00:06hi everyone welcome to the Suzette stitch tutorial by sweet softies I'm really excited to show you
00:14the easy peasy Suzette stitch today it's very beginner friendly and you will get it as long
00:22as you know how to do the basic stitches of chain single crochet and double crochet now let's get
00:31started what you'll need is yarn and a crochet hook to match or that's suitable for the yarn you're
00:39using here I'm using medium weight for yarn and this is cotton yarn the hook I'm using is a six
00:50millimeter hook now I'm demonstrating the Suzette stitch with one of my free patterns on my
00:57website at sweetsofties.com it's a washcloth pattern and it makes a lovely little washcloth
01:04that's part of a free spa set pattern that I have so be sure to check that out and follow
01:11along with
01:11the written pattern now to start what you're going to do is make a chain chain an even number of
01:21stitches
01:21for the wash or I'm sorry for the washcloth pattern that I have I use 30 chains to start so
01:32let me roll
01:33that off here all right so chain 30 to start 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
01:4811 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
02:0224 25 26 27 28 29 and 30 all right so with your chain you're going to start on row
02:16one of the pattern
02:17for row one skip that very first chain you're going to insert your hook into the second chain from the
02:28hook
02:28here's the first here's the second okay so oops tingled up there a little bit so in that second chain
02:39you're going to insert a single crochet and a double crochet
02:48single crochet and then a double crochet all in that same chain next skip a chain and insert a single
03:02crochet and double crochet all in the next chain
03:15and you're going to repeat this pattern so skip a chain in the next chain insert both a single crochet
03:25and a double crochet
03:29I'll do that a couple more times at regular speed. Skip a stitch, sorry skip a chain I mean,
03:45and then in the next one single crochet double crochet. Since you are skipping a
03:55chain or skipping a stitch and then inserting two stitches in the following
04:02one you're not going to be changing the stitch count for the pattern so the
04:07number of stitches will remain the same after every round here we go so keep
04:24going down the chain using a single crochet double crochet in a stitch skip
04:30a stitch and repeat at the very end the last stitch you're going to insert just
04:37a single crochet so let me go through this part quickly and at the end let's
04:43um let's get back together and talk about how that's done
05:01all right so coming here you have two more chains left one chain two chains and in that very last
05:11chain remember you're skipping a chain in the very last one you're only going to
05:17put a single crochet skip that double crochet so only a single crochet and
05:25there you are done with your very first row so to do row two you're going to chain
05:36one to start and then turn your piece now here's the other side of the piece and in
05:47that same first stitch you're going to insert a single crochet and a double crochet so in
05:54that very first one single crochet and double crochet skip a stitch in the next one single
06:07crochet and double crochet all in the same stitch skip a stitch skip a stitch in the next one single
06:20crochet and double crochet and you're going to repeat this pattern which is skipping one and
06:29then putting a single crochet double crochet across the whole row except at the very end because when
06:38you reach that last stitch you've got to put in just one single crochet so let me go through this
06:46this part quickly and uh we'll reconvene at that last stitch again just to make sure
07:04all right now that we're here we're close to the end of round or row two i'm sorry we're close
07:13to the end of row two
07:14i have two more stitches left i'm gonna skip a stitch i had just done my single crochet double crochet
07:22together
07:23so i'm going to skip a stitch and in that very last stitch i'm going to insert just one single
07:30crochet
07:31so watch here in that last stitch insert just the single crochet
07:40crochet and that finishes row row two i keep wanting to say round because i mostly work crochet in the
07:49round for amigurumi so excuse me um and the suzette stitch is a two i mean sorry the suzette stitch
08:00stitch is a one row repeat so all you're doing is repeating the second row over and over and over
08:11so for example row three chain one turn the piece and do exactly the same thing as you did for
08:21row two
08:22single crochet and double crochet in that first stitch here oops
08:34and then skip a stitch and go across doing single crochet double crochet skip a stitch repeat at the
08:43very end remember to insert only a single crochet in that last stitch and there you have it that's my
08:51tutorial for how to do the suzette stitch portion um this is part of the the main part of the
08:58washcloth
08:58in my free pattern and if you'd like to see part two of my tutorial i'll show you how to
09:05go around and
09:06do the border
09:14hi everyone so this is how my washcloth turned out so far um after i went ahead and crocheted um
09:24up to 23
09:25rows i did 23 rows so that it would be exactly um a square and um feel free to go
09:33even longer and
09:34um just go ahead and add or decrease rows um to get the perfect size for yourself so um here
09:43i fastened
09:45off and um what i'm gonna do now is show you how i crochet around for the border section so
09:55i'm going
09:55to take a different colored yarn at this point i'm still using the same um type of the same weight
10:03and type
10:03of yarn which is 100 cotton and um medium weight for yarn this is lily sugar and cream yarn and
10:13first for
10:15the border um we're going to attach this color i picked well i picked white i'm going to attach it
10:23to
10:23the first single crochet of round excuse me row 23 so this is the row i left off at and
10:33i'm going to attach
10:34it to the very first stitch which is the single crochet right here so i'm going to insert my hook
10:43and with the new yarn i'm going to pull it in to attach chain one to start off my row
10:55now i'm going
10:56to single crochet in the same stitch
11:01i like to tuck in my tail here um so that when i'm crocheting it can be naturally weaved
11:07in to my work so i do a oops excuse me so i go in and do a single crochet
11:18and what i'm going to do next is single crochet around or single crochet across the edge
11:26at the corner i'm going to do something a little different which is a single crochet
11:31chain and a single crochet all in the same stitch so right now let me work across um in single
11:38crochets only
11:46as you can see as i'm working i'm kind of tucking in this tail end so that i don't have
11:52to weave it
11:53in later it's naturally kind of um woven in like so
12:08all right now i'm coming to that very last stitch of this row i'm going to insert a single crochet
12:18crochet then chain and insert a single crochet all in that same stitch for the corner now what you're
12:28going to do is turn it around and you're going to once again single crochet along the straight edge
12:36this time you're going down the side of the washcloth let me straighten that out here so you can see
12:47so now we're going to single crochet down
12:53and watch as i tuck in this tail i didn't need to weave it in earlier because i could just
12:58naturally
12:59single crochet and weave it in here
13:20and now um as you have single crocheted across you'll notice that at the end you come to the corner
13:28again in the corner you're going to do the same as the other corners which is a single crochet chain
13:37and a single crochet all in the same stitch so here i'm going to do a single crochet a chain
13:46and a single
13:47crochet all in this corner so notice how it creates that tiny little um right angle for your corner
13:58all right so keep turning your washcloth around at this point um you know the drill which is single
14:07crochet across do the corner stitch which is single crochet chain single crochet single crochet
14:14single crochet across and i'll show you how to finish the end so go through this part quickly
14:51all right and now um i've single crocheted across the edge of this
14:57cloth and now that i'm reaching the end here what i'm going to do is see how that first stitch
15:05already
15:06has the starting single crochet well it's still a corner stitch so i'm going to insert a single crochet in
15:13here
15:16chain one and slip stitch to join with that first single crochet
15:24chain one so i'm going to insert my hook there
15:29and slip stitch to join
15:35and that completes this row of border
15:41there you are
15:48so what you can do next is add um one more round of um border and i am going to
15:57actually use a different
15:58color for that again so i used a darker pink um a white and now i like to join a
16:06white a lighter pink
16:08and do the final border round so i'm going to take this yarn again this is um the same type
16:17of yarn as
16:18what i've been using for this whole pattern so that it remains consistent all that's different is that
16:24it's a different color um so what i'm gonna do here without fastening off you can go ahead and join
16:35the pink yarn
16:40and i'm going to make uh well we did a chain up here actually let me take that apart
16:49so in this final part you're doing a slip stitch
16:54let me join with the pink now
17:06so you're going to chain one to start and then it's right in front of the corner stitch
17:16so the corner chain one what i'm going to do is i'm going to follow directions for the board the
17:22first border row and single crochet all the way across so i'm going to take this actually i'll show
17:29you how i fasten off first if i'm joining with two different colors i like to um knot it in
17:36the back
17:44i'm going to cut it off cut off the color that i'm not using which is white
17:52clipping that with the same length there we go
18:01and let me show you how i hide the tail it's the same as before where when i'm single crocheting
18:09across i kind of just pull these tails in the middle so that i'm crocheting over it like so
18:18so i'm going to single crochet across hide those tails tuck them in in the middle
18:25this way you don't have to weave in the ends when you finish your project here
18:37that's kind of a flimsy stitch excuse me
18:52so here you can see that my tail is hidden in these stitches and that's it tail's gone so now
19:03i'm gonna
19:04just regularly crochet single crochet across
19:16all right so now i've got this row across and i've come to that corner chain one space
19:25see that there it's a little small to see let me see if i could bring it up
19:34there so the corner chain one space you're going to insert your hook in that space single crochet
19:45chain one and single crochet all in that same chain one space and that makes another corner
19:54now turn your work and you're going to single crochet all the way across again
20:09at the end here you're going to come to the chain one space corner and you're going to insert your
20:17hook
20:18in that little space single crochet chain one and single crochet all in that same space
20:27that makes our little corner and again single crochet all the way across here
20:45you're going to chain one and single crochet
20:48you're going to chain one and single crochet
20:52in this corner once again
20:52in this corner once again you're going to single crochet chain and single crochet all in that same space
21:18all right and now i've come to that last chain one space single crochet chain and single crochet in that
21:28space
21:29and finally join with a slip stitch to the first chain to the first single crochet in the row
21:37there we go and what you can do now as you reach the end is finally you can cut off
21:44your yarn
21:45and all you have to do now is weave in this yarn end and you're all done so um this
21:55washcloth is so easy
21:58to do with the suzette stitch and with this um basic single crochet border and you have the opportunity to
22:06make it in so many wonderful colors and combinations too so i hope you have fun with that and um
22:14please
22:15um leave any comments or questions or thoughts that you might have and i'll get back to you as soon
22:21as i can
22:22all right thank you very much bye now
22:27you
