Finishing Row 1 of Basket Weave Crochet Pattern

Video Transcript

"We've been working our double crochet across our base chain and you see I've got two left. And just to recap all we've been doing is wrapping extra piece of yarn around your needle and then going underneath the chain. So you've got your two pieces standing on top of your needle and you hook yarn to pull it back underneath. You've got three loops on your needle, pull it through the first two, pull yarn through the second two. Now when you get to this very last piece or rather the first loop on our chain when we started you really have to be careful about your needle placement. Because you see we have this loop piece right here but we also have right here where we first kind of knotted it off. And underneath you can see we have this pattern of these loops that stick out on the bottom because that's the bottom of the chain but we've also got this circle part right here because this is where we started. So when you're looking at this, pay very close attention to where you stick your needle. And it might be a little bit difficult. It depends on how tight you made your first loop. So I'm going to wrap yarn around it, wrap yarn around my needle and then I'm just going to force my needle through that first half and then I'm going to try to grab the other side without pulling this off. So there we go, we've got our loop on top of our needle and you see that it's got the one piece underneath and right there you can see where our first knot is from our loop. You really want to be careful not to undo this. You can mess up your whole chain and your first row and you'd have to start all over again. So just be very aware when you do it, you don't want to have to backtrack any. And then you just pull it through. And then for a nice straight edge we've got our three. We're going to do the same thing. Pull it through the first two and then pull it through the second two. See we've got a nice straight stack to make a nice straight edge and we can start our second row."