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okay so I'm going to be using a five millimeter crochet hook I'm using this
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Stylecraft Savannah Aran weight yarn it's 100% cotton I'm going to use this
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color today it comes in quite a few different colors and you'll need a pair
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of scissors as well okay to start off you're going to need to chain a multiple
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of two plus one extra stitch for your swatch so if you're making a dish cloth
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and you want to make one about this size this is roughly nine inches square you want to chain 41 that's what I chained for for mine I'm just going to make a
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small swatch here today just to show you how to do the stitch so we want a
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multiple of two so we're going to count one two one two one two one two one two
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and then we're gonna have one extra stitch for our starting chain okay so
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the first thing we're going to do is put a single crochet into the third chain
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from a hook so a single crochet in here then chain one we're going to skip the next stitch and put a single crochet in
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the following stitch and then another chain one and we're going to repeat that across so we're
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going to skip a stitch single crochet in the next chain one skip stitch single
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crochet in the next chain one skip a stitch and a single crochet in that
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final stitch okay so we're now going to chain two and turn
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now we're going to be working into the spaces that we've made where we did those chains so if you can see here we've got a single crochet then here was
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a chain so you've got a little space there single crochet and then a space
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where the chain is so we're going to put single crochets into each of those spaces so a single crochet and a chain one single crochet chain one single
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crochet chain one and keep doing that until you get to the end and you're
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going to put a single crochet in that last chain space like so and then we'll change to change chain two and turn and we're just going
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to repeat that now it's a very simple repeat so single crochet in that chain
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space chain one another single crochet chain one and you're going to repeat
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this until your project is as big as you want it to be now I'm going to show you
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how to change color just in case you want to know how to do that so we've
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chain one and so we're going to have a last single crochet in that last chain space so to change color work the first part of your single crochet stitch
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instead of yarning over and pulling through you're actually going to pull
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through with the new color that you want to work with and find the end so you
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just finish the stitch off by pulling that new color through and then you will
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chain two as normal turn and continue working across okay so I've worked two
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two rows in the new color now if you're just using two colors and you wanted to
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alternate you would not fasten off this old color because you can just carry
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that yarn up the side and then join in with a new color so let me just pull
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this stitch back again and we'll change color again at the end of this row so we
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just drop down let go of the old color pick up this one finish the stitch off
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with that and then chain two just kind of like pull that stitch a little bit
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you can see there is a float here once we add a border onto this you won't see
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this so then you can continue with your next color and you can keep doing that
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if you're having lots of different colors then you would need to fasten off and join in new colors each time otherwise your edges would get very busy
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and a bit thick okay so I've made this little swatch here now to add a border
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on to our linen stitch project the linen stitch actually takes up less width a
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row takes up less width than a normal single crochet because the stitches are kind of interlinked so if you were to put a single crochet in each row along
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the edge you would probably have way too many stitches so we're going to just do
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a simple a linen stitch border so I'm going to chain one I'm going to put a
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single crochet chain one and a single crochet into that corner then chain one
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and look for that next space a single crochet in there chain one single
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crochet in the next space I'm going to do this across to the next corner
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and in the corner again single crochet chain one single crochet now we're going
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to work along the side so we'll chain one and we're going to skip a row and
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then put a single crochet in the next row chain one skip a row single crochet
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in the next one chain one and we continue across our project skipping a
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row and putting a single crochet in the edge of the next row
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oh I didn't skip on there there we go so this is what you'll do around your
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project continue to the next corner then you'll work into the bottom loops of
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your starting chain here and same in each corner is a single crochet chain
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one and a single crochet and you will end up with something like this a pretty
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washcloth so I like to add these paper belly bands to my cloth ready for
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gifting I will leave a link in the description box from where you can get
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these from they're also really easy to make yourself you can make them in a
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Word document or Canva if you would like to make a baby blanket with this stitch you can check out my free pattern which is also linked in the description what
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will you make with this stitch let me know in the comments below take care now
