Crochet Twisted Fringe

In this video, I'm gonna show you how to crochet some twisted fringe onto your project. So this is a really fun finish. You don't need to cut your yarn and add, you know, a second yarn piece together. It's just made all in one strand of yarn, right? So the first thing we want to do is we wanna prep whatever piece we're making. So say, for example, we're making a scarf um and we made it vertically. So we have all these row ends here. What we want to do is wherever we're adding that crochet twisted fringe, we want to make sure that we have some distinct stitches or loops to work through so that they are spaced evenly from each other and it'll just look really nice and tidy, especially if we're doing our fringe in a, in a contrasting color. OK. So I already have my stitches here. Those would be easy to work into, but I just wanted to show you really quickly that I'm gonna be working into the these row ends just to make a nice solid edging here for me to work the crochet twisted fringe on to, I'm just gonna be working some single crochet, stitches across here and it doesn't really matter exactly where you put the stitches, you just can kind of place them wherever it seems to be working out. As long as your stitches aren't constricting your wor work or making your work. Um, kind of roughly if it's roughly, you have too many stitches and, you know, there, there are too many stitches too close together. You need to have fewer stitches. Um If it's pulling things in and constricting your edge, you should probably add some extra stitches. If you are adding this to an edge, that was already, you know, if you had just stitched across here and fastened off and you wanna put your fringe only along this edge, then you don't have to do any further prep work. You don't have to do another line of stitches because you already have stitches that are equally spaced here. Ready to go. OK. So we've worked to the end. I'm just gonna fasten off and then we would weave in our tails. Ok? And then to add the fringe, I'm just gonna bring across a slightly different color. So that way you can see what I'm doing here. I'm just going to begin in this loop over here. I'm gonna insert my hook and I'm gonna yarn over and pull up a loop and just chain one just to anchor my yarn. There it is. Now, in order to make all of our fringe pieces the same length as each other. It's good to have either a ruler tape measure something taped to your table or you can even just use a piece of paper. I'm gonna just use this little whiteboard here so that I can see. I have some sort of distance here marked out. You can just even mark something on a piece of paper. Doesn't, doesn't really matter, but you just need to have some way of checking to see that all your loops are being made to the same size. All right. So then we are going to take this loop and we are going to stretch it out all the way to whatever we have marked out. Ok? And this, you'll find as you practice this, it makes a difference whether your yarn is stretched out and taught or whether your yarn when you bring it to that edge is nice and loose. So you just want to be consistent every time you make these loops, it's just gonna make it that much, um, that much better looking when all your fringe is the same height. OK. So you stretch it out to whatever height you want it to be. Now, your loops are gonna end up being less than half this length when, when you're done and you'll see in just a minute. So it'll be probably maybe about a third of this length or somewhere between a, between a third and a half. Ok. So, just to visualize that. And then we are going to take that loop with our crochet hook in it and we're just going to spin it around. We're going to draw, basically, I'm just drawing a circle in the air with my crochet hook and I'm going to count every time that I do this. So I decided ahead of time, I'm going to do this 18 times around and then we'll see what that looks like. So I'm going to spin it 18 times 123456789, 1011, 1213, 1415, 1617, 18. And now we have this pretty tight twisted strand. So I'm gonna place my finger right in the middle to give it a place to um the place to fold. Then I'm gonna bring my yarn and my hook right next to that last stitch I made and then I'm just going to let go like that. Look. It fringed itself, doesn't that look cool? So then our hook is here, we're gonna make one little yarn over pull through. We're just basically chaining one and then we are going to place our hook into the next stitch that's available. So right here and make a slip stitch there, there's our slip stitch, there's our first piece of fringe. So we're gonna do that again. So after you make your slip stitch, then you're gonna stretch your loop out and try to make it consistent. So I'm stretching it out and making sure that it's about this length when I let go of it. OK. So it's, I'm not holding the yarn stretched. Now, I'm gonna hang on to this and I'm gonna pinch this with my, my thumb and my finger just to make sure this loop stays the same, the same, same length here. And then I'm going to twist it 18 times. So 123456789, 1011, 1213, 1415, 1617, 18. And then we're gonna place our finger at about the halfway point to give it a fold line, place our hook close to where we came from and let go. And so sometimes when you do that, it might be curved a little bit funny. So you may have to just kind of um, pull on your loop a little bit and then let it um, re twist on itself just to make sure that it looks nice and straight and those look like they're about the same length. All right, let's do one more. So we finish this one off by doing just a little yarn over, pull through just a chain one there at the very end and then we slip stitch into the next stitch in our fabric like that. And then we can go ahead and lengthen our loop just like that and I'm gonna twist it 18 times. So when you first do this, um I'm hanging on to it with my crochet hook. If this drives you nuts and it's falling off of your hook, you can easily just take your hook out and twist it with your finger and then put your hook back in to complete that. So if you're making a lot of this fringe and you've already kind of practiced it for a while, it does make things a little bit quicker if you're able to keep your hook in it when you're spinning it. Because really you can do this fairly quickly, then you make your little stitch, make your next stitch and then continue going. Um, but you know, if you're only gonna be putting us across a short distance on a scarf and you're just like this is too unwieldy. It keeps falling off of my hook, just take the hook out, use your finger and then replace that loop, um, replace the hook in the loop right before you do your, your next stitches. OK. So that it's no big deal. All right. So we're gonna do 18. And, um, when I start twisting, I put my finger on the yarn and then I let it go here, put it on the, uh, sorry, put it on the hook on the yarn on the hook. Ok. So I'm pressing the yarn into the hook. So that was one, two, three, four like that until it gets fairly twisted and then it just wants to stay on my hook 56789, 1011 12. You can see I'm not even holding on to it anymore. Really? 1314, 1516, 1718. And then we're gonna hold it right in the middle there. Place this down here and let it go and adjust if needed. And there it is gonna yarn over and pull through and then I'm gonna make a slip stitch right there into that next stitch and we're ready to go for the next piece of fringe. OK. So this is what it looks like. We're adding your fringe on. It looks super cute. Um I especially love this technique for if you wanted to add fringe to something, but the yarn you're using, maybe it's a one ply like this one or for whatever other reason, it doesn't do well, if you just sort of cut it off and make traditional fringe, you know, like usually on the end of the scarf, we'll just have some yarn, we make a tassel out of it or something like that and then we just cut the ends, but for some yarns, they might come untwisted and then just fall apart and fall off like these big one plies tend to do that. There are other yarns that might do that as well. They might start unraveling. So this is a really great way to still add the fringe with the same yarn that you were planning on using. You know, maybe it matches your scarf or maybe it's just a yarn you already have, but it will not unravel because it's all nice and twisted. There's no cut ends here. You just keep continuing along your way. It's just such a fun little project to do. It's very different than most of the other, you know, ways of making fringe that I've tried. And it's just, it's really worth learning because it's honestly, it's just really fun. So, I hope you found this helpful. I hope you try out some fringe. Have some fun with your crochet and making fringe.