 Hey lovely people out there in the crochet world. This is Tasha from start of school crochet Welcome to the Saturday stitch Explorer tutorial series that I have every Saturday well most Saturdays I skipped last week. Sorry guys, but I'm here to make it up with this beautiful Stitch that I came up with and it's called the Florida Lee stitch or I was thinking of calling it the Saints stitch Because Florida Lee and the Saints like the New Orleans Saints, you know Saints like in the Angels However, you want to do it, but I really love it. I think it turned out great. It has Pineapple stitches mixed in with some basic stitches So for a beginner, this would be a good stitch to kind of up your game a little bit And if you're intermediate or advanced, I don't think you'll have any problem working this stitch So to start off I started with a foundation single crochet row. I'll put the link to the video If you click the little I button, I should be right about there. That'll give you how to do it So once you finish that then pause the video here and then come back and we can get started on the stitch Also I should mention I'm using a 4.5 millimeter hook This yarn is I love this cotton by Lion Brand and This is called. I'm sorry. It's 24 7 cotton By Lion Brand the yarn that I'm using for the tutorial is actually I Love this cotton because I love cotton you guys. I just love cotton So grab your hook grab your yarn pause the video after you do your foundation single crochet And then we'll get started on making this beautiful stitch. Thanks for being here Okay, so this would be our row one and the written pattern will be on my blog the links for those are down below as well Let's get started. I'm going to get a little bit closer Okay, so to start row two we chain one and then we're going to turn our work I hurt my thumb to you guys So my nail polish looks kind of funny, but then we're going to single crochet two into the first two stitches So go ahead and single crochet two Then we're going to chain three We're skipping two and we're going to work three single crochets Into the next three stitches And here's where we do our repeat. We're going to chain three Skip two and single crochet three So we chain three Skip two and single crochet three. So chain three Skip two and single crochet three So pause it when you're finished with this row and then we'll come back and when we reach the end you should have Four stitches left on your hook. So we're going to skip the two and then do a single crochet in The last two stitches one in each stitch So there we have our row two and you can see it creates these little holes Which is what we're going to work into for a row three and row three begins with a chain one and A turn Then we're going to do a half double crochet into the very first stitch chain one We're going to skip the next single crochet and here We're going to work a pineapple stitch a single crochet and a pineapple stitch into the chain space So a pineapple stitch yarn over once we're going to do a yarn over we're going to do a Three repeat pineapple stitch. So yarn over insert your hook into the chain space yarn over and pull up a loop That's our one We're going to repeat that two Three times and so you should have around two Four six seven loops on your hook yarn over pull through the first six yarn over and pull through Two loops and that completes your one pineapple stitch Then we're going to single crochet Try to make this one kind of tight close to the I kind of pull it down a little bit and Then do one more pineapple So you have seven on your on your hook pull through six Then you yarn over and pull through both. So there we've created Two pineapple stitches, which are going to be the bottom part of our floor to Lee So next we're going to Chain one Then we're going to skip one single crochet and work a half double crochet into the next single crochet chain one Skip one single crochet, and then we're going to do another floor to Lee. So that's our repeat there You do the floor to Lee chain one half double crochet chain one Skip, you know chain one skip half double chain one skip and Then work the floor to Lee again pineapple. So yarn over once insert your hook Pull up a loop kind of pull it to the level of your working yarn Pull it up. You want to keep the tension kind of Tight like this so that you these don't get bunched up in an odd way, which they do sometimes and I'll show you an example of that So let me find that one that I did that was kind of phony looking Well, maybe I can't find it or maybe I ripped it back But if you don't some of these oh, here we go. Here it is. Sorry see that right there That's what you don't want. My tension was kind of Funky Okay, back to the pattern so single crochet I'm gonna zoom out just a tad single crochet and Then do another pineapple stitch So then we chain one skip one half double crochet chain one and Then we're doing our floor to Lee again. So let's pause the video Finish out your row and come back And then we'll start working on row four. All right, so we're here at the end of Our row three and we still that we're still going to chain one We're going to skip the single crochet and work a half double crochet into the very last single crochet or the very last stitch of that row and So for row four go ahead chain one and turn and Row four starts out with a half double crochet into the very first half double crochet of our row Which it's a little tricky to get into and I'm not really sure why that's happening, but it is so we do a half double crochet Then we're going to half double crochet into the chain one space And do a half double into the top of the pineapple stitch And then we're going to work our pineapple stitch into the center of the the two which is the single crochet Right here. So we're going to do one pineapple into there And we continue working half double crochets and then we're going to work pineapple stitches into the center of each little pineapple cluster from row three and Then the rest of them will be half double crochets So a half double into the chain space Into the actual stitch of a half double from the Row three and then into the chain space again Into the top of the pineapple And then we're going to work another pineapple into the center of those Two pineapples from below and that's the repeat guys So do your half doubles and work into the chain one spaces when you do them and then work into the top of the stitches when you get to the Half double crochets and then pause the video get your row done and come on back So for the last few stitches here, you see we have three I'm going to work finish the half double crochet into the floor or the pineapple stitch work one into the chain space and Then work one into our final half double crochet Like that now when we count the stitches here, we should have 31 30 and 31 so our next row is row five we're going to chain one Turn it we're going to do a single crochet in the first four stitches And then do a decrease over the next two. So do a single crochet one Two Three and four and then we're going to work a decrease to bring our stitch count back down to 26 So insert your hook in the first stitch pull up a loop And search your hook into the next stitch and pull up a loop and then yarn over and pull through all three So we've made turn two stitches into one stitch and then you're going to count four more one two Three Four and then do a decrease which is a single crochet two together And we're working our decrease into the fifth and sixth stitch when you're counting so here Where did my decrease go? I think there it is. So I've got one two three Four and then we work it over the fifth and the sixth stitch decreasing really isn't as difficult as It seems to be at first it was kind of scary at first and I thought oh, how do you do that? But it works great if you're trying to bring down your stitch count And we do that five times. So we're reducing it by five stitches and Then here we go over the last two and then there's one stitch left that you'll single crochet in two And now we should have 26 stitches again. So let's count them two four six eight ten twelve fourteen sixteen eighteen twenty twenty two twenty four twenty six yay So this is your pattern and this is the repeat. So you repeat rows two to row five until you reach the desired height that you want your project to be and It's a flexible stitch. I will list the multiples In the pattern as well on my blog so you can know what multiples to use And if you're not familiar with multiples what it means is For instance, if you wanted to do a certain stitches multiples of eight plus one Which means you'd need to chain that many to start I just chain 26 and I will list those multiples on my blog So head on over to the blog and hit that little bell button if you haven't already to subscribe You'll get notified when I post a new video and it's really great It'll go up in your notifications instead of your email and also If you haven't already subscribed all right guys leave any comments below or on my blog and I hope you enjoy this pattern Please tag it if you will either the hashtag Saints stitch or Hashtag florida lee stitch and then I can see what you guys make with it I think this would be great to make blankets and just it has a lot of Potential not really sure leave the comments below. I want your ideas. Thanks guys. Have a good one. Happy crochet Yeah