If you’ve ever worked the Griddle Stitch then this stitch will seem familiar. It’s alternating single crochets and double crochets, but where you work doubles in single and singles in double in the griddle, you work singles in single and double in doubles in the crumpled griddle stitch. 

This stitch creates a wonderfully dense fabric without becoming rigid. It’s suitable for color work and loads of different projects. 

Single Crochet (SC) – Insert your hook, YO pull up a loop, YO and pull through 2 loops.

Double Crochet (DC) – YO, Insert your hook, YO pull up a loop, YO, pull through 2 loops, YO, pull through remaining two loops.

CHAIN: EVEN

ROW 1

Starting in the 2nd chain from hook, *work 1 SC. In the next stitch, work 1 DC. Repeat from * across the row. The last stitch made will be a SC. CH 1 and turn.

ROW 2

Starting in the first stitch, *SC into the top of the SC of the previous row. DC into the next DC. Repeat from * across the row working the final SC into the last SC. (Always DC into DC. Always SC into SC.) CH 1 and turn.

REPEAT ROW 2