Forward Crab Stitch

Hi there. I'm Mary Beth Temple. And one of my favorite ways to finish off a piece of crochet is by using the crab stitch. Much to my horror. I have learned recently that a lot of people don't like to do the crab stitch. So I found a way to do it. It's called the forward crab stitch. It's a little different than the way you might have learned, which is more of a reverse single crochet. And so I'm here to teach you the forward crab stitch to see if you like it any better than the reverse one. So I'm going to insert my hook in my next stitch yarn over and draw up the loop. Now I'm going to take my hook and I'm going to make a 360 degree circle yarn over. Finish my single crochet. That's all there is to it. Insert my hook in the next stitch yarn over and draw up a loop. Make a 360 degree circle with my hook, finish my stitch. You want to go a little bit loosely. You want your edging to be nice and tightly corded. But also if you crochet super tight. When you twist like this, it can get um a little aggressively knotty and it doesn't look nice and corded. It looks like it's uh too tight. So let's just put a couple more on here. I'm gonna insert my hook in the stitch yarn over and draw up a loop. Make that hook go 360 degrees in a circle. Finish the stitch. And for my last stitch of any row, I prefer to just do a regular single crochet because the uh twisted one that for crab stitch tends to sort of hang out in the air and it doesn't look even to me. So I'm gonna go ahead in my last stitch and make a regular singer crochet to anchor everything and that would be the end of my edging. I like this. It gives me my corded edging. It's a nice finish. It has some texture. It looks good on both sides, which is one of the things I like about crabs stitch and it's pretty simple to do. So, I hope you enjoyed forward crab stitch. And that is a cool thing to add to your bag of tricks. Once again, I'm Mary Beth Temple. Bye bye.