Autumn Glow Cowl

Hi, you guys. Welcome to our live event. My name is Brenda Kb Anderson and I am very excited today to show you guys my latest design, it's called the Autumn Glow Cowl. This is what it looks like. It's a very highly textured cowl um with cables and baubles and it's nice and rustic and wooly. When I was working on this design, I was being, I was thinking about all the things about autumn that really inspired me. Um, you know, just hot apple cider and just the rustic wooly feelings, you know, going through the f as tree bark leaves just the way that the light looks in the fall. Um It's just a different feeling and so I was thinking about that and choosing my, my yarn and my design to sort of reflect that feeling and that's what this is all about today. The Autumn Glow Cowl. So, um just of course, this is a live event and I just wanna make sure that you guys know that you can say hi, you can ask me questions, you can leave suggestions in the chat. Um I'll be checking out throughout this event so that I can answer any questions you might have um or, you know, if you have suggestions for future live events, I love it when people throw those into the chat as well. Um But definitely if you know, there's anything that isn't clear to you or you have any questions about anything, you know, definitely drop that on chat in the chat and I'll be, I'll be going through that um throughout this live event. So, all right. So let's start by talking about our materials. First of all, you're going to need your pattern download. This is a free download for everyone. Um And this has complete directions with some photos in it for how to make this cowl. Um And, uh, you know, you can always access this later. You don't have to do it right this minute. If you don't feel like it, it's always gonna be available. You can watch the live event later if you need to. Um, that's all gonna be available, you know, later on. So you'll need that. You'll need to download, you'll need also some yarn and I'm going to be using, um, this, I think this is technically a worsted weight. Let me see what they called it. It's, it's really in between a worsted and a bulky, I feel like heavy, worsted air and weight yarn. Ok. So this is just a slightly thicker, um, Aaron or slightly thicker, worse the weight yarn and Aaron weight. Um And so it's just a little bit thicker than, you know, most of the, the yarns that you find you might find in the big box store. It's kind of like the thicker end of those yarns that we often times use for afghans and things like that here in the US. Anyway, it's one of the most prevalent yarn weights that we have. Um, but also I, I wanted to point out that this is kind of a, this is a one ply and it gets thicker and thinner as you go. So blocking this, this project will be really beneficial later, kind of evens things out a little bit. Um But it sort of adds to the rustic arm of this piece. I particularly like using one ply yarns for making cables because I feel like it really makes the, the cables pop, especially in crochet cables. Um So I really, that's why I chose the one ply, but you don't need to use a one ply you can use, you know, applied yarn. Um that, that works fine too, just maybe do a swatch just to see if you like the fabric. Another bonus of using those one ply yarns besides just how it looks is often times it has a little bit, you know, less of a twist to it. And so it feels a little bit more drap and when you're making crochet cables, they can be pretty thick and dense. Um And then the one ply yarn the, the, you know, the sort of drapings of that type of yarn kind of helps the, the fabric relax a little bit. But that, that is one of the things too. You can always, you know, just after you block whatever it is that you're using whatever yarn it is, it'll soften up a little bit too. So, something to think about though. All right. So you need, let me see, this is just a size in one size, but I'll be talking a little bit about how to change the size if you would like to. Um, so you'll need about 330 yards or 302 m of yarn. And so I ended up using, uh, it's about a ball and a half or maybe like a ball and three quarters. Um, not quite two balls of yarn for this cowl. Uh, you will also need, of course, a crochet hook. Uh, I'm going to be using an eye hook, which is a 5.5 millimeter hook. Uh, but you will use whatever you need to in order to get the correct gauge. So that way you can make sure your collar is gonna turn out the, the size that you think it will. Um, and then you'll need a removable stitch marker and a yarn needle and that's it. Not a lot of supplies here. So it keeps it simple, which is great. All right. Um, ok. So we're gonna start out by working up the ribbing from the top of the cowl. Well, first, let me talk just a little bit about the construction of the cowl. So the cowl is made, you start actually at the top of the cowl. So here and we're gonna work back and forth and turn rows and we're gonna make a very long strip. We're gonna turn that strip into sort of a tube shape or a circle shape. And then we're gonna start working into the edge of that ribbing that we made. And we're gonna be working in the round to create the cables and the baubles as we go. So we're gonna continue working when we get towards the end, we're gonna make some increases because I really wanted this cowl to flare out just a little bit at the bottom because it drives me nuts when you put a cowl over your head and then it looks kind of bunchy on the bottom and it doesn't want to just kind of sit right on your shoulders. Um So I added up just a little bit of extra, um, a little bit of extra width at the bottom of the cowl here. And then after we do that, we are going to make ribbing again. But this time, it's gonna be a join as you go ribbing, which is fun. So we'll get into that as we work through our cowel. All right. So we're gonna start out with a foundation or with a foundation chain of five, we're just gonna chain five. So I'll place that slipknot on my hook and I'm gonna chain five here. So 1234 and five, and now we are going to start working back and forth in those turn rows and we're gonna be working in a stitch pattern. That is a variation of a slip stitch. Um So if you take a look at this chain here, we've got a bunch of these going in this direction, right? A bunch of these all stacked up if we roll that over. So the vs are on the table, you can see all those little horizontal dashes on the back. We're gonna work underneath those horizontal dashes. So we're gonna skip the first one because that turning chain is not gonna count as a stitch here. And we're gonna make a yarn over. We're gonna insert our hook into that first horizontal stitch. Well, it's actually the second one because we skipped the first one. Then we're gonna yarn over and we're gonna pull up a loop and then we're gonna pinch here right at the base and then we're gonna continue pulling that loop through the two loops on our hook. So that's making a yarn over slip stitch. So we yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up a loop and we're gonna pull that loop through the two loops on our hook. So yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up continue pulling that loop through the two loops on your hook. We'll do that one more time. You're an over insert, you're over, pull up. And I always like to pinch my fabric right here because it helps me hold everything steady as I pull that loop through those two loops on the hook. All right. So if you, if you've never done this stitch before, I would highly recommend just really slowing it down when you first begin because um it's very similar motions to a half, double crochet, but there's one fewer yarn over. So you need to make sure you're not accidentally doing a half, double crochet. All right. So when you get to the end, we're gonna chain one and you can chain one pretty tightly. It looks better if you chain it pretty tightly, you're never gonna work into that turning chain. So, don't worry about that. Then we're gonna turn our work just like this. We're like, we're turning a page in the book and then we're gonna work across the edges of our, the top of our stitches. But this time, instead of normally, when we crochet, we work underneath both loops of the stitch, we insert our hook here. But this time we're gonna insert our hook just under the back loops. So underneath these loops, we're just gonna ignore the ones in the front. All right, we're skipping that turning chain we made and we're gonna yarn over, insert through the back loop, yarn over, pull up a loop and pull that loop through two. You're an over insert, you're an over, pull up, pinch and pull through two. You're an over insert, you're an over, pull up, pinch and pull through two. You're an over insert. You're an over, pull up, pinch and pull through two. All right, we've reached the end. Let's do that again. So we're gonna chain one, turn our work like we're turning a page in a book and we are gonna work into those, the, the back loop of those vs. Now, this might be a little bit hard to tell if these are the vs or if these are the V's but just know as you are when you're working in turn rows after you've just turned a row, your vs should be facing in this direction. OK? You can see how these VS right here. Those are actually, those were created on the back of our stitches that we did in the last row. So those vs are facing this way. So this is not the back loop here. You need to look at the top of your, of your stitches. Those are the back loops there. Just wanna make sure everybody knows um where to work in because it can be kind of confusing with all these VS flying around here. All right. So this, we're just doing that yarn over slip stitch, working it into that back loop all the way across, you'll do your four stitches, chain one turn and then you'll do it again. Ok. So you're gonna go back and forth and back and forth for a very long time until you've done 80 rows. Ok? I am actually gonna be doing a smaller sample here today. So you don't have to get too bored while I'm doing all these stitches. Um, and let's see here, we'll pull this out. So this is what half of it will look like. So we've got 40 rows here. So your strip would be twice as long as that. Ok. So it would go all the way around the cowl and it, when you're counting your rows, I just wanna make sure you know how to do that every other. You can see that there's these ridges here, especially if you stretch it out a little. You can see there's a ridge, there's a ridge there and a groove and a ridge and a groove and a ridge in a groove. Each one of those is a row. So this starts out with a groove here. So that's one row, two rows and you can count by two. So 2468, 1012 and so on. So I've got 40 here and let me just pop my hook back on. Let's see. All right. So I've just finished up my 40th row. You would be finishing up your 80th row and then you can chain one and turn just like you're going to work another row and then you're gonna take the foundation chain edge, which is the edge that has the little yarn tail. You're gonna bring that right up in front of the row that you just worked and you're gonna slip, stitch them together. So that, um and we're gonna be working through just the back loops of each edge. OK. So just the back loop here and then the back loop here. So I'm gonna insert through the back loop of the row in front and then directly through the back loop of the rowan back. And we're gonna grab that yarn and pull through and pull through. Let's do that again. Back loop, back loop, grab the yarn, pull through, pull through back loop, back loop, grab that yarn, pull through and through the loop on the hook. There we go. OK? So we've slip stitch all the way across and then we are going to turn our work. So the, we have the right side facing out. OK? So the side that was the uh the sides that were held together here as we did the stitching, those are gonna be the right side of our cowl. So we're gonna flip that out and remember you have a much larger opening here because I, I'm just doing half the amount of stitches that we need here. And then at this point, we're gonna start working into the edges of our rose and the cool thing about going from this yarn over slip stitch pattern to the next stitch pattern, which is going to be extended single crochet is that it just perfectly mathematically works out to be the right amount of stitches if you stitch into the ridge and into the groove and into the stitch or into the ridge and into the groove. Ok. So see these ridges here, there's a ridge, there's a ridge, there's a ridge and then there's grooves between them. Each one of those things is going to get a stitch. So we're gonna start out here. I'm gonna place my hook right there in that first ridge. Yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through one stitch and yarn over and pull through two. That's an extended single crochet. And I would recommend marking that stitch just so that you, when you come all the way around, you recognize, um You know where you started. So we're gonna place a stitch marker in there and now we're gonna make extended single crochets into each row. OK? So here's the next row. Insert, you're an over, pull up a loop. You're an over pull through one. You're an over pull through two. That's an extended single crochet. Here's our next ridge here. Insert, you're an over, pull up a loop. You're an over pull through one. You're an over, pull through two. All right, we're just gonna continue that working that all the way around our whole cowl and, you know, if you've never worked into the edges of your rows before, it might be a little bit like, hey, where am I supposed to put my hook? I, you know, normally we're used to knowing exactly where to put your hook because there's a stitch there. Right. Um, I, what I'm looking for here, I like to go underneath this one strand here. Normally when I'm doing this kind of thing and working across, you know, the ends of my rows, usually I try to go under two strands. But um when you do that here, it, it kind of creates a hole underneath it. So I actually prefer to go underneath just this one strand here. There is no wrong place to put it. You just have to add your stitch and then see if it looks OK. Um And then if it looks OK, you just leave it there and, but when you're going through these ridges, you can see how there's all those little vs all stacked up. If you insert your hook right into the top of that last V and then you make your extended single crochet, it really looks like you made a continuation of that line. It's just seamless there. It looks really, really good. So that's another reason that I really love using the yarn over slip stitch through the back loop, only um stitch pattern to make a ribbing. Um Not only is it incredibly stretchy it's like very, very stretchy. Um And it bounces back more than a lot of the other crochet ribbons do. Um But also it just makes it easy to transition between the edge of the ribbing and then whatever fabric you're working in. And I, I do often use extended single crochet a lot in, especially in my cable work designs because it makes a really flat stretchy drap fabric and I feel like it really offsets the, the sort of texture and the raised post stitches of the cable. So, um another bonus too of the extended single crochet and using that for the background is that, that stitch pattern really orients itself straight up and it doesn't lean to the side like most uh most crochet stitches do when you work them in the round. So that keeps your cables from kind of skewing off to the side. If you've ever had that problem before, when you're working in the round, it's because every time you add, you know, every time you make a round, your stitches kind of go further and further and further to the right. If you're a right-handed stitcher or, you know, further and further to the left, if you're a left-handed stitcher, so those extended single crochets really keep things straight up and you can make really nice lines with your cables and not have to worry about them, sort of twisting off to the side. All right, we are getting close to the end of our round here filling this in with those extended single crochets. Um, Vanessa is saying, is that a half, double slip stitch? I'm guessing you're talking about the first stitch that I was doing. I call that a yarn over slip stitch. But it also, it may also be called a half, double slip stitch. It's possible. Um, but uh because in crochet it seems like almost every stitch has a, a another second name that, you know, you don't find out about. Um until after you've been calling it that for a very long time, it can be very confusing when you're trying to learn different stitches in crochet because often times there are stitches that ha that are totally different stitches, but yet they have the same name or they might be completely the same stitch and have different names. Um I can't say for sure, half double slip stitch may, it could be, but I would just say wa you know, go ahead and watch, um you know, the steps of my stitch and as long as you're following along with all those steps, you should be doing the right thing. Um But I'm going to be looking that up later to see if it also has another name called the half double slip Stitch. Um Hello to Faith. Hi, South Carolina. Excellent. Uh Let's see, Terek says, hello everyone. Hello, welcome. And uh and they're giving me a compliment. Thank you very much. I'm glad that you're here. Ok. So looks like I missed my, that V here. I'm gonna try and move that over just a little bit. That looks a little better. And here is my last very last extended single crochet because I've reached my marker and now we're gonna start on working up that cable pattern. Now, I want to point out um in your pattern. Download all of the directions have been written out, you know, step by step, but there is also a chart. Um I am a chart person. I really love being able to see a chart because it helps me orient like what stitch is attached to what stitch. Um So this is what I'm gonna be working from here. We just did the setup round which is down here. So these little kind of, I don't know tu upside down teardrop shape with the plus at the top. Those are representing extended single crochets right there. And then here we are about to work round number one of our cable pattern. OK. So we're gonna start out with three extended single crochets. Then we're gonna do two front post, double crochets, another extended single crochet and then two front post, double crochets and then we're gonna repeat those eight stitches over and over. So if you were thinking about, you know, if you wanted to increase the width of this, of this um cowl or decrease the width of it, um If you wanted to just sort of play around with the stitch pattern. Just know that this is a multiple of eight. So if you wanted to add another repeat in there, you would add, you know, eight more, you would have to do eight more rows of the yarn over slip stitch before you work that initial round of the extended single crochet and then you'd have enough for one more repeat in there if that makes sense. All righty. So here's our very first stitch of the round. We, you may notice I did not join at the end of the round. I just stopped after my extended single crochet. I'm not joining any of the ends of my rounds. I am just gonna continue working around and around and around in a spiral. Uh meaning no joins and no beginning chains there. All right. So here's the first stitch. We're gonna do three extended single crochets. So one and two and three. And then we're gonna do two front post, double crochets. So front post, double crochet is similar to a regular double crochet except for instead of working here, we're gonna be working around this post here. So this is the post of your stitch. There is the top of your stitch and to do a front post double crochet, we're gonna yarn over like we would for a regular double crochet, we're gonna insert our hook to the right of the stitch that we're gonna be working in and then go around the back and have it pop out just to the left of the stitch. And if you are a left handed crochet, watch this in reverse, watch this mirrored. Um Your cowl will end up as a reverse like a mirror image of my cowl. But that will still be lovely. I think that's just the easiest way to learn it and that way, um You don't have to worry about which side of the cable crosses over the other. It'll just be um similar to what I'm doing here. OK. So you're gonna insert your hook around that stitch, the post of the stitch, you'll yarn over and pull up loop, then you're gonna yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two and then we're gonna do that again in the next stitch. So we yarn over and we're gonna insert our hook around the next stitch, the post of the next stitch, sorry yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two. Now we're gonna do an extended single crochet in the next stitch, which is right here. So we're gonna work that extended single crochet and then we're gonna do two more front post, double crochets. So yarn over and sometimes people get confused about which post they're supposed to be working around. Are we working here or are we working here? So this stitch has already been worked because the top of the stitch is right here when you're working in the round. If you're a right handed Stitcher, the post will be ever so slightly to the left of where the top of the stitches, see the top of the stitch starts here and kind of goes over here. So that stitch has already been worked and now we're gonna work underneath or around the post of the next stitch. So we yarn over, insert you an over pull up, you're an over pull through two, you're an over pull through two and we'll do that one more time. OK? So you can start to see those post stitches wanna kind of become raised on the fabric. It'll be a lot more obvious as we continue to work. I am just gonna be repeating that same section. So I'm gonna do three extended single crochets. Here's the second one, here's the third one. Then I'm gonna do two front post, double crochets. So here's one and here's the second one and then another extended single crochet right here and then two more front post, double crochets, one and two. And then we're going to do an extended single crochet in each of the next three stitches because we're making that repeat once again and then two post stitches. So two front post, double crochets, one and two extended single crochet right here and then two front postages, one and two. And now we're going to make another repeat. So one to three extended, single crochets and then we'll do two front post, double crochets. One and two, an extended single crochet and two postages. One and two. All right, we have one more repeat of that. So one, 23 extended and then two front posts, one and two, another extended and then two front posts. One and two. All right. So we've made it all the way around. Our next round is going to be round number two. And you can see there's some kind of exciting things happening in the chart here. This little weird looking bubble that's gonna stand for our bauble that we're gonna make. And then this section over here, this is how we are going to make those post its cross over each other. You can see on the chart, front post treble crochet. Um The symbol for that it's worked behind is kind of a lighter gray. So it kind of is fading into the background a little bit. The darker one sits on top, that's the front po post trouble that's worked in front. And I'll explain a little bit more about that when we get to that. But I'm just pointing that out on the chart. If when you're looking at it, the fainter one is sitting behind, the darker one is going on top. OK. So here we're gonna work on round number two. So we're gonna start out with an extended single crochet. Gonna remember to put my stitch marker back in there and now we're gonna make a bauble. So to make a bauble, you're gonna yarn over and then insert yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through two and stop. So you're making a, a double crochet here, but you're gonna stop before the end and now you're gonna do that four more times. So you're an over insert, you're over, pull up, you aren't over, pull through two and stop. You aren't over insert. You're an over pull up, you're an over, pull through two and stop. Ok, we're gonna do that a couple more times. We do this a total of five times. And when you've done that, you'll have a total of six loops on your hook because you started with one loop on your hook and then you're going to yarn over and bring that through all six. Ok? And then you're gonna make an extended single crochet right here. And when I do that, I just bring my hook right over next to it and keep everything held nice and tight and make that extended single crochet right here. And I don't worry about the fact that my bauble looks all crunched because after I make that extended single crochet, you want that extended single crochet to be fairly, you know, just the same gauge as all the other ones, but it wants to stretch out because your hook is so far away. So you gotta bring that down and make a regular sized, extended, single crochet. And then after that, you can use your finger and poke that bauble forward like that. Ok. Then after you do that, this is when we're gonna be working our post stitches. So here's two front post, double crochets. Then there's an extended single crochet right there. And then there's two more fro front post, double crochets. So to do the cable crossing, we're gonna yarn over twice because we're doing a front post, Treble. We're gonna skip the first two post stitches, skip the extended single crochet, stitch and into the next front post. We're gonna work that front post treble crochet 12 and three. Let's do that again. You're over twice. Then we're going to work into the next postage. We're working around that post just as we did on the previous round. So we've done two front post treble crochets and you can see there's stretching over here to join up with those. And then behind that, if we pull this forward, we're gonna keep our yarn over here to the right and we're gonna insert our hook in that middle stitch. That was the stitch where extended single crochet is. If this is hard to figure out like when you're first working on this, you can place a stitch marker in that extended single crochet and then push it to the back and look at it from back here and you can see which stitch you're supposed to work into just, just to kind of help you, um, find that, find the correct stitch because I know it can look a little messy when you're looking at the back of your work. But another thing you can do is this post right here is attached to that stitch. OK? And you can count two back. Those were both worked into the, the one before that is your extended single crochet. All right. So we're gonna make a, an extended single crochet right in that stitch and that's behind these two stitches we made. OK. So that, that's different than if you were to push this out of the way and make one right here. So that would be working in front. But we're pulling that to the front and then we're working it behind. So there's our extended single crochet and now we're gonna go back and catch those two front posts that we skipped over already. So we're gonna yarn over twice and we're excuse me, we're gonna go into the first post stitch that we skipped and make a front post trouble right there. And then we're gonna yearn over twice and make a front post trouble in the second one that we skipped. Here we go. And now you can see they're crossing over each other because we did those stitches out of order. All right. So after all these posts, there's three extended single crochets, we're gonna make an extended single crochet into the first one and then we're gonna make a bauble into the second one. So this is just as though we had made the bauble right at the beginning. So we yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up here and over, pull through two and stop. We're gonna repeat that four more times. One, two, three and four. So we've got five loops on the hook and we'll bring that through all of those. And now we're gonna come down here and make an extended single crochet in the next stitch. And so again, I just let my hook come right over next to it. I hold that pretty tightly as I make that extended single crochet and then I pop the bobble out with my finger from hi behind there. All right. Now we've made it to the post stitch section and again, we're going to finish up this repeat. We're gonna make those front post troubles. So you're on over twice, skip the next three stitches work under the post that is in the second set of posts. So there's our front post trouble. You're an over twice insert, you're an over, pull up a loop, you're an over, pull through two. You're an over pull through two. You're an over pull through two. All right. Now, we gotta go back here and work our extended single crochet in the extended single crochet that we skipped. And now we're going to go back and get those front posts that we skipped over in the beginning here. So we yarn over twice. I'm going underneath that first post, one and two, oops and three yarn over twice. There's the second post, we skipped one and two and three. Now we've already worked all of these stitches and we're gonna go to the next extended single crochet, which is right here, make an extended single crochet and we're gonna repeat. So here's the bauble 12, three, four, five yarn over and pull through all six loops and here's an extended single crochet and the next stitch and then we are over twice. Skip over the next three. We're gonna work a front post treble around that postage right there. 123, you over twice, 123, go back and get that extended single crochet. So you're always placing post stitches into post stitches and extended single crochets into extended single crochets. Um The only exception to that is every once in a while, you're putting a bauble into an extended single crochet and you're always going to be doing your bauble on the same round as you do this cable crossing round. Ok. So when you're crossing over your cables, remember to do those baubles. So here's our extended single crochet. Here's the middle, extended single crochet gets the bauble three, four, five and we've got six loops on our hook pull through everything. We're gonna make an extended single crochet right here and poke that bauble forward and then we're gonna make our cable crossing here. Um Vanessa says I see that. I think uh they're talking about how everything has two different names. I think what I was saying before. Um I enjoy the stitch and I am wow, that you are doing the extended single crochet. Yay. I love the extended single crochet. That stitch is one of my all time favorites because it's so versatile and it looks totally different when you do it in the round versus back and forth and turn rows. It's completely different. Oh, I think I just skipped, I gotta check. I think I might have skipped my extended single crochet. I did. So I'm gonna go back and grab that and we'll do that front. So, you know, back to the whole thing about things crossing over. I, I designed this so that it would be um simpler, a simpler kind of cable for those if you've never done cable work ever before, if this was your first cabling project, I wanted this to be easy enough. So in this project, all of your cables are gonna cross over in a way that makes things easier. For example, um even though you have to kind of pull those two forward to get to that extended single crochet back here, the next two stitches are gonna be made on top. You're crossing over in front. There are ways to put your hook back behind things and make your cable cross in the other direction, but we are not doing that at all in this pattern. OK. So here's those, those front post, front post trouble crochets. There's the first one and the second one, those are the ones that we skipped at the beginning. All right. And now we're gonna do extended single crochet right here and then one of those bauble stitches. So 12, three, four and five draw through all six loops and then make an extended single crochet right after poke the bauble forward and then we're gonna finish up with that cable crossing. So you are and over twice, skip the next three stitches make a front post treble crochet in the following stitch and a front propose Treble crochet in the next stitch go behind and work into the top of the stitch, making your extended single crochet. And then you're going to do a front post treble here in that first postage we skipped and here in the second postage we skipped. OK. So now we've made it all the way around to the beginning and so on the next round, we are going to be working three extended, single crochets, two front post, double crochets, one extended single crochet and two front post, double crochets. So I just want to point out to you when you're working those post stitches. If it is a post stitch that's going straight up and down, we're doing double, front post, double crochets. If it is a post stitch that has to reach over and lean, making those crossing stitches. It's a front post treble crochet because we needed a slightly longer stitch there. So that is an easy way to kind of know which type of stitch you're doing as you're working your way around. If you know, it has to cross, then, you know, it has to be a trouble crochet. I mean, that's all written down and it's also in your key here, but I just wanna make sure that, um you know, it's simple enough in our minds. All righty. So here's our first extended single crochet of the round. I'm gonna place that stitch marker back in and then we're going to work an extended single crochet into that bobble stitch. It's right there, another extended single crochet into the next stitch right there. So we've got three and now we're gonna do two front post, do double crochets. So now because we cross those over, the stitches are sort of hiding back behind here and you may find it easier to see your stitches if you sort of help them, you know, cross over a little further and kind of pull on them just a little bit to see we're still working around our posts and we're doing a front post double crochet. So we yarn over, go around that first post, yarn over, drop a loop, yarn over, pull through two, you're an over, pull through two and then we'll do the next one, you're an over insert around the next post, you're an over, pull up a loop, you're an over, pull through two, you're an over pull through two. And then there's that extended single crochet. So we just work an extended single crochet there and then the next two stitches get front post, double crochets. Those are a little easier to see because they're sitting on top. Ok, let's do that one more time. So we have an extended single crochet, another extended single crochet to the top of that bauble. And here's the third, extended single crochet. And then we're going to do two front post, double crochets. So those are kind of hiding a little here, gonna have to dig around and look for them. It does get easier to recognize your stitches. Uh You know, after when you're first starting cable, sometimes it can be very confusing. Um Where's my stitch? Where's the top of the stitch? Where's the post of the stitch? How do these relate? Um But it does get easier as you continue working on cables. It will, it will get more simple. Ok. All right. So you would just continue doing that all the way around. And you can see here on the chart the next two rounds are identical. So three extended single crochets, two front post, double crochets, extended, single crochet, two front post, double crochets. Ok. And then you'd repeat that again. So when you're looking at this chart, there are eight stitches across it. That means, you know, each stitch repeat is those eight stitches. So you just keep repeating all the way around until you get to the end of your piece. Then you move up to the next round. OK? So we've just started working and let's see. Round number three. And we're just gonna continue repeating, repeating, repeating all the way around until you get to your stitch marker. Then you'll work round number four and repeat that all the way around. And then number five and you'll repeat that all the way around. And then you can see here that round number six is exactly the same as round number two, they're exactly the same and there's, uh you know, just a bunch of repeats that you're gonna continue. So you're repeating this section over and over. It's a four round repeat. So 1234, those four rounds will keep getting repeated as you go. Um Let me show you here. Let's see. Excuse me. Hm. Oh, excuse me. Ok. So this is the, I just finished the round number five here. That's where we're at on my sample. And so you can see we would, you know, go down to round number two and repeat that whole section again. Um And so we're gonna be doing that, make a bauble cable crossing round. So I'm gonna do that. I'll try to do that a little quicker this time since you guys kind of know, but this will be a little bit of review. So there's an extended single crochet here and then we're gonna make a bauble and pull through all six extended single crochet. So your bauble is always gonna be kind of trapped between two extended single crochet, stitches. And then we're gonna do that cable crossing round, see how the stitches are already kind of um starting to the ridges are showing up. It gets a little easier to see where you're supposed to go. So we're gonna make that front post trouble and the second front post trouble go to the back and make that extended single crochet. And then you're gonna go back and do the front post trouble in the first uh post stitch that we skipped and then a front post trouble in the second postage that we skipped. And then you're gonna jump over here to your extended single crochet section. So there is an extended single crochet, a bubble you and over pull through six and an extended single crochet right after your bauble. Put the bauble forward and then here is our cable crossing round here and we'll go to the back, get that extended single crochet and then cross over the front and get those two postages that we skipped. So basically, when you're working on cables, most of the time, you are creating those sort of ridges with postages. And most of the time when you want a cable to look like it's crossing over something. You are just doing those post stitches out of order. You know, you're skipping some and then you're going back to them later. And that's how you kind of create those twisting shapes that you find in cables. It, it looks really complicated, but once you start doing it and you get a little practice and you can start recognizing, you know, the what post goes with the top of the stitch and that sort of thing, then it gets a lot easier. And if you are interested in learning more about these kinds of, you know, cable projects, specifically, these little Wooly cable projects that I like to do. I did teach, I do teach a class that's available on the Creative Crochet corner website and also on Craft Sea. Um And we go through from ver a very simple project, very simple cable project. And then the next project is a little bit more intricate and has these really cool um unusual cables in it. And that's for a beanie. So I did put a link for that in your download. If you are interested in learning a little more about that class, I think I might have one more repeat four and five. And here's my extended single crochet, put the bauble forward and I'm doing that cable crossing section, front post treble, front post treble, pull it to the front. I always count back three stitches and put my extended, single crochet there. There we are and one more, one more repeat. And here is my extended single crochet and my cable crossing here. So one thing I want to point out when you're making these longer stitches, it's easy for them to get a little stretched out. And if they're a little stretched out like this, that's OK, that's gonna be covered up later. But you wanna watch that first loop. so it doesn't get too long. You don't wanna have a big gap there. And the way you do that is you just keep, keep the tension on your yarn here as you're making those yarn overs and as you're inserting your hook underneath underneath that post. All right. So that's my last stitch of the round. And so you would just continue working repeats of this cable bobble situation. Um, until you have, let's see, you've got four full c you know, like little cable loops and that will lead you right down here. A and after that last cable crossing round, I mean, there are specific instructions in the, in the pattern that you can follow. Um, but you'll just know you can count up 1234 and then, you know, know you have stitched enough times around and then we're gonna do those increases that I had talked about earlier. So this is just to help the bottom of your cowl flare out just a little to sit on your shoulders. It's, it really doesn't look like it does that much, but it has that extra stretch in it at the bottom. So it really does. It does help it sit a little bit better on your shoulders when you just kind of throw it on. Um OK, so here's the beginning of my round. We're gonna put an extended single crochet into the first stitch just like normal. Nothing weird yet here. And then we're gonna do two extended single crochets into the following. So one and two and then we're gonna do one extended single crochet into the next stitch. OK. So we just did two extended single crochets just underneath that bauble. OK? Or on top of the bauble and then, or I mean into the Bobble stitch is really what we did. Then we're going to work our front post double crochets. So here's a front post stitch. One and two. Well, let me make sure I gotta check this real quick here. Um Yeah. OK. Just wanted to make sure we're still doing the post stitches here. OK. So you're gonna work a, a post stitch, a front post, double crochet into each of the next two, double crochet, front, front post, double crochets. Actually, those were Treble crochets. But let me back up. OK? So after you do your increase of your two extended single crochets, you do an extended single crochet into the next stitch and then the following two stitches are front post, double crochets worked in two post stitches. And then you're going to do two extended single crochets into your extended single crochet, which is right there. And then you're gonna do a front, post, double crochet into each of the next two post stitches like that. So basically, what you're doing is you're doing extended single crochets into all the stitches unless it's a post stitch and the ones that get two extended single crochets are the stitches that are directly above the bauble. So when you're working into the bauble, like right here, we're gonna do two extended single crochets. There's just an extended in crochet here, here's my post stitches. I'm still working front post, double crochets into the post stitches. So one and two and now we've gotten to an extended single crochet and we're gonna put two extended single crochets there. OK? So the increases are going into the bauble and into the extended single crochet that's between the post stitches and we're gonna continue repeating this all the way around our cowl. So extended single crochet, two extended single crochets, oops another extended single crochet, front post, double, front post, double, extended, single crochet, actually two extended single crochets here, front post, double and front post, double and repeat, extended single crochet, two extended single crochets, one and two extended single crochet, front post, double crochet, front post, double crochet, two extended, single crochets here in that extended single crochet stitch and front post double and front post double. All right, looks like we've got one more repeat, extended, single crochet, two extended single crochets, another extended single crochet, front post, double and front post, double and two extended single crochets here. One and two, front post, double and front post double. All right. So we made it all the way around. We did those little increases of adding those extra extended single crochet stitches. And then at this point, this is when we're gonna start working our um ribbing, but we're gonna join it as you go. So let's see here. This whole paragraph is what I'm gonna be working on right now. So we're gonna slip stitch into the next stitch. We'll take our stitch marker out. We're gonna make a slip stitch here. So that's the first stitch of the round. We're gonna make a slip stitch there and then we're going to chain five. So 1234 and five. Now we're gonna be working across our chain. We're gonna be working down toward the cowl. So we're gonna start by working in the bottom of the chain. This is just how we did before when we started the very beginning of the ribbing here. So we're gonna skip that first one because that's just a turning chain. And then we're gonna make a yarn over slip stitch. It's just like at the beginning. So yarn over insert, yarn over, pull up a loop and then we're gonna pull that through the two loops on the hook. So that's one, you're an over insert, you're an over, pull up a loop, pull through two. That's two, you're an over insert, you're an over pull up, you're an over pull through two. That's the third one. And here is number four. Ok. So we've worked our way back down toward the cowl. This is where we had done our slip stitch. So we're gonna do two more slip stitches, one and two in the next two stitches. So, slip stitch here and a slip stitch here. And those don't count as stitches. We're never gonna work into those. We're just using those to kind of move our way around the cowl. So it's almost like a beginning chain or a turning chain. So we're gonna turn our work like this and then we're gonna skip those two stitches. We just made those two slip stitches and we're gonna work yarn over, slip stitches into the yarn over slip stitches and we're gonna work in the back loop. OK. So the back loop, that's how we already did. You know, we already did that. We already worked on that. Um, at the beginning when we were making our, our ribbing for the top. All right. So we've done four yarn over slips through the back loop only and we're gonna do one tight chain. We're gonna turn our work and we're gonna skip that turning chain and do yarn over slip stitches into the next four stitches, uh yarn over slip stitch to the back loop. Only I should say. So that's how it's going to be till we finish up this ribbing. It's always gonna be into that back loop. And this one is a little trickier to find. You kind of have to dig around a little on that fourth one. So we've got four stitches. The last stitch we worked into was here. So we're gonna slip stitch into the next two stitches. One and two. And we're gonna turn our work skipping those two slip stitches and we're gonna make yarn over slip, stitches into the back loop of all of our yarn over slip stitches right here. And it helps me to count 12341234 every time. So that it makes sure that I'm getting all of the stitches. It, it can be a little bit hard to see, especially when you're on your way back down, which is what we're doing now. It can be a little hard to see that, that fourth one. So one, two, three gotta kind of push it to the back there. Four. Ok. And if you're having troubles telling which stitch you've worked into, you kind of pull up on it and see, oh, we have something attached into that stitch. We've worked already worked that one. So let me come over to the next 21 and two like that. We turn our work, skip those two slip stitches and work your own over slip stitches into the next four stitches on the way up. So this is a fun way to create a ribbon. You don't have to sew it on later. It allows for, you know, that extra stretch at the bottom, which I like. Um If this is driving you crazy to be having your cow flipping around in your lap, you can or if it just seems more complicated than something that you'd like to do. Um I would say, you know, a give it a try. May it surprise you? It might not be as hard as you think. I, I really think that once you kind of realize where you're stitching and you get the rhythm down, it's really not hard. Um And since this is small project, having it flipping around in your lap isn't too big of a deal. However, there is, of course the option to just make your ribbing exactly as you had made your ribbing before. Um, only this time you're gonna have to add more rows to it so that it can be a little bit wider. So it fits the bottom of your cow because we did all those increases. We increased. Let's see. Um Let me think about this for a second. There should be 10, 20 stitches. So you'd have to, you'd have to do, um, let's see, 20 100 rows, ok? Instead of at the beginning. We did 80 rows. I mean, we really did 40. Let's not lie about it, but you should be doing 80 to begin your cowl and then you should be doing 100 rows back and forth for the bottom of your cowl. Ok. So that way it has plenty of stretch and give and it can sit on your shoulders and not kind of curl up and, and be annoying like some sometimes happens. All right. So you're gonna keep working this process all the way around your cowl and your piece will look like this when you get very close to finishing here. Um Here we are, we've got maybe one or two more repeats to go here. So I'm gonna be doing my yarn over slip stitches through the back loops. One, two, three, four and one and two. And let's turn our work skipping those two slip stitches. One, two, three and four. We're gonna chain one in turn and work our way back down here. One, two, three, four. And then we have one more stitch left. So we slip stitch into the slip stitch that we have left, then we make another slip stitch into the very first slip stitch that we made. So at the beginning of adding the ribbing, it's right here. So we make a slip stitch there or you can, if you prefer, I mean, it doesn't matter, you can make it into that slip stitch or you can make it into the stitch that your slip stitch was worked into. It doesn't make a difference. You just kind of need to anchor it there and then you're going to repeat those two rows one more time. Ok. So, skipping those two slip stitches, we're working those yarn over slip stitches up the ribbing, make that tight chain during your work. And then we're gonna be working those yarn over slip stitches down towards the cowal one, two, three. And here's our last ditch right there. All right. And then you can go ahead and just cut off, cut your yarn. And let's see, I would do a slip, another slip stitch into that same, um, original slip stitch that you first made when you were making the, the, uh, ribbing so you can slip stitch there to kind of anchor it a little better and then draw that through. Um, if you miss that, it's fine. It, you don't really need to do that slip stitch, but it just helps it kind of bring, bring your yarn tail kind of down into the, into that the bottom of the V shape here. All right. And then you are just gonna stitch this up. You're gonna sew those two edges together and you can just butt them up, put up the edges like this and then just do a little whip stitch here and there should be four stitches, you know, one on each edge. So you don't have to pin it if you don't want to, just make sure you're matching them up. And I'm going underneath both loops of each edge here to make it nice and solid just like that and pulling it pretty tight and then you can go ahead and weave in your ends. So I really like to weave in my ends if it's something that's going to, I know this is the bottom of the c so it's probably gonna get some stretch with wise here. So I like to wea in my ends in a vertical way. So that way, if it does get that kind of horizontal stretch, it's not popping the ends, you know, that I just wove in, out of my work. It won't go anywhere, you know, because you're not actually stretching that strand of yarn, you're stretching the fabric this way, but your strand of yarn is oriented that way. So that makes it a little bit more likely to stay in there. Also, if you use the same kind of yarn or similar yarn, if it's fable, um you know, over time, it'll just stick in there a little bit better. You could always do. Sometimes I'll use like a needle felting tool to keep my yarn in place if I'm worried about popping out and I'm using a fable fable yarn. There we go, just weave that in weave in your other tails. Um And I do want to point out the difference between a blocked cowl and a non blocked cowl here. Um So here's my golden cowl. This one has been blocked. I wet, blocked this. So what that means is I soaked it in water for, you know, a couple of hours or maybe it was overnight. I don't know, but I would leave it for a couple of hours. Then you just squeeze out as much water with your hands as you can try not to wring it or twist it tightly or anything like that. Um And then you just kind of shape it nicely on a towel and let it dry. And when I say shape it, I do actually mean you're gonna take some time and like pull up on the baubles a little bit to kind of make them a little rounder because when you get them all wet, they might get, get kind of, you know, squished looking and then if you let it dry that way, it's just gonna stay like that. So this is your chance. It's very Moldable when you have a, a damp cowl and you can kind of pull up on all these little baubles and make them stick out. And then you can also kind of arrange your cables like this and sort of pull these apart a little so you can see that little space between them. Um It just makes it look a little bit nicer if you actually take the time to kind of do that and I know that might seem weird, especially if, you know, if you, you're letting it dry on a towel, so you really can only sort of do that to one side and then put a fan on it or something. And when it's mostly dry on the top side, then you can flip it over and then repeat the process to the other side as well. And if you miss some, if you know, have to leave or something like that and it gets dry, you can always use a little bit of steam to kind of help reshape things. You can steam it a little like um from your iron, hovering it above. Don't ever touch your fabric with that, just steam it a little and then kind of shape it with your hand and then let it cool off in that um you know, in that form and then it'll kind of help, help it keep its shape. So you can see there's a difference here between the two cables. These are much crisper. You can see the little spaces between the cables, the baubles stick out really nicely. Also the way that the fabric feels, this has a lot more wiggly drape to it. This is not as wiggly, this is the stiffer feeling. I don't know if you guys can see that on the camera but it's not, this one just is a little bit draper. Also, it feels softer on your skin. As well. So that seems to help a lot too um with these types of wools. All right. Well, it looks like I have answered all my questions. Um Thank you guys so much for being here. I really appreciate it. I love teaching these live tutorials. Um And like I said, if you have suggestions for future things, you'd like to see whether it's techniques or certain types of projects. Um I would like to know what you guys think. I often times get inspired by things that you guys suggest. So put them in the comments and um you know, check them out. So thank you guys for being here. I really appreciate it. Bye everyone.