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Crochet > Slip Stitch
The slip stitch is a crochet stitch with no height at all. It is
primarily used for joining rounds and stitches, edgings, and also for the body
of the fabric in a technique called Bosnian crochet.
Pattern Abbreviation: sl st |
The photos below show an example of slip stitch (in black yarn) being worked
over a row of double crochet (in orange).
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Step 1: Keeping working yarn behind work, insert
hook into the stitch indicated by the instruction. Yarn over to create a
loop on the hook (wrap yarn around hook from back to front into hook
opening).
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Step 2: Pull loop on hook through both
the stitch indicated by instruction and the loop on the hook so that only
one loop remains on the hook. Thus completes the slip stitch. |
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Pictured is a row of slip stitch (black) on a row of double
crochet. |