Basketweave Stitch

Basketweave Stitch (Crochet)

I am now working on a basketweave stitch throw. The look of the basketweave stitch is very nice. It is a wool eater. I like Red Heart, my absolute favorite brand of yarn to use. Red Heart, or at least the super saver line, does not have any dye lot numbers so running out of yarn is not a big deal. However, you use a yarn that has dye lots you need to buy at least double or triple the amount you have used on a previous afghan you have done that has many double crochet (DC) stitches.

The basketweave stitch is very simple. You will be a pro at front and back post stitches by the end of making your project. The basketweave stitch is just that...front and back post stitches. A simple patter is to alternate sets of 3 front post stitches and back post stitches. So you chain will be a mutiple of 3 plus 2. DC in 3rd chain from hook and continue to DC in every chain til the end. Turn your work, chain 2, front post in the next 3 stitches, then back post in the next 3, continue in this fashion until you come to the chain 2, you want to go into the chain and do a half DC. Turn work and ch 2 and repeat what is in front of you. So if you turn your work and you have front post stitches on the previous row this is the stitch you need to start with. Turn work and repeat one more time. On your fourth row you want to reverse the stitches. So now if front post DC was on the previous row you want to start with back post stitches, then front, then back and so on. Therefore you alternate stitch pattern every fourth row.

I will post picture of my throw along with how much yarn it took and how long it took to complete. And maybe even a better pattern to follow.