For this tutorial you will need your selected yarn i'm using Caron Simply Soft in the colour
Victorian Rose i'm going to be using a five millimetre crochet hook but you can
use whichever hook suits your yarn you will also need a pair of scissors and a darning needle to
sew in your ends i'm going to leave a link in the description box where you'll find all of
the information about the yarn the hook and even the free written pattern which is available on my
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okay let's get started so we're going to begin by creating a slipknot and you can
do this in whichever method you prefer go ahead and insert your crochet hook and we're going to
create our chain our foundation chain and this can be any number that you want it to be so if you
want to think about the width of project that you want your foundation chain to measure that width
so go ahead and yarn over pull through yarn over pull through that's two three four five
pause the video work your chains to the width of the project you want and then add an extra chain
and then meet me back once you're ready okay so i have now done my foundation chain i wanted my
sample swatch to be 20 stitches so i've done a chain of 20 and i'm just going to add an extra
one here for turning like i mentioned before so my row of or my stitch count will be 20 stitches
whatever your chain length your stitches will be one fewer so what we're going to do here is we're
going to work into the second chain from the hook so not the one that's on the hook we have one and
two and we're going to do a double crochet so i'm talking in UK terms in the US this is known
as single crochet so go into the chain yarn over and pull through you'll have two loops on the hook
yarn over pull through both loops into the next chain insert yarn over pull through you'll have
two loops on the hook yarn over pull through both of those loops on the hook so that's two three
and four you're going to continue all the way along your chain with your double crochet and then
meet me back once you've got to your last chain okay so this is the end of row one we're then
going to move on to row two we want to chain one and turn our work that chain one does not class as
a stitch we're going to do a half treble in each stitch all the way across so that's a UK half
treble in the US this is known as a half double so you're going to yarn over insert into the base of
that chain one so that very first stitch yarn over pull through you'll have three loops on the hook
and then yarn over pull through all three loops on the hook that's your half treble
yarn over into the next stitch yarn over pull through three loops on the hook yarn over pull
through all three loops so that's two and you're going to continue this all the way along your row
so go ahead pause the video work those half trebles to the end make sure that you're
counting your stitches and then meet me back for row three okay so we're now at the end of row two
we're going to chain one this again does not count as a stitch and turn our work and now we're going
to work row three now row three is your pattern repeat so this will just keep repeating over and
over again and what we're going to do here is a half treble into the third loop so let me show
you where this third loop is if we insert our hook into this stitch normally we have the back
loop and the front loop just here so here's the back loop here's the front loop it looks like a V
we're not going to be working into there what we're going to do is work into this loop just
below so if we turn it this way we see the front and the back loop here and then if we look at it
front ways on we can see the front loop there is a post just underneath that front loop here
and that's where we're going to work into so it's yarn over into that third loop yarn over pull
through and then yarn over pull through all three move over again yarn over into that third loop
yarn over pull through and yarn over pull through all three now what's happening here
is it's pushing that front loop and back loop this way like towards the back as we're looking at it
and that creates a ridge now what you'll find is as you are working along this row
the stitches automatically start turning so it does become a little bit easier you just have
to be aware that they have turned and that's what you're seeing so it's pushing this third
loop out towards you so i'll just show you again yarn over into that third loop
yarn over pull through and then yarn over pull through all three you're going to repeat this
all the way to the end of this row again make sure you are counting your stitches
i will work until i get to the second to last stitch because the last stitch can be a little bit
confusing show you how to finish off this row and then move on to the next okay so i am on my second
to last stitch of row three so i've done because i have 20 stitches in each row this is my 19th
stitch now at the end here it just does look a little bit tricky because we have a turning chain
and we have our last stitch now you can see here that there is a loop just sticking up and that is
the loop that we're going to be working into if you turn it round you can see the V of the last
stitch just here and this is the third loop just there so we're going to work into that third loop
chain one turn our work and now we can see that ridge across here so now we're going to
repeat exactly the same thing we're going to yarn over and go into that first third loop like so
and we're going to work our half trebles all the way across
and then you will notice that the ridge is now on the opposite side of the work
so it's flat here and then we have a ridge just here so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go
ahead and build a few more rows and then come back so that you can start to see what this looks like
okay so i've just built a few more rows now and this is what it's looking like from one side
and then this is what it's looking like on the other side so you do have ridges on both sides
and then you have a gap in between and it just creates a really really lovely stitch this is
really nice if you want something which has a nice pattern on both sides so once you've
worked the height that you want you can go ahead and tie off and that is the royal ridge stitch
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