How to crochet an invisible fasten off for open edges

in this video i’m going to show you how to do the invisible fasten off which is a technique that you would most likely use when you are finishing an open piece like this one so an open piece means that it’s a piece that’s purposely going to have a hole in the middle so that you know say you’re going to put stuffing inside of it you still could access the inside of the piece and if you’re making amigurumi or crochet stuffed toys what it likely means is that this is some part of your piece that’s going to get sewn onto another piece for example something like an ear or an arm or a leg and the reason why you do an invisible fasten off is that if you were to do a regular fasten off at this point you would have a knot over here and then you would have a taller part of your piece over here that suddenly becomes a shorter part which makes it quite obvious where you began and ended your piece so with this method it’s going to look like one seamless flat nice piece so to begin with let us pretend that we have just finished our last stitch of this open piece and instead of fastening off as we normally would we’re going to cut the working yarn to make a yarn tail that i would say should be at least three times the circumference of whatever it is of whatever this open piece is um usually i would say at least six inches long and you’re probably pretty safe and then you’re just gonna pull the yarn tail all the way through put your hook aside won’t need that anymore grab your tapestry needle and thread it with the yarn now we are going to analyze our piece so here is where the last stitch was made you can see that it’s grabbed through this stitch we’re going to put the tapestry needle not in the following stitch but in the one after that from the outside in and then we’re gonna pull the yarn through not all the way so i still have you know quite a nice amount of yarn here and the reason why is because we are going to now analyze where the yarn tail came from so let’s spin this around again and you want to see you want to look at the stitch that this yarn tail is coming out of now we are going to put the tapestry needle through only the top loop so the top loop if you imagine that every stitch looks like a v the top loop is the top of that v which is this one so you’re going to put the tapestry needle under the top loop from the bottom to the top and then you’re just gonna pull all the way until you get what voila looks just like a v like every other v in this round this is the v that you just made so i’m going to take my needle out so that you can see how nice and even it looks you can barely tell where you ended your piece and from here if you’re gonna crochet this onto another piece you would take this yarn tail and use it to sew this piece onto another and if you were not going to do that and like say you’re ending a hat or basket you would actually weave in the yarn tail on the inside probably of your piece that it’s not as visible and that is the invisible fasten off