How to Crochet the Ripple Stitch
Ripple stitch is a crochet stitch that forms peaks and valleys. The finished product, usually a blanket or afghan, has wavy ends. By counting multiples of stitches and creating a base chain that can be worked in those multiples, you can customize a ripple afghan to any width. You can create sharp peaks and valleys that are close together or make more gradual increases and decreases to form rounded waves on the edges of your baby blankets and afghans.
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Instructions
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Chain 22 stitches.
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Wrap your hook once with the working yarn. Bring the yarn over the hook from right to left. Insert the hook into the fourth chain from the hook. Wrap the hook again and pull the wrap through the chain so that you have three loops on your hook. Wrap a third time and pull through the first two loops. Wrap a fourth time and pull through the last two loops to create your first double crochet stitch.
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Work a double crochet stitch in each of the next two chains.
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Work three double crochet stitches in the next stitch to create the first peak.
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Make one double crochet in each of the next four chains. You will be on the eighth stitch of the chain and will have made 10 double crochet stitches. The turning chain at the beginning of the row counts as an eleventh stitch.
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Skip the ninth and tenth chains.
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Work one double crochet stitch in each of the next four chains.
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Work three double crochets in the next stitch to create the second peak. You will have 18 double crochet stitches total.
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Double crochet in each of the last four stitches for a total of 22 double crochets.
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Repeat this 22-stitch pattern all along the chain and for every subsequent row, chaining three stitches and turning your work at the end of each row.
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