Double Crochet Cross Stitch

Hi there. I'm Mary Beth Temple. And I want to show you how to make the double crochet cross stitch. It's just as easy as it sounds and it gives a lot of nice texture. So all we're going to do is skip the next double crochet and double crochet in the next stitch.

So you can see that makes my stitch slightly on an angle now to work in the skipped stitch. I'm gonna yarn over, but I'm folding my work just a little bit. I want to keep the second stitch in front of the first one. I do not want to enclose the first stitch. So I have my yarn over.

I'm inserting my hook in the skipped stitch and I've pushed the other stitch to the back to make sure I don't get it tangled up. And then I will finish my double crochet by going yarn over, draw through two and yarn over, draw through two. Let's see that again. Skip the next stitch, double crochet in the next stitch and then I want to double crochet in the skipped stitch, but I do not want to enclose this stitch. So I'm gonna fold my work.

So that stitch is behind me yarn over, insert my hook in the skipped stitch, keeping everything in front of that other stitch my working yarn and my hook. You're an over and drop a loop. You're an over. Draw through two, twice, one, two. Let's try that one more time.

Double crochet. Skip a stitch, double crochet in the next stitch yarn over double crochet in the skipped stitch. Keeping everything in front of the stitch you just made and make a regular double crochet. And that is the double crochet crossed stitch. Now let me go on to the next row and show you how it looks when you're doing the same stitch in multiple rows.

So here I am on my second row and uh in this instance, I'm gonna keep my double crochet crosses in columns. You can also stagger them by adding or subtracting plain double crochet stitches at the beginning of your row. But if I want them to stack up like this, I'm just gonna do it again. I'm going to skip the next stitch double crochet in the next stitch yarn over and work in front of the stitch that I skipped. Let's put one more in and see how it looks.

Skip the next stitch, double crochet yarn over and double crochet in the skipped stitch, keeping everything in front of the stitch you just made and here we have it. They, they look the same, you have the cross going from top left to bottom, right. And like I said, you could also, oh, what the heck, let's do a staggered one just in the interest of learning about the stitch. So instead of making a cross on the same two stitches, I'm offsetting them by one. And I did that by adding just a plain double crochet.

So I'm going to skip a stitch and double crochet and then double crochet in the skipped stitch, keeping everything in front. And let's try that one more time. Just so we have something interesting to look at. There's one leg, there's two legs. And then if you see right here, these guys are staggered.

So this will give you columns when they all sort of march in a vertical row, one on top of the other. And if you stagger them, this gives you more of an all over texture. Now you don't want to do this stitch super tightly because again, that makes the work look naughty as opposed to interesting. But there are two ways to do the double cro cross stitch and I'm Mary Beth Temple. Thanks for joining me.