My friend Nettie taught me the star stitch and has a picture tutorial about it here. Here's a brief explanation of the star stitch, but you should really check out Nettie's tutorial for help.
Decrease: YO, insert hook in same st as last stitch, YO, pull up a loop, YO, draw through 2 loops on hook, skip next stitch, YO, pull up a loop, YO, draw through 2 loops on hook, YO, draw through all 3 loops on hook.
Anyway, to do the star stitch, you chain 3 (counts as first dc), turn, then work a decrease stitch. Work a dc in the same stitch as the last leg of the previous decrease stitch. Then work decrease in the same stitch as the previous dc. Repeat (dc, decrease) across. At end of row, dc in last stitch.
Half of the stitches will have three stitches in them, and the other half will have none. In a normal decrease stitch pattern, you would decrease, ch 1, decrease, ch 1 across. The star stitch simply has a dc in place of the ch 1 space.
This stitch pattern lends itself to two striping patterns because it has three rows in it. Thick and Thin and Featured Color stripes work well.
To make something with this pattern:
Chain an odd number
Row 1: dc in 4th chain from hook, dc across
Row 2: ch 3, turn, dc across
Row 3: ch 3, turn, star stitch across
Rows 4-5: ch 3, turn, dc across
Repeat rows 3-5 until work reaches desired length.
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