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Bumblebee Crochet Potholder and Trivet pattern (part one)
Oct 8, 2025
Hi Makers! Welcome to the crochet bumblebee wing pattern tutorial — the first part of my highly requested Bumblebee Crochet Potholder pattern! 🐝 In this video, I’ll show you exactly how to crochet the wings, and share my best tips for shaping and finishing so they look crisp and balanced on both sides. ✨ What You’ll Learn: How to crochet the bumblebee wings step by step How to achieve shape with different stitch heights Mirroring technique Tips for color changes and weaving in ends Pattern details: https://livechilllife.com/featured/how-to-crochet-a-bee-potholder-trivet-pattern/ PDF pattern: https://livechilllife.com/downloads/bumblebee-crochet-pattern/ Etsy: https://livechilllife.etsy.com/listing/4382225761/bumblebee-crochet-potholder-pattern-pdf Buy me a coffee: Ko-fi.com/livechilllife Subscribe to the newsletter for monthly discounts, tips and free patterns: https://livechilllife.com/ Try my project tracker for free: https://livechilllife.com/crochet-and-knit/project-tracker-page-for-crochet-and-knit-patterns/ My Project Trackers : https://livechilllife.com/shop-my-books/ My vintage recipe cooking channel: https://www.youtube.com/@100yearoldrecipes
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Hi makers. Welcome to the crochet
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bumblebee pot holder. One of my most
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requested designs and the next
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installment in my novelty pot holders
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series.
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In this video, we are doing step one,
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which is making the wings. This section
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may look a little advanced, but it's
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made entirely with beginner stitches.
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single crochet, half double crochet,
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double crochet, and simple strategic
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increases, plus neat color changes. And
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the pattern has a special mirroring
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trick, so both wings match on the body.
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This pattern has beginner stitches, but
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it is marked as intermediate because of
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shaping and construction, which would
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feel just a bit much for a newbie. But
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feel free to watch and see how confident
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you feel making the whole bee yourself.
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When you're ready to make the remainder
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of the bee pattern, the full
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step-by-step videos and printable PDF
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instructions are linked in the
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description. Now, let's get started.
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Hello everyone. So, this is the tutorial
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for the wing that goes with the bee pot
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holder pattern. And even if you're not
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making it, this will be a useful
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tutorial to understand shaping stitches.
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So, this is using beginner stitches to
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create shapes with the increases and
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decreases, but it's not in the sense of
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working two stitches together to
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decrease. It's working the height of the
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stitch. So, if you look closely, you'll
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see in here the single crochet and then
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we start fanning out two strategically
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placed half double crochet and double
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crochet. So, if you're um even just a
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little experienced with crochet, you
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should have mastered those by now.
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They're very basic. And then I'm doing a
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modified puff for the kind of flower in
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the center to make it whimsical. And I'm
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uh filming the tutorial portion of the
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pot holder pattern with the harvest bee
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colors. So, you'll see the traditional
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bee probably in the thumbnail, but that
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black yarn is just a real devil to see
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on screen. So, I'm going to be using the
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white, the brown, and then the body is
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the I'm sorry, beige, beige, and
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terracotta colors. And these are I think
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all of these are Hobby Lobby. I love
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this cotton yarn. And then Premier yarn
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cotton is the same. It's made by the
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same manufacturer. It's just got a
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different label on it. And I'll link
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those as well. So, get out your pattern
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or if you just want to watch along and
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see what's going on with this, if you
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feel like you might want to make it,
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everything will be linked. All right, so
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we're going to start off with the kind
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of the little flower section.
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And to do that, I'm making a magic ring.
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And I'll show you how I make mine. So,
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I've got my yarn here. And I'm using a
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4mm hook.
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Keep things pretty tight. Not super
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tight, but snug so we don't have a lot
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of gaps. Take my tail over to the left.
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Create a ring.
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Bring out my hook. Pinch these two
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together. Bring up the yarn.
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Hold these tight while I make a stitch
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to lock in the ring. Hold it in place.
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That does not count as a stitch. And now
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we have a ring that is can close,
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openable, adjustable.
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Okay. Into this I'm going to work eight
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half double crochet.
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Yarn over. And I'm going to be holding
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them in place because while the ring is
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formed, it lacks stability at this
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point. So the stitches are going to flop
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around back and forth and we want to
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keep them straight.
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So there's my first one. So I'm just
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going to be holding it.
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Two. Hold. Steady.
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3.
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Four.
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Five.
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Pull this together a little bit.
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Six.
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7.
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And my eighth stitch.
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Hold it. And then I can pull my ring
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closed. I'm not going to snug it
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completely yet because I want to double
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check that I have access to eight V's on
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top. Okay. So, I'm just going to turn it
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upwards. And look, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and
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there's a eighth stitch. Looks a little
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turned, but that's okay. I can still
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work into it.
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So, now that I've confirmed that I have
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my eight, pull tight and then go into
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that
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stitch there and slip. At this point,
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I'm going to
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bring in a stitch marker so that I know
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where I'm at.
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Then I'm going to work
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some clusters.
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Right. So if you see in here kind of
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close,
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there's some
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little V's and these are
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mini puff stitches, I would say, with a
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chain one in between. So, I'm going to
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make eight sets of those. I'm going to
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work them.
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If you can't get it to work, if it's
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hard for you, you can work into the
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stitch, but I'm going to work down
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between the posts
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to give a more kind of like a fullome
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puffy look. Let me find my
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so the front of the post where you see
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these legs here in the front. Going to
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work side by side. So here's legs.
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Here's legs. I'm going to put my hook
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here instead of into the stitch up here.
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It's easier to see when it's double
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crochets,
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but um that's going to be too big for
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this pattern.
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So, I'm going to yarn over and find that
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space. The first one's going to be a
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little hard because there was a slip
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stitch there.
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Pull up. Yarn over again. So, I yarned
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over before I went in and I'm yarning
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over a second time to create a little
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bit of a puff. Then pull through all
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five loops. Chain one and do it again
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into that same stitch.
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Yarn over, pull up a loop. Three on
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hook.
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And again, yarn over,
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five on hook, five loops,
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pull through.
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Go in. Now, if I look here, I've got to
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make sure that I'm in between. You can
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kind of see that ring, the base of the
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ring. So, I'm going down under that V,
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not into it.
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It's not the end of the world if you
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work into the stitch, but that's just
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not how mine is being made. And if you
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like the look of mine, I'm not um
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working into the stitch between the
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posts. Okay, so there's the first one.
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Back into that same area for another
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puff.
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Five loops on hook. Yarn over, pull
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through all. Do not chain one.
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Then find my next in between post
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here. Let me yarn over. Go in
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one and two. Okay. So, I'm going to work
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my eight sets and I will meet you back
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at the end of the round.
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and you will have 24 stitches.
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I'm at the end of the round.
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My stitch marker
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and we'll slip to join.
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At this point, I'm going to bring up my
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wing color now that I have my flower
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developed.
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Cut my yarn.
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Did you know I designed project
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trackers? Large print and regular print
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for small, medium, and large size
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projects. The link is in the description
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to get your own or you can try it for
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free.
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There's a download on my website, link
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in description.
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So, I'm going to slip with the next
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color.
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And I don't need my stitch marker here
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because I can see where the end of the
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round will be. But keep hold on to it
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because you will need it for the next
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round. So, now we will move on to
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um round three. And we're just going to
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single crochet the 24 stitches.
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You can work your tail in as you go.
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Here,
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there's one.
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Two.
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four like so. Okay. So, I'll meet you
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back at the end. Make sure you have 24
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stitches. All right. So, here I'm at
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I've got 23. And then here's my last
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stitch.
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Go down in here to kind of make it up
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make it meet up with where I slipped
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into the first.
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Okay. I'm going to go over that slip and
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slip into my first stitch.
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and mark it.
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Now your pattern, you're on round four
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and it says to work four single crochet.
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We'll do four into that same stitch.
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Four. Listen to me. The first one into
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that same stitch where you just slipped.
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1
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2
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3 and there's your fourth single
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crochet. Then it says to work
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three half double crochet.
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One,
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two, and three.
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Then two double crochet.
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One,
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two.
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Is that double? Let me redo that. Feel
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like I need a half double crochet
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instead of a double crochet.
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Okay, so there's two double crochet. Now
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we're going to work six double crochet B
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stitches.
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So to do that, go into the first
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double crochet, then chain one and back
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same stitch, a second double crochet.
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Okay, five more of those
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double crochet. Chain one.
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Second one.
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Next.
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Chain one.
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Okay, there's three
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and we're doing six. So now at this
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point, you can kind of see.
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So we're going to be mirroring. We're at
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the center point here. So, what we've
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just worked up till now, we're going to
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reverse and come back to end up the
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same. So, I just made the three double
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crochet V's. So, I'm going to make three
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more.
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One
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two
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and a third one.
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Okay, so that's my sixth double crochet
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V stitches. Then I've got to do two
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double crochet stitches.
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One. and next stitch is two.
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Then three half double crochet. That's
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what we did on the other side leading up
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to the two double crochet.
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One,
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two.
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That was a double crochet, wasn't it?
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I'm talking and not doing, which is not
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going to be helpful for you. All right,
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we've got my one double crochet,
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one half double crochet, second half
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double crochet, and third half double
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crochet.
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Then I do four single crochet.
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Poor
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So, it should look
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symmetrical.
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Those V stitches can look a little
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wonky, but as we come around with the
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final round, it'll smooth out a little
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bit more.
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Take out my
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stitch marker.
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Slip into that stitch.
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And now you should have 36 stitches.
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All right. So, we're going to do two
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single crochet in the first stitch.
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That's an increase.
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Then seven single crochet.
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Four, five,
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six,
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and seven.
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Two half double crochet in next. So this
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is another increase.
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Two half double crochet.
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Then three half double crochet.
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One,
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two,
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and three.
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Then 14 double crochet.
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One.
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Two.
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Three, four
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that um the chain one space in the V's
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is hard to work into. And if it's really
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challenging for you, just um go under
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the stitch. If you can get in there and
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then push down, it'll open it up a
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little bit more, make it easier to work
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into.
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Right, now I've lost my count.
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One, two, three, four, five. Okay, six.
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seven. So that's seven. Since that's the
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midway point of the 14, that should kind
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of line up right here.
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8
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9
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10.
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13. And then 14.
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those tight stitches.
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Okay. What's going on here? There we go.
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Okay. Then three half double crochet.
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Let's see where we're at this one.
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Then the increase of two half double
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crochet in one stitch.
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Then seven single crochet. Okay.
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And then two in the last. Let me move my
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stitch marker.
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So, you should have 42 stitches when you
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finish this round.
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One and two.
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Cut my yarn.
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And then if you're moving on to making
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the wings, you want to weave in your
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ends. And then if you have um like I
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didn't even I didn't finish this back
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one with the weaving of the ends with
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these your little um they can kind of
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peekaboo out sometimes. And for that I
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have a video on this but I use fabric
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glue to kind of
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um control them where they're supposed
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to be and so that that they're not
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peeking out.
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So, I use um either a toothpick with
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this or my favorite little fixing tool,
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which is a 2 mm crochet hook. You might
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probably have one in your bag somewhere.
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But to attach these, you're going to be
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working into all of the stitches. So,
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they need to be easily accessible
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without some loose tail coming out
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somewhere.
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Go into the second one here.
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hide my tail.
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Work it down so it's secure.
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And then glue
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like this tail here. I'm going to glue
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this down too just to kind of keep it
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manageable. It's kind of like hairspray
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for yarn except it is washable.
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My cat wants me. All right. So, that's
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how you make the wings. And then, um, if
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you have the pattern, you have your link
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to the how to make the body video. So,
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go on to that next. The wings, you want
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to get those made first.
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