{"id":11941,"date":"2020-10-11T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/11\/how-to-crochet-a-star-stitch-pattern-back-and-forth\/"},"modified":"2020-10-11T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T10:00:59","slug":"how-to-crochet-a-star-stitch-pattern-back-and-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/11\/how-to-crochet-a-star-stitch-pattern-back-and-forth\/","title":{"rendered":"How to crochet a star stitch pattern back and forth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52708638?color=00adef\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>In this DROPS video we show how to crochet a star stitch pattern back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>You start by crocheting an uneven number of chain sts.<br \/>\nYou need a minimum of 7 ch for 1 star, 9 ch makes 2 stars, 11 ch makes 3 stars and so on. On our sample we ch 13 for 4 stars.<br \/>\nRow 1 (RS): pick up 5 sts starting in 2nd ch from hook = 6 sts on hook, make a yo and pull through all 6 sts, ch 1 which creates a hole on top of the 6 sts, *pick up 1 st in the hole, 1 st in the side of the last st of 6 sts, 1 st in the same ch as the last st of 6 sts was picked up in, 1 st in each of next 2 chain = 6 sts on hook, make a yo and pull through all 6 sts, ch 1*, repeat *-*. Make 1 htr in last ch.<br \/>\nRow 2 (WS): ch 2, work 2 htr in &#8220;each star hole&#8221;, end row with 1 htr in last st.<br \/>\nRow 3: ch 3, pick up 1 st in 2nd and 3rd chain from hook, 1 st in first 3 sts on row = 6 sts on hook, make a yo and pull through all 6 sts, ch 1, *pick up 1 st in the hole, 1 st in the side of the last st of 6 sts, 1 st in the same st as the last st of 6 sts was picked up in, 1 st in each of next 2 sts = 6 sts on hook, make a yo and pull through all 6 sts, ch 1*, repeat *-*. Make 1 htr in last ch.<br \/>\nRepeat row 2 and 3 for star pattern.<\/p>\n<p>This video has NO SOUND &#8211; you must read the pattern to be able to follow this video properly. You&#8217;ll find a pattern using this technique by clicking here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnstudio.com\/pattern.php?id=6192&#038;cid=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.garnstudio.com\/pattern.php?id=6192&#038;cid=19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garnstudio.com\/video.php?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.garnstudio.com\/video.php?lang=en<\/a><br \/>\nFind thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this DROPS video we show how to crochet a star stitch pattern back and forth. You start by crocheting an uneven number of chain sts. You need a minimum of 7 ch for 1 star, 9 ch makes 2 stars, 11 ch makes 3 stars and so on. On our sample we ch 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}