 Hi everyone, Tasha with Start of School Crochet. Welcome to the live. I'm doing this pre-recorded just to let you know because I feel a little more comfortable recording the videos and then putting them up there. Also I can use them for other posts so it'll be easier for me and I hope it's okay with you guys. But I'm going to be here listening and watching with you so if you have any questions just leave them in the comments below and I'll do my best to answer. Today's live we're going to talk about bobbins because I've received a lot of questions about bobbins. So the bobbins, these are bobbins. So when you make a bobbin you wrap your color around, you put enough yarn on there for however many color changes you think you might need for the pattern. But what I'm going to do in today's video is go over how to determine how many bobbins you might need as you're working through the pattern. Because C2C can be a little bit funny when it comes to that and sometimes you might think well I need this many but you don't want to unravel all your yarn and make it so you have too many bobbins and then you know you're kind of like I want to say thank you to everybody. I'm having a sale this week. It's a small business sale pre-Black Friday, pre-Cyber Monday, pre-Spawn Business Saturday. I'm kind of doing it all in one and then on the actual Black Friday I'll be having a 50% off. But if you're a subscriber I'm doing 60% off this week and it's for three days only starting today and then going to the spray. So I hope you guys take advantage of that and thanks everybody for being lifetime members. I really appreciate it and I'm really excited because soon I'm trying to get these patterns out by Friday but I have a whole Christmas vintage car bundle and I'm so excited about it. It's really great. I'm doing micro C2C for the jingle all the way vintage VW bus pattern. I love it. I kind of modified the micro C2C stitch a little bit because I looked at some of the micro C2Cs out there and I tested them and I kind of did them and I was like I don't like this. I don't like it. It's not easy and it was hard to find the stitch to go into. Hard to count it. So often like what I do with a lot of stitches is I'll modify them to modernize them or make it a lot easier for to work into. So I modified it and I'll put this pattern the micro C2C. I'll do a blog post about a tutorial for it. Haven't quite done that yet. I'm just like so much to do. Okay so let's get talking about bobbins and then I'll get on to micro C2C and show you guys how to do a little micro C2C. So I'm shooting both the videos in vertical and horizontal so you'll have both. It'll be easy for you to view it on your phone and or on the computer. Okay let's get to it and if you have any questions please let me know. Yeah just leave all your questions down below and I'll be happy to answer them. Let's get to the video. Alright let's talk about bobbins. So this is the Jingle All the Way blanket. It's a vintage BW bus blanket and it comes in three different patterns. Three different styles of patterns. They're all written so I had to do three separate files and create three separate written patterns for the solid red and then the vintage pink and then there's a beautiful plaid like what you see here. So I'm working this up in micro C2C which is new to me. This is my first micro C2C pattern and I really love it and I'm super excited. So right now you can see I'm right about here and I'm working my way up. I'm going to crochet more of this tonight. In today's video I'm going to talk about bobbins and what they are and how to make them. I'm going to show you how to make the right amount of bobbins for your project and where to use them and where you can just use scraps of yarn or create bobbins that have more yarn in them or less yarn. So when you make a bobbin sometimes what I do with a project is I will make a bobbin that has a whole bunch of one color on it. I keep bobbins in mind when I design my patterns except for the little speckles. For the little speckles and the little speckles you can use scrap yarn. So you don't really have to make bobbins for that. You can just grab a little bit of yarn from your stash and just use that to create little Christmas lights. But for bigger sections like the background you'll see when you're working the background it's probably best to create two pretty large bobbins or use two different skeins of yarn and clip the yarn to your project. I clip the yarn to my project if I'm using lots of yarn for the background pieces. So I'll just use the whole skein and I'll clip it like that. So when I flip it, clip it and flip it, it makes it a lot easier and then I don't have to create a bobbin for the backgrounds because that just makes life a whole lot easier. But for portions of the pattern like this where you're getting color changes, quite often you're definitely going to want to make bobbins. So I'm going to go over my recommended bobbins for this pattern. As you can see I've created a very small, I'm using micro C2C so my bobbin sizes are going to be a lot smaller for this pattern. So I made this little tiny bobbin. Right now I'm on this, I just did those, I'm doing those two black squares. I've done one black square already right there and I just have one more so that's not going to be a lot of yarn. So after that I'm going to cut this and I'll probably pick it back up and use it over here for this section. So as I'm working along, going diagonally through the pattern like this, this is one section you can kind of tell how many bobbins you need by the blocks of color. So I kind of, when I look at this pattern I'm going oh where are my blocks of color, where do they split and how many changes am I going to need. So obviously this cream color you're going to be working it up and then it's going to start splitting right here. You don't really want to carry your yarn for more than three squares in C2C because otherwise it looks funny and it starts to just, it starts to look funny when you do it more than three squares for some reason. Three is the magic number. The white is going to split off, it's going to start splitting off around this section right here because here there's only one, there's two squares there, one, two, three, one, two, three. You can kind of split it off right there but right about this row, which would be row 18, you're going to want to split it off. So you're going to make another bobbin and just start working one bobbin for this bottom section that goes all the way over and then this bobbin will be up for all of this section up here. For the bus itself you can see that the light silver or the silver color here, there's a block of color here and then there's one, two, three, one and it's split off by one, two, one, two, three, one, two, one, two, three. So I said it, so there's only three squares there. You can carry your silver yarn throughout that section. This would probably be a different section, one, two, three, then you can carry it one yarn, pick it up, one, two and then you're picking it back up, carrying it to you but when it gets to be one, two, three there's only three squares right there. So you probably need one little bobbin for this section right here and then when you come up to this section here you'll carry, carry, carry, carry, carry, carry and then it'll carry along the entire one. So you can do one bobbin for that. This section here you can probably pick up the same bobbin you created for this when you cut it and use it for this because it's not connected to those rows. So the black here on the tire, you're definitely going to want to carry two bobbins for this one because in the center here it starts one, two, three, one, two, three, four, one, two, right here there's a lot of squares in between these two colors. So as you're working diagonally you're probably going to want a bobbin for this section here and a bobbin for this section there. The windows would be the same so for the windows you'll definitely want one bobbin at least for these sections here because you're going to be working one, two, three and then the bobbin is going to work, work, work. You can carry it through so you'll have one bobbin so you'll be carrying one, two, three, carry it one, one, two, three. So you'll be able to carry one bobbin through this entire section and then when you get here let's see if we can pick it back up. You'll have to cut it right here and then pick it back up over here because that's one, two, well let's see right here and then going back this way. Now you might be able to use one bobbin for the windows entirely so I would make that one pretty large and then like I was saying before with these the yellow you can do scraps. With the green you'll be able to use one bobbin to carry through the entire thing so make one large bobbin for the green or you can just use a skein and clip it to your thing. For the plaid colors, same thing in mind you don't want to carry your colors more than three so the plaid was probably going to be a little bit more difficult to crochet and you'll probably need more bobbins for the plaid. For the plaid pattern I would go ahead and make three or four bobbins in each of these colors and you'll have extras probably left over at the end of it but then you can at least where you'll pick up and where you where you end off you'll be able to do that easier if you make at least three bobbins for each color of that and so I would make larger bobbins for this section and three larger bobbins of each of those colors and so to make a bobbin I'm not sure if any if you're familiar with it or not I'm going to grab this green yarn I have from the other blanket. All you do is you grab your clips I bought these off of Amazon and I'll put the link in the description below and you just wrap your yarn around it as many times as you possibly can. When I'm doing a blanket I really make really really really large bobbins and what you do when you're finished is I take the unused yarn that's on the bobbins and I put it into a jar so these are the bobbin the leftover scraps from the bobbins that I used for the mystery crochet along blanket and what I'm going to do is later on I'm going to go through and probably make a scrappy pattern of some kind with all of these leftover balls that I have from the bobbins which I think is great and I saw somebody do this on I can't remember where but they put all of theirs into a ball jar and I just thought that was really cute so I did it myself. If you have any questions about bobbins let me know and I'll do my best to help and I move on and do a little micro C2C tutorial so the pattern I saw for micro C2C was a little different than one I'm doing here so what I'm doing here for my increases on micro C2C is I'm chaining three and it's going to leave a two chain I'm going to work into the third chain and do a single crochet and then I'm flipping it and I'm working into the chain two that I created from before just like we do regular C2C and then I'm chaining two between and doing a single crochet so this works up a lot faster if you want to do something small and something a little more fast I wanted I was I was thinking to myself oh my gosh I don't think I'm going to be able to do another blanket so I'm going to do mine in micro C2C I just have other projects I really need to get out this in the next month I have the granny square bag I've got a lot of things going to testers that I need to kind of have time to do that and also I want to crochet some things for my grandson and I have a festival coming December 10th for my grandson school where I'm doing a bunch of plushies and oh my gosh I did some plushies you guys and I love them I made one up myself a B pattern which I really excited to put out too because it's really easy and it's my emigrumi patterns I've got the strawberry emigrumi you see where my brain is going here I have so much to do so I didn't think it would be wise for me to take on another blanket right now even though I'm really great at doing the crafts and I love doing the graphs and I can't wait to do the actual crochet on the graphs I just want to wait till January it'll still be cold so okay so here I'm coming up on my color change for the micro and it's the same as with other color changes I've just going to pull up from the back I'm going to carry my yarn and what I've been doing is I've been changing colors like that and then pulling it tight doing two chains in between and then a single crochet and it's really neat because it just creates a tiny tiny little project but I'm going to use it for a wall hanging and I think it'll turn out really good so that's it that's my for me the way I started it was I chained three to single crochet into the first chain and then just worked C to C like normal but it turns out just a little bit different it has a really kind of a nice stitch to it I really like it and the holes they're not there it's a solid it kind of looks like a star stitch to me and I'm it's going to be a really cool wall hanging I used my crochet calculator to determine how big it will be based on my stitch sizes for four four inches and it's going to be around two and a half feet by three feet so that's exciting too okay well if you have any questions leave them in the comments below let me know and I'll do my best to answer them in the comments thank you guys for being here and I hope you guys have a great night if you want to do I'll try to get the micro C to C post up soon and if you have any questions about bobbins about micro C to C about the sale about anything just leave them below and I'll be happy to answer them thanks for being here everybody if you have any questions about bobbins micro C to C or the jingle all the way pattern just leave them in the comments below and I'll be happy to answer them for you and I'm so glad you're here thanks for watching the live and I'll see you soon I'm going to try to pop in live again on Friday I've been doing Wednesdays and Fridays so if you have any questions let me know and then I'll try to answer them in Fridays live well prerecorded live oh anxiety always makes me just yeah