Glow in the Dark Cowl Tutorial ~ Basketweave Crochet Cowl Free Pattern and Tutorial

This cowl has a superpower. It glows in the dark, and I'm going to show you how to make it. This is the petite basket weave cowl. I'm going to show you all the stitches included and how I get it to glow in the dark. So if you want to see more free patterns, be sure to hit the like, subscribe, and notification bell so that you're alerted as soon as they're out. So the glow in the dark is not magic and it's not paint. It's actually yarn I've taken thread yarn and combined it with a solid color of worsted weight to give a super cool effect in the dark the glow in the dark yarn it's from Bling Bling Yarn you'll see a link in the description if you use my promo code you can get 10% off not only do they have thread glow in the dark yarn but they have worsted weight variegated different colors they have like a whole There's a whole array to do. tons of different kinds of projects but i wanted to try out this thread yarn and see if i could incorporate it with other yarn to make that yarn glow and as you can see It does glow. So the other yarn was from my Timu haul that if you haven't seen it already, go check it out. You'll see all of the different yarn and tools that I got and what I think of them. I'm doing deep dive videos as well so you can see, did I enjoy crocheting with this yarn? Is it comfortable right now? I'm not going to tell you here. You're going to have to go watch the other video. This is all about just making this pattern. So grab some yarn, some glow in the dark for extra fun. Download the pattern below and we'll get started. For the tall chain, you can see my video on what those do for you, but we're looking at the actual post of the row below. We're doing front post double crochets to begin with, so we're going around that whole post of the double crochet below and completing just a regular double crochet. So again, we yarn over, we look for that post from the row below, around in this case and then we're putting our hook behind it to push it to the front so that's why it's called a front post double crochet and then you just finish it as normal. We're going to do one more of those for a total of three so heading around there and then next we're going I'm going to create the basket weave by doing Back post double crochets. These are a little bit more awkward so again we're looking for that post but we're coming from behind and then going around that stitch and then pulling our yarn up and this is where it gets a little tricky because you want to get that loop in front of your hook and then finishing off your double crochet as normal. Then we're going to do two more of those again. So again we're looking for that post. We're coming from the right side over to the left side in front of that post to push it to the back, pulling up our loop, and then finishing off our double crochet as normal. One more time around that front and back through and then Finishing off. So that gives us that basket weave look you're going to see in the next round how it actually works out because we're going to kind of change that. You'll see that I have my glow-in-the-dark thread already attached to the first round of double crochets. I'm going to show you how we kind of work with it in this coming up round because we are going to do it every other round to make it last and it Glows beautifully with this process. You don't have to add it every single round so that'll stretch out your yarn but let's go around and show you how to join this round and also put in our yarn. So here we are on the end of our round. We are looking past that tall chain and we're Creating a slip stitch in that first double crochet. So the tall chain creates no gap. That's why we like it or I like it But I went ahead and started my tall chain. I did I did the lock in stitch now I'm grabbing my glow-in-the-dark thread and I'm just bringing it up and Laying it right with my regular yarn to start working with it It's super simple to work with an extra thread by just running it along as if they were one so we're gonna look at our actual post from below and we're gonna do the opposite so in this case we had front post double crochets at the beginning we're going to now do back post double crochets in those front post double crochets to give the basket weave effect so we're looking for that post below we see it's in the front We're going to just go right in front of it to pull it to the back and create that back post double crochet for the basket weave effect. You'll see the little fronts kind of pop down and then next we're going to do our front post double crochets. So again, we're going to look for that post, bring it to the front and complete our double crochet as normal. So it's going to go back and forth. Each round and it's going to push the post back and forth to give that basket weave effect. I wanted to show this to you as a little PSA because this yarn ended up having a knot or two in it and that happens a lot and you're about to see it in a second, but I wanted to show you what you should do As you come to a knot in your work, so looking at this knot, I could try working it in and seeing how it lays in the project. It's not always gonna lay wrong or weirdly, so you could always try crocheting it in first and seeing what happens to it when you finish your stitch. Um, if it is not laying great though, and it's popping to the front and you don't want it showing, here's something that you can do, especially if you don't have scissors handy at the moment, you have the project on the road or something. So instead we're going to pull out a couple of extra stitches. And we're going to do this to create kind of a tail. So we're going to pull out a few stitches so we get a good enough tail to be able to weave in where that knot is. Then we're going to pull out some extra inches on the other side of the knot. So we've created this really long double tail. Just picture that you're going to cut that knot out in the future. We're going to create that long tail and then we're going to go and join it as if we had started a new ball of yarn and we're going to go ahead and just do our regular stitch bring it in and just move on and put it in there and we're going to have that knotted yarn with its two tails hanging in the back of the project that we can cut out and weave in later so if you're not around scissors and don't want to take the time to you know create the the The cuts right then and there, this is a solution you can do to keep working without having to stop and go find those scissors. So that's your little PSA of the day. Here's some last thoughts. So that is the basics of the petite basket weave cowl. Have you tried glow-in-the-dark yarn? I would love to know what you think about adding that to your yarn or just doing an entire project. In it, go buy yourself some glow-in-the-dark yarn and have fun! Halloween is coming, so time to get ready! I am Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After, and thank you for watching!