Knot Stitch

This stitch is also called Solomon's Knot, Love Knot, Hail Stone and Lover's Knot. A lacey, airy crochet stitch. This stitch can be made as short or as long as one want, determined by the length of the center loop. In the past, a common use has been to make knot stitch for shawls but in contemporary crochet patterns, it's often combined with more solid stitches, for an interesting effect.

Having one loop on the needle, draw it out to the length of 3 ch, thread over the needle and draw through, making an ordinary chain stitch, drawn out to three times its normal length. Then put the needle under that one of the 3 threads of the long loop which seems to lie by itself, draw the thread through and make a single stitch. This is the knot stitch.