Hello everyone, welcome I'm Kerri. Today I'll be showing you how to
decorate a towel with cats, mice and birds which we've made on previous
videos. You can click on a link to see these. I'll be showing you how to make
the beach ball and the grass. I've added markings on two of the cats using chain
and we'll have a close-up photo on my website. For the mice I've left the
whiskers off and we'll add them when I sew them on the towel. You'll need
different colors of wool or crochet cotton. I use four ply cotton. You'll also
need a crochet hook, sewing needle scissors, and towel. I'm going to start
with the beach ball. I'm going to do three colors for the beach ball today.
I'll start with blue and make a magic loop as if I'm doing a chain and pull it
loose and then I work one chain and 12 single crochet into the circle. A single
crochet is into the circle and pick up a loop yarn around and through the two, so
12 single crochet.
I take hold of the tail and pull it tight and then slip stitch into the
first chain. Now I'm going to work three chain and work a double crochet into the
same spot as my chain, so I put my yarn around the hook I go into my crocheting and
bring up another loop, yarn around through two and yarn around, through two. Now I work
two more double crochet into the next stitch, now I'm ready to start with my
red so I put my yarn around with the blue into the stitch and then I'm going
to bring up my red loop and yarn around and through the two,
yarn around and through two. Now I'm going to work another double crochet
with my red into the same stitch I'm going to crochet in my tail and the
blue until I need it again. So I'll hold them there another double crochet in to
that stitch and then two double crochet with the red into the following stitch.
Now I'm going to join my yellow so I put the yarn around with my red into the
following stitch and I'll bring up my yellow.
And I finished the stitch using the yellow and do another double crochet in
the same spot and then two double crochet with the yellow into the next
stitch.
Now I'm back to the blue, so I'll go into the stitch yarn around with the yellow
and then bring up my blue. Then we'll work another double crochet with my blue
and then two more double crochet into the next stitch here.
Now it's the turn for the red, so I bring up my red and have the two in the
next two stitches.
And for the last two stitches I work my yellow.
And then I slip stitch into the third chain, and that's the first row done. Now
I'm going to bring up my blue and work three chain just pull my yellow a little
bit tighter, and I'm bringing up my other threads and I'll work them in as I go
around. For row three I'll be using the same colors as I did before. So blue here,
red here, and yellow here. And I start with three chain and do a double crochet
into the same spot with my blue. And then I'm going to work one double crochet
into each of the next two stitches, I'm still crocheting in the yellow and the
red.
And then into the following stitch I'm going to work two double crochet.
Now I start with my red and I work two double crochet into the first stitch, one
into each of the next two,
and then two into the following stitch.
So I'll do that in each section around.
For each color I work two into the first, one into the next two, and two into the
last one. so I'll do that and then I'll come back. When we get to the end of the
row we do a slip stitch into the third chain. I will bring up the first color
and work three chain and we'll work our
two threads behind. Now we do a double crochet into the same stitch as the three
chain. Then we work one double crochet into each of the next two,
and two double crochet into the next stitch,
and then one double crochet into each of the next two stitches.
And now we're ready to change colours, so I'll pick up my red and work two double
crochet into the next stitch,
one into each of the next two,
two into the next stitch,
and one into each of the next two stitches.
And we do that in each colour, we work two into the first stitch, one into each of
the next two, two into the following stitch, and then one into each of the
next two. So I'll do that round and I'll come back. Now when you finish you just
slip stitch into the third chain. Now that's as big as I'm going to make my
beach ball today. If you wanted a bigger one you just increase evenly around, make
sure you've got the same amount of stitches on each colour. So I fasten off and
then I'll have to weave in my endings.
Next I'll show you how to do the grass. I'll show you on a face washer because I
wouldn't be able to fit a towel in here. We just start with chain,
we do a row of chain.
Now I always like to have more chain than I think I'll need, because I don't
want to have to undo it all and redo it.
I'll just do a few more, that should that should be enough but just in case when I
crochet it pulls in a bit. For my first grass blade I like to have a higher
grass blades at the edge so I'll do an extra nine chain.
Now I'm going to work a single crochet into the second chain from the hook. And
now I'm going to single crochet seven, it depends on how big you
want your blades of grass.
For the last one before I join I like to do a double crochet for the
first blade of grass. Now I join in the third chain from the hook, I'm
going to do a slip stitch and that brings my blade of grass up, it will sit
up. Now if you'd like to have space between your blades of grass, you could
do single crochet, a few single crochet and then do more chain, but I'm
just going to do blades of grass. I do random lengths of grass. I don't
want them all a uniform length. So this time I think I've done six, and then I
miss the first one and I'll slip stitch into the second chain, and then
I'll just single crochet down to the second last chain.
So into the last chain I'll work a half double crochet, and then I'm going to
slip stitch into the second chain, I miss one and then I'll slip stitch. I'll
probably make a slightly bigger blade of grass this time.
And I do the same I'll slip stitch into the second chain from the hook, and then
I just single crochet down to the last one and in the last one I'll half double
crochet and then join it to the chain.
And occasionally I just might do a couple of single crochet along my chain
to have a little spot to put a flower. So I might do one here I'll just do two
single crochet and that will give me a little space between my grass
blades and I can just attach a little flower there. Next I might do a longer
blade, I might do eight chain.
And then I miss one and slip stitch into the following stitch and then just
double crochet down. Into the last one I'll do a half double crochet.
You could make your blades of grass a bit thicker if you wanted by doing half
double crochet and then double crochet down.
I might just do a small blade of grass.
And you just work across until you've got your desired length. So I'll do that,
I'll continue on and then I'll be back to show you what it looks like. I think
it's almost long enough for the last one I will do a longer one
like I did for the beginning. So I'll do eight chain, miss the first and slip stitch
into the second chain, and then work single crochet down.
And into the last chain I'll work a half double crochet, and then I'll slip
stitch into the second chain. I'm not going to end it off because I'll just
check to make sure it's the right length. When I sew it, it may be too long or
it might be too short if it stretches when I sew it. I'll be sewing it on my
machine, I'll sew across the bottom first and then I'll sew up and down each
grass blade. I do make sure they're random grass-blades. I try not to have to
the same size next to each other. Now here's the finished towel. I stitched the
grass on first along the flat side and then back along the blades. I used my
sewing machine for the grass, the cats, the mice, and the birds except for their
beaks. I hand stitched the beach ball, the beaks of the birds, the whiskers of the
mice, and the flowers. I used a French knot for the centres of the flowers. If
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