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Crocheted and Knitted Bobbles

Whelher they are worked in lots of colors or tonę on tonę, you can achieve a unique effect with crocheted or knitted bobbles on stockinette stitch or even on individual pattems.

Crocheted Bobbles

You can crochet bobbles sepurate-lv and knot rhem in, or you can crochet rhem omo the stilches where you want them as you are knuting. The advantagc of crochering them separately is that you can knot the bobbles iwo the piece Inter at whercvcr you want them. Oti the chikl's blue swcater. for example,

lots of color-iul bobbles madę from scraps of yam are irregulnrły distrilnited over the entire swcater. For smali bobbles, 2 to > double crochets are eftough. For large bobbles, \\>u can crochet 4 to 6 double crochets. Of coursc the thtekness ot the yarn you are using is importnnr roo. In the cxiimplcs shown helów, each bobble is madę ifom 4 double crochets.

1 Chain 3 and work 4 double crochets into the first of these chains, leaving the last loop of the double crochet on the hook each time.

2Then draw the yarn ihrough all the loops on the hook, Chain 1. and puli the yarn through this stitch.

3 Puli the end of yarn at the be-ginning and at the end of the bobbte through the piece separately, and knot them together well on the back of the work, or sew them in.

Instead of the first double crochet, work 3 Chain stitches. Place the yarn around the hook from back to front, bring it through the Chain stitch, and puli it through the stitch and yam over.

Ilf you crochet bobbles directly into the piece, bring the bobble yarn through the dosired stitch and continue to work as for a bobble crocheted separately.

2 At the end, go through all the loops on the hook with the yarn of the bockground color, and put this stitch on the right needle. Then knit to the next bobble.

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