 Hi everyone! Welcome to Saturday's Stitch Explorers tutorial. This week's stitch is called the Lotus Bud Stitch. This is a stitch that my friend Lily over at Lilianette Crochet came up with. It's super beautiful, oops sorry, and it has a great little like ridge to it. I'll show it up closer a little bit. It's very similar to the Peak Stitch, which is one we did a couple weeks ago in the Stitch tutorial series, but it's just slightly different. And she's offering up a 25% coupon for a spa set that she did with this stitch plus a few other techniques that you'll learn if you get the pattern. It's 25% off. You can use the coupon code LotusBudLove and I'll put all those links down in the description below and a link to her pattern shop and all that. So what I did to start the stitch, I'm using a boy hook for 4 millimeter G hook and I'm using I Love This Cotton, which is a thin kind of a light worsted so you can see the stitch better. I started off with a foundation single crochet row because it stretches. I worked up a one with just a chain and even with the foundation row this stitch here kind of bunches it up a little bit. So you want to use a foundation single crochet and I'll put the link down below. However, if you want to use a chain you're welcome to do that too. I chained 20 or I worked up 20 foundation single crochet for this. So go ahead and work up your 20, pause the video and come back and then I'll show you how to do this beautiful stitch. Alright, so to start off we're going to pretend that this is our foundation row or our chain. Of course if you're working a chain you're going to work into the third chain from the hook. You don't have to worry about multiples with this stitch because eat there's no you can do as many multiples odd or even it doesn't matter because there's one stitch per stitch basically. So for our second row we're going to chain two turn and I'm going to get just a little bit closer. So here's our first stitch here we're going to yarn over first, insert your hook into the stitch, grab a loop and pull up so you'll have three loops on your hook, yarn over pull through two of those loops then you're going to wrap around again insert into the same stitch you just worked pull up a loop you'll have four and then your yarn over and pull through all four on your hook super easy. So we're going to work another one into the next stitch so yarn over first insert your hook into the stitch pull up a loop pull through two yarn over insert your hook into the same stitch pull up a loop you'll have four yarn over and pull through all four and that's how the entire stitch works that's the lotus bud stitch so super simple I'll work a few more so you can get the hang of it. I'm working outside today so if you hear a bunch of noise planes trains cars and automobiles I hope you don't mind I just like sitting outside it's so pretty today it's beautiful all right so there's your lotus bud stitch it really makes a beautiful fabric well I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial leave any questions or comments below and go ahead and subscribe to that channel put the little bell button so you can get notified for all our status stitch tutorials and more tongue twisters just kidding so and I'll leave all the links below so you can get see what Lilanette has in her shop and the 25% coupon. Thanks guys happy crocheting have a great day and happy Easter