Hi, I'm Sarah and welcome to Rich Texture's Crochet on YouTube. Let's crochet something beautiful today. Hello everyone, I'm Sarah of Rich Texture's Crochet and welcome. Today we are going to learn how to crochet the Herringbone half double crochet stitch, which is the stitch that you see right here. You can see it's quite pretty when it's worked up. It has a little bit of a different design, almost works on slants instead of working straight up and down as it would with a normal half double crochet stitch. So it gives a little bit of variation to your stitch. It looks the same on the front and the back. So it's a great reversible stitch. It's fairly dense. It creates a dense fabric, which means it would be great for some household items such as disc cloths and hand towels. So this is the stitch design. We are going to work on today. Grab a hook and some yarn and let's crochet together. So the stitch that we are going to work today, the Herringbone half double crochet stitches, a quite versatile stitch. You don't necessarily need a specific stitch multiple in order for it to start your foundation chain. So you can start with any number of chains. All you need to do is add one extra chain for your foundation chain. So what we are going to do is I am going to start by making my slip knot. And today for this tutorial, I am simply going to chain 15. That's 5, 10, 15. Next, what you are going to do is start your first row and jump right into the Herringbone stitch, half double crochet stitch. What you are going to do is skip the first two chains. One, two. Your chain two at the beginning will always count as a half double crochet, a Herringbone half double crochet. So you will always treat it like a stitch when we come back to it. So skip those two first two stitches. You are going to start by working in your third stitch. And the first thing you are going to do is yarn over, just like you would have double crochet stitch. And you are going to insert your hook into that next chain. You are then going to yarn over. And you are going to draw up a loop under that chain stitch. But you are also going to draw it under the first loop on your hook. Just like that. So you will have now two loops on your hook. You are going to yarn over once again. And then you are going to pull through both loops on that hook. And that is your Herringbone stitch. We are going to work it across our foundation chain. And then we will turn back so you can see what it looks like when we have worked a couple of rows. Also to you once again you are going to yarn over like you would have double crochet. Working in your next stitch, insert your hook. And then going to yarn over and drop a loop under that chain stitch. And then also under that first loop on your hook. You will have two loops on your hook. You are going to yarn over. And you are going to draw through both loops. Continue down your chain yarn over. Insert your hook in the next stitch. Yarn over and drop a loop. And also draw that loop through that first loop on your hook. You have two loops left on your hook. Yarn over and draw through two. Continue all the way down the length of your chain or for however many stitches you would like. Always remember to once you insert your hook, yarn over. You are going to pull that loop through that chain stitch. And through the first loop on your hook, yarn over, pull through two more. So continue that all the way down the length of your chain. I have two left here. My final chain. And that is your first row done. Next for row two, we are going to continue that pattern. The first thing we are going to do is start with a chain of two. And remember your chain two at the beginning always counts as a stitch. And you are going to turn your work. And with that chain two, it counts as a stitch, you are going to skip your first stitch. Now working in the next, you are going to work your next hair and bone stitch. Yarn over and insert your hook into the next one. Yarn over, pull up a loop, pull through the first loop on your hook. And then yarn over and pull through two loops. You are going to continue that all the way across. And I am just going to fast forward a little bit. And then when I come to the end, I am going to show you how to work the final stitch in this row. So now I am just coming up to the final stitch in my row there. And you will remember at the beginning that you had that chain two. This is always where you are going to work your final stitch. So yarn over and in the top of your chain two, insert your hook and complete your final hair and bone stitch. You must remember always to work in the top of that chain two. Otherwise your swatch or your project, whatever you are working on, is going to have a diagonal. Your edges won't be very straight. So always remember to work in that final chain two. Once you have completed that, you have come to the end of the row. You are going to chain two, turn your work and start all over again. So congratulations that all there is to the hair and bone half double crochet stitch. Thank you so much for joining me please. Remember to subscribe to my YouTube channel, which I like to update weekly with stitch tutorials such as this one and free crochet patterns. I look forward to seeing you again soon. Until then, happy crocheting. Bye! Bye!