 Hi Makers! It's Tasha from Start of School Crochet. Today's Saturday Stitch tutorial is going to be the bar and lattice stitch. This is an awesome stitch. I did modify it from the original. I added a foundation single crochet row and I added some double crochets on the side so it just had a better boxed-in look. But I'll put both versions on the blog for you so you can check both of them out, see which one you like better. I think it makes these really pretty little heart shapes on the inside. So let's get started. I'm using today Lion Brands 24-7 cotton in the colorway of mint and a four millimeter hook. I used a smaller one. I tried it working in a big yarn or a thicker worsted weight yarn and it didn't quite show the stitch pattern as well. So to start we're going to do a foundation single crochet and you work in multiples of four plus two. So how you do a foundation single crochet is you make a slip knot and then you're going to chain two, insert your hook until your first chain and then you're going to grab and pull up a loop. You're going to chain through the first loop and then you're going to yarn over and pull through and finish your single crochet. So you've just created one foundation single crochet. So for the second one you insert your hook into the bottom two, yarn over and pull up, chain one, yarn over and pull through both loops on your hook and you repeat that until you reach your multiples of four and then add two more to your foundation chain. And I count these as rows so in the pattern on my blog the written pattern it'll say row one is the foundation single crochet row. I do that because you're actually creating a chain and a single crochet at the same time and so there you go. There's my foundation row. Go ahead and make your four plus two. For the sample I think I finished up with about 18. So for row two you're going to chain two and turn. We're going to double crochet into the very first foundation single crochet then you're going to chain three, you're going to skip three and do a double crochet into the fourth foundation single crochet and that's your repeat pattern to the end. You chain three, skip three and then do a double crochet into the fourth. Oops not yarn over twice just yarn over once. These patterns or this pattern has a very simple repeats and when we get to the end which we're almost there we're going to work another kind of like little edge to it so skip your three. You should have two stitches left when you reach the end so you double crochet in that last one and very in the very last one as well so you're going to do two double crochets at the end really and there's your row two. And so for row three we're going to go ahead and chain two to start and turn. We're going to do a double crochet in the very first double crochet and then this is where it makes the lattice pattern so here we chain two, we skip the double crochet and we're going to skip one of the chains and work into the center of that chain three from the previous row. I work into the back hump because it seems like it's a lot easier to get around but then twist it back so you're actually working around the two top loops to do your single crochet. Then you're going to chain two, we're going to skip one chain and do a double crochet into the top of the double crochet from row two and that's a repeat pattern so you chain two, skip one chain, single crochet into the next chain not around it but into it and then you're going to chain two, skip one chain and double crochet into the next double crochet and that repeats all the way into the end so you're going to skip one. Sometimes it's tough working into chains so any kind of tip or trick you have leave a comment below and then we're going to do a double crochet in there, do another chain two and work a single crochet into that middle chain of the chain three, do two more chains and that's what we have so far you can see it starting to shape up. Then we're going to work a double crochet into that last double crochet right here and then also into the chain, the top of the chain two from your previous row and kind of go find that chain and then just work into two loops of that chain just to keep it sturdy. So there's your rows, foundation row two and row three and the reason I added those double crochets on the end is because it just really gave a nice edge to it. The original version I worked up and there was this strange gap and I'll put a picture on the blog for you of that gap and I thought this just doesn't match. So I had to get rid of it. So for the fourth row we chain two, turn and work a double crochet into the first double crochet and here we're going to, let me check, okay one two and three, chain three then we're going to skip that entire section, the first double crochet, the single crochet and all the chains and work a double crochet into the next double crochet. We're going to skip again and just work a double crochet into the top of the next double crochet after chaining two or three. Sorry. Hi BB. And so chain three, skip and work a double crochet into the next double crochet and that repeats until the end and then we have right here we're going to work a double crochet into that last double crochet. We also have a chain left over so there's the double crochet. Oh what's wrong BB. It's okay and then we're going to work one last double crochet into the chain from the previous round or row and that's it that's your pattern. So you repeat rows three and four until you reach your desired height and this is what you'll get at the end and I love it because it makes these little hearts that to me they look like little hearts I don't know what do you guys think hearts yes I think so so I hope you enjoy this pattern please leave a comment below if you have any questions give a like and a subscribe a thumbs up and all that jazz hope you guys have a great day and thanks for watching