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Crochet bookmark pattern tutorial
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Feb 23, 2025
Learn to crochet a fringe textured bookmark with this pattern tutorial. This is for a comfortable beginner. Blog post: https://livechilllife.com/featured/fast-easy-crochet-bookmark-free-pattern-video-tutorial/ Ad free PDF: https://livechilllife.etsy.com/listing/1864554096/bookmark-crochet-pattern-boho-fringe Subscribe to the newsletter for monthly discounts, tips and free patterns: https://livechilllife.com/ My books and project trackers https://livechilllife.com/shop-my-books/ My vintage recipe cooking channel: https://www.youtube.com/@100yearoldrecipes My Etsy shop: https://livechilllife.etsy.com and https://www.etsy.com/shop/TinyCottageKitchen Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/people/Live-Chill-Life/61559059162110/
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in this video I'm going to give you a
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tutorial of how to make these beautiful
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bookmarks you can make them with or
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without The Fringe and there's lots of
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texture for visual interest let's get
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[Music]
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started and so to make this pattern
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you're going to need a 4 mm hook a light
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worsted weight yarn so a thin category
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for yarn generally most cotton will fall
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into this I do prefer cotton for
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something like this just because of the
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wear and tear bookmark is going to get
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going in and out of books uh it doesn't
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pel up quite as easily as acrylic or
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Blended Yarns do but you can use any um
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any yarn you can go down to a category 2
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or three um I would not use bulky if you
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do use bul you're going to have a big
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bookmark and you're going to need a
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bigger wood ring now this wood ring is 1
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in and 1 14 wide and the pattern is
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designed to work with this size of a
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ring now something else you're going to
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find helpful is my favorite little
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finishing tool the 2mm hook for the
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Stitch we're going to be using and as I
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get working you'll see why I do
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recommend grabbing that if you have one
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on hand if
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not we'll figure out how to make it work
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for
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you and the wood beads are optional I
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have these are from Dollar Tree and I'm
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using the bigger of
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the um two sizes that are in here might
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be three but you need something big
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enough so that the yarn will fit through
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but again it's optional you do not have
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to put Fringe on your hook or on your
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I'm sorry your bookmark on your mark you
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can just make it longer as long as you
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like so the first step of course is to
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work the yarn around the ring so you can
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do a slip knot or knot um I use these so
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much just personal preference how to do
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it I'm not going to use a slip knot I
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just don't like that bumpy look that the
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slip knot has even though you can
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certainly hide it I just won't I'll just
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hook it on at like
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such and keep working around and I'll
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work the tail in as I go or work it
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under I'm sorry not into there put it
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under
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and just smoothly and
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evenly work your stitches to completely
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and densely cover the
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ring just like
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this right I've completely covered my
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ring and I'm going to go into the
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starting Stitch and begin
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working single crochets nine of them so
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there's
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one
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2
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3
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4
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5 six
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7
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8 nine oops eight on eight and
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nine and that's going to be the length
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that of just these nine stitches
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all right so I've got a third row of
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single crochet
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worked and I'm going to start the design
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or the
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texture so we'll do a S chain one and
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turn as you have been doing now the
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first Stitch you will work a single
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crochet then a half double crochet into
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that same
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Stitch then a double crochet into the
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row below so let's look because this is
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slanted a little bit with the Curve
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don't worry about that it's going to
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flare just slightly but you'll see um
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with the finishing it'll all be totally
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flush and even so don't let that worry
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you that you've done something wrong you
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have
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not okay so let's see where's that row
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below it's right here
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so we want to get that dramatic look of
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that kind of fishtail
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crisscross and we've got to go down far
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enough to get that to happen now because
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three stitches were just worked into
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this essentially same Stitch even though
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it's a stitch below we need to make up
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for that by skipping two stitches then
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in that third Stitch we'll do it again
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go in and work a single
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crochet then a half double crochet
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and then your double crochet below go
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down and finish your Stitch skip two now
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when you look to the end you'll do your
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skip two to make sure you're far enough
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over there should be two stitches and
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then where you're going to work so you
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want two stitches left at the
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end skip my
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two and do single crochet
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half double
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crochet and then the
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long double crochet down below
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whoops and keep it nice and loose you
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don't want this
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buckling and then single crochet in the
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last
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Stitch make sure I get both my loops on
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the hook
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chain one
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turn and we do it again so this row
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we're going to really look at Stitch
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placement to make sure that everything's
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lining up
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correctly single crochet half double
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crochet and then the first stitch for
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the row below pull this out let's look
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this is where a really Slim hook might
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come in handy
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need to
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find the V for that row below and it
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could be hard to get your regular hook
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in
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there CU you want to essentially split
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it work in
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between you're not going under you want
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to go in
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between going to yarn
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over might be able to push through since
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I was just working in there come
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up and work my double crochet now
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instead of skipping two you're going to
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work into that space of where the two
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stitches you skipped are so if you look
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closely you can see there they
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are so I'm going to take my hook and go
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in there and work the single crochet
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half double crochet oops I think I
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grabbed something there I wasn't so
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supposed to grab okay half double
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crochet and then the
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placement we're going to
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look see the
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grouping of
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the single crochet and half double
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crochet from the row before that's where
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your double crochet will go so it's
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going to be back to the right just a
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little bit finish find that chain two or
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not chain two the two Stitch Skip and
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work the final one single crochet half
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double
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crochet double crochet look for the two
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stitches right there that's where the
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hook
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goes and then skip over so that you
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single crochet into the
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last not too tight because we do have to
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work into to that some point turn we'll
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do it again single crochet in the
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first half double crochet in the
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first and let's find our Stitch it's
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right there see that V that's where
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we're going to go and put the double
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crochet and you'll start to see that the
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double crochet is lining up with the
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next one where it
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goes which it's going to be here and you
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can see
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here let me work it and then I'll show
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you what I
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mean can't show you something that
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hasn't happened yet right okay there's
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that two stitches that were skipped
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single crochet half double
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crochet and then double crochet into the
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little grouping
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there and you'll be able to
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see that this will line up with this so
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when you're working the Stitch and you
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ever wonder where your little V is where
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you're supposed to put your hook you can
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just glance over to see where that
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grouping is and let your eye
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follow that that's where the placement
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will
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be and it can look a little um when this
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is worked straight
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across it's a little bit easier to see
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because there's a slant these first few
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rows with the ring it's going to look a
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little um
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less straight
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across but as we're working let me get a
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finished one and show you okay there two
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and then there's the placement into my
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little grouping that's how you're going
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to get your fishtail kind of a
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look so you see
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here as you're working these
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the stitches are lining let me come up a
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little higher it's hard to see with the
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white you can see they're lining
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up finish the row by just working a
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single crochet in the last
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Stitch sure I get both loops on
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hook not too tight
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chain one
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turn and I'll do it again with you
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single crochet half double
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crochet right now let's look at how the
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grouping helps the
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placement and I can see my V right here
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because it's going to line up with where
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that double crochet is going to go into
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here so this top of the Stitch will get
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split in half and that's where my hook
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will
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go y over go in there split that
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Stitch pull
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up
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finish that skip to space work my next
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grouping and there it goes right in
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there the grouping from
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below this is a nice meditative Stitch
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once it's set up it's goes pretty
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quickly and it's easy to
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work so just want to make sure you have
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your Stitch placement right so you're
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not stressing about getting it right and
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getting this texture that you
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see into my little gripping there so
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just keep working these back and forth
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until you reach the length you want now
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the length I'm showing before The Fringe
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is about 9 in
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total so if you have a really big book
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or you have big books that you want to
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be able to use this for you can go
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longer but before The Fringe you see
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it's right at about 9 in and then my
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Fringe is about 4 in cuz I like to be
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fancy sometimes but I I love my wood
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beads is if you're new to my channel you
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don't know I do a lot with wood so I've
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got the wood ring and then these are
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Dollar Tree wood beads that came in a
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big pack like this I'm not sure what
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size these are I could do a measurement
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for you these are there's three sizes in
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this and they're in the do25 section in
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the craft area let me
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see not half it I'd say 3/4 of an
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inch let's look at the centimeter maybe
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that'll be
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better almost a centimeter but enough so
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I can fit a generous amount across
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without being too
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many and of course you don't have to do
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that but I like the look of it just
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personal preference this might be a
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little too fussy for some of
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you right so I'm going to keep working
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this and I'll come back and I will show
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you how I do my Fringe and then of
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course we have to do our finish so that
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this isn't flaring out but rather that
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it just sits
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straight right so I finished my length
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how long I want it and it's the 9 in
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total so of course go longer if you
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would like and I'm going
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to start
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working slip stitches up the side nice
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and
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loose and make sure you have enough so
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that your bookmark does not
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buckle you want to watch your spacing
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just
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oops just like
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so I'm having trouble with this one here
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we go
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now as I come up closer this is where it
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starts to narrow in so I'm going to
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switch to single crochet to
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finish these last couple of stitches of
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the body and work my way
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around the circle so I make sure I get
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into every
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Stitch and this will fill out the
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bookmark to look like a perfect
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rectangle or close
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enough and then now as I come around
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back to the side gonna look carefully
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make
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sure that I switch back
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to slip stitches after not yet I'm going
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to do one more here kind of the neck of
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things and
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then this one needs I think another one
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to look full enough then I will slip
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switch switch back to my slip stitches
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down the
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side nice and easy not too
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tight okay so now I'm at the bottom and
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I'm going to chain one and single
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crochet
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across you you can do once or twice and
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then this is where um I will add my
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Fringe if you're not adding Fringe you
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can stop at this
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point and do your rose
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across and then you're done
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I'll just slip here into the edge make
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sure that it's nice and
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even and then you'll cut some lengths
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yarn to put through the
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bottom and I did 8 in length or
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thereabouts and then each one of my
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beads has three strands through
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[Applause]
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it I'll pull out
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my larger beads
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[Applause]
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I'm going to take my Nifty 2 mm hook
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this is my favorite finishing tool and
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this also will fit through the holes in
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the beads because tapestry needles
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typically do not fit but the little slim
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hook always fits so that's what I will
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use and then when threading make sure
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you get both of the loops on the hook
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right so I've got three
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strands and my
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hook with the bead on it and I'm going
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to pull
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through I'll check
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my this one I pulled a little too
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much pull on a different string and I'm
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going to just double check everything
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before I knot it
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now what I did when I knotted my first
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one and if you uh if you're looking at
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the written pattern you'll see I say to
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let it drop down from the base just a
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little bit so I didn't knot it all the
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way up snuggly up here just let it come
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down just a little bit before you do
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your securing knot just to give it a
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little more balance and visual
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interest but it's up to you if you like
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it or just flush against the base
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certainly do it that way but if you like
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how mine looks that's how I did it that
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was intentional to let it kind of drop
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just a bit away from the
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body right I'm going to keep putting
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these beads
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on and knot it and then this is done I
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hope you enjoy your
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bookmark give this video a like if you
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enjoy it and if you don't have the
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written pattern it is linked below
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