Butterfly Applique Crochet Pattern With Bonus Chart Reading Workshop

Hey everyone, it's Deja from CrochetEverAfter.com. Today I'm doing a new applique pattern. It's been a while since I've done one, so I've been trying to get back to doing some more, but I wanted to show you this butterfly applique first. It's a really cute one, very simple. I'm going to show you how to look at the chart and read the chart while you're making this little applique. Remember, you can use these for tons of stuff, attach them to things, put them in scrapbooks. They're nice and small, so they are very versatile, and you can make them bigger. So you can get chunky, super chunky, make them bigger, thread, make them smaller, lots of different choices. So go ahead and grab the pattern below, grab some yarn and a hook, and we'll get started. Okay, before we get started, let's take a look at our chart so we can figure out exactly what we're going to be doing. So sometimes when you get your chart, you may not be able to tell exactly what's going on right at the beginning. So we can tell that this is worked in the round because we can see it coming around with a slip stitch. So normally when you see like a slip stitch near the end, that kind of gives it away that it's a round. You don't see anything worked in rows, so that's pretty easy to tell. Now what is a little difficult, I mean this... This particular chart is this round one because it kind of has some interesting stitches. So sometimes you might need to reference your chart, I mean, I'm sorry, your written instructions in working your chart if you are a little confused. So sometimes you might need to reference your written instructions rather than only working from a chart. But a chart can be very helpful. When your written instructions are very abbreviation-y, like lots of abbreviations, a lot of different kind of stitches, not sure where exactly to put your stitch, the chart can really help you. Because you can see, like on round two, we have all of these stitches, and if you're not used to reading a written pattern, you'll see the parentheses and it says work all in the chain four loop. Well, if you look, you can see they're all coming out of this. So it makes it a little bit easier to see that each of these is a part of a wing. So the chart can come in very handy when used with your written pattern. One good thing about these charts is that once you have your stitches memorized, so your stitch legend should be there for every chart, but once you have them memorized, it's always going to be the same for every chart after. So it's also another thing that you can look at your stitches and kind of tell what they are. Like this looks like a chain, looks like a big hole that you would work something into. These are our half double crochet, double crochet, treble crochet, and one thing that you can do to remember what is what is that when you these are kind of like yarn overs. So you yarn over once for a double crochet, you yarn over twice for a treble. It also looks like a double crochet. When you do the double crochet, you have that slanted loop that comes across your stitch, and the treble, there's two of them. So I'll kind of point that out as we do it so you can see how it kind of looks like the actual stitch from the chart. So we're gonna get started. I'm gonna put this picture like kind of right in the screen with us so that you can see it as we're working. But let's go ahead and grab our yarn. Okay so we have our yarn. We're gonna put a slip knot on our hook. Hopefully the picture you can see well enough. If not, go ahead and download the pattern so you can follow along with us. But we're But we're going to chain four to begin. This chart shows us that we have four chains to do, and one, and then it shows a slip stitch. So we're going to go and slip stitch in that first chain we made, and then we're going to do that three more times. So we're going to chain four again. Picking our wings into these, they're pretty small right now, but once we start stitching into them, if you pull them apart, you're stitching into them, they'll open up a little bit. Two more of these. We're going to slip stitch right back into that very first chain that we made, Butterfly! So now we're just going to go right into round two. So you can see from the chart, we have a half double crochet, double crochet, treble crochet, double, and half double, and then a slip stitch. So that's going to be all in this chain four spot, so right in that little hole, create the very top part of our loom. So we're not doing anything to start, we're just going straight into our stitch. So we're going to yarn over for our half double, put your hook through the center of that chain four, yarn over, pull up. Now we're going to do a double crochet. So we yarn over, insert back in, pull up. So see we have that little difficulty in this purple yarn, but we have the stitch across that counts as that little mark that's on our chart for the double crochet. So treble is next, so we yarn over twice, insert our hook, two, two. Now we're going to go back down to a double crochet, and then a half double to finish it off. And then we're going to slip stitch, and we're slip stitching so that we bring this kind of back down, so it's not this big, tall stitch before we start working into our next stitch. So we reach through, pull it up, and then pull through the loop on your hook. Now we have the first part of our wing done, and now we're going to do the other half of this side of the butterfly body. So this one is going to be half double, three double crochets, and then a half double. So we're going to pull that slip stitch down, same thing, we're just going to start working our stitches right away, double, you can see that hole opens up nice and easily, into there for the rest of our stitches, double, and since our next loop is technically the bottom of the butterfly, we're going to repeat what we just did, and then we're going to do the treble for the last loop, so go ahead and do those last two loops, and then we'll come back and finish off our butterfly, double here, and then my slip stitch. And we're not joining this, this is the end right here, is that slip stitch, because you don't need to join up to the other side of the butterfly. So we slip stitch along the end to sew this to whatever you want to put it on. The great thing about these is you don't really have to sew on the end, or weave in the ends if you don't want to. So now we have our wings done, and now we just need our body. So we're taking a length black, and we're going to wrap it around the center lightly, because we don't want to pull super tight, because you want to pull it tight enough to body together if you want, really. I'm going to wrap it around my body, I really should have woven in my purple first, do that before you do your body, it'll make it a little bit easier on you, but once I get it to the make your body as thick as you want or as thin as you want, but once you get it, make sure that you're getting your tails to the top and on top on opposite ends, and then you're going to tie a double knot to weave this part in, and one big knot in the front because these are going to be your antennae, and you're going to, however long you want I'm going to weave in these pockets. So this is a really simple project. You can see the chart. It looks like the chart. You can see the little part of your chart. So some of these charts can be really helpful because it looks like what your project should look like when you've done. So hopefully this helped you to learn to read the charts a little bit better. I'm going to be doing some more, so stay tuned for those. I think some next. Thank you for watching.