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Slip stitch
Appearance in pattern - sl st
Instructions and Illustrations
This is the shortest of all crochet stitches and is really more a technique than a stitch. Slip stitches are usually used to move yarn across a group of stitches without adding height, or they may be used to join work.
Moving Yarn Across Stitches
Chain 10.
Working Row 1
Double crochet in the fourth chain from hook and in each chain across. Turn work. On the next row, you are going to slip stitch across the first four stitches before beginning to work double crochet again.
Working Row 2
Instead of making three chains for the turning chain as you would usually do for a second row of double crochet, this time just chain one. The turning chain-one does not count as a stitch; therefore, insert hook under both loops of first stitch, hook yarn and draw it through both loops of stitch and loop on the hook: one slip stitch made. |
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| Work a slip stitch in the same manner in each of the next three stitches. Finish the row in double crochet; chain three to get yarn at the right height (the chain three counts as a double crochet), then work a double crochet in each of the remaining stitches. Look at your work and see how you moved the thread across with slip stitches, adding very little height. |
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Fasten off.
Here is the way the instructions might be written in a pattern.
Row 2: Sl st in next 4 dc; ch 3, dc in each rem dc. (5 dc)
Fasten off.
Hint: When slip stitching across stitches, always work very loosely.
Joining Stitches
Joining a chain into a circle.
Chain six, then insert hook through the first chain you made next to the slip knot.
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Hook yarn and draw it through the chain and through the loop on hook; you have now joined the six chains into a circle or a ring. This is the way many motifs, such as granny squares, are started.
Joining the end of a round to the beginning of the same round.
Chain six; join with a slip stitch in first chain you made to form a ring. Chain three; work 11 double crochet in the ring; insert hook in third chain of beginning chain three; hook yarn and draw it through the chain and through the loop on the hook; you have now joined the round.
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Here is the way the instructions might be written in a pattern:
Rnd 1: Ch 3, 11 dc in ring; join in 3rd ch of beg ch-3.
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