hello and welcome back to be hopes crochet calm I'm your host Brittany and in this tutorial I'm going to demonstrate how to crochet the woven stitch the woven stitch is a really unique crocheted stitch that can add really great texture to any of your projects you can work this stitch in a flat piece and you can also work it in the round and when doing so you're going to get two different looks because in one option you're flipping your work and the other option you're working continuously around for this demonstration I'm going to be using a bulky weight yarn and a size six and a half millimeter hook however you can use any hook and any yarn that coordinates to begin the woven stitch we just want to make a slipknot and the woven stitch needs to be worked in any even multiple so we want to make sure that our bottom line is a multiple of two or an even number and so for the purpose of this demonstration I'm going to make a total of 20 chains the woven stitch is simply a single row repeat and it's really simple when you're working in a flat piece you're gonna skip the first chain from the hook and we're going to count that as a single crochet and that's going to serve as an edging for our work so since we have that to be a single crochet stitch we want to skip one stitch because that's how this pattern works and we're going to go into the third chain from the hook to do our first woven stitch the woven stitch is a total of two different stitches so to begin we want to yarn over insert our hook into that chain yarn over and pull up a loop now we want to make this loop we want to pull it through this loop here and so I typically take my middle finger back here from behind and push that strand forward because it makes it easier to work then to finish off this part of the stitch we just want to yarn over and pull through two now we have one more stitch to complete a woven stitch and to begin that one we want to yarn over again insert our hook into the same chain yarn over and pull up a loop and this time we want to pull this loop through both of the remaining loops on the hook and that completes one woven stitch so since technically we put two stitches into one in order to maintain our stitch count we need to skip a chain so we're going to skip one chain which you can see right here and we're going to work our woven stitch into the next chain and we'll just repeat that until we've reached the end of our chain so we'll skip another chain and we'll work our woven stitch into the next you so when you've made a few woven stitches on this first row it's not going to look like much the pattern really starts to emerge as we add more and more rows so when you've made your last woven stitch we should end up with one remaining chain and in that chain we just want to create a single crochet that's so we matched the other side and we have an edging so it'll have a neater finish that finishes up Row one of the woven stitch Row two of the woven stitch is exactly the same as a row one but we'll go through it in this demonstration so you understand where to work your stitches after we've already created this first row so we want to chain one and turn our work and that chain one is going to count as a single crochet we're going to work this in the same way we're going to skip a stitch into a woven stitch into the next and skip a stitch into a woven stitch but if you look at it from the side there's there's kind of a visual cue for you to know where to put your stitches and you just want to look for these big gaps right there that's the stitch where we're going to be working our woven stitch into and once you've reached the end of the row you're just gonna make a single crochet in the last stitch now this one's a little bit easier to see by turning it this direction we're gonna skip this stitch right here and this one is our last stitch we just want to make a single crochet right there one of the great things about the woven stitch is it's reversible so you can see that the texture looks the same on this side as it does on this side so I mentioned early on in this video that you could also work the woven stitch and around and what I've brought here is to demonstrate to you how exactly you can go about doing that because it's a little bit different than working it in the flat however the stitches are going to be exactly the same but you have a couple of options so what I have here is a hat that I'm working on and you can find this pattern later on this month of January of 2016 epi hooked crochet calm this is a woven stitch hat and I'm working it a little bit differently than I normally would work a hat in the round and I'm doing so because the woven stitch when you're working in the round it has a different texture on the front than it does on the back so what I mean by that is as I'm working it I'm working in this direction so the inside of the Hat is facing me and that's typically backwards of how I would normally work on a hat and normally I would be working in this direction and going around this way but since for this pattern I I like the look of the back of the stitches a little bit better than I do the front of the stitches and this is completely up to you obviously there's really no right or wrong way but I wanted to show you the difference in the texture so that you can make that decision if you're gonna start a project on your own it's probably a little bit difficult to see in the video they're very similar but on here it has a more bumpy appearance so you're gonna have a more bumpy appearance on the front part of the stitches and the back of the stitches you're gonna see that nice like cool line that that goes here and and honestly that's what I like about the texture for this pattern so the way this works is as I'm working around just so you can see where it's going so if you rotate it as you're working that's how you get to see that this is the back part of the stitches so I'll go through the motions a couple more times just to kind of show you how to work the woven stitch in the round as I mentioned it's going to be exactly the same we're always going to skip a stitch and work into the next and and here the holes are a little bit more defined so honestly I don't even look at the top of the stitches to find the next place where I need to work I just go ahead and find that next gap and work my woven stitch into there another thing I will mention is when you're working the woven stitch in the round I recommend that you don't actually join at the end of each round so normally we would join with a slip stitch and then chain up a certain number and keep going but in order for you to get this sort of like offset appear and see how the how the circles those gaps that we're working into are kind of at an angle that's because we're working this in a spiral and so that's also part of this pattern you can change things up a little bit by joining and then you're going to have these gaps a little bit more on top of each other so it's something you can think about if you're going to design your own pattern around this stitch this includes our demonstration today on the woven stitch on behalf of be hooked crochet calm I'm your host Britney please stay tuned for more free patterns and video tutorials at be hooked crochet calm