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- I show you how to use the mattress stitch to invisibly seam the sides of crochet fabric. The technique is similar to the traditional mattress stitch, but rather than sewing through the tops of the stitches, you work through the post of the stitches.
I cover 3 stitches: single crochet (sc), half double crochet (hdc), and double crochet (dc). This is because the stitch heights are different, therefore seaming looks different for each stitch.
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How to Mattress Stitch: • Mattress Stitch for Cr...
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Thank you for this tutorial. I've watched several videos on the mattress stitch. I believe this is the only one that actually shows where in the stitches to place the needle. The other were vague and nondescript in where to put the needle. Your explanations and visuals were spot on. Oh..some of the other videos said to place your work right sides up when doing this stitch. Thank you again.
The needle placement, or lack thereof, is something I noticed in the videos I watched on this topic as well. It was something I had to play with a lot to figure out, especially on the different types of stitches since their posts are all different sizes. Regarding the right sides, you are correct. I just forgot to say that in the video (but I flashed it briefly on the screen lol). Thanks so much for taking the time to comment. As always, love hearing your opinions. Best regards!
Your showing ppl the wrong way it's like you made this up N your rows,DO NOT LINE UP AT ALL
Thank you so much for your very helpful video on joining the SIDES of crochet work. Yours is the first one I’ve found. Very easy to follow and understand! Great job!
This tutorial is fantastic! It's tricky to stitch the sides of stitches without causing holes or weird patterns. This stitch and the tip to go through multiple loops is 10/10 perfect. Thank you for this video, and for covering multiple sized stitches! Your video was helpful for stitching slip stitch rows (I don't expect you to cover every stitch possible) to dc rows. Knowing where to best loop around the dc rows was helpful in figuring out my specific project.
Thank you for making this video :)
Love this! It can be hard to keep up with seaming tutorials but this was really easy to follow!
omg thank you so much this is so helpful i’ve been struggling finding side-seam tutorials 🥺❤️
Happy to help! This was something I struggled to find as well, so I did my best to create that resource!!
thank you so much for this i was having such a hard time finding a tutorial for joining side stitches
Bravo! Everyone shows how to mattress stitch through stitch loops but your video does an amazing job showing how to join two sides. Awesome. Thank you!🙏🏼🤩
I don’t often comment on TH-cam videos but I had to say thank you so much for this video. I don’t wanna be dramatic, but it changed my whole entire life and crochet experience lol. My pieces are going to look so much better now, truly a gorgeous stitch. Thanks again ❤
I'm honored this video changed your life lol It truly is a wonderful stitch and I use it so much. I'm glad to hear that you like it so much as well!
Notes for future me: start at 3:00 for the beginning stitch, and then 15:10 for the dc row. You work on it RIGHT SIDE UP. This is better than the whip stitch IMO for invisible stitching.
Post-script: I used this to stitch together the sides of my body pieces in my amalfi sweater. It looks pretty
I agree with you. I use mattress stitch all the time
Great job! Very clear verbal instructions. When you picked up your swathes to show exactly where to run the needle through a post was perfect! Good point to make on not splitting your yarn with your needle, I think this is the first tutorial I have heard mentioned this. People new to crochet and/or knitting may not know this. Very important. 👍
Thank you for your kind words 💛
You are such a great teacher
This is very good. I don’t like the lines to show when joining my sweater panels.
Thank you. Making Argyll sweater for my granddaughter. Sewing triangles together will be a lot easier.
Oh wow! That sounds like a really cool project! You're granddaughter is a lucky girl. Glad this video helped 💛
Thank you for such a thorough tutorial! And for showing what it’s like for different types of stitches! I have been having a time trying to join the side seams together of a bag, and now I can! :)
That is so wonderful to hear! I hope you did give this a try on your bag and that it worked.
@@SewHomey Definitely did and it turned out so much nicer! 💓
The cardigan that I'm making has the side stitches at the shoulders. I had read that the mattress stitch is the best one for carrying the weight on the shoulders of the piece, so I'm really glad that you did a tutorial of how to do the mattress stitch on the sides like that.
Very helpful! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this!! I’m seaming my first garment (a sleeve shrug thing). I’ve watched so many tutorials but yours was what gave me a lightbulb moment. 🙌🏼
That is so awesome!! I'm glad this video helped make it click!
WHAT DOESN'T ANY OF YOU SHOW US HOW TO TIE IT OFF AT THE END?
You just make a loop N put the needle through it to knot it N then weave your ends in. I wish I could show you. I will one day put some content out for those that need to be showing how to do it the right way. On all things that I need to show right,because so many other channels are shown the wrong way to a lot of people.
It's called the fast N lazy way!!!
Thank you for showing this stitch on all types of crochets! :)
You are so welcome!
Thank you soo much! I was looking for a stitch to seam a blanket up and this is brilliant! Thank you!!! 😊
Wonderful!! 💛
Thank you so much!! This is a very detailed tutorial and it's really helping me with my harry styles cardigan. Only one thing, do we work with right side up or not? Thanks again
Hi! Thanks for reaching out! That’s so exciting, what a fun project 💛
Yes, work with your pieces both facing right side up.
I appreciate this video mostly because I was having trouble seaming my double crochet rows. Now I did notice that you would, for example, go through 2 or 3 loops on the left side, but only do 1 less than that on the right side. Maybe I'm just not getting it, but what's up with that? Thank you!
Oh my god I could have used this tutorial when finishing my cardigan-- a bit too late now! But at least I know for the next!
This is wonderful. Thank you for showing methods for three different stitches
Found this very useful but difficult to see what was happening when demonstrating on the brown wool. Much easier to see demonstration on the lighter blue. Thank you.
Thank you for the useful feedback. I will keep color choice in mind! Glad you found it useful.
finaly a video that shows sewing the sides, than youu
Glad this video helped you out!
It’s something to know, but not always shown.
Best tutorial on this that I’ve seen yet!!! Thank You!!!
Such a compliment! Thanks for sharing. I'm happy that you found this helpful!
I’m a visual learner, and finally found your video. So easy to understand! Thank you!
Perfect, I'm really happy to hear that! I'm definitely a visual learner too. Glad it helped!
I'm about to make a throw blanket based on a picture i put into a pattern generator. There are 16 pages, and I was worried I'd have to go row by row through each page along the width and work my way down and across the pages all at once...now it looks like I can do each page and seam them together :) Thankyou!!!!
Ohhh that sounds really neat. How cool! What pattern generator did you use? And have you started it? I’m really interested in what it looks like! So glad the mattress stitch will be beneficial to your project. It’s magical!
@@SewHomey I used Stitchboard for the pattern generator! The picture I used is the original book cover (blue night sky, big moon, characters on their horses) for Robert Jordan's novel 'The Eye of The World', since it's my favorite book. This is gonna be a very intense and long term project, I've never done a blanket or followed a pattern like this for crochet. (Honestly this is probably better suited for cross stitch lol). Ive literally just begun the 1st page, so no seaming yet but thanks to your video i feel the seaming will turn out well when i get to it! :)
this was awesome to know.. How to join a treble in the same way?!
Extremely well done and tremendously helpful!!
I'm so glad that it helped! Thanks for the kind words. Happy crocheting!!! or seaming....
Can this method be used to seam a garment so that it can be worn inside out as well as right side out? I have a vest that would be great if I could seam it so it’s reversible! Thanks for this great tutorial.
Yes! That’s the beauty of this seaming method. It’s nearly invisible. Best if you use the same color yarn.
Wow this gave me some crochet magic! Thank you so much.
💛💛💛 so happy to hear that!
If I am using a chunky yarn and I need to join in the sides like in your video and is a stripe pattern with multiple colors, would you suggest using a thinner yarn? Or pick one of the colors of the yarn use in the project?! Thank you for the help
I would use the same yarn used in your project. This seaming technique is nearly invisible so you could choose any color. And since the yarn is bulky, you might try splitting the yarn as you seam up the sides of the stitches. This will make the seams stay together and hide the yarn better.
So very helpful. Thank you so much.
This is what I was looking for 😃
Perfect!
thank you so much for this video! It was extremely helpful for me
So great to hear!
How would you join a sleeve to a side seam? I am making my first garment and have 3 different joins situations…shoulder seams, side seams, and sleeve to side seams. Thanks!
Great question! When you seam the sleeve to the rest of the garment, you can use the same mattress stitch technique that is shown in this video. The difference will be the look of the stitches. The tops of the sleeves should have "v's" which are the tops of the crochet stitches. The side seams should look like what is shown in this video. You will join one "v" (one stitch) of the sleeve to one row of the sides.
What I would recommend is for you to use stitch markers and attach the armpit of the sleeve to the armpit of the garment. Then add a stitch marker to the top of the sleeve to the shoulder of the garment. Then add a few more on the sides. This helps hold the sleeve and garment together, while guiding you where to seam. Then you can use the mattress stitch, starting from the armpit. Go from a "v" of the sleeve through the middle of a row on the garment. Match up the stitches to the rows as you go. Sometimes you have to play with the placement of the needle, it's not always exact.
It's hard for me to express the answer in words. I hope that makes sense?? Let me know if it doesn't and I'll think of a better way to explain or I can figure out how to show you..
@@SewHomey The top of the sleeve ends with a row of double crochets. The front and back alternate between a row of single crochets and a row of double crochets, so a chain 1 and a chain 3 alternate on the sides. Would I sew multiple stitches of the sleeve into the chain 3s?
@@cheriberi934 It's possible? Maybe it would be easiest to count the sleeve stitches and the row stitches (sides). You could then determine the placement of your seam. It might end up that you need to sew a couple sleeve stitches into the ch3. But you might have to play with it and see how you like the results.
I am seaming the sides of a dress including the sleeves, so would the right sides apply with this method?
I always try to keep right sides together for consistency, however, it's not a must.
Thank you so much, it's really help me 🥰👍🏻
So great to hear!
super helpful. thank you for this! 🤍
So glad!
Should I do thi inside out? Or this works with the project on its original place?
This technique works from either side!
@@SewHomey thank you ♥️♥️
Thank you so much for this! So helpful! I am working on a back loop only single crochet tapestry blanket. Would I do it any different with single crochet back loops? Thank you!
You’re so welcome!! I think the only thing I’d look out for is where the back loops line up when you’re seaming. But it would be the same technique shared here. 💛
Which method would you suggest for the seams along the sleeves, your first video or this one?
I would recommend this one for sleeves because when you fold the sleeve in half to seam, you will be working along the edges, just as I was in this video. You can line the rows up easily and as long as they stay aligned, you won't have to worry about your sleeve coming out uneven. And when you need to sew the sleeves to the body, it will be more of a hybrid between the two videos. You will have the tops of the stitches on the sleeve side and the edges of the stitches on the body side. But use the same techniques. You'll be taking your needle through the side of the stitch when you're on the body and through the center of the stitch when you're on the sleeve. I really hope that makes sense!
I’m just wondering what do you do with the end? Do you cut it?
When you are done, you want to weave in the ends and then cut the yarn. Weaving the yarn through the stitches will keep it from unraveling. This video explains weaving ends: th-cam.com/video/IArPZig-Tl8/w-d-xo.html
This was so helpful thank you! Could you do a tutorial on the mattress stitch connecting bottom to top, like how to sew from the bottom stitches on one square to the top of another? Not two tops together, If that makes sense? Thank you !
Thank you, thank you. I have been looking for this video.
I’m so glad that it helped you!
Thanks for 5is tutorial as most will only show seaming of the V’s or top and/or bottom of the garment. Question.. on the SC there were times you picked up one loop and most times you picked up two loops. Is there a reason why? Thanks. Maybe it will be clearer once I try it.. thanks again…
I was just trying to carry it up the stitch, other than that there wasn't really any reason I chose one or two loops. This is something you can play around with to see which you like better.
What do you mean by post? Are you talking about the loops?
Thanks for the tutorial!
I was wondering if you would normally change the yarn colors for every color change; example change to the blue from the brown when you reach the blue, then back to brown when back to brown on the swatch....make sense?
Yes that makes sense! Typically I do not change the colors when seaming. I like less ends to weave in and I think it’s more stable to keep it one continuous strand of yarn. This method is almost invisible, so I don’t find that the different colors show through. This is something I would play with though. See what you like. Because the yarn you use could play a role too. Hope that helps!
@@SewHomey yes, thank you for your reply!
Right side or wrong side up?
I like to seam with right sides up!
Hi, thank you for this tutorial! I’ve been struggling seaming the sides, I just did it freestyle🤣 Your video is so clear and easy to follow. Thank you!
Anyway I have a question, does this also work if I want to seam the pieces with single crochet?
THANK YOU SO MUCH. The only issue is that i choosed BLACK AF yarn to make my squares for my VERY FIRST project. I mean i couldnt even tell where the stitches are before and now I CANT EVEN SEE THEM. I just stitched them together like freestyle but this video guided me perfectly thank you so much
Ohhh I feel you. Black yarn is super hard to see, especially for your first project. But good for after it's stitched together since you won't be able to see it... I'm glad you could use this as a guide!
Thanks for the video. I have 2 long strips of crochet to join but the pattern is lacy so not a solid piece of work as in this..some of the ends will be just the turning chains...I don't know if that would work and be as invisible......
💛 I think it would still work. But when you are working the chain stitches, I would work them like the mattress stitch. If worked that way, I think it would be more invisible. Maybe try it on a small section first and see if you like it? Hope this helps!
Very nice tutorial! Just used it to seam a project together. :)
Wonderful! Happy to hear that!
So helpful but what do you do to the yarn after pulling together? Can you just cut off the access or weave it in?
Hi thanks for reaching out! Yes, I would suggest that you weave in the end after you seam everything together.
Do you just weave in the end? Is there a best way to lock it if not?
I loved.. thank you so much for the great effort❤❤🌹
Glad you enjoyed it!
how do i tie off the ends?
To tie off the ends, you cut the yarn and leave about 6-8 inches. Then you pull the yarn end through the loop by your last stitch. That secures the work from coming undone. Finally, you can weave in the yarn tail you left at the beginning.
Thank you!
I was trying this but struggling to find the best place to do the insert into the chain 3 of the double crochet end of row. Suggestions?
Merci
Can you show mattress seaming a open stitch?
Bad choice go pick black for a demo.
No...