How to Crochet Hygge Color Block Baskets

Hello and welcome to the My Earlybird YouTube channel brought to you by Red Heart Yarns. In this video, I will show you how to make the

color

block

baskets

. These are fantastic

baskets

and the pattern gives you instructions on how to make them in a small size. and the large size super super large we are going to focus on the smaller size in today's video but all you will do is expand the instructions that I will give you in the video to make the larger size and you will have no problem. This is a free pattern at Red Heart Comm.

You can find the link to the free pattern and all the materials down there in the video description box below, and while you're there, hit the like button as my kids say. let other people know that you enjoyed this video, go ahead and download your free pattern, join me here and we'll get started on this super cute little basket. I don't know about you, but I've seen these woven baskets all over Pinterest and me. I think they are adorable and the perfect home accessory, so I was excited when Redheart said they were releasing a pattern and wanted me to show them a video on how to make one of these baskets, so now you can make your own.

This basket is made. using two different

color

s of red heart with love the smallest basket requires three skeins of each color the largest basket requires six skeins of your base color and three skeins from the top of your basket along with the yarn you need a size K or six stitches five millimeter

crochet

needle you will also need a tapestry needle with a bed point to weave the ends and a good pair of scissors that way you can cut the thread tails as you knit them now that you have the materials and the pattern, let's go ahead and Jump in and get started with this really cool basket.

To make this basket, you need to keep three strands of yarn together throughout the project, which means you will pull one strand from each of the same color balls and work all the stitches. will make them thicker and will make this project go much faster once you have the three strands out you will start with a slip knot you will place the tail of the three strands in the palm of your hand you will take the working thread wrapped around your index finger and your middle finger and when you come back up, cross once you cross, turn your hand over, go under the front loop, grab the back loop and pull it out.

I have now created a slipknot notice. I keep holding my fingers there because we are. using all three strands can be a little tricky here just to get used to it at first, take the hook, stick it in that slip knot and just separate the tail and the working thread and that tightens the slip knot right there on the hook. once you have the Slipknot on the hook we want to make a chain of 3 to make a chain stitch you take your hook and wrap it around your yarn so when you come back up you want to make sure you have the right three yarns. there on your hook and when I go through it I want to make sure I go through all three hook strands on that chain.

Now we don't count the loop on our hook as a stitch, so the first one I just made. that's one, so we need two more, take my hook, turn around and back and then take it out. There are two and there are three. Now I'm going to go ahead and tie it with a slipknot to the first one here to form a ring, so Come back here to this first point, the first chain. I'm going to move on to the back leg just because I find it easier to pull the yarn over my hook, pull that yarn through that stitch, and then pull it through the one on my hook. so that's a slip knot and what I've done here, you can see there's this circle which is actually the ring that we're going to start weaving these stitches from this point on we're going to work in the round for the rest of the basket that we will also maintain. the work is continually going in the direction we are working, we will not be turning our work over, so if you wanted to take a marker and mark this as the right side of your fabric, you absolutely could do that, but I don't think we can need to do that right now, the next part of the instructions for round one on the right side says to go ahead and make a chain and then we're going to place six single

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s in this ring, so just go to the middle of this ring and find the middle. portion, so if I put my finger right there, that's the center part, I'll make the yarn over, I'll pull up a loop, the yarn over, I'll draw it, so that's a single crochet and I need six of them, so I'll do that, that is the second. four, five and six, when you're done with the six single crochets, you're going to slip the stitch into the first single crochet, so remember we have this chain one and then here's our single crochet, so I'm going to place my hook directly into that thread low point.

Pick up one loop and then pull that loop through the one on my hook, so now I have six single crochets in the entire round. At this point, for the second round, we're going to start with chain one and then we're going to put two single crochets in each all around by doing that now we're going to have 12 single crochets and it's the first part of our increases that we're doing for the base from our basket, so we've chained one and we're literally going to put two single crochets in each one. single crochet so there's one I'm going to go into the same stitch and work another go to the next there's one and there's the second once now I have four right so I'm going to the next there's one and a second there's one and the the second, so they're eight, there's one and the second, ten, there's one and the second, 12, once you get to 12, you're going to go ahead and sew the first single crochet, so I go to the first single crochet and make sure. that you have the three threads again it just takes a little practice to get used to and then do a slip stitch to close you will notice that your loops are nice and comfortable and that's what we want, we don't want our basket to have a has a lot of holes, it's a fabric pretty solid, so you want to make sure the hook you're using gives you a really nice solid fabric, although you'll notice on the third round that the next set of instructions has your chain. one and then there is a parenthesis every time you see instructions written inside a parenthesis, that is a clue for you to know that everything that is written inside that parenthesis you will do for the total number of times written outside the parenthesis, for example, the third round.

It starts with a chain and then in the bracket it says two single crochets in the next stitch, so here's the next stitch. I'm going to make two single crochets, so there's one and two and then it says make a single crochet in the next one. stitch so there's one right there so I did an increase and then just a single single crochet and I'm going to do it a total of six times and when I get to the end here I'll have increased a total of six stitches. notice that as we continue to go around and around and around increasing the base of our basket, we will have a greater number of singular single crochets among all of our increased single crochets, okay, this is how the base of our basket will get larger and bigger so let's go ahead and do this five more times because we only did it once so I'm going to put one and two single crochets in one and then one single crochet in the next two single crochets in one one single crochet in the next when When you get to the end you can always pause and go back and count just to make sure you have the right number of points.

I like to find the V at the top of my rounds and use them as counting portions, so I have 1 2 3 4. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 which is exactly what I want, so at the end of my round here I join with a slip stitch once again to the first single crochet that you are not joining to the chain. One remembers that you are going to make a single crochet and you join with that slipped stitch. Hopefully this is starting to make a little sense. Let's work together on the fourth round and then take a look at the rest of the pattern.

The fourth round has this. Start with chain one like before and you'll see there's a support and it says put two single crochets in the next stitch, so there's one and two, so that's my increase and then I'll put a single crochet in the next two stitches, so there's one, and then this is the next one, so there's two, so I've used three points, but I've created four. I will do it a total of six times every way, as before, and notice that this time after my increase there are two single crochets in the following rows, now you will have three single crochets between your increases, then four, then five, then six , and so on, depending on how big you want the base of your basket to be, let's go.

Go ahead and finish this round. I just finished the first bracket, so let's repeat the bracket to move on to the next point. Put two single crochets in one so that's where my increase is. Oops, I missed one of those threads. Make sure you always get all three threads. and there are my two singles, so that's two times I've done the bracket, so there's one and two, one single and two singles, that's three times I've done the bracket, one single and two singles, get some more of thread here, you'll notice I changed. The way I hold my crochet hook, it's actually very difficult for me to knit that hard, the inside of my thumb hurts like it hurts right here, so when that happens to me, I'll change the way I hold my crochet hook and I'll just play with it a little bit, so if you're having the same kind of problems, maybe change the way you hold the hook and give it a try.

I'm at the end of my round and I'll join with a slip stitch like before and I might come back. and I count my points to make sure, but I know I have the right number of points. I hope you understand at this point. You can really see where there is an increase and there is a singular point between each increase and that increases depending on the number of rounds you are doing if you are doing the small basket you will repeat or you will not repeat so you will work the instructions until round ten if you are doing the basket larger you will work the instructions until round fourteen I'm going to work on this a little bit and do a couple of rounds and then I'll move on to the next part of the instructions so you know how to pass the base of the basket okay I wasn't very away, I just went up to the fifth round because my hands started to hurt really bad and I want to make sure I don't use up all the time of the video just knitting a circle, so let's go ahead and move towards the sides of the basket now with all this face the basket we have been working in rounds to work our increases to get the base of the basket as big as we want.

Now we want these sides of the basket to start coming up to grow from the base, so what we do is we'll knit around this entire base without working increases and we'll just work on the back loop, that will give us this really cool open loop. There you can see that really cool open loop and that means that when the base of your basket is This acts as a place where the basket folds, okay, it looks great and it's finished, so let's go ahead and work through the back loop, only you will go ahead, chain one and working on the back loop only you.

Single crochet around your circle, so I'm working on just the back loop. You see that front loop right there. I'm going to the back loop and I'll do a single crochet, so for me I'll have a total of 30 single crochets. all the way when it's done if you follow the instructions for the small basket you will have a total of 60 if you follow the instructions for the large basket you will have a total of 84 you will see here that as you work around this front loop that we are not using, it is the part that turns into that nice little ridge on the basket, it's a really great design feature and it really makes the turn from the base to the body of the basket nice, smooth, easy and simple, so this is a nice little nice touch made by beautiful designer heather lijinsky.

She is fabulous. You can see more of Heather's patterns at Red Heart Comm. She makes a lot of really wonderful patterns for Red Heart. I love being able to teach you patterns in these videos. I'm going to go all the way to the end so you can see the slip stitch and then what's going to happen once we get past this part is we're going to continue working in rounds. but we won't be working any increases like we did on the base, we'll just do single crochets all over and when it's time to change colors, you'll know when that's based on the instructions and it's as simple as I'm just changing colors when you get to the slip stitch, so here I am almost at the end of my round and I'm going to go back and count just because I think I'm at the end.

Maybe I have one more there, but I want to make sure again. I'm just going to say that's my chain one, so here's my low point, so one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 look I have one more it's always good to go back and count especially when you're working on rounds like this don't just say oh you know what I'm good always go back and count just to make sure now I'm going to go ahead and join with a slipped stitch like I've been doing before and you can already start to see that my base wants to hollow out on itself, it's already starting to take shape, which is what we want now.

These next rows that we are going to work with this same color without any increaseWe're going to work just like we did with the base where we're going to go through the entire stitch. We're not going to just work on the back loop, okay, you're going to go through the entire stitch, however, you're not going to work increases like you did with the base, you're just going to knit. single crochets all around, which means that the number of stitches will not change. The instructions say you are supposed to do this. particular round of five rounds if you are making the small basket and 19 rounds if you are making the larger basket once you read that you reach the number of rounds you plan to make for the sides of your basket in this color it will be time to change color and that's what I'm going to do next so I can show you how to change the color of the top of your basket.

Welcome back. I've worked five rounds on my little basket that I'm making here and it's time to change color, what you'll notice here is that I'm at the end of my round and I went ahead and cut my thread leaving at least six inches because I like to have that to be able to knit. Later I'll grab the yarn I'm going to use for the top of my basket again. I want to make sure I keep three strands together so I have three strands of Aaron's really pretty color with love. and I like to match the length of the tail to what I just cut because that way I make sure everything is about the same length and when I place my hook at the point where I'm going to do my slip stitch, I'll end it with my new yarn, pull it through the slip stitch and pull it through the loop that is on my hook, what that does is it allows the color change to happen right here without interrupting this stitch and the new color is on my hook ready to will be worked, so the instructions now say we're going to go ahead and make a chain with this new color and then a single crochet in the same point as the join, so there's our join and I'll make a single crochet in the same point as my union now.

I'm going to go ahead and make a single crochet in each stitch and join it with the slip stitch right there, so it's like what we've been doing before, only now I have a new color to look at, which is exciting because it makes you feel like you're making great progress on this really cool basket. I know one of the questions I've gotten regarding this basket is: Can I make it striped? Could you make it in one color? You could do whatever you want. As for colors, if you want to make sure your basket is the same size as the sample baskets, just make sure you keep working the same number of rows as written in the pattern, but change the colors more or less frequently, but keep the same number of rows, so that's one way you could really change this basket and make it yours now.

Another way is obviously very similar to what I'm doing. I'm just making mine super small so I made the base of my basket smaller I made the sides of my basket smaller and what I'm going to do is make a little candy, a parody that I think would be super cute for Christmas gifts, especially maybe for teachers or something where they can put little ones, maybe Jolly Ranchers or candy in their little basket on their desk or maybe you want to put something that is a quintessential teacher and put an apple in the little basket, maybe with a little caramel sauce and eat a sweet.

Apple I don't know about something fun, just something a little different that you can put together for a quick gift, but I'll make sure the instructions for this little basket I'm working on are on my website. Marley Bird, calms you down. You'll find a link to that in the video description box below. I'll also put a little link on that little I button there so you can get the exact number of stitches and rows that I made for my little basket. I'm doing here if you want to make a little candy basket for your first basket, so here I am near the end.

I'm going to go ahead and count my points. I want to make sure I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 and I'm going to join with a slip stitch here and I want to make sure I join to the single crochet which is the same color as I started with giving it a good pull , give it a good tug, you could pull your tail, make sure it's all tight and now I have this really cool second color, now you have this really cool second color added to your basket if you're working on In the pattern basket, you'll be working on this second color for another ten rounds if you're going to make the smaller basket and you'll work it for another six rounds if you're going to make the larger basket for my little candy basket, I think.

I'll work one more round of my secondary color and then we'll jump to the handles, so let me get to that point and you get to your point too, press pause, press a marker, do whatever it takes to lift your basket. as far as working the handles to make the handles of this basket is as easy as working a set number of stitches chaining stitches and then skipping the same number of stitches on the side of your basket as you change the next rows go back and instead By working on those skipped points on the body of your basket, you will work around or inside those chains, thus leaving a nice little opening.

The instructions for the basket handle allow you to start with the chain and then make a single crochet in the first ten for the small basket or fourteen for the larger basket, then you will chain ten or fourteen for the larger size, Skip that same number of stitches and then single crochet the next 20 or 28 stitches depending on your size. making this little basket that I'm making, of course, I'm not going to use the same numbers that are written in the pattern, but the technique that I will use will be exactly the one that you will use, you will just have different numbers, okay? just work with me just use the numbers listed for the size you are making for my little basket.

I will start with a chain one and then I will make five single crochets two three four and five now it is time to create our small opening for the handles we do it by chaining the number of stitches as indicated in the pattern for me I am going to make a chain 5 1 2 3 4 5 now because I chained 5 I'm also going to skip 5 single crochets from the body of my back, so skip 1 2 3 4 5 in the next one, that's where I'll continue with my single crochets. Remember that you are using the numbers as they appear on the pattern for the size you are making.

I will now. Make a single crochet in the next 10 single crochets, so there are two threes. Now that I've done ten it's time to do my second handle and you'll notice it's right in front of my first handle so I'll start with a chain 5 1 2 3 4 5 then I'll skip 5 1 2 3 4 5 and next I'll work a single crochet and then I will finish off with single crochets until the end which will be a total of 5 at the end of the round you join with a slip stitch like you have been doing all the time and at this point you now have little handles that are starting how cute is that right at this point for my little basket that I could finish, but I would really finish it if I did.

I did another round enclosing those chain stitches and making the handle look really finished, also that's how the pattern is written so let's go ahead and do that if you want to follow the pattern that's great but essentially what you're doing is chain. one and you're going to single crochet to where your chain stitches are okay, so I'm going to single crochet to where my chain stitches are once I get there. The pattern wants us to work the same number of single crochets as we did in the chains. In the entire string space, the designer does not want you to put those points in the chain, having said that if you want to put the points in the chain, you absolutely can, but for me, I totally agree with the designer, if you remember , I only made 5 chains, so I'm going to place 5 single crochets around this chain and I'm just going to go into all that space and work single crochets 3, four and five, once I've completed the same number of single crochets around the chains, I go ahead and single crochet the next set of chains and I'll repeat the whole process, so I'll work single crochets around those chains and I'm placing the same amount of single crochets as the chains, which makes it very easy for You don't make a mistake and do it. the wrong amount you will know exactly where you are just follow the dots to that point.

I'm here for my second start. I will place five single crochets around my chain. Five spaces here there are three, four and five and then I carry. go ahead and I'll work my single crochets into the single crochets on the side of my little basket here or the single crochets of your basket until I get to the end and I'll join them with a slip stitch. I think it's just four one two three. no, it's five, join them with a slip stitch and look at that look, how cute is this little handle, there's a handle on the opposite side right there and it's a cute little look, that little look, it's not going to be the cutest. basket of candy oh my gosh, that's adorable.

Now the instructions say to do one more round of single crochets around the basket, so if you are doing the small basket or the large basket and want to follow the instructions exactly, do one more round of single crochets. crochet for my little basket here. I like the idea of ​​making a round of crab stitch, so that's what I'm going to do here. This is the variation. This is not written in the pattern of the baskets. So much for the color

block

baskets, but that's how it will be. be written for the little candy dish, okay, so let me show you how to do the crab stitch.

For the crab stitch, you just chain one and then you go back to the stitch behind the chain and you yarn over and when you pull that yarn up, you want to make sure it's in front of the loop that was on your hook, okay, so when you pick it up, it's in front of the loop that was on your hook, loop through all of them, move on to the next one. stitch behind the yarn over, pull up. I'm going to move this loop so you can see when I pull it up, the loop I pull up is in front of or closer to the edge of my crochet hook and I yarn and draw through all of those. come to the back loop, pick up a loop and continue and I'll do this around the basket and what I love about this little technique is that it creates a really nice finishing touch to this basket when you get to the end. just go into that last stitch just like you've been doing all along, okay, you'll cut the thread.

I always leave four to six inches, pull that out and then just weave the tail in and look how cool that little finishing touch is. just a nice finishing touch, it's called crab stitch or reverse single crochet and I think it looks like a nice finishing touch again that's not in the original basket pattern, but I wanted to add it to my little candy dish. right here, right this little basket of candy, oh, isn't that so adorable. I'm serious, it's so cute. The last thing you want to do now is weave in the ends, so I'm going to show you the really quick way to leave it on. your ends to weave into your tails I like to take the three threads and if I can using my bent point tapestry needle I will thread the three threads through the eye of the needle once I've done that I'm going to go ahead I'm going to Knit this so that stay on the inside of my little basket here and it works on the inside, so let me turn this around.

I'm just going to take my yarn and I'm weaving it down. I'm threading it through the stitches. and the actual fibers of the thread are pulling on my needle, make sure that as I pull on it, this edge here is not pulling down, it's still nice and even now I'm going to go across just a little bit and come back up, not all the way. tux I don't want it to appear here at the top. I'm going to pull this all the way to the top, hopefully good, and then one last time so it doesn't fall apart, going back down where I came up once.

I do that. I feel like this is safe enough, especially for a simple little basket to come forward and cut off my tail and that's safe. Now these ends I can do something very similar. I'm going to take the white ones first and so on. first, I will thread all three, if I can, directly onto my bent point tapestry needle. If I can't do all three, I can always readjust them and, if you want, at the same time, but I like to take out all three if I can for a while. A big project like this is now working through the dots in this direction.

I'm going to pass this through those back legs. Look at what the V's look like. It's like the back leg of those points. I'm going to pass it through this address. all the way through, make sure as I pull it that I don't pull it so that it has wrinkles anywhere, let's pull that thread through, okay, okay, it looks good and now I'm going to go back in the same direction, I just want to make sure. I step over a little lump right there and when I come back I should be able to pull this and it's going to lock on itself.

Look how that thread locks on itself. It's nice and safe. I can cut it this nice and close. Same with the other color Same down here too just weave your end once all your ends are woven you are ready to put this basket right next to your fireplace gift it to a friend or heck maybe you are making a craft . fair I guarantee these baskets are a hit at craft fairs.I mean, look at this, this thing is huge and people love this stuff, even sitting next to their chair to put their yarn on. You can see here behind me.

I took the small one. in one I put some yarn inside that one, that's three balls full of red heart with love just to give you an idea of ​​how big this cute little thing is here look, I could use it for my crochet hooks. the same height as my crochet needles. Very pretty. I love it. If you want this pattern to get the exact instructions for what I made, check out Marley Bird's post for the basket pattern. Look at the red hearts communication. Both links are down there in the video. description box below, we hope you enjoyed this color block basket video tutorial and join the many subscribers here on the Marley Bird YouTube channel so you'll be the first to know when a new video is posted .

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