The mayberry stitch

Photo instructions for the mayberry crochet stitch

Row 1

1. Start by chaining an even number of chains.

2. Make a single crochet in the second chain from your hook.

3. Then keep making single crochets in every stitch until the end of the row.

4. Chain one.

Row 2

5. Turn your work around. Now you will make a half double crochet in the very first stitch.

6. So, yarn over.

7. Insert your hook in the very first stitch.

8. Yarn over.

9. Pull the yarn through. Now you have three loops on your hook.

10. Yarn over.

11. Pull the yarn through all three loops. You have just made a half double crochet. Now you will skip one stitch and work in the next one.

12. So, skip one stitch and make a half double crochet.

13. Then make the second half double crochet in the same stitch.

14. Repeat until the end of the row: skip one stitch, make two half double crochets in the same stitch.

15. At the end of the row chain one.

Row 3

16. Turn your work around and make a single crochet in the very first stitch (chain one does not count as a stitch).

17. Then make a single crochet in the next stitch.

18. Now you will make a bubble stitch in the next stitch. So, insert your hook in the next stitch.

19. Yarn over.

20. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook.

21. Yarn over.

22. Insert your hook in the same stitch.

23. Yarn over and pull the yarn through. Now you have four loops on your hook.

24. Yarn over again.

25. Then pull the yarn through all four loops. You have just made a bubble stitch.

26. Make a single crochet in the next stitch.

27. Repeat until the end of the row: make a bubble stitch, then make a single crochet in the next stitch.

28. Make two single crochets in the last two stitches.

29. For the rest of the pattern repeat rows 2 and 3.

Finished mayberry crochet stitch

30. Done!

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