The Little Arches crochet stitch is a beautiful stitch. It has slight lace like qualities and I think it would be a beautiful baby blanket stitch. Consisting of double crochet and chains, this stitch is really easy to work up and is a simple one row repeat.
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Materials and Tools
Feel free to play around with yarn weights and hook sizes for this stitch pattern, but I have used:
Yarn: I used Scheepjes SoftFun in Rose
Hook: I have used a 4.5mm
Pattern Notes
Written in UK terms but switchable to US terms below.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Stitch Multiple: 4 +4
This pattern gives you the basic principles for the little arches stitch, designed to help you create your own projects.
Video tutorial can be found at the base of the post.
Terms & Abbreviations
Chain(s): Ch(s): Yarn over, pull through loop on the hook.
Slip Stitch(s): ss(s): Insert hook, yarn over, pull through stitch and loop on hook.
Double Crochet(s): dc(s): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, you will have two loops on the hook. Yarn over, pull through remaining two loops.
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Little Arches Stitch Pattern
Foundation: Chain in multiples of 4 + 4.
Row 1: dc in fourth ch from hook (skipped 3-ch counts as 3-ch sp), *3 ch, dc in next ch, 3 ch, skip 2 ch, dc in next ch; repeat from * across. Turn.
Row 2: 3 ch, skip first dc, *[dc, 3 ch, dc] in 3-ch sp, 3 ch, skip [dc, 3-ch sp, dc]; repeat from * across, dc in beginning 3-ch sp. Turn.
Repeat Row 2 until desired height.
Final row: 1 ch, dc in first st, *1 ch, dc in next 3-ch sp; repeat from * across until one 3-ch sp rem, 1 ch, dc in 3-ch sp.
Fasten off and sew in ends.
Video Tutorial
Right-handed
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Left-handed
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