Swirly Flying Disc

Hi, everybody. Welcome to our live crochet event. I'm Brenda Katie Anderson. And today I'm gonna be showing you how to make this swirly flying disc, um, also known as a frisbee, but we're not allowed to use that word. So swirly flying disc today and this is actually really flies.

You have to believe me, I'm gonna throw it at the very end once I'm done hanging on to this so that I can prove it to you. Um, but I couldn't believe that this was actually gonna fly until I threw it. So you might not believe it until you make your own. You're gonna have to just be the judge of that, I guess. So, I'm excited to show this to you.

Um, I've been thinking about this, making this project for a while and I particularly wanted to make it with the swirly motif so that when you throw it through the air, it kind of spins around on top and it just, it's kind of a lot of fun. It's just sort of my last like summer. Um, actually, secretly today is gonna be almost 100 degrees here. So it feels very strongly of summer. So this is working out for me today.

But like at this time of the year, it's almost time for the kids to go back to school and I start getting that fall feeling. Um, but I still want to hang on to just like a little bit more of the summer. And so this was kind of my ode to the last bits of summer. Um All right. So for this project, you are going to be needing a bunch of kitchen cotton or dish cloth, cotton roasted weight cotton yarn.

You can just pick this up at a big box store. But um the particular kind that I used all the information for that is inside your pattern download. Um I ordered that online and it's easily accessible from different areas um in case you want to use exactly what I'm using, so you're gonna need four colors. Although, um because there's 44 colored stripes in here, although if you only have one color, you could make it out of one color or better yet. If you have at least two colors, then it would still get a swirly effect.

Ok. So, because you could do three of these stripes all in one color and then one stripe in a different color and you would still get at least one little bit of a swirl. It is more fun though, in my opinion, to have four colors all swirling around. Um But I just, you know, if you just happen to have some dishcloths cotton at home, but you didn't have enough colors. I didn't want that to stop you.

All right. So you're gonna need four colors of dishcloth cotton, just a small amount of each. Let me check and see about how much, let's see. You'll need about 22 yards or 20 m of each color, each of the four colors. Ok?

And I'm using an H which is a five millimeter hook. Um, but you will use whatever kind of hook that you need to in order to get the gauge that I have listed. Um And the gauge is just, you just start working on the project. And then at one point, I will tell you, you know, I tell you in here to check your gauge after you've worked a certain amount of rounds. So that way you don't have to make a separate gauge swatch and then come back to your project because I like to do that.

I'm a, I'm a gauge cheater. It's true. All right. So you'll need that and then you'll need some stitch markers. Um, at least one stitch marker.

But you, as you watch the tutorial, you'll see why you might need as many as five. it could help you to keep your loops from unraveling. So, um, just keep that in mind and you're also going to need a yarn needle or a tapestry needle to leave in your ends. And that, is it not a lot of materials for this project? All right.

So obviously this is a live event. So if you have any questions, um, if I am doing something and it's not clear to you, you want, you should definitely jump into that chat box and ask me so that I can answer them during this tutorial. I want to make sure that everybody understands what I'm doing. Um, and, or, you know, if you just want to say hi, I love it when you guys say hi, I love it. When you tell me where you're crocheting from or what you're working on or anything that you like are excited to make in the future.

I love hearing suggestions for that. A lot of my ideas, um kind of come out of those suggestions. I like to make what you guys like to make. So give me some ideas if you've got them. All right.

Well, I am very glad that you guys are all here and let's get into actually making this. So we're gonna start from the center out of this piece. Let me just show you what this looks like here. So we're gonna start right in the middle and the way this works is it looks very complicated. But once you start seeing it take shape, it'll make a little more sense to you.

Probably a lot more sense actually. But we're gonna start in the middle and what happens in this project is you work a little bit of each color at a time. So we say we start with the pink. We'll work a little bit of the pink. Then we stop and we just leave a working loop and then we work a little bit of the, the white.

Then we stop and leave a working loop. Work a little bit of the blue. Leave a working loop. Work a little bit of the gray. This is not making sense to you.

That is fine. I'm just kind of giving you the overview. Um So that you, you know where we're headed and then you kind of build a little at a time. You're switching colors as you work your way around the circle, you're just doing a little bit bit of each color at a time for each round. So, all right, let me show you how it's done.

I know it's just probably if you've never done this before, that didn't make a whole lot of sense. But I just wanted you to know that we're, we're not going to be sewing anything together or anything like that. We're just building our spiral um, a little bit at a time with um each of the colors. All right. So we're gonna start with an adjustable loop.

So I like to make my adjustable loops like this. I just make draw like a little cursive E or a little loop and then I flip my loop over onto the strand of yarn that is connected to the ball like this. And I place my hook underneath that strand and lay my finger where everything crosses and kind of pull it up a little bit. Not all the way though, because you want to be able to work into that place. Then we're gonna chain one just to anchor our yarn.

It doesn't count as a stitch or anything like that and then we're gonna begin working in the round. So, um so there's two ways that you can work into a loop like this. If you make it this way, you can work right across here and you're working over one strand or you can take the circle here and just twist it a half a turn like that so that you're working over double strands. So it doesn't really matter which way you do it. Sometimes I like to flip it like that if I really want the inside to be able to pull tight and be very strong.

So I will flip it and just stitch over the, that double strand there. So that's what I'm gonna do on this project. But really, it would be fine if you left it um, and worked into it untwisted too. All right. So we're gonna start by making a single crochet.

So that is you insert your hook into the middle of that loop, yarn over and pull up a loop and yarn over and pull through two and I just realized I don't think that I mentioned this is a free download. So you, you guys can click on the link. Um It's in the description or also probably in the chat too. You can click on the link to download your free pattern. You don't have to do it this minute, but it might help to follow along if you're looking at your pattern.

Um You can always do it later. It's going to be available later. No problem. All right. So, uh I've done one single crochet into the loop.

The next thing I'm gonna do is make a ha a half, double crochet. So I yarn over, insert yarn over, bring up a loop, yarn over and pull through three. And the next stitch is a double crochet. So we're gonna yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two yarn over, pull through two. All right.

So here we have single crochet, half, double crochet, double crochet and at that point, we're gonna stop. So when I'm working on this, I just elongate my loop so that it doesn't have as much of a tendency to, to unravel, but I'm gonna place a stitch marker in it just for now because that would be a bummer if it unraveled while we're doing this live. Um Not that I can't fix it, but, you know, so this is another option if you don't feel comfortable having just a long loop kind of flapping there because we're just going to leave it alone for a while. Um Go ahead and put a stitch marker in that loop so that it can't unravel on you while you're working on the next colors. So we're still continuing to keep this loop open right here.

Our magic ring or adjustable loop and we are going to repeat, repeat this sort of sequence with the next color. So I'm gonna be using this color and we are just going to insert our hook into that ring, grab that new color and pull it up and then we're gonna chain one to secure our yarn that doesn't count as anything. Now, we're going to make a single crochet. So we'll insert our hook into the loop, yarn over, pull up loop, yarn over, pull through two. There's our first stitch.

Now we're gonna do a half, double crochet yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up yarn over, pull through three and then we're gonna do a double crochet yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up yarn over, pull through two yarn over, pull through two. OK? And now we're going to leave that one alone too. So we're gonna have a lot of strands of yarn just kind of hanging off of our work. We're gonna have four of them at any one time.

There's gonna be four working loops. OK? It sounds like it's going to be very confusing, but I don't think that it will be all right. So now we're gonna join the next color in the same way. We're just going to insert our hook and bring up a loop of the new color.

We're gonna yarn over and just anchor that yarn. We just pulled through there. Basically, we just made a little chain. Now, we are going to start with a single crochet. So insert yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two.

And now we're gonna do a half, double crochet yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through three. And then we're gonna do a double crochet yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through two. You're an over, pull through two and we're gonna place the stitch marker in there and we will start with the next color. So I'm gonna show you an alternate way or an alternative way that you can start your stitches instead of going through and pulling up a loop and chaining one. You can just go ahead and start with a slit knot on your hook like this just like that.

So you start with a slip knot and then you can make what's called a standing single crochet where you already have your slip knot on your hook. Let me move all these yarn tails out of the way. So you can see a little better and then you're just gonna insert your hook right through the middle yarn over pull up a loop and yarn over and pull through two. So that just made a single crochet right there. So it doesn't matter which way you do it, either way it joins the yarn to your piece and you're able to make a single crochet um, right away or right after you kind of anchor your yarn, it doesn't make a difference.

I just wanted to give you another option in, in case um You found it cumbersome to, to do that beginning sort of join, pull up a loop thing. All right. So the next stitch is a half, double crochet. We're gonna yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up yarn over, pull through three and then a double crochet yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through two yarn over, pull through two. And now we don't have to put a stitch mark in this one because we're gonna continue with this color.

But first we're gonna close this beginning loop here. So I'm just gonna pull on my beginning yarn tail until this loop or until that hole in the center just goes away. OK. And we're just gonna let that hang out back there on the back of our work. All right.

So now let me lay this down so you can see what we have. It almost looks like a square actually at this point. Um But it is going to start to look like a circle with some sort of jaggedy edges. Um As we work on our, as we progress a little bit further on this project. Let's see.

I just wanted to make sure. Oh, Susan Strauss is saying good morning from K CMO. So hot and humid here, Kansas City, Missouri. I'm guessing. Hello, Susan.

Welcome. Thank you for saying hi. Ok. So, um, let's see. So we're gonna continue with the color that we're already using and we are gonna begin working into this pink color here.

OK. So this was the first color we added second color, third color, fourth color. And now we're gonna continue with that fourth color and we're gonna work two double crochets into each of these three stitches. OK. So you're an over and let's see.

Where's our stitch? There it is insert, you're an over, pull up a loop, you're an over pull through two, you're an over pull through two. OK. We just worked a double crochet into that very first single crochet that we did. And we're gonna do another double crochet in the same spot.

You're an over insert, you're an over, pull up a loop. You're an over pull through two. You're an over pull through two. All right. And we're gonna do another double crochet and, or two and more double crochets into the next stitch.

You're an over insert, you're an over pull up, you're an over, pull through two, you're over, pull through two. Was that bothering anybody that it was tilted it was bothering me. OK. So we're gonna make another double crochet into that same spot. There we go.

So now we've got two double crochets here, two double crochets here and two more double crochets in the next stitch one and two. And I forgot to mention um when you're doing this for the very first time, I would recommend also using a stitch marker to keep track of the beginnings of your rounds. Now, as we go on later, I'm gonna explain to you how that actually doesn't matter a whole lot if you lose track of where you're at and I'll show you how to figure out how many stitches to do. Um But just because when you're first working on this and you're reading through the directions, it can be kind of confusing. Um The first time you do it.

So we're gonna place a stitch marker in that very first double crochet that we did of this round, which means that first double crochet when we started putting two double crochets into each stitch. OK? So there was two double crochets, two double crochets, two double crochets. So I placed my stitch marker in that first one that signified this purple marker here is going to signify the beginning of our rounds here. All right.

So now you can see we ran out of stitches, right? We have nowhere to go. So what that means is that's gonna prompt us to go to the next loop here, which is down here. So I'm gonna take the stitch marker out of that loop, gonna place it into this loop and then we're gonna continue with this yarn here. OK.

So you may have noticed on the very first round, we started with pink at the beginning of the round. On the second round, we're starting with a different color. So don't let that confuse you. Um You know, you can follow along and read in the pattern. I also made a chart.

I'm gonna just show you this to this show you this real quick. I made, I charted the entire project right here. So if you're a chart person, I basically made your charted pattern right here. I just want to point out these little yellow lines here that you can just, it's probably hard to see on your screen, but there's little yellow lines here and that tells you when to drop your loop and pick up the next loop. But it will be obvious because you won't have anywhere to go.

You will be like, hey, there's no more stitches. Oh OK. I got to drop my loop. All right. So now here we are um starting with the pink color and we're gonna do two double crochets into each of the next three stitches because this is still technically part of the second round.

OK. So here is the first of the two oops, here's the first double crochet and the second double crochet and the third and the fourth. OK. Those were in the next stitch and the fifth and the sixth right there. And then we ran out of stitches.

OK. So now at this point, we are going to take the stitch marker from the next loop, which is this green one right here. We're gonna remove that and I'm gonna put it into this sort of salmon colored loop here, this pink loop. OK. Now, we're going to pick up the green one and we're going to continue.

We're still working that second round of double crochets. So two, double crochets into each stitch. One, two, three and four and five and six. All right. Now we ran out of stitches.

So we're going to steal the next stitch marker, place it in the one we were just using and place our hook into that next stitch that next loop there. And we're going to continue. See here's remember the purple marker marks the beginning of our round. So we're still working the second round of double crochets. So it's two, double crochets into each stitch.

One, two, three, four, five. Whoops. And six. Ok. So this is what our piece looks like right now.

Just got a little bit bigger, still kind of that goofy looking square shape. But now it's starting to curve a little bit more. Our purple marker shows us that our next stitch is the beginning of the round. So I am going to, let's see. I don't want to steal that purple marker because I'm gonna get confused.

I'll put a pink marker in this loop here. Oh Wait, I don't need to mark that. I forgot. That's why I didn't need another marker. Um We are gonna just keep going with the same color because we didn't run out of stitches, did we?

Um I just confused myself a little bit there. If you don't run out of stitches, you can keep going. Um So let me show you what the next round looks like. So this will be the first stitch of the next round. We're gonna do one double crochet in the next stitch just like that.

And I'm gonna place that purple marker back in the top of that stitch because that is the beginning of our round. And then we're gonna do two double crochets into the following stitch one and two. And then we're gonna repeat that two more times and then we're gonna run out of stitches, right? So we're gonna work one, double crochet here and then two double crochets into the next stitch. One and two.

OK. One, double crochet here. And you might notice when, when you get to this stitch when it has a kind of an elongated loop and it, it doesn't really end, especially if you don't have a stitch marker in it. It helps to grab onto that elongated loop and the working yarn like this in your with your thumb to keep the stitch from getting stretched out as you work into it. So we're gonna place two, double crochets into that stitch.

One and two. All right. So we're gonna move our marker into that loop. We just finished with and we're gonna do the same exact thing. One, double, one, double crochet into the next stitch and two double crochets into the following stitch one and two.

So, if you've crocheted, I'm gonna repeat that two more times here. If you've crocheted a double crochet, a double crochet circle before you'll notice that the stitch pattern that we're using where you start out with. We actually started out with 12 double crochets in the center. And then the next round, we did two double crochets into each stitch around and then this round we're doing one, double crochet into the next stitch and then two double crochets into the following stitch. You may have recognized that that is what, what you need to do if you're making a double um double crochet circle.

So we are actually, you know, that's what we're doing. We're just sort of, we just started out a little bit, a little bit weird when we used all those different colors and we're kind of continuing in a funny fashion, but we're adding the same amount of stitches at the same rate. So that way we're gonna end up with a circle made with um double crochets. All right. So I'm going to move my marker to that loop.

And Ann San Sands is saying, hey, I'm in Virginia. Hey, Ann, welcome. And thanks for joining us. All right. Um All right.

So here we are, we're still wearing the same round. This is round number three of, of our spiral. We're gonna start with one, double crochet into the next stitch and then two, double crochets into the following stitch. One and two. We're gonna do that two more times.

One into the next stitch, two into the next stitch. One and two. Now I'm gonna hang on to that working loop and the working strand so that nothing gets stretched out the next stitch. We're gonna do just one, double crochet and the, the last stitch. Uh um Before we, when we get to the cliff, I think of this as sort of like a little bit of a cliff.

You're on top of the cliff here. Um We're gonna be doing two double crochets here. One and two. All right. So then we're going to switch just like that and continue with the lighter green, working the same pattern.

So one, double crochet into the next stitch and two double crochets into the following ST one and two, one into the next stitch, two into the next stitch, one and two, one into the next stitch and two into the next stitch. One and two. So you may have noticed we ended up um at the end of our round, right? So there's a purple marker that's the end of our round, but we could still keep going. There are still more stitches after that, so we can continue with that same color to start the next round.

So that's how, you know, if you have to, if you run out of stitches to work in, then you have to switch to the next color, which is the loop that's just below. So once we work over to this darker green, you'll run out of darker green stitches, there will be a little drop off here. That means you switch to this loop and you continue across to here, then you switch to this loop, you continue across to here. So in this way, we're just working a little bit at a time. So we've, we're at the stitch marker and we can still continue.

So we're gonna be working round four of this um pattern. So when we work round four in a double crochet circle, we do two double crochets and then uh one into each stitch. Sorry. So one, double crochet here, I'm gonna replace uh be beginning in my round marker and then the next stitch we're gonna do one, double crochet also. And then the following stitch, we're gonna do two double crochets, one and two.

OK? We're gonna repeat that one into the next one, into the next two, into the next one and two, one into the next stitch, one into the next stitch and then two into the following stitch. One and two. All right. So we reached that edge.

So we're gonna switch to the next color. We're just gonna steal that marker, place it in this one and continue on one into the next stitch one into the next stitch and two into the following stitch. One and two, one into the next stitch, one into the next stitch and two into the following stitch. One whoops, one and two, one into the next stitch and one into the next stitch and to enter the following stitch one and to, all right. So we've gotten as far as we can, we're gonna switch to the next loop and I wanna show you how if you lose track of where you're at, you know, if you, um if you're watching a show and it got really good and then all of a sudden you looked and you're like, what, what was I doing?

I don't know where I'm at. This is super confusing because you have all these ends and normally when you come back to your crochet, you just look for the one loop, right? And then you go for it. But in this case, it's like, um if that happens to you, you can look at what you have already done in the previous round. Like for example, here you can see we have one double crochet here and then there's two here, one, here, two, here So you know, the round above it is going to have an extra of the single, double crochets.

OK. So what that was confusing. It's not a, it's not a different stitch. I just mean it's going and uh it's gonna have one more double crochet in between the increases is what I was trying to say. So on this round that you're gonna be working here, you're gonna have a double crochet here and a double crochet here.

And then you're gonna have two double crochets into the second stitch of an increase. OK? So if you're ever confused and you don't know how many you're supposed to be working, you lost track of where you're at. Um You can see just by looking at this, that this one needs to be extended, right? Because it's below that one.

So we're gonna continue with that and we're gonna be working a double crochet. Basically, you're working double crochets until you get to that second stitch in an increase. So the increase just that just means you have two double crochets into one stitch which is right here. So the first one, you just put one, double crochet in and the second one, you're gonna put two double crochets in one and two. OK?

And then we'll just continue that one in the next stitch, one in the next stitch and two in the following stitch. One and two, one in the next stitch. Yeah, and one in the next stitch and two in the following stitch. One and two. OK.

So now we're switching to this one, we're gonna take that marker, place it in the new loop here. Um Or in the old loop, the one that we were just dropping, sorry. And then we're going to do that, but we're still doing the same repeat because see, we haven't gotten around to our beginning stitch marker yet. So we'll do one in the next stitch, one in the next stitch and two into the following stitch, one and two, one in the next stitch, one in the next stitch and two in the following stitch. So we've basically learned how to just keep on going.

Um Oops, I gotta do my second leg of the increase there. Um We basically learned how to just keep on going and going and going in this spiral. Um I want to show you one more thing uh before we move on to working the decreases. And that is if you are having a problem with your yarn getting all tangled up because here we have, look at this, see what's happening. It's because I was just not paying any attention.

Everything is twisting because we keep turning this whole thing and dropping our loops and twisting and twisting. So what I found if I start getting a twist like this in my yarn, you can just untwist it um and continue or you can do this thing where you're actually working the loops backwards. I know. So like if, if you're just like, OK, I can barely get my mind around this. All the loops and all that things, then you can just la, la, la, la, la, la, not listen to this next part.

But I wanna tell you um as you're working this, you can actually start work. You can at this point because see, they're all even, they're opposite each other. We've stopped at the beginning row. It doesn't actually matter if you work with this loop or work with this loop or work with this loop. It doesn't make a difference as long as you're doing the stitches in the right places and you do that for all four of these little sections.

Um It doesn't actually matter which one you do first. So what that means is we can say we continue, let's just continue in the same direction for this first part here. So we're gonna be doing, I'm gonna replace my marker. So we're gonna do um a double crochet into each of the next two stitches. Um Actually three stitches now because we're on the next round.

And then we're gonna do two, double crochets into the following stitch, one and two. And then we're gonna do that again. One in the next stitch, one in the next stitch, the one in the third stitch and then two in the, in the following stitch. One and two. I'm getting to the part where we work backwards.

Don't worry, I don't forget I just wanted to, to finish this little part here. First one, here, one here, one here and then to here. So normally in, in the way that the pattern is written and everything, normally we would say switch to the sloop work that one. Switch to the sloop, work that one. But if you want to untwist your yarn and you don't really feel like taking the time to just untwist it, which you definitely could do.

Um You can instead all those place a stitch marker in here, you can twist it, you can turn your work back this way and work from here. So, what you're doing is you're kind of undoing. I mean, you're not undoing, you're twisting this thing in the opposite direction as you work. Now, we're gonna be turning it back the same way. So this, this got rid of a bunch of my twists.

Um When I found that it was, I don't know, I, I kept turning it the same way, the same way, the same way. But what I'm trying to say is you don't have to worry about exactly which one you start from as long as you are working the correct amount of stitches. So right here we have worked. Um Let's see. Oh, I wanted to take that out.

OK. So we've got our, our two stitches and one stitch right here and then we started the next round. So that's 123 and then we'll have two stitches right here. Ok. And then we're gonna continue 123, one to three and then two in the next.

And then we'll do one, two, three, two in the next. Ok. So we just added these stitches here and now we can go, we can turn it in the opposite way or turn it in the reverse way and then we can work these stitches here. We're still working the same round. We're just sort of working these loops out of order.

And like I said before, if you're like, oh Brenda, what are you doing? This is confusing. It was tricky enough. Um You do not need to do it this way, you could just continue working, you know, in, you know, this loop, this loop, this loop, this loop, you know, basically working your way around counter clockwise. Um And that reminds you to stop and switch to the next loop and that you're starting a new round.

Um But I just wanted to show you it doesn't actually really matter. Um which loop you're working from as long as you know, how many stitches to put in here and you can read your stitches. So we have 123 and then we got to the second part of the increase, which is right here and then we're gonna put two double crochets right there. Then we're gonna do that again. One to three and two double crochets into that second stitch of the increase from the previous round.

I'm gonna do that one more time. One you three and then we're gonna work two stitches right here. One and two. OK. And then we've reached that marker from where we started.

So we're gonna do just one more to finish up this round, which would be this 112, three. See how my yarn is less twisty Now, I think it's because I wasn't continually twisting, twisting, twisting. Now, there's just like one little, little bitty twist there still left. So 123 and then two stitches into that second stitch of the increase from the previous round. One, two, three and two stitches in the second stitch of the increase from the previous round.

And we're gonna do that one more time. One, two, three and then there's our two stitches. One and two. All right. OK.

So see, it still looks, even, even though we worked them out of order, it didn't really matter. So what I'm trying to say is if you, whether you set your project down and you're confused about which loop you start with whatever it doesn't actually matter as long as you can read your stitches. So you are just placing double crochets all along until you get to one of those places where there's two double crochets and one stitch the second of those double crochets. That's where you're gonna put the increase OK. And there's on each little color section, there's three always gonna be three repeats of, you know, whatever that stitch sequence is.

So on the next round, it would be 1234, double crochets and then two double crochets into the following stitch and then 12342, double crochets into the following stitch because that is the second stitch of that increase. OK? And then you would do that one more time, 1234 and then two double crochets right here. Move on to the next loop. So, and then you, in that way, you're just gonna continue on switching colors as you go until you've finished the round where you work five double crochets in a row and then an increase five double crochets in a row and then an increase.

Let me show you on the chart what that looks like here. OK? So you can see right here. So this would be 12345, double crochets and then an increase. So that's in that second stitch of, of that increase from the previous row there.

OK. So this would be your last round. You'd fasten off there at the yellow. Um grab the yarn from below work across here. Um Sorry, you don't fast off, you just pull up a loop.

I'm sorry. That was confusing. You're just pulling up a loop, you're gonna use it later. Um So you're going to be finishing up with that very last round where you're gonna have five double crochets and then an increase all the way around. Let me show you what that looks like.

Here it is. You can see our spiral has grown just like that. And then on this next round, you're going to begin your decreases. So that you might be wondering why are we decreasing? Isn't this a circle?

Well, it's not actually a circle. You can see there's like this little ridge that kind of flips to the, it's kind of like a little beret, like a really shallow beret. Um But this helps the, it has some weight at the outside and I think it helps, I mean, I am not very good with the whole air flow science dynamics kind of thing. But um I think that it helps kind of trap the air underneath it as you're throwing it as well just a little bit. Um But it, it is like you do need this extra little flap to stick in or it's not gonna work.

It needs to be heavier on the outside. So when you throw it, it kind of the weight on the outside kind of spreads out and it flies through the air better. So in order to get that to curl under, we're gonna do some decreasing. Oh, it looks like we say I have a bunch of hellos here that I missed. All right, we got um sea wolf pack is saying hi.

From Pennsylvania. Hello. Um, Antoinette Fitzgerald is saying hi from New York and Leslie Lewis. So she loves this pattern. She's gonna have to try it.

Awesome. I hope you do. It is a fun one and it's pretty quick. It takes a lot longer to explain that it really does to do. Um, and see what Peck says.

Appreciate Brenda putting the dark mat under her work. Yes, I know when I came in today, I, I set this on the table and I was like, oops, that's white. I can't have that. So. Yes.

Um, and Tony is saying hi from Denton, Texas. And Fitz is saying hi, everyone. Good morning from New York. Ya. Hello, everybody.

Ok. So let's talk about the decreases a little bit here. Um So, ok, let's just to recap here. We're at, after we've done five of those double crochets in a row, 12345 and then an increase, 12345 and then an increase, 12345 increase. That's what it should look like in each of these segments.

So this would be a good time to just check your work. Just look at it and make sure you have the right amount of stitches. So that way everything is gonna work out mathematically when we start doing those, um, those decreases. All right. So, and at this point and like I said before, it doesn't matter which loop you continue on with if you get confused with which loop was um the very first loop of the round that you're going around on.

Or if like me, I had removed my beginning stitch marker. It actually does not matter at all. For this project. You can just start with any of these and then continue on. It doesn't, it does not gonna make a difference.

The only thing in the pattern is if you really wanted this bottom or this um edging to be one of the colors in like specifically, then at that point later on, in the pattern, you can just move on with that one color. So it even up to the very end, it still doesn't matter. Um If you get confused about which um loop you need to start with, it doesn't make a difference. OK? So now we're going to be kind of reverse shaping things.

So instead of doing five double crochets and then a decrease, we're going to be doing five double, sorry, instead of doing five double crochets and then an increase, we're gonna be doing five double crochets and then a decrease. All right. So one, I'm gonna place my stitch marker back in there. Not that it really matters, but we'll just say that's the beginning of my round two, three, four, five. And then here we are at that increase, we're going to be decreasing both of those stitches together.

So to do a double crochet decrease, we're gonna yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up, loop, yarn over, pull through two and then we're gonna stop and then we're gonna get the next stitch involved here. So we're gonna yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up, loop, yarn over, pull through, pull through two and stop. And now we have three loops on our hook and we're going to do one final yarn over and pull through everything. OK. So that just made two stitches into one stitch.

Now, we're going to continue doing that same exact sequence where we double crochet five stitches in a row. So one, two, three, four and five. And then we're going to do a double crochet decrease just like that. And then we're gonna do five more double crochets, one, two, three, four, five and then a decrease. Whoops, I lost a loop there.

We'll try that again. You're an over insert, you're an over pull up, you're an over, put the two, stop, you're an over insert, you're an over pull up, you're an over pull through two and stop. You're an over pull through three. All right, then we're gonna steal this starch stitch marker and place it into our loop that we just made and we're gonna um skip to the next working loop here. All right.

Now we're gonna do the exact same thing for this entire round all the way from where we started all the way around. We're going to be making all of these um five double crochets, then a decrease, five double crochets and then a decrease all the way around. So here we have 12, three, four, five and you can tell when you get to where you're supposed to do your decreasing because that's where your increase is. Now, normally, when I write patterns, I like to stagger where all my increases are and my decreases and all that stuff. But this pattern I was like, nope, we got enough going on here.

We're gonna keep them in exactly the same places. So it's easy for people to see where we're at. Um So I intentionally did not put them in different places. The reason that I put them, that I like to place them in different locations, usually when I'm making a circular shape is because then it actually looks like a circle and not like a faceted thing which you can tell if you look at this, it is a little bit faceted. Um You can kind of see the lines of increases here but, and actually maybe you can see it a little bit better on this one.

It's a little bit faceted even when you look at the outside, but that will come out in blocking and also it'll be flying through the air and you'll be having fun with it. So who cares? All right. So here we are working those five double crochets and then we're gonna do. Oops, did I miss my decrease?

Will say 1234. Oops. No, just haven't gotten there yet. And now we're gonna do our decrease over the last two stitches here. Just like that.

We'll replace our marker. Steal it from the next loop, plop it in the old loop and continue. All right. So 12, three for five decrease. I thought that this a, this pattern would actually be really fun if you did it in two colors and then you um alternated when you started like between white and then black and then white and then, then black or something like that or you know, 22 very contrasting colors.

I thought that would look really cool and it's fun. I haven't made that version of it yet, but that's coming. This is a very addictive pattern. It's a fun way to use up your scraps too because, you know, and that's actually what made me start making this because I was like, I gotta figure out a way to use up all these little dishcloth, cotton scraps that I have that aren't quite enough for one dish uh like a whole dishcloth. All right.

I think we have one more to work, one more group of repeats here to get to the end and then I'll show you the next step. Oh I gotta steal that stitch marker, place it in the wall loop and then we're gonna continue here. We're still doing those um five double crochets and then a decrease. Or if you don't like counting, you just make your double crochets all the way across until you, you get to your increase from the last round and then you make a decrease right on top of that increase. Four and five and we're gonna decrease here.

All right, one more. And then I think we're at the end here. 12, three, four, five and a decrease. All right. So now we've finished our first round of decreases.

Starting to kind of cup just a little bit kind of, it's sort of rolling up on the edges. That's good. That's a good sign. And then we are gonna continue on working another round of decreases. So I will start this round and then talk you through it, but I'm not gonna work through the whole thing.

Um And then I will show you um the next step. OK? So this is exactly the same thing we're just going to be do instead of doing five double crochets before we do our decrease, we're gonna be doing four instead. All right. So I just did the first one while I was talking.

So that's the first double crochet. Did I say five decreases? OK. I meant instead of doing five double crochets, we're doing four double crochets and then a decrease. I do not remember what I said.

OK. So 123 and four, let's see. 12340, it looks like maybe I had to go a little. No, because that's, I think I had an extra stitch in here somewhere. Let's see.

1234. Yep. Somehow I ended up with an extra stitch. So I'm just gonna go ahead and ignore that extra stitch because one extra stitch here is not gonna make a, a difference. Um Oh no, wait.

No, that's not true. I didn't have an extra stitch. I was just looking at it funny. OK. So here here is my decrease.

You can see there's two legs going up into one stitch for some reason. I was thinking this was two different stitches here, but I wasn't looking at the top. It helps to look at the top of your decrease to know if that's one stitch or two stitches. All right. So we're gonna start our next decrease in the stitch before the decrease from the previous round.

Here is the decrease from the previous round. Here's the stitch before. So we're gonna yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through two and then we're gonna yarn over, insert into that decrease, yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through two and then we're gonna yarn over and pull through all three, making another decrease there. So we're working four, double crochets, one, two, three or and then here we are at the stitch before our decrease. So we're gonna make another decrease right there and we'll do that again, one to three, four and then a decrease.

Oops, I forgot to do my yarn over there. There we go. Now you can see it's really pulling in. It wants to flip back on itself, which is good. That's what we want.

OK? And then we're gonna switch to the next color place, our stitch marker in the old one and we're gonna continue with this. So we're doing exactly the same thing for this entire round. OK? So 12, three, four and here's our decrease and then you just keep continuing.

OK? So we're going to just keep working in this stitch pattern making decreases until we get all the way around to our beginning stitch marker, which was here. OK. So then we've worked the proper amount of decreases and then on the next round, we are going to work kind of an interesting round. So this one, we're gonna start throwing some other stitches in there.

And the reason we're doing that is because you can see um that it's getting kind of um the edges are jaggedy, right? So we want them to smooth them out so that they can all kind of come into a nice smooth circle in the middle. So let me show you this. So if you look at this on this last round of uh well, it's not our last round, but it's the last round where we have some double crochets at least and some decreasing, we're gonna be working across and just double crochets and then we're gonna do a decrease and we're gonna do that a couple of times and then we get, when we get to that last repeat, you know how we have three repeats, um, in each color on that last repeat of each color, we're gonna make the height of our stitches shrink down so that it kind of becomes, um, a little bit smoother here to get to the next. So it's not a jaggedy bump.

OK. So here we are, let me show you what I did so far. All right. So you would just go ahead and we're gonna start here. So wherever um is the beginning of your round or wherever you're just continuing on with the same color when you're starting out your next um round of the decreasing.

Let's see. Oh Yeah. So here I'm gonna back it up a little bit because I want to show you this part. There we go. All right.

So on your next round, after you have completed the round that I was just showing you part of where you do four, double crochets and then a decrease, four, double crochets and then a decrease all the way around. Then you are going to do three, double crochets, one, two, three and then a double crochet decrease. This is just normal. This is kind of like what we would do if we just kept continuing into the, in the same pattern. And then we're gonna do that again.

So one, 123, decrease one to three. Let me just double check something here on my last 11234, decrease 1234 decrease. Oh OK. I just realized I made a mistake. So on that very, let's let's rewind just for a second on that very last round that I was showing you.

So rewind your brain. We're gonna go back to the part where I'm talking about you do, you do four, double crochet decreases or four, double crochets and then a decrease four, double crochets and then a decrease. And I thought we did that all the way around but we do not, we're gonna do that two repeats of that. And then we're gonna work the section where we make the heights of the stitches shorter. So let me just show you on this piece.

OK? So we've got 1234, decrease 1234, decrease 12 and then three. So we are doing 1234, decrease 1234, decrease 1234, decrease 12, double crochets. And the third one is a half, double crochet. So let's see.

There's our decrease 1234, decrease 12. Here's our half, double crochet. I'll explain this a little bit better in just a minute. Um Here's our half double crochet instead of a do instead of a double crochet. And then we're gonna do a single crochet and then we're gonna single crochet two together.

So, oh To do and then to do that single crochet two together, you'll insert your hook, you're an over, pull up a loop and then insert your hook in the next stitch. You're an over, pull up a loop, you're an over and pull through all three. OK? And then when you get to that last um single crochet decrease, you're gonna fasten off. So we're just gonna cut the yarn and you're gonna do that three times.

So you're fastening off three of the colors. OK? So then you would move on to the next round to the next um section, next color. OK? So we had 12, 34, double crochets and then we're gonna do a double crochet two together.

That was just like how I was explaining before I realized I made the mistake. Then you do that again. One, two, three, four and then you're gonna double crochet two together. OK? This is still the same as how I was explaining it before.

But on the very last repeat of that, instead of doing 1234, double crochet two together, we're doing one and two double crochets. The third stitch is a half, double crochet. So it's a little shorter. The four stitch is a single crochet and then we're gonna single crochet two together, one and two put together. OK?

And then we fasten that off. So we just cut that yarn over and pull through. Ok. Um. Oh Fit is, is uh wondering if we can turn this into a blanket instead of a flying disk, you could just keep on going.

If you don't do those decreases, you could just keep on going and going and going and then on your very last round, you can do something like what I'm doing here where you just kind of make your stitches get a little bit shorter as you do. Um You know, you'll still be doing your increases at that point, but you'll just get it, make them get a little bit shorter in the last section. So they blend in. OK. So now we're doing four, double crochets, one, two, three, four and then we're gonna do that double crochet two together.

Whoops. There we are and then one, two, three, four and then another double two, double crochet tube together. Oops, I missed my yarn over there. Again. You're over insert, you're an over pull up, you're an over, pull through two and stop.

You're an over insert, you're an over pull up, you're an over, pull through two and stop and you are over and pull through all three. OK. So we've done two repeats in this color and now on the third repeat, that's where it gets funny because we start making shorter stitches. So we're gonna do two, double crochets, one and two and then one half, double crochet and then one single crochet even a little shorter and then we're gonna do a single crochet two together just like that. And then we're gonna cut our yarn.

Wait, how many have we cut so far? We still have one more. You just don't want to cut the last one because that's that one we're gonna continue with. All right, I'll place this one on the hook. So the la whatever you choose the, the last color to be the last one you're gonna work.

That is gonna be the one where you continue on and, and um make that little uh slip stitch round that's on the very inside that I was telling you about. If you wanted that a specific color, that's gonna be the very last one you fasten off. OK. So we're gonna do double crochet, double crochet, double crochet, double crochet. So four of those.

And then we do a double crochet two together, one and 22 together. We're gonna repeat that one, two, three, four and we're gonna work a double crochet decrease right here. All right. So we've repeated those um sequences twice and now we're going to do the last one where everything gets shorter. So double crochet, double crochet, half, double crochet, single crochet and then single crochet two together.

All right. So then the next round, all we have to do is make single crochet into each stitch around. We are almost done. You guys, it's just gonna work and you will notice as you work these single crochets, I think for most people, your single crochet usually ends up being a little bit tighter or a little bit um narrower than the top of a double crochet. So you will notice on this very last round that even though we are just working a single crochet into each stitch around, it is going to bring that circumference in just even a little bit further um than it was before.

Let's see, that's already been worked. So this might be a little tricky. I worked into this stitch. It looks like there's another stitch here, but there isn't because you can see, I've already worked into it. So just be careful on those.

Um, when you change to making your single crochet in the next color, um, you're not changing the color that you're using. Sorry. But as you're working across here, I'll show you where it, where it happens again. When you get to that kind of color. Jog, just make sure you're not adding a stitch accidentally there.

So we're, we're almost there to the next one. I'll show you what that looks like because it's, it's easy to do and then it won't be, it'll probably still fly, it'll probably be just fine. But, um, it does help to kind of bring in the bottom of, of that, of your, um, flying disk. Ok. So here we go, we're gonna do a single crochet here and it might be tempting to work into here, but that one has already been worked.

You can see the peachy kind of salmon color is already crocheted into that loop there. So we're gonna work into the one that's right after it. Ok. That's just a little bit of a tricky spot. All right.

Well, I think we're almost all the way around here. And then the very last step is just making, um, a slip stitch into each stitch round. Let's see. Oh, we've got one more little color section to go here. Here we go.

So this toy is, this toy is awesome if you have Children who, for some reason cannot just stop throwing things inside your house. Um, this is a great toy to have because especially when they're really young and, you know, it's just really hard to, it keeps them from breaking things sometimes. Um, this is a great toy so they can throw it around and it doesn't actually hurt anybody or anything. It's very soft and easy to catch and, you know, if you're playing catch with your kid and they're not really able to catch super well yet, you don't want, it's hard to throw a plastic thing right at them. That's kind of hard and it will hit them.

Um, this is a little bit easier. You don't have to worry so much. Ok. I just went a little bit too far. Oh, yep.

Here we go back here. All right. This is where I had started my single crochet stitches. Oh, actually, that's not true. That, that was correct.

I had done, done that correctly because these single crochet stitches that I'm working into in the green. You can see here, here is my, um, my decrease here. Those were from the very last round before we switched to just single crochet all the way around. All right. So we've completed that round, one single crochet into each stitch around.

And then the following round, you're just working a slip stitch. That's it. You're just placing a slip stitch into each stitch around and you might be thinking, why are we doing that? Um The reason is, is I wanted this edge to have a little bit more heft to it. I did not want it to get stretched out and it makes a nice kind of corded edge as you're slip stitching around.

It's really just adding a layer on the top surface. It's not even making it any taller really. It's just making it a little bit thicker. And also it's gonna keep the edge of it from stretching out over time because as you're flinging this thing around it, you know, everyone's gonna be grabbing at it and stuff and it's, it might have a tendency to stretch out. So we're just adding that extra slip stitch edging just to make it look a little prettier and also to keep it from stretching out.

So you'll just continue working that all the way around until you get to where you started your slip stitch edging and you'll fasten off and weaving all your ends. Yay. And then you'll have a piece that looks like this. And, um, as far as blocking you can definitely block it if you want to. I just did like a light spray of water and let it dry because, um, I was actually camping when I did this and I didn't have my iron with me so I couldn't steam it.

But also, I mean, you don't, you don't really have to block it. But I do think that having it flattened like this a little bit does help it fly a little bit better. So I would recommend just, you know, you can either get it wet, squeeze out all the water, let it dry or if you don't have the patience for that, just use um, you know, your iron on a high steam setting and hover it above your work. You don't actually have to iron on it, although this is cotton so you wouldn't melt it. Um But usually I just steam block from above and I don't actually touch the iron to my work.

So here's the moment. Let's see. Yep. I answered all my questions. So I get to throw this.

I just wanna say thank you guys so much for joining me. It's been super fun teaching this class. This has been a really fun project and I hope you guys make one. All right, they're with. Hey, thank you so much.

Thanks for joining me everybody. Goodbye.