Expert: Patricia - 3/13/2010

Question
Hi I am making a jumper which is made up of motives it involves joining them as you go my pattern says hold motives with wrong sides together ch3 drop loop from hook insert hook from front to back through coresponding ch sp on previous motive and pick up drop stitch can you please explain what they mean by drop stitch.
thanks

Answer
Hi Cheryl,
Sometimes I've seen instructions from overseas that use different terminology.  
In joining motifs, such as you are doing, I "slip stitch" them together.  Perhaps, that is what they mean by a "drop stitch".  Basically I do this.

Put both motifs together, making sure that the stitches on one line up with the stitches on the other.  Insert the hook through the front stitch on top motif, through the corresponding stitch on the bottom motif.  Yarn over and pull your yarn all the way through both motifs.  Now you will have two loops on your hook.  If you were doing a single crochet, you would yarn over again and pull through both loops.
However, in a slip stitch, don't yarn off, just keep pulling that loop through.  It sort of makes it like an invisible seam.

If this doesn't work, send me the exact instructions and I will help you figure it out.  It seems that in one of my older books, I have the translations. I'm away from home right now but I would be happy to hunt this up for you. It can get pretty confusing if you're using instructions from the U.S. or English.  Let's not even talk about metric! :)

Patricia