The Crochet Stitch

Sammi Jai
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The Crochet Stitch is the weekly audio companion to The Stitch newsletter from Yarn Over Hook. Hosted by Sammi Jai, each episode brings crocheters a quick, friendly roundup of what’s happening across the Yarn Over Hook community, including upcoming livestreams, crochet events, maker highlights, pattern finds, community calls, and ways to get involved. Whether you are working through a long-term project, learning a new stitch, looking for crochet events, or simply want to feel more connected to other makers, The Crochet Stitch helps you stay in the loop. Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet, built to help crocheters everywhere create, learn, and connect.

  1. Sep 22

    Yarn Over Hook Turns Two: Celebrate Anniversary Week, and discover your Crochet-Along Energy.

    Yarn Over Hook is turning two, and we are celebrating with a full week of crochet, livestreams, games, giveaways, and community connection. In this anniversary edition of The Crochet Stitch, we reflect on two years of projects, livestreams, learning, laughter, and crocheters showing up for one another. Anniversary Newsletter: View the Issue We also share what the community told us it wants from Year 3. Among survey respondents, 49% selected Crochet-Alongs, community projects, and challenges. Forty percent selected livestreams and opportunities to crochet together, while 31% selected help learning new techniques. The comments revealed something even more meaningful. Members want Yarn Over Hook to remain welcoming, encouraging, and safe for unfinished projects, questions, mistakes, and real life. You will also hear the complete Anniversary Week livestream schedule, including the 9-Hour Anniversary Stream-A-Thon with Sammi, Alexis, and Drew, plus an invitation to take the new Crochet-Along Energy quiz. Are you a Cozy Co-Stitcher, Milestone Maker, Curious Explorer, or Community Cheerleader? Bring your WIP, listen in, and help us begin Year 3 together. Podcast Show NotesYarn Over Hook turns two on September 26, and Anniversary Week is officially underway. In this episode: Celebrate two years of the global Yarn Over Hook crochet communityHear the top priorities shared by survey respondentsLearn what Yarn Over Hook is carrying into Year 3Get the full Anniversary Week livestream scheduleDiscover the four Crochet-Along Energy stylesFind simple ways to participate, share, and invite another crocheter Links From This EpisodeRead the anniversary newsletterTake the Crochet-Along Energy quizSubscribe to The Crochet StitchSee all Yarn Over Hook livestreamsJoin the 9-Hour Anniversary Stream-A-Thon Yarn Over Hook helps crocheters create, learn, and connect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶 https://yarnoverhook.com/start-here 📅 Explore Crochet Events https://crochetevents.com 📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/ Play Name That Stitch 🎮 https://namethatstitch.com Watch on YouTube 📹 https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources. Built by makers, for makers. 🧶 🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com/about The Crochet Stitch is a weekly crochet podcast hosted by Sammi Jai and produced by Yarn Over Hook. © 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

  2. Sep 9

    A Quick Hello From Yarn Over Hook: We’re Back, and We’d Love to Hear From You

    Yarn Over Hook is getting back into the swing of things, and before we decide what comes next, we want to hear from you. It’s been a little quiet around Yarn Over Hook. Before we get back into our usual rhythm of crochet inspiration, community stories, resources, events, livestreams, and everything else happening across the global crochet community, we wanted to take a moment to say something simple: Thank you for sticking with us. In this episode, Sammi shares a quick update on where Yarn Over Hook has been, why community continues to be at the center of everything we’re building, and why this next chapter starts by listening to you. View the Newsletter: A Quick Hello From Yarn Over Hook We also have something worth celebrating: Yarn Over Hook turns two on September 26. As we head toward Year 3, we don’t simply want to decide what Yarn Over Hook should become behind the scenes. We want to build it alongside the crocheters who watch, read, participate, share projects, ask questions, teach one another, support makers, visit local yarn shops, and keep this craft moving forward. Help Us Shape What Comes NextWhat would make Yarn Over Hook more useful to you? More tutorials or stitch guides? New patterns and project inspiration? Better ways to discover local yarn shops and crochet events? More livestreams? Designer and maker spotlights? Resources for learning new techniques? Something completely different? We want to hear it. Take a few minutes to complete our new community survey and tell us what you’d like Yarn Over Hook to focus on next. Your responses will directly help us decide where to spend our time, what to build, and what experiences we create for the community in Year 3. Because Yarn Over Hook has always been about more than patterns, videos, or another place to scroll. We’re building The Global Home of Crochet, a place where makers can Create, Learn, and Connect. And this is our first stitch back. Keep creating. Keep learning. Keep connecting. — The Yarn Over Hook Team ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶 https://yarnoverhook.com/start-here 📅 Explore Crochet Events https://crochetevents.com 📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/ Play Name That Stitch 🎮 https://namethatstitch.com Watch on YouTube 📹 https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources. Built by makers, for makers. 🧶 🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com/about The Crochet Stitch is a weekly crochet podcast hosted by Sammi Jai and produced by Yarn Over Hook. © 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

  3. Jul 25

    The Hardest Stitch Isn't the One You Think | The Crochet Stitch #15

    Welcome back to The Crochet Stitch, the weekly crochet podcast from Yarn Over Hook, the global home of crochet. View this week's newsletter: The Hardest Stitch Isn't the One You Think. If you've ever looked at a ball of yarn and wondered... "What if I mess this up?" You're not alone. This week we're talking about one of the biggest obstacles nearly every crocheter faces, not learning stitches, choosing yarn, or reading patterns... It's simply making that very first chain. Whether you're picking up a crochet hook for the very first time, starting a challenging new pattern, or returning to crochet after a long break, this episode is a reminder that you don't have to feel ready before you begin. You'll hear why beginner mistakes aren't failures, they're some of the best teachers you'll ever have. Every loose stitch teaches tension. Every crooked edge teaches stitch count. Every project teaches something you'll carry into the next one. We'll also ask this week's community question: What's stopping you from starting your next crochet project? Fear of making mistakes?Confusing patterns?Not having the right yarn?Waiting for "next weekend"?Or something else entirely? Plus, we'll highlight one of Yarn Over Hook's favorite beginner resources—the Crochet Stitch Library—filled with tutorials, stitch guides, inspiration, and educational resources designed to help crocheters build confidence one stitch at a time. This week's featured episode from Exploration Crochet dives even deeper into overcoming the fear of the first chain and reminds us that every experienced crocheter started exactly where beginners are today. We'll also cover everything happening this week across Yarn Over Hook, including: 🧶 The Great Summer Mosaic CAL Part 6 (Zesty Citrus)🎉 The 200th episode of Crochet & Chat🧺 Summer Stash Bash recap👕 Luther Top Check-in🟪 Square Up Saturday🎁 ReRe's Summer Stash Bash WIP Bag Giveaway We'll finish with a reminder every crocheter needs to hear: You don't become a crocheter because your first project is perfect. You become a crocheter because you begin. Explore the Crochet Stitch Library: https://yarnoverhook.com/crochet-stitches/ Yarn Over Hook helps crocheters create, learn, and connect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶 https://yarnoverhook.com/start-here 📅 Explore Crochet Events https://crochetevents.com 📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/ Play Name That Stitch 🎮 https://namethatstitch.com Watch on YouTube 📹 https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources. Built by makers, for makers. 🧶 🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com/about The Crochet Stitch is a weekly crochet podcast hosted by Sammi Jai and produced by Yarn Over Hook. © 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

  4. Jul 17

    What Does Your Favorite Yarn Color Say About You? | The Crochet Stitch #14

    Welcome back to The Crochet Stitch, the weekly crochet podcast from Yarn Over Hook, the global home of crochet. View the Newsletter: What Does Your Favorite Yarn Color Say About You? Before you choose your next skein… Pause for a second. Have you ever noticed you almost always gravitate toward the same colors? Maybe your shelves are filled with soft sage greens. Maybe every blanket somehow becomes rainbow. Maybe your favorite color changes every season. Color is one of the most personal choices we make as crocheters. Two makers can create the exact same pattern using the exact same yarn and end up with projects that feel completely different simply because of the colors they choose. In this episode, we're exploring how color influences the feeling of a crochet project, sharing simple ways to make choosing color palettes less overwhelming, and introducing the newest free Yarn Over Hook Cheat Sheet: Choosing a Color Palette. You'll also hear about our newest community personality quiz, "What Does Your Favorite Yarn Color Say About You?", where you'll discover whether you're: 🌈 The Color Adventurer 🌿 The Nature Maker ☁️ The Cozy Minimalist ✨ The Creative Mixer Plus, we celebrate another milestone in the Summer Stash Bash with 1,381 donated soap sacks, preview Part 5 of the Great Summer Mosaic CAL, and look ahead to another week of crochet shows, Crochet & Chat, Summer Stash Bash with Stitches, the Luther Top Crochet Along, and Square Up Saturday. Whether you love bold complementary colors, calming monochromatic palettes, earthy neutrals, or joyful rainbow combinations, this episode will help you approach your next project with a little more confidence and hopefully a little less second-guessing. Download the free Choosing a Color Palette Cheat Sheet: https://yarnoverhook.com/product/choosing-a-color-palette-crochet-guide/ Yarn Over Hook helps crocheters create, learn, and connect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶 https://yarnoverhook.com/start-here 📅 Explore Crochet Events https://crochetevents.com 📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/ Play Name That Stitch 🎮 https://namethatstitch.com Watch on YouTube 📹 https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources. Built by makers, for makers. 🧶 🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com/about The Crochet Stitch is a weekly crochet podcast hosted by Sammi Jai and produced by Yarn Over Hook. © 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

  5. Jul 10

    What’s in Your WIP Bag? Take the Crochet Challenge | The Crochet Stitch #13

    Welcome back to The Crochet Stitch, the weekly crochet podcast from Yarn Over Hook, the global home of crochet. View the Newsletter: Take the “What’s in Your WIP Bag?” Challenge Before you listen any further, grab the WIP bag closest to you. Do not clean it. Do not organize it. Do not remove the mystery receipt, loose yarn tails, or project you forgot was in there. This week, we are opening our project bags and taking an honest inventory. In this episode, we introduce the “What’s in Your WIP Bag?” challenge, where crocheters can calculate their score based on the tools, supplies, yarn tails, backup projects, and mystery items currently hiding inside their project bag. We also talk about what your score might say about your WIP bag style, whether you are a WIP Bag Minimalist, a Prepared Maker, a Crochet Problem Solver, or fully operating out of a Traveling Yarn Room. Plus, we introduce the newest Yarn Over Hook community personality quiz: What Kind of WIP Bag Crocheter Are You? Are you: The Light Packer? The Prepared Project Planner? The Cozy Crocheter? The Mobile Yarn Studio? There is only one way to find out. This week, we are also celebrating 1,290 donated soap sacks for the Summer Stash Bash soap sack challenge, continuing the Great Summer Mosaic CAL, and previewing a full week of Yarn Over Hook shows, including Crochet & Chat, Summer Stash Bash with Stitches, a YouTube Members Exclusive, and a special guest episode with Drew about learning how to spin yarn. So open your bag, count your points, laugh at what you find, and remember that every WIP bag tells a story. Take the WIP Bag Quiz: https://yarnoverhook.com/crochet_quizzes/wip-bag-crochet-personality-quiz/ Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet, where makers come together to Create, Learn, and Connect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶 https://yarnoverhook.com/start-here 📅 Explore Crochet Events https://crochetevents.com 📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/ Play Name That Stitch 🎮 https://namethatstitch.com Watch on YouTube 📹 https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources. Built by makers, for makers. 🧶 🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com/about The Crochet Stitch is a weekly crochet podcast hosted by Sammi Jai and produced by Yarn Over Hook. © 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

  6. Jul 4

    Free Crochet Cheat Sheets for Your Next Project | The Crochet Stitch #12

    Welcome back to The Crochet Stitch, the weekly crochet podcast from Yarn Over Hook, the global home of crochet. View the Newsletter: Save This: Free Crochet Cheat Sheets for Your Next Project This week, we’re talking about the little crochet moments that can make a project feel more confusing than it needs to be: pattern abbreviations, chart symbols, yarn fiber choices, hook sizes, gauge, and color palettes. That is exactly why Yarn Over Hook created the new Crochet Cheat Sheet Hub. The Crochet Cheat Sheet Hub is a free collection of Yarn Over Hook resources designed to help crocheters feel more confident before they begin, while they make, and when they are helping another crochet friend figure something out. In this episode, we walk through the new free cheat sheet hub, including resources for reading crochet patterns, understanding crochet chart symbols, choosing yarn fibers, substituting yarn, and building intentional color palettes. We also share this week’s community question: Which crochet moment makes you reach for help first? A. Pattern abbreviations B. Chart symbols C. Picking the right yarn D. Choosing colors E. All of the above, respectfully Plus, we look ahead to the week of July 6 on Yarn Over Hook, including Crochet & Chat, Summer Stash Bash with Stitches, the Viscountess Top members-only project, and Square Up Saturday. Whether you are learning to read your first crochet pattern, practicing crochet charts, choosing yarn from your stash, or deciding whether those colors really do go together, this episode is here to help. Browse the Free Crochet Cheat Sheets: https://yarnoverhook.com/crochet-cheatsheets/ Download the Reading Crochet Patterns Cheat Sheet: https://yarnoverhook.com/crochet-cheatsheets/ Subscribe to The Crochet Stitch Newsletter: https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/ Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet, where makers come together to Create, Learn, and Connect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶 https://yarnoverhook.com/start-here 📅 Explore Crochet Events https://crochetevents.com 📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/ Play Name That Stitch 🎮 https://namethatstitch.com Watch on YouTube 📹 https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources. Built by makers, for makers. 🧶 🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com/about The Crochet Stitch is a weekly crochet podcast hosted by Sammi Jai and produced by Yarn Over Hook. © 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

  7. Jun 21

    Could You Write a Crochet Pattern? What Makes a Good Pattern

    Welcome back to The Crochet Stitch, the weekly crochet podcast from Yarn Over Hook, the global home of crochet. View the Newsletter: Could You Write a Crochet Pattern? Let’s Talk About It This week, we’re talking about something that can feel surprisingly intimidating: writing crochet patterns. Not just following them. Not just saving them. Not just saying, “I could probably figure that out.” Actually writing one. Recently, Roman’s Skinny Scarf™ became an official Yarn Over Hook pattern. And yes, it is technically a pattern made mostly of chains. But it also became something bigger. It started as a community joke. Then it became a call to arms. Then it became a reminder that sometimes the first pattern you write does not have to be complicated to be meaningful. So this week, we’re asking: What makes a crochet pattern good? And what stops more crocheters from writing one? In this episode, we talk about why a good crochet pattern does not have to be fancy, 40 pages long, perfectly photographed, or filled with complicated stitches. But it should help another maker feel supported. Because a good pattern is not just a set of instructions. It is a guide. It is a little voice saying, “You’ve got this. Here’s what comes next.” We also invite you to take this week’s Yarn Over Hook quiz and find out what kind of crochet pattern person you are. Are you The Pattern Follower, The Pattern Modifier, The Pattern Collector, The Pattern Tester, or The Pattern Editor? Then we look ahead at this week’s Yarn Over Hook livestream schedule, including tips for crocheting blankets in the summer, Summer Stash Bash with Stitches Featured Pattern No. 4, a YouTube Members Exclusive session continuing the Viscountess Top by MJ’s Off The Hook Designs, and Square Up Saturday with mystery granny squares and community choice. This week’s latest video features Mosaic Sunglasses by Remington Lane Crochet and five things Sammi has learned so far about mosaic crochet. We also celebrate Furls Crochet Hooks’ 14th birthday and spotlight Roman’s Skinny Scarf™ as an official Yarn Over Hook pattern. It is simple, mostly chains, and somehow full of community lore, beginner-friendly confidence, and heart. Writing a crochet pattern can feel intimidating because it asks you to share not just what you made, but how you think. It asks you to slow down, explain your choices, count your stitches, and support someone you may never meet. That is generous work. Maybe your first pattern will be a blanket. Maybe it will be a bag. Maybe it will be a granny square. Maybe it will be 503 chains and a dream. Whatever it is, we are glad you are here. Keep creating. Keep learning. Keep connecting. Yarn Over Hook helps crocheters create, learn, and connect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶 https://yarnoverhook.com/start-here 📅 Explore Crochet Events https://crochetevents.com 📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/ Play Name That Stitch 🎮 https://namethatstitch.com Watch on YouTube 📹 https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources. Built by makers, for makers. 🧶 🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com/about The Crochet Stitch is a weekly crochet podcast hosted by Sammi Jai and produced by Yarn Over Hook. © 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

  8. Jun 14

    Crochet Guild Australia 2026 Convention, Market Bags & Summer Stash Bash

    Welcome back to The Crochet Stitch, the weekly crochet podcast from Yarn Over Hook, the global home of crochet. View the Newsletter: Crochet Goes Global: Australia, Market Bags & Summer Stash Bash This week, crochet is taking us to Wollongong, New South Wales, as we spotlight Crochet Guild Australia’s 2026 Crochet Convention, happening from 19–21 June 2026. Centered around the theme Made to Last, this three-day convention brings together crocheters, fiber artists, educators, and makers for workshops, a yarn market, guest tutors, and community connection. The featured educator lineup includes Toni Lipsey of TL Yarn Crafts, Krisztine Anna Edömér of K.A.M.E. Crochet, Rhondda Mol of Oombawka Design Crochet, Arunima Goel of KnitterKnotter, Abbey of Abbeymade, Jenny King, and Linda Dean. We also ask this week’s community question: which crochet situation would you rather survive? Losing at yarn chicken with only three stitches left, discovering mismatched dye lots halfway through, frogging three rows, weaving in 47 ends, finding a knot at the worst possible moment, or realizing you used the wrong hook size? Plus, we share this week’s Yarn Over Hook livestreams, including Crochet & Chat with the French Market Bag, Summer Stash Bash with Stitches, a YouTube Members exclusive project, and Square Up Saturday with granny squares and crochet charts. We also highlight the latest video, Joining a Fun Summer Mosaic CAL, and feature Yarn Me Calm, a fibre art studio based in Portarlington, Victoria, on Australia’s beautiful Bellarine Peninsula. Whether crochet shows up for you as a convention, a CAL, a market bag, a granny square, a soap sack, or ten quiet minutes with your hook and yarn, it all counts. Grab your project and join us for this week’s stitch. Yarn Over Hook helps crocheters create, learn, and connect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES Explore Yarn Over Hook 🧶 https://yarnoverhook.com/start-here 📅 Explore Crochet Events https://crochetevents.com 📬 Subscribe to The Stitch Newsletter https://yarnoverhook.com/the-stitch-newsletter/ Play Name That Stitch 🎮 https://namethatstitch.com Watch on YouTube 📹 https://youtube.com/@YarnOverHookSocial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT YARN OVER HOOK Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet — a platform built to help crocheters create, learn, and connect through tutorials, podcasts, livestreams, events, stitch libraries, crochet games, and community resources. Built by makers, for makers. 🧶 🌍 https://yarnoverhook.com/about The Crochet Stitch is a weekly crochet podcast hosted by Sammi Jai and produced by Yarn Over Hook. © 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.

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The Crochet Stitch is the weekly audio companion to The Stitch newsletter from Yarn Over Hook. Hosted by Sammi Jai, each episode brings crocheters a quick, friendly roundup of what’s happening across the Yarn Over Hook community, including upcoming livestreams, crochet events, maker highlights, pattern finds, community calls, and ways to get involved. Whether you are working through a long-term project, learning a new stitch, looking for crochet events, or simply want to feel more connected to other makers, The Crochet Stitch helps you stay in the loop. Yarn Over Hook is the global home of crochet, built to help crocheters everywhere create, learn, and connect.

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  • Creator
    Sammi Jai
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 DesignOps as a Service DOaaS LLC d/b/a Yarn Over Hook. All rights reserved.
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    The Crochet Stitch