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Step by step crochet: Bobbles illustrations
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By Freddie Patmore
7 years ago
Much the same as cluster stitches and decreases, crochet bobbles are simply made up of a few partly-worked stitches.
To achieve their spherical look, all of these partly-worked stitches will need to be worked into the same stitch before being joined up at the top at the end.
Use a different shade when adding a crochet bobble to a double crochet (a dc in the UK) base background for a fun contrasting colour effect. It'll give your make a clever three dimensional texture too.
This technique is used in our Spotty Basket Crochet Pattern above, while working in the round.
How to make a crochet bobble
1. Without completing the last wrap, work five trebles into one stitch, creating six loops on the hook.
2. Yarn round hook and pull it through all six loops on the hook. 
This completes your bobble.
Bobbles can be worked in between an all-over pattern or dotted around in specific places. While they add bulk to the surface of a fabric, they can be tricky to shape - but not impossible.
Use our Heart Shaped Textured Cushion Crochet Pattern to experiment with chunky bobbles and a large hook.
These bigger bobbles look particularly pronounced as they use a large number of partially worked trebles, on a smaller-than-recommended hook.
This helps the bobbles stand firm and prevents them losing their shape as they are made from a dense fabric.
To incorporate a contrast bobble into a background colour, make your bobble in the desired colour before carrying the yarn along the rest of the row, enclosing it in double crochet stitches.
Randomly placed treble bobbles like these look much better when used over a dc fabric as this will 'squash' the top and bottom of the bobble together, making the stitch puff out even more.
If used in among stitches of equal size, such as the treble background used in the above image, bobbles will still appear three dimensionally but may get lost in the fabric when admired from a distance.
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