Crochet Bobbles in Knitting

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. And if you're anything like me, you like the look of baubles. But you hate knitting them? Oh, my goodness. That knitting back and forth on three or five stitches or whatever. Just to get that little texture. I don't love it. I do love putting them in with a crochet hook and I'm gonna show you how. So I'm knitting up to the stitch where I wanna have my bauble and I'm getting a crochet hook. The gauge doesn't matter a whole lot. I want something that is, uh, appropriate for the yarn. I don't wanna be struggling. So this is a 6.5 millimeter or a US K hook on a chunky yarn. So, my working yarn is over here on my right needle. I'm going to put my hook into the next stitch on the left needle because I wanna make sure it doesn't drop. But now I can pop it off because the hook is holding it in place and I'm gonna slide those stitches back so I don't lose them. Now, there are a million different ways to do Baubles. Here's one that I would like to show you. So we're gonna yarn over and bring the work through the knit stitch. So now everything's all nice and secure. We're gonna chain three. So we're bringing the yarn over from back to front and bringing it through. That's one, two, three. And now I'm going to do a double crochet two together in the same spot. So to do that, I'm gonna yarn over, insert my hook in that same knit stitch yarn over and draw up a loop. You're an over draw through too. Now, I have two loops on my hook and I'm gonna leave them there. Could he yarn over, insert my hook in that same stitch yarn over and draw up a loop yarn over and draw through two. Now, I have three loops on my hook, 123, gonna yarn over and draw through all three loops on my hook. I'm gonna take that working loop and put it back on my left hand needle with the right leg facing forward and my arm's already right there. I'm going to knit it. So there is my little crochet bauble and look at that. I got all kinds of texture going on. Now, you can make these bigger by, instead of double crocheting two together, you can double crochet four together or three together if that's what you want. But let me show you one more time. Grab my crochet hook, insert it into the first stitch on the left hand needle, pop it off and pull that needle up. So nobody makes a run for it. I'm going to take my working yarn, which is on my right hand needle because that's the last stitch that I knit. And I'm going to bring it through the knit stitch. Now, I'm going to chain 31, two, three and double crochet two together. Here's the first half, there's the second half and then at the end you're an overdraw through all three pop that stitch back onto the left hand needle with the right leg, facing forward, knit the stitch, the working yarn's already right there and then keep knitting the rest of the row. When I'm making my return row, it's gonna close up. There's a little gap here before the Bobble stitch. Every time there is a Bobble stitch. So when I make my return row, I'm just knitting all the way across and that's gonna close up any gaps that may have happened. Let's see if I can show you one. So right here, that's the top of the bauble. That's a pretty big gap. But when I just finished the row that's gonna close itself up and there we have it, the world's fastest bauble on a knitting project using a crochet hook.