In this step-by-step crochet tutorial I show how to make the cluster and bar crochet stitch. For this stitch you should know how to make a single crochet and a double crochet. The cluster and bar crochet stitch is a repeat of two rows. The fabric turns out lacy and light!
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Photo instructions for the cluster and bar crochet stitch
Row 1
1. Start by chaining multiples of six. You will start working in the eighth stitch from your hook.
2. You will make a double crochet three together (a cluster). So, yarn over.
3. Insert your hook in the eighth stitch from your hook.
4. Yarn over.
5. Pull the yarn through. Now you have three loops on your hook.
6. Yarn over.
7. Pull the yarn through the first two loops on your hook. Now you have two loops on your hook.
8. Yarn over.
9. Insert your hook in the next stitch and yarn over.
10. Pull the yarn through. Now you have four loops on your hook.
11. Yarn over.
12. Pull the yarn through the first two loops on your hook. Now you have three loops on your hook.
13. Yarn over.
14. Insert your hook in the next stitch and yarn over.
15. Pull the yarn through. Now you have five loops on your hook.
16. Yarn over.
17. Pull the yarn through the first two loops on your hook. Now you have four loops on your hook.
18. Yarn over.
19. Pull the yarn through all four loops on your hook. You have just made a double crochet three together!
20. Then chain two.
21. Skip one stitch and make a double crochet in the next one.
22. Chain two. Next you will skip one stitch and make a double crochet three together working in the next three stitches.
23. So, skip one stitch and make a double crochet three together.
24. Then chain two.
25. Skip one stitch and make a double crochet.
26. Continue working in the same way until the end of the row: chain two, skip one stitch, make a double crochet three together, chain two, skip one stitch and make a double crochet. The row should end with a double crochet.
27. At the end of the row chain one.
Row 2
28. Turn your work around. Chain one does not count as a stitch, so you will start working in the very first stitch.
29. Make a single crochet in the very first stitch.
30. Chain two.
31. Skip chain two space and make a single crochet in the double crochet three together.
32. Chain two.
33. Skip chain two space and make a single crochet in the double crochet.
34. Continue working in the same way until the end of the row: chain two, skip chain two space of the previous row and make a single crochet in the next stitch.
35. At the end of the row chain two, skip two chains of the turning chain and make make a single crochet in the next chain.
36. Then chain five.
Row 3
37. Turn your work around. Next you will make a double crochet three together working in the chain two space, the single crochet and the second chain two space in the previous row.
38. So, make the first leg of the double crochet three together in the first chain two space.
39. Then make the second leg in the single crochet.
40. Make the third leg in the chain two space of the previous row.
41. Yarn over and pull the yarn through all loops on your hook.
42. Chain two. Next you will make a front post double crochet working around the post of the double crochet that is two rows below.
43. So, yarn over.
44. Insert your hook bringing the post of the double crochet two rows below forward.
45. Yarn over.
46. Pull the yarn through. Now you have three loops on your hook.
47. Yarn over.
48. Pull the yarn through the first two loops on your hook. Now you have two loops on your hook.
49. Yarn over.
50. Pull the yarn through both loops on your hook.
51. Then chain two.
52. Make a double crochet three together working in the chain two space, the single crochet and the second chain two space of the previous row.
53. Chain two.
54. Then make a front post double crochet working in the double crochet two rows below.
55. Continue working in the same way until the end of the row. At the end of the row when you make the last double crochet three together, chain two.
56. Make a double crochet in the last stitch of the row. For the rest of the pattern repeat rows 2 and 3.
Finished cluster and bar crochet stitch
57. Done!
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