave them down below because I love to learn new things and I hope you do too and that's it so I hope you guys have a great day happy crocheting bye oh and the C2C calendar or cacca keep saying calendar calculator that's in my blog in the descriptions down below so if you want to head on over there and give it a shot please share it with your friends thanks a lot