Wrap Stitch

[Lindsay]

Hi Everyone,

I've recently downloaded the block stitch (sometimes called wrap stitch) instructions from Prudence Mapstone's website. I love her work, and I love that she offers .pdf's of her instructions for ease in printing.

I have been trying every way I can, and I just am not making it work from the written instructions. I'm a very visual learner, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Has anyone else on here mastered the block stitch yet?

Thanks,
Lindsay

[DoubleTreble]

Do you have an illustration? If not here is one
http://www.crochetcabana.com/stitches/diag-box-st.htm

[magiccrochetfan]

You can see a picture of Prudence's block stitch here http://www.eject.com.au/e-motive/prudence/patterns.htm scroll down a bit, it is the 4th picture down.

I haven't purchased that pattern, but I believe it is a traditional stitch. I have it in a stitch reference book, but I couldn't find anything about it online. You can make it by doing a dc, do a dc leaving last loop on hook, yarn over hook, take hook behind both dc's from right to left, yarn over, go behind dc's again ( do as many yarnovers/hook behind dc's as you want) then yarn over, work off all loops on hook at once. It is sort of like a sideways puff stitch.

Is that like what you are working on, Lindsay?

[sammimag]

I have this pdf and have done the stitch a bit' Let me go re-read the instructions to see if I can help you out.

[sammimag]

One thing that might be confusing when you look at the directions at first is she uses British/Australian crochet terms that are different than US crochet terms. So read the info in parentheses for US crocheters.

So for the Rows of Spaced Block Stitches you will have 2 rows of sc then you will start the stitch.

So you first ch3 for the turning chain then do a dc in the next stitch.

So now you will yarn over (just like you do when you start a dc) insert your hook between the turning chain and the dc you just made, then yarn over again and bring the hook to the front of the work.

So now you should have 3 loops on your hook.

Repeat the above 3 more time each time adding 2 more loops to you hook. So you should have 8 loops on your hook.

Then yarn over again - first insert you hook into the next single crochet, loosen up that stitch a bit, then yarn over again and pull thru all the loops on the hook. Ch1 to bring the yarn back up to the top of the stitch.

Hope this helps :)

[magiccrochetfan]

That is a really interesting stitch! the last part where you stitch into the sc and then pull yarn through replaces the 2nd dc in the stitch i was talking about. It gives a flatter more square look to the wrap.

[Lindsay]

Thank you so much for your input and help. I've been sick over the weekend, so I'll give the tips a try.

I love how helpful everyone is!!!:hook

Thanks,
Lindsay

[mi~joy]

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