Just curious

[magicfan]

I am working on an afghan. I love the look of the stitch pattern and wondered if it had a name. You work a sc then a dc down the row. Next row you work a sc in the previous row's dc and a dc in the previous row's sc....anyone?

[ddc]

I made some scarves with that stitch last winter and it made a really nice texture. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the stitch was called. Actually I think I've seen it with a couple of different names. I sure the experts on here will know.

[Granny Square]

There are indeed several names for this, unfortunately right now I can only think of one which is the up-down stitch pattern.  http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa010102.htm

 

Crunch stitch - similar but with slst and hdc http://newstitchaday.com/how-to-crochet-the-crunch-stitch/

[magiccrochetfan]

Harmony Guides and DKooler's Encyclopedia call it Griddle stitch.

 

I don't think these names are at all standardized,, and I am sure it has been called other things as well as Griddle and Up-down.  

[magicfan]

Thank you, ladies. I knew someone would know.......I absolutely love this stitch and hope to find more patterns that use it

[acraftylady]

I know it as the seed stich as it looks similar to the seed stitch in knit. Mary

[Granny Square]

Griddle!  Thank you, that was bugging me, all I could think of was Grit (no) and Granite (no)...

 

Edit, interesting, the seed stitch seems to have multiple definitions in crochet.  I've seen

 

*sc, chain, repeat  --  then next row *sc over the chain, chain over the sc, repeat

 

called both the woven stitch and seed stitch.

[magiccrochetfan]

Grannysquare, grit was my first thought also!

 

I think the name seed st has been used a lot for different things, probably moss as well.

[Katieallen311815]

guess it depends on the book you look it up in, ha, I am going with griddle as well. I have used it many times, just never bothered too much, to look up the correct name, I always just called it the sc dc alternate stitch.......

[Granny Square]

What's funny is that 'waffle stitch' went through my head too, although I knew that wasn't at all right.  My poor (ahem) mature brain somehow must have filed waffle and griddle together ...

 

I'm not getting old, my Random Access Memory is just down-rev!

[Ellie 13]

Check projectlinus.com and look under patterns. I think it's called bobble something. I like the sc dc instead of sl st hdc. I made a scarf with it, turned out nice.

Ellie 13