 Hi everyone, Tasha here from Start of School Crochet. Today's Stitch Explorers Saturday series is the Open Ridge Stitch. It's a great stitch, so go ahead and grab yourself an eye hook or any hook size you want. I'm using a pair of scissors, so you'll need those. And any worsted weight yarn, I'm using Heartland in the colorway Denali. This is a great stitch to learn. It has a great kind of open weave to it, but it's very sturdy too, and it has the ridges on the front and the back, so you'll get a good look for whatever project you like to use. So we're going to go ahead and start with a slip stitch. It's a very easy pattern. You're going to chain an even number of stitches, any even number of stitches you'd like. And when you're finished, we'll come right back. Okay, so here I've chained an even number. We're going to work single crochets across the entire row, starting with the second chain from the hook, and just single crochet in each chain until you reach the end. And of course, we don't have to crochet along through this because it's going to take forever. So meet me back on the other side, and then we'll do row number two. So I finished my row, and if you want to count them, you can. At the end, you're going to chain one, turn. We're going to skip the first stitch, skip the second stitch, and work a half double crochet into the third, both loops. Then we're going to work through that middle space with another half double crochet. So you're working around your previous half double crochet. Then we're going to skip one stitch, and work a half double crochet into the next stitch. And then we're going to work another half double crochet into that space. And that's your repeat pattern for the entire row. So you work one half double crochet, and then work a half double crochet around and into the space of the skip stitch that you created. And then when you come to the end, it's going to be a little different something that was a little awkward for me because I normally don't work into the chains. So here we go. We're going to skip one and then work our last half double crochet in the very last stitch of the row. And then we're going to complete our another half double crochet. It's just the repeat of the pattern. And then we're going to work into the chain, which I recommend using a stitch marker. I didn't, you probably should, but we're going to do one half double crochet into the chain one. And there's your stitch. So this pattern repeats rows two and three. So we're going to chain one, turn, skip the first stitch. This is row three. And then we're going to work a single crochet into the back loop of the half double crochet. And do one single crochet into each back loop of every half double crochet from your previous row. So I've come to the end and we're going to work our last half double crochet or our last single crochet into that one. Then we're going to work a single crochet into the chain again, which I'm having a little trouble finding mine. That's why I recommend using a stitch marker. It'll probably make a big difference in how your edging looks if you don't use a stitch marker. So here I'm counting and you'll notice you'll have one less stitch than what you started with. So we're going to do a repeat of row two and three up until you reach your desired length. And so we're going to skip the first one, skip the second and work a half double crochet into the third and then around into the chain space made. And you just repeat that until the very end. So you keep repeating rows two and three until you reach your desired length or height. And a link for this pattern will be in the description below. It's up on my blog. You can make a lot of things with this open ridge stitch. You can make scarves, hats, cardigans, whatever you'd like. So if you haven't already, please give this video a like. Go ahead and hit the subscribe button. And don't forget to click that little bell because then you'll get notified for all of my Saturday Stitch Explorer series. Thanks for watching you guys. Happy crocheting. Take care.