Star Stitch

Chart symbol:

Star symbol

This stitch is worked into three stitches of the row below and produces three stitches as a result.

Insert the hook from right to left behind the front vertical bars of the next three stitches:

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Yarn over and pull up a loop:

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Yarn over and insert the hook in the same place again:

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Yarn over again and pull up another loop:

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Leave the three new loops on the hook:

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When working the return pass, close each loop individually:

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In the next row, treat each loop as a separate stitch:

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Placing these stitches closer to or further away from each other produces different looking stitch patterns of different texture.

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