 Hi guys, Tasha from start of school crochet. Thanks for joining the cowl. I hope everybody's enjoying it so far We're working on week. This is still week one I'm shooting this in week one, which is Saturday, but tomorrow's good the start of week two So it's going to be a four-week cowl and for those who are new to joining and thanks everybody for coming by I'm so glad you guys are here If you go back to the previous videos There's a few for post number one It's just the introduction of what what ferrile is a little bit of history part Two is a little bit of going over about the hooks and the gauge Part three is about changing colors and actually working the knit stitch and Today's part is going to be a little few more tips and tricks on how to float your yarn behind So that it looks neat and that you get the nice Nice little flows. There's just a few tips and tricks. It's not a big deal and the video is going to be really short because We don't have time to watch 30-minute videos But some of them are 30 minutes long and it's just because that's how long it takes to learn something new hopefully but so anyway So yeah, just keep watching this video. I'm going to do a real short tutorial on how to Get tip tips and tricks on how to just keep the backside of it looking really neat and nice like This one Like that welcome back So I wanted to also let you guys know that okay as you can see the sample that I started working up I've done a few rows already and This is my ruler 12 inches long This is about how much mine is measuring right now. So it's measuring about 12 inches, which of course when you double it up It's 22 inches. I Just wanted to make note of that so you don't freak out and go. Oh my god. It's too big It's not going to fit on my head Because when we do the brim of the hat it draws everything in and it's let me show you the sample Okay, so yeah, this is the same. This is the original that I did and It measures the same around Approximately just a little bit around 12 inches Just a just a little bit lower than 12 because my head measures 22 inches So just a little bit under is fine for me and it's loose Which I like because when it's a tight brim it kind of Feel like I'm claustrophobic. So when we do the brim of the hat you'll see that it'll draw everything in and oops, that's where you can customize it to make it as As fitting as form fitting as you'd like So I hope that helps everybody with any kind of confusion that you might have had on how large it seems When you're working it. So let's talk about the back So you can see my where my yarn has been floating and I wanted to mention so once you start getting a few rows in Turn it this way once you start getting a few rows in these you want to carry your yarn for only around three So three stitches so in the fourth stitch you'll you'll tack it to The back and actually enclose it instead of letting it just hang because otherwise when you have a series of Stitches where you might have six or seven stitches in between One single Contrasting color stitch so you might have seven solid blues you want to just tack it so you don't get these really super long Ones that will snag and I left this like this to show you because back here you can see there are Let's see one two three four five Stitches so you're going to want to tack it up around the middle of it either in the third or the fourth stitch Just so it doesn't hang and I let me show you where I actually tacked it So one of these. Oh, I don't know. Oh here it is. Okay, so this one I actually tacked it in tacked it up to show you guys how and when I say tack it I just mean normally what we're working when we do this stitch is we're letting Where we're keeping one color on the bottom for this row. I'm keeping blue on top and I'm keeping I'm going to get closer and I'm keeping my white on the bottom and my blue on the top so If you have a long series, I'm just going to do a sample. This is not following the pattern So say we have one Two and let's see how long the back is getting already see how long that is this So what you really want to do is tack it up if you're going to go more than five stitches So what I mean by that is so say this is my third stitch so instead of Just keep floating the yarn. I'm going to work My hook and put it on top of my hook and work my stitch around it like that and I'll keep going and continue with it on the bottom, but it will be tacked up like that so it's not hanging too loose like this one Because this one gets snaggy they get snaggy. That's how it works So I would keep it consistent like for instance if you have a series of five stitches Let me get my pattern So if you have like a series of say There's only a few places in the pattern where you go more than Five so here's five. So you want to tack it right there on the third stitch These are three. There's four you can leave it. Oh, here's one one two three four five There's another five. So you'd probably want to tack tack it there on the third stitch There's five there attack it there and other than that, there's not a lot of spaces that have a lot of Colors in between and let's see on this pattern. No, not for that either So you might only have to tack it a few times, but that's a helpful tip for if you're going to create a different Pattern using your own, you know creation or your own snowflake design or whatever So that'll be helpful because if you just it's good. So that's it That's all I wanted to teach you guys today and keep working your rows I'm going to post the top half of the pattern so everybody can keep working on that this week And it does take a little bit of time So be patient with it and then when we come back next Sunday I'm just kind of be silent this week, but I would love to answer questions I didn't receive any emails for the questions if you guys have any questions, please email me I'll try to address them in the next video and that will be Helpful for other people who may have the same questions that you have too So let's just keep working these rows and post your pictures to the stardust gold crochet and friends group Or you can you know send me an email stardustgoldcrochet at gmail.com Hope you guys are having fun. Let me know what you need. Okay. Happy crocheting