Week Two Square Seven: Chevron Stitch
Stitches you need to know
YO yarn over - bring your yarn over your hook from the back over the top to the front
CH chain - pull your yarn over through the loop on your hook.
DC double crochet (US sc - single crochet) - insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through both loops on your hook.
HTR half-treble crochet (US hdc half-double crochet) - yarn over, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through 2 loops on your hook twice.
TR treble crochet (US dc - double crochet) - yarn over, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through 2 loops on your hook twice.
DTR double-treble crochet (US tr - triple crochet) yarn over twice, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through 2 loops on your hook three times.
CH-SP chain space - the space formed by a chain.
TR2TOG treble crochet 2 together (US dc2tog - double crochet) yarn over, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through 2, insert your hook into the next st, yarn over, pull up a loop. Yarn over, pull through 2, twice.
SK skip
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Tension
16sts and 8rows per 10x10xm square
The Pattern
Using your MC, ch 26.
ROW 1: dc in 2nd ch from hook, htr, tr, (dtr, ch 2, dtr), tr, htr, dc, *dc, htr, tr, (dtr, ch 2, dtr), tr, htr, dc, rep from * twice.
ROW 2-12: ch 3 (does not count as st), tr2tog, 2 tr, (tr, ch 2, tr) into ch-sp, 2 tr, skip 2, 3 tr, (tr, ch 2, tr) into ch-sp, 3 tr, sk 2, 3 tr, (tr, ch 2, tr) into ch-sp, 2 tr, tr2tog.
ROW 13: ch 4 (does not count as st), dtr2tog, tr, htr, *(2 dc) into ch-sp, htr, tr, dtr, skip 2, dtr, tr, htr, Repeat from * twice. (2 dc) in ch-sp, htr, tr, dtr2tog.
Fasten off and weave in your end.
Attach to any st in your last row, dc in each st to corner (dc ch, dc) into corner st, roughly place 25-27 sts down the edge. Make sure to crochet over carried yarns.
Finish with an invisible finish.