 Hey crochet friends, it's Tasha from Start Us Gold Crochet. Welcome to my YouTube channel. Please subscribe if you haven't already. And if you're new here, welcome. Thanks for visiting. I'm hoping you love this tutorial today. It's so much fun. This is a little granny square headband. I have never liked granny squares. I'm just gonna be straight up honest with you. But for some reason lately, because they're just saturating everything, I've kind of like, okay, okay, I can see the, but what it is is I don't like crocheting them. So what I've done is I created a slightly modified version of the granny square. This is kind of like my own version. One that I think is easier to crochet. So what I'm gonna show you today is how to create the granny square. I'm gonna do kind of like a little tiny mock-up like three wide or something or enough to make like maybe a granny square bracelet or something like that. So two. Let's do two. And we'll make a granny square bracelet. But for the headband, you want to make one, two, three, four, five, six of them. Or this pattern will be on the blog for free. There'll be a PDF available for everybody who wants a PDF. And that'll be in my Infinite Yarniverse shop on Etsy, Ravelry, and all those, you know, the normal shops. I prefer if you buy from the Infinite Yarniverse though, because that's my shop. For all the lifetime members, you guys can get the PDF for this. It'll be in your inbox. Just log into the Infinite Yarniverse and go grab your PDF. Okay, so what you'll need for this tutorial is I used five different colors of yarn. I'm using a sport weight yarn. It's really thin. I wanted to kind of do a mini version. So the colors that I used for this are the white color is called axonite. And it is color 831. And it's called axonite. I'm hope I'm saying that right. This is turquoise. And then this is color 811. And it's deep amethyst. This is color 827. Periodot. And then this is color... Oh, this one's a hard one to say. Rotochrotocyte. Color 835. All of these colors will be listed on the blog. And I'll also throw them down below. A 3.75 millimeter crochet hook. You're definitely going to need scissors because you change colors a lot. Go ahead and also grab a measuring tape. You're going to want to measure your head. Most adults have the same size head. I know it sounds really funny, but they do. Even my grandson's head is almost as big as my head. This headband measures around 19 and a half inches, which is perfect to go around a normal adult size head. If you want to make it smaller or bigger, just eliminate one of the squares. And that should be perfect. Eliminating one of the squares, we'll probably add on... Let's see. Oops, wrong way. Four of the squares is about 14 inches plus the ends, which are about one and a half, one and a half inches each. So that would be 3 plus 14. That would be 17 inches. So that would probably be perfect for the size of a young child, like a toddler or something. The little tails you can adjust and make as long or short as you want them to. So let's get started. Grab your hook. I'm going to show... I'm going to do two squares and then I'll do a border to show you how I did the border. And then I'll do the little end piece and the chain. These little beads I've had forever in my bead stash. They have kind of a little bit of a wide hole in them, so you can get... I was able to get this through, so you can use any beads. And I just tied knots. I put one on, tied a knot, put one on, tied a knot. That's it. Let's get started. You're going to learn a few new techniques today. If you haven't already known what they are, I'm going to pull this out. So for this granny square, which is unlike any granny square, you'll come across or maybe not. I don't know. Nothing's real original. We're going to do a magic circle to start. So I do this. You can do a magic circle anyway you want. I'm going to do that again. I put it in this first one, then I grab the second one and pull it up and kind of twist it around. And then I twist back around this way and pull through. So that's how I do my magic squares. I'll put a link down for my magic square video too if you want to practice it. Then I pull that piece out. So what we're going to work today is we're going to do a stacked double crochet. So a stacked double crochet, once you do your pull-through, you're not going to chain again, but you can if you want to. It's no big deal. I'm going to go ahead and do a single crochet here. And what we do for a stacked is you're going to go through the left bar of your single crochet instead of going around into the magic circle. Then you yarn over and pull up just like a regular single crochet. You're going over and pull through two. And you repeat that until you have three of them. So I'm doing stacked. So that's going to be my first double crochet of our granny square. Now we're going to work two more double crochets. Your tension can be like a medium tension. You don't want to be too loose but not too tight. So we're going to do that's three. We do two chains and then work three double crochets into that magic square. Do two double crochets and work three more. One, two, three, two. Did I say double crochets before I meant chains? Two chains and then three double crochets. One, two, three. So we should have one, two, three, four sets of three. And that's when we're going to pull our magic circle tight but first untangle it because sometimes they get wrapped up. So I'm going to pull it tight like that. There we go. And we're going to do two more chains to close out. And we're going to join into the very top of that stacked single crochet slash double crochet from the beginning. And I'm going to do a straight slip stitch through. Then go ahead and break this yarn. Pull it through like that. So we're going to add our next color and then we're going to add it into the chain two space right here. Right after you wear your broke off. So I'm going to use this pretty green because I really like this green. I think it looks really pretty with the pink. I'm going to add the new color here. And we're going to do a stacked double crochet. So I'm going to chain one through. Then go back through the center and kind of wrap that tail around it. Yarn over and pull the loop. Then pull through both. So you made one single crochet. Then go back through the left bar and you do another single crochet and one more time. And that'll be your stacked double crochet. Alright so once you do that we're going to work two more double crochets. Work around your tail. Okay I almost went too fast. So you'll have three double crochets. Chain two. Do three more double crochets. I'm working around the tail as I'm doing this. So it's a little bit easier. Honestly though it's still not easy. Chain two and work three double crochets. Two and three. Two chains. Oops. Double crochet three. Two chains. Double crochet three. Two chains. Double crochet three. Two chains. And then we're going to work into that chain two from the very end of our first round. Just like before you do three double crochets, two chains and three double crochets. These work up fast once you get the hang of it. If you're a new crocheter, this is kind of a good project to learn how to work in the round and also color work, changing your colors. So for the last part we do two chains again to close it out and we attach into the top of the stacked double crochet. And I've worked this up a few ways and I did slip stitches but then I realized when you do the border, working through the slip stitches is really hard. So what I'm doing now is just basically cutting them and tying it off after each round. Then grab your final color which is the axonite I'm using the white and I'm going to work into this first chain two space and do the same thing we did before. Just chain one working around. We're going to do a single crochet and then a stacked two more stacked on top of the first one. The stacked single crochets is great because then you can also create a cord using this method. So we're going to do two more double crochets because these stacked three single crochets are acting as your double crochet. Chain two and then three double crochets into the same space. Chain two. This time we're going to work one set of three into the chain two space. And now we do two more and we're going to work three two chains and three into the corner space. One, two, and three two chains. I'm working fast but feel free to stop the video anytime if you want to catch up or I think I'm about to have yarn barf. Or maybe not. Yay! So chain two after you create your three two chains and three and we're going to do a set of three double crochets into the side stitch. One, two, three, chain two and we're going to work three two chains and three into the corner space. One, two, three, chain two, two, three and chain two. Again we're going to do three into the side. So in the corners you're working three plus a chain two and three. In the sides you're just working a set of three double crochets. Chaining two in between each set of double crochet of three double crochets. Two, three plus a chain two, three and a chain two. And the last one is where we did our join. You're going to weave these tails in. You can always crochet over them this way too if you want. One, two, three. Oops. Working with the small yarn can be a little... Ah! I dropped it twice. See? A little tricky. To close it out chain two and then join into the very first stacked. And again just like before I'm going to go ahead and snap, snip that yarn and just pull it on through and close it out. The border is going to cover up a lot of this. So there we have our first little square. So I'm going to work another square off-screen and when we come back I'll show you how to do the border. Alright I have my two little square squares and now I'm going to show you how to do the border. I'm going to do a pink border. Okay so I'm not bothering weaving in the tails just yet. You can do that when you're finished. I am going to work this part on the top side. So when you're lining them up make sure that your tail for the very last row is on top like this. So both of them are on top. Oh, hi Yuki! Do this with me. Okay so I'm going to grab my yarn. We're going to do our first stitch in the corner, top right corner. You want your right side facing you and I'm going to add my yarn and I'm going to do a pink border. Attach your yarn, chain one and we're going to work a half double crochet into that same space. Then we're going to work a chain two and one half double crochet into that same space like that. Did I just do a double crochet? I did. That's when you've been doing them for so many double crochets you're like oh switching speeds. So I'm doing a half double crochet and I'm going to work a half double crochet into each stitch. So don't forget that this one kind of hides. This is your double one two three so you want to go into this space right here and I'm going to do half double crochets across into each stitch and just like you have two chains we're going to work two half double crochets into each chain two space. You continue that across working one half double crochet into each double and then two into the chain two space and for this tail I'm just going to end up working over this tail. Oh I just jeeded that across the table and so I'm going to kind of bend that back and pull it a little bit tight while I work into this double crochet two. Then there is working into my last double crochet and I'm going to work one half double into the corner space there like that. Then I'm going to grab my other granny square make sure my tail is on the top and I'm going to go straight into the front of the corner stitch right here but I'm going to do a half double crochet so I'm going to yarn over first stick my needles or my hook through there grab it and do half double join through there and then work a half double crochet in each double across just like we did before and work two into each chain space so when you get to the corner we're going to work the same type of corner stitch we did to begin with we're going to do a half double crochet two chains and a half double crochet into the corner stitch this is my tail so I worked around that you can pull it tight if you want I'm going to let that down now and I'm going to continue working half double crochets into each double crochet and two into each chain space all the way around so I'll probably end up speeding up the video right about now all right when we reach the corner we do one half double crochet two chains and a half double and continue working half doubles in each double when you come here to this corner work one half double crochet then you're going to pull up your other square and attach it just like we did before into the chain two space in the corner and continue working when you reach the corner one half double crochet two chains one half double crochet and continue working your half doubles okay so I have one double crochet left and I'm going to do my last half double into there then I'm going to join into the first half double crochet there we have our two squares joined and as you can see there's a giant space right there so when the time comes we're going to sew that up with a mattress stitch and I'll show you how to do the mattress stitch so once we're here I didn't break my yarn what we do from here is we're going to create the little border oh this looks so cute with the pink that for the next row we're going to work a single crochet row into the back hump or the front hump however you want to describe it of the half doubles so it creates this kind of cool little ridge okay so we're not going to break the yarn we're going to keep it as is and we're going to chain one then we're going to turn it and we're going to single crochet into the back or these front loops which is actually like if this is your front piece that's your front loop back loop of the half double I'm sorry I turned the thing that's your front loop that's your back loop that's your third hump loop however you want to some people call it the hump you can call the third loop I call it the third loop we're going to start with the first one here this one's a little hard to get into when you're first starting it and if you want you can go ahead and work it into the back loop of the very first stitch instead of the hump which is fine so I think I'm going to do that for this first stitch to work it right there so that's one work into the back home two three four six seven thirteen and fourteen so we should have 14 stitches across this is what it looks like on the front for row two of the side border we need to chain one and turn and so we're going to work into the very first stitch doing a single crochet two together which is inserting your hook into the stitch pulling up a loop insert your hook into the next stitch and pull up a loop that is your decrease so we're going to do that one more time so now we've taken four stitches and brought them down to two stitches then we're going to single crochet six one two three six then we do the same and do two single crochet two together decreases so one that's one decrease and then we do one more decrease chain one for row three and turn then we do a single crochet decrease single crochet six and then we do a decrease so we have two stitches left now for row four chain one turn single crochet two together decrease then we chain every single crochet four one two three four and then decrease you see where we're going with this right for row five chain two I'm sorry chain one turn then work single crochet two together decrease single crochet two decrease chain one for row six and turn row six we're going to single crochet two together two times so we're going to work two decreases that's our first and then our second for row seven chain one and turn this is our very last decrease we're making kind of like a little pyramid by doing so many decreases it's our little triangle so once you're here this is when we start working the chain I for this just chained about 36 it measures around you can make that longer you can do a full bead if you want you can be creative as you want so my chain measures with the end of it was a little bit longer but the main part of the chain is about six inches long I did 36 of them so yeah you can make this as long as you want or as short as you want or you could do a stacked a stacked version two and just chain chain chain I added my bead I made a little knot I tied like three knots in a row I'm sure there's a better way to do this but that's just what I did and I added another bead it tied some knots added another bead tied some knots so that's all I did and they're pretty secure they don't come off now I'm going to show you guys how to do the mattress stitch to close these up and of course you're going to have lots of tails to weave in which is always fun not fun this is what ours looks like so far I just love this I just think it's so cute this will be a cute little bracelet so for this bracelet I will probably just do one side like this and add a button over here or something you know and maybe just make a loop right there that would be so cute oh yeah I'm gonna look like a granny square Wonder Woman a granny Wonder Woman because she had that okay I'm just now I'll show you how to do the mattress stitch to sew this to excuse me to show this sew this together I'm going to use the same color as I used for my squares it disappears anyway which is really cool thing about the mattress stitch so just grab since okay what I did with this one with the big one is I did a very long length of yarn to start with because I wanted to when I sewed them together which was on this is the wrong side I started on the wrong side I sewed it up this way started here sewed it up then I went all the way through sewed it back down all the way through sewed it back up and you get the drift so I'm not going to cut as long a length because I'm just doing one for this but I will demonstrate for you how I did the entire length of this one so for the mattress stitch of course you want to thread your needle you want to work through the wrong side of your work you can just weave all those tails in later okay I'm gonna get kind of close here so to start your mattress stitch I went through this little piece to start you pull through until you have you know a good length of tail so you don't you have enough tail to weave in then you can kind of turn it I'm gonna get rid of this tail I'm gonna get rid of this tail so it's on the other side of the work so it's not getting in our way then you go through the opposite side and you're working from the bottom up through the top these tails were a little like it might want to weave them in before you do the mattress stitch because they could get in your way so just pull it up like that then you work back through each end stitch is where I worked through like each little side stitch see what I'm saying about these tails you might want to weave them in it's a verifiable mesh oh my gosh okay oh are we here yet no this one's in the way okay there we go we're back to cooking the fire okay so I just went through that side now I'm gonna go through that side so keep going back and forth through okay so you keep working like that through each one of these stitches until you reach the very very top like that and it'll kind of look like this at first you can tighten it as you go or you can wait to the end and tighten it either way is fine it ends up looking the same so when you get to the chain two spaces I just did kind of the same thing and just went through one loop of each of the chain spaces chain two spaces I mean the chains yeah highly recommend weaving in your tails prior so I'm coming up to the very very end I'm gonna go through this little stitch the edge just one loop of that I'm gonna go back through this one little side right there okay so there we have our completed stitch now here's the cool part you take the tail and you take this side and you kind of just pull them tight and it kind of disappears into this really cool like magic just disappears which is so cool you know stretch it out a little bit because you don't want it to be too tight when you flip it over this is what it looks like that is your mattress stitch okay so to do the other side we're going to insert our hook starting in the very first stitch here actually I'm going to start in this starting in this space here which looks like it's the end but it's actually that's the stitch it looks like it's in the chain so attach your yarn there chain one and then work in a single crochet in the hump of each stitch it's like the front loop make sure that you have 14 across that you're able to work into 14 14 loops so we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and 14 this one's part of a chain so we want to just make sure we have those 14 so we're gonna do 14 single crochets and then work the pattern exactly rows 1 through 8 just like we did the other side but for this tutorial I'm gonna stop here because I want to create this a little bit different I want the ridge on that side but I'm gonna put a button and just tie it off after this row for my little bracelet that I created for this video tutorial which is cool okay let's see did I do it right we get 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 I'm amazing just kidding okay well no I'm kind of amazing no I'm not yes I am a lord we're all amazing all right everybody have a great 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