Adding a Wooden Dowel

Welcome to another crochet tutorial with CozyRosyUK. Today I'm going to be showing you how to add a

wooden dowel to the top of your wellness wall hanging. So to start I've already edged all of

my wall hanging and I'm placing it on a flat surface face down so if you've got any bobble

stitches they'll be facing the table. We're then going to, with our 6mm crochet hook

the same size we've been using for the whole of this project, locate the first double crochet stitch

and we're just going to attach the yarn colour of our choice, I've gone for my darkest colour

just by doing a slip stitch in that corner there. And what we're going to do is first of all work

the first part of our double crochet into this first stitch. I'm just going to stop there once

Once we drawn that loop up I going to place my working yarn away from me for a moment and bring in my dowel We going to work this So once we halfway through we placed the dowel there we just going to yarn over and

pull through both those loops and that creates a little bit of a mini tie around there. We're

then going to work into the next stitch by inserting our hook making sure that we go underneath

the dowel, yarn over to bring that loop up and then yarn over to pull through

those two loops. So we insert the hook going underneath the dowel, yarn over to

bring a loop up, yarn over and pull through both those loops. Working into the

next stitch we're going to repeat this the whole way along. So go into the next

stitch underneath the dowel, yarn over and bring that loop back up, yarn over

and pull through both those loops Obviously you want to aim for kind of the same tension the whole way round or the whole way down we working across

So I'll see you when I've reached the end of, I've reached to my final stitch before the chain in the corner

Nearly there now, just a few more stitches to do. If you find you're running out of space toward this end you can move up your, move it up a

little bit just making sure it doesn come off the end I want this to be snug but not so it doesn move at all

I'm kind of using the palm of my hand to stop the dowel moving too much

It's not really working, I'm not going to lie. It's quite fiddly. But it looks good and that's the main thing isn't it

I've got two more to do until I reach that final chain in that corner which we're not going to work into

Here we are, the last one. There we go, just going to bring up a loop for a moment so we can have a little look at this

So as you can see, it means that you can see the top chain all the way along, nice and evenly along your dowel

and I'm going to fasten off and just run a longer strand, just a single strand

You can do a chain if you want to, I just want it to be a nice strand so that it can hang up at the end