dining room table runner ideas
and welcome back to the crochet crowd as well as my friends over at yarnspirations.com, as we work on the flower power crochet table runner with you today. this is good for indoors or outdoors, depending on the yarn choice, but of course if you use the lily sugar and cream or bernat handicraft err you are good to go. let's here a quick
message and then i'll be right back and we'll talk about this pattern in more detail. this video has sound alerts added. when you hear this sound **bell** it will be your signal that the segment is finishing up. press stop and crochet the instructions and then press play again to continue along in your project. so here we are, back on the pattern and you'll notice
that there's two flowers side by side, with a filler in the middle and i'll talk a little bit more about that. here's all the colors that they're using, just like you see here and you will notice that, that all the instructions are available to you. the wonderful thing about this particular project is that it's versatile. maybe you don't want a
table runner. maybe you want curtains or a valance for your kitchen. you can easily just substitute and just change out the sizing of this. you could even make this into a shawl if you really wanted to. so to play today, you need a size 5 millimetre, size h crochet hook and i'm going to take you to the diagram next and i'm going to show you more
about what's happening in this project. so on page number three, you're going to notice that there's a flower diagram and these are all the same as each other. the difference is on how they're attaching. so the very first one that you're going to do, is going to be the lonely one and you'll go all the way around, you won't attach it to anything, because there is
nothing to attach to. then what happens is, is that you're going to then build on to this and then where the flowers come around on the final, you're going to attach. so you'll notice on one side, it looks like it's a chain 3, which it is and the other side its chain 1, slip stitch to this one to join it and then chain 1 and then come back. so you're
joining as you go, so you have to be strategic about your colors when you're thinking about this in the long term. so you're going to notice that you'll have a different color for the interior and then the exterior color is a different color. so you want to be thinking ahead and maybe you want to do it strategically, where you do all the
middle colors first and then come back with your colors and start joining. once you get that done you can go and just start attaching. so if you want to put another one here and have it three flowers, then going or even four. maybe you want to make it into a triangle, you can do that as well. it's a really quite an easy pattern to be able to
follow if you're going to do this particular concept. so it's a really neat idea. so what at the end, what's going to happen, is that you're going to fill in all these spaces. so let me show you another diagram that you see here. so on page number two, you'll notice here on the side, you're going to put all of your flowers together and they'll be all
attached and you'll see that there are spaces in the middle. you're going to come back and fill in those spaces and as you do the final round of all that, you're going to join. but exactly where are you going to join? let me talk a little bit about that too. so i'm back here to page number three. so what's going to happen is, that you're going to
get all of your flowers done and they're all going to be assembled and you'll notice that there's going to be a gapping space all the way down. so even if you did three wide, you'll have the same gap and you just got to create more. so on the final revolution of this one here, attaches to all the neighbors. so you'll notice how to put the number 4, 3,
4, 3, 4, 3. what does that mean? well there's actually two different kinds of rounds, as you go around. so in the one, in this section here, it's a chain 4 and then slip stitch to attach and then chain 4 and come back. so you notice where it is? okay and then this one here is going to say chain 3 slip stitch and chain 3 come back. so i just wanted to highlight to
you, that when you're reaching across this distance and this distance okay, there's its four's and when you're going into these ones here, it's threes. now you're going to notice here, that it looks like it's oblong kind of idea or oval, but the reality is, once it gets done, this is going to be a complete kind of square idea, but these are further
apart from each other, than the ones in the threes. so that's why there is a difference on that particular point. so let me show you a little bit of a sample that i'm making and then i'm going to show you how to do this as well. so here's a mini example that i'm running today and it's actually kind of a neat idea and it's really quite simple. so no
matter how you turn it, it's all going to look the same. so you'll notice that when you're attaching these, when you're going in the up down, that there's going to be two joints here and but when you attach to the either side, it's only going to be one and the reason for it, that there's only six sides. so it'll be attached here this one, if you added another one, will
be attached over here and if you put one on top, those two would be attaching to the top. so you want to be strategic about it and the thing you got to watch for, is the right side and the wrong side. so this is the right side of the project, because the worst thing you could do is attach one and then it is upside down on the
other side, because it looks slightly different. i don't know if you can tell that in the camera, but you'll be able to notice after you're done and then you'll kind of regret it. so you want to keep an eye on your right side and your wrong side. so what i'm going to do for you today, is that i'm going to show you how to do one and then i'm going
to just instruct you, because the first one you do doesn't have anything to attach to, but then every time you build the next one, it's got to attach somewhere. so you have to determine whether you're going to go straight across or whether you're going to come straight down. so in this case when i fill this in, i'm going to not only
attach here, but i'm also going to attach up here, at the same time. so you just want to be very conscientious to where everything is and you'll notice that it all is going to come together really quite nicely, when we go to do this. so you'll need a five millimeter, size h crochet hook today and we're going to start off at the center. so if i were you
and you were me do all your centers first, of all the different colors and then come back and then do all these colors and then you can strategically put those together as well. if you would like to change the colors more? of course that's an option you can do as well. so let's grab our yarn now. let's begin in the middle. so
let's begin and we're going to create a slipknot and begin our project and we're going to insert our hook and you want to chain a total of two. so go one and two and in the first chain. ookay over here right when you started you want to put in a total of 12 single crochets. now listen, this is going to be really tight when it goes in, so you want to be
relaxed at this point. so going into the first chain and you're going to single crochet total 12 times. so one and two and three and four and notice i'm going up over top of the string, so i can bury it. so that was four this is going to be 5, this is 6, 7, 8 and i'm running out of space. do you see that? so you just want to yank on it
and pull it over. so that was eight and nine and i'm going to let that straggler to fall out of the way, it's buried enough. this is ten, i've got two more to go, so just keep on pulling it over, eleven and twelve and it will make sense in a bit. so if you can't see the first one, just count back from the top here. so one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven and there is the twelfth, right there and that's the twelfth one and you want to slip stitch it, to just take your time, get it in there and pull through and through, through and through, just like that. so there's your starting circle. so now this straggler that you are burying, you can now get rid of it and it's out of your way permanently.
nothing is sewing, perfect, just the way you like it and let's move on to round number two. so round number two, what we're going to do, is create some spokes and we need a total of six of them. it's a six-sided flower. so we want to chain a total of six. so it's just used for three first. so one, two, three. this is one spoke. okay, of the six. now to chain another
three. one, two, three and this is a space. so it's kind of bending over like so. skip the next stitch and go into the next one with the double crochet. see? so now you've kind of got a spoke coming up and the space. it's hard to tell right now, but it will be like that. so chain three. one, two, three, skip one, stitch back down here
and go to the next, for a double crochet, then chain three. one, two, three, skip the next stitch and go to the second one over and double crochet. so even though it's tight down here at the bottom, this what i'm doing right now, is going to make everything kind of relax and pull out. so chain three. one, two, three, skip one stitch and double crochet and
then we'll chain three. one, two, three, skip one stitch and double crochet in the next and now you have a total of six of your spokes. so one, two, three, four, five and six. so to finish that off, you're going to chain three. one, two, three and i want you to count the third stitch up here. so one, two and three and just slip stitch into there and pull
through and through and this color is technically done. so i'm going to finish this off. just grab my scissors and cut and pull it through that loop and what i want to do is, that the next layer is going to go right over over top of the string. so just leave it in this chain. okay right into the chain itself and it's going to get stuck there. so just go
in this chain area, cross over and do the next chain area and then it's really in. so again, nothing to sew in. this will speed you up. okay and once you get that in, just safely just trim it and let's move on to our next color. so let's begin our next color. we're going to create a slipknot just as extra security and we're going to choose any chain three
space, it doesn't matter which one you go into. the pattern that shows you where you should go into, but that's up to you, it doesn't really matter and i want you to just join it with a slip stitch, like so. now use this straggler and just hold it down on top of the line and we're going to bury that, right in the very beginning. so we're
going to chain up three. one, two, three and that counts as a double crochet and then in this chain three space, i want you to double crochet a total of four more times. so one and two, three and four. so with the chaining of three that you did in the beginning, you should have have a total of 5. so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. so now what you're going to do is, that
you're going to chain a total of 4. so 1, 2, 3 and 4 and come into the next chain 3 space and do 5 double crochets. so what i want you to do is, repeat that same idea, going all the way around. i'm going to leave that for you and i'll meet at the end of this revolution and it's really quite an easy project to be able to handle, in order to do this. so this is
the second last round. so you have 5 in there. so you're going to chain a total of 4. 1, 2, 3 & 4 and then coming in and do another 5 in the next chain 3 space. **bell** so i'll see you at the end of this revolution and just hang on one second. so i'm finishing the revolution off and there will be 5 double crochets in the final space, which makes sense right?
and so you'll have what appears to be a hexagon really. so let's finish that off. so to finish this off, remember you still have to do your chaining of 4. so 1, 2, 3 & 4 and i want you just to slip stitch to the top of the beginning chain three and pull across. so it now looks like a hexagonal. so that the stitch that you
were covering over top of this straggler, is now going to be cut. get that out of the way and now you have a hexagon. so we're just going to do one more revolution and this revolution will determine whether you're going to go all the way around for your very first one, but any, if it's not your first one, you need to start attaching to a neighbor
and i'll cover both in the next section. okay so let's begin the final revolution. now i'm going to get you started, to showing you how it's done and then i'm going to show you how to join. so if it's your very first one, you have to go all the way around without joining anyway. so let's begin. we are going to slip stitch over to the middle one, of the group of
five. okay right now we're currently in the first one, so we have to slip stitch over two, in order to get there. so just one just going right in my stitches and just pull through and through and this is where we're going to start. so we're in the middle one of the group of 5. so now i want you to chain 1 and i want you to slip stitch. i want you to put one
single crochet into the same stich. so now we're going to then just reach over to the first chain four space. so we're going to chain one first and we're going to double crochet into that chain four space and then chain one and then double crochet again and then chain one and double crochet again. so one side of this corner is going to have double
crochet, chain one, double crochet, chain one, double crochet. now what we need to do is, that we're going to chain three. so this is a top corner. so one, two and three and coming back into that same space. if you need to move things, just do it and just double crochet, chain one, double crochet again, chain one and double crochet again and then finish it
off with the chain one and then come to the middle one of the group of five and single crochet. so you're going to do that all the way around, as if it's not attached to anything and this is the very first one. but if you're going to attach to a neighbor, this is when you're going to start doing so. so what i'm going to do is, i'm going to... if it's your very
first one, go all the way around and finish it off completely and then we started another one. and if it's not, then we're going to just take your one you're about to join and i'm going to show you how to do that next. so here's my sample here, so notice that on one side, when it comes straight across, it's only one join here. but when it's coming
up or down, it's going to be two joins. so when i put this one in, it's going to join only once to this one and it's going to be joining twice to this one. so it doesn't matter which one's joined here when you go, but i would recommend that you at least get the first side done. so we've already kind of done the first side, but it's just going to
continue. so if you're continuing along, you're just going to chain one and then reach over to the chain four and you're going to double crochet, chain one, double crochet again, chain one and double crochet one more time. so this time we want to join it to the neighbor. so instead of doing what we were doing before with chain three in the middle,
you're going to chain one and then you're going to grab the one that you need to join, come up underneath and pull through a yarn and through. that's your slip stitch and then chain one. so instead of chaining three, you chain one, slip stitch and then chain one and that is equivalent to doing it three times and now you come back to the one
that we're playing with and you're going to finish this corner off. so you're crochet, chain one and double crochet and then chain one and then come to the middle. so now you just successfully, just joined it as you see. so the next one, here is the corner, it's going to attach up here. so let's begin to do that too. so we're going to chain one to start and
then come right to the corner. so double one, double crochet. okay so now if you're not joining anything, you're just going to do a chain three. but if you're joining, it's going to be chain one, come to the space that's on the other one, come up from the bottom, pull through and then chain one and then come back to the one you were working on. so double
one and double crochet, chain one and then slip stitch to the middle one of the group of five. so now you're joined in two different areas here, just like you see. now we're going to join it one more time. so chain one to start, double one and double crochet. then chain one coming up from the bottom, just like so, pull through, chain one and then come
back down in. and continuing to do that chain one, double crochet, chain one and double crochet, chain one and then single crochet to the middle one. so now, if you are joining on anything else at this poin,t so if you have another group over here, you could join at the same time if you wanted to. but if there's nothing more to join, you're just going to go
around as a normal, like you did in the very beginning, because there's nothing to go. so you can see that you can add on more layers. so you could have three and you can have a lot of great times with this. so let's finish off our flower, just like you normally would. so again there's no join here, so you chain up one. so double crochet, chain one,
double crochet, chain one, double crochet, there's nothing to join, so chain three and then double crochet back in, chain one, double crochet again, chain one and double crochet and then chain one and then come to the group of the middle first single crochet. so please do that all the way around and then what i'm going to do is, that i'm going to finish
this off and then i'm going to cover on how to fill in the middle, just like so. so to finished off this and then i just chained one and then i'm just going to join it to the first single crochet that i did. now i highly recommend, this is the last one there is. there's nothing that you can do to bury this any further. so just cut your yarn and pull through
and then i want you to throw this through a darning needle this next. so just off camera got one here ready for me and just pull it through. sorry push it through the needle. so if you go in and out of your project three times, you can hide it in. so just burying it underneath. try not to impede the outside edge, just burying it, gliding it through
some yarn strands. okay and then just stay underneath, so you don't the effect the edge and then pull through and then going back in the other direction for two and back in the other direction for three and then this is a great way to get rid of this as well, this tail, without ever having it falling out ever again.
so now you can see that you have your your ideas here and remember what i said to you? that in the picture it looks like this is more oblong? but it's actually the same. so now i'm going to show you how to finish off this middle, right now. so let's finish doing the middle here. we're going to need a new yarn color. you can choose any color you wish,
it's pretty subjective to you and then i'm going to show you how to do it. now remember my diagram that i did in the very beginning? so whenever you're attaching to the... let's just say 12, 3, 6 & 9 o'clock, it's always going to be chaining a 4, because it's a further distance than these here in the, in the midway. so we're going to be
attaching these particular square to 8 different sections. so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. so just remember at 12, 6, 3 & 9 is that it's a further distance out. so let's just grab our yarn and i'm going to zoom in the camera and get you started on this and then we'll come back and show you how to attach it in the last round. so let's begin our first. we're just
going to start off with the slipknot. you can use any color that you wish. it is a solid color, just for your convenience and i'd recommend it anyway. there's not a lot to this particular spot of the project. you're going to chain a total two. so one and two and in the first chain i want you to insert your hook in and i want you to single
crochet four times. so one and two, coming back in three. look how i'm going over top of the straggler to bury it and four. so only four times in and it's going to be a nice tight circle and if you're not sure, just count it back. so one, two, three and four and you'll be able to see that here. so you just got to take your time. always harder when there's just a little
bit of in your hands, versus when the project gets a little bit bigger. it's like an afghan starting for the first time. so you're just slip stitching over and then just turn over and get rid of that straggler that you had just buried in and then you're good to go. so let's then move up to the next round. okay so let's turn it back to the
beginning and let's start up our next round. so there's actually only a total of three rounds on this whole thing. so this is round number two. so you're going do a total chain count now of four. so one, two, three and four and you're going to do a cluster, right in the same one that it's doing to joining. to do
that, you're going to wrap the hook twice and you're going to go into the same one that you did the join and insert in and pull through. now you have four loops on the hook. just yarn over and pull through two and yarn over and pull through two and hold it, so that you see that this is a stitch and this is a stitch and i want you to do that two
more times. so just wrap the hook again twice, same stitch in, pull through, so just pull through two and two and hold it. so now you can see it got a total of three. you want to have what appears to be four of those. so just yarning over twice again, same stitch, pull through, pull through two and two and hold. so now you have what
appears to be four. so one, two, three, four. so now i want you to yarn over, pull through all of them. here. now we're going to do a total, a count chaining of eight. so let's just do that. so one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight. so now we're going to do this exact same thing again, but in the next one. so there's only four stitches in this whole
thing. so just yarning over twice, because it's a long chain it gets a little dicey, but it's not a deal breaker and coming in to the next one. so i yarned over twice, pushing it in, pull through, pull through two and two and hold it. so there's one of a group of four. yarn over twice again, same stitch, pull through two and two and hold do it again. yarn twice,
pull through two and two and hold and do it one more time. so now you have the group of four all over again. so now you yarn over and pull through all of it and then chain eight. so one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight and now just going to the next stitch. so just yarning over twice and doing the same thing. so going in, pull through, pull
through two and hold and do it again and keep on doing it until you get that group of four going on. once you get your four in there, yarning over and pulling it through all of it and then what i want to do is chain eight. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight and do that once again and i'll see you back here in just a moment. so let's go back
in for the final one. this is the fourth one. coming in to the next stitch, pull through two and two and hold. keep on doing that. so you can see that these don't take long to make. especially when you're using trebles for your clusters and do it one more time, so you get that group of four and there it is and pull through all of it. but to finish it, you're
missing that final chain eight. so do that. so one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight and now i want you to come in and just join it to the top of the first one over here. so this is what it looks like at this point and now we're going to move on and the next round we're going to attach as we go. so let's begin our join. you need to pay
attention here, to the most of this particular tutorial. you're going to notice that it looks like this, okay so you want to make sure that this here, is going in the vertical direction. so if it's turning like this, it's not going to work for you, the way that this pattern is written. so make sure that when you're paying attention, that it's going
straight up up and down and like this, like a cross. so to begin you're going to slip stitch into the first chain 8 space. so slip stitch in. so remember what i talked about, that there's going to be a chaining of three and then back and then chaining a four and then back. so when we go to start, what we're going to do is, that we're going to start here and go
immediately here and then back and then we're going to go here and then back okay. so when ever we go here, to the twelve, six, three or nine, it's always going to be chaining of four and these spots here, is going to be chaining of three. so to begin, once we've slip stitch in there, we're going to chain three. so one,
two and three and you want to come immediately to the middle one of the middle right here and just come up from the underside and just yarning over, pulling through as a slip stitch and then chain three. so one, two and three and then come back to that same space okay? those same chaining and single crochet around that. okay so
that's what it looks like so far. so now we're going to then attach over here. so to get there, first we need to chain four. so one, two, three and four and we want to go right where the two are joining here and come up from the underside and pull through and through and then chaining four to return. so if you go chain three out and back, make sure they're both
chaining threes. if you're chaining four and then back it's both chaining four. so let's go four back. so one, two, three and four and return. but when you return, you're coming back to the other chain eight space, on the other side of that middle section. so now you're back in the middle, here. okay so you're going to chain three. so one, two and three.
just like you see and then just attach to the middle section again, from the bottom up. pull through, that's a slip stitch and then chain three to return. so one, two, three. so turn your project if you need to and then come back into that same spot. so here's the thing to remember. whenever you're chaining out three,
you're always returning to the same spot. and when you're chaining a four, you're always returning to the next spot over here. so let's do the next section. here it's going to chain four. so one, two, three and four. this one here is straight, this one, so it's a further away and then chain four to return. so one, two, three and four
and this time come on the opposite side of this, that you see here. so coming to the side. okay and now chain three. one, two, three, come to the middle section, this is next and then return with chaining three. one, two, three and return back to the same section. so you can see it's joining. so we're going to chain four. so one, two, three and four, come to
this middle over here and then return. one, two, three, four. that is a chain four. so you're coming to the opposite side. so jump over, single crochet in and then chain three. so one, two, three. grab the next one in the middle, one, two, three, return to the same space. so you can see right what we have so far. so we just have this last one to attach to. so
that's a chaining of four. one, two, three and four. go all the way up there, pull through and chain four to return. so one, two, three and four and now you've already single crocheted into this first one, so you're going to single crochet into the one that exists ..... sorry, you're going to slip stitch into the one that already exists, just like
that. so now you're done, that's it. so what you have to do is, you have to work all the way down your table runner, or if you're making curtains, just do the same thing, filling in the space. so you're going to want to make sure that you get rid of this. now there's tips on the crochet crowd website, on how to make cotton yarn
last a long time with washing, that you can set the colors permanently using some salt water and some vinegar and i have an article written about that, if you'd like to read on that. so after you've done this project, you can soak it in the solution for about 30 minutes, lock in those colors and if you ever have to wash it, then you don't have to
worry about the colors bleeding at all, so that you can keep the vibrant nature of this yarn. so if you go in and out three times, like i showed you on the outside and just get rid of this, you have this project completely done. so this is how you do a table runner and with the cotton yarn, it looks really quite stunning, actually to be honest
with you and whether it's for outdoors or indoors, you can see you could just add on more quite easily, because these are very versatile right in the center. so until next time, i'm mikey on behalf of yarnspirations, as well as thecrochetcrowd.com. join me next time as we have more for you. patterns and ideas coming to you real soon.
let's see you again real soon. bye bye.