Weldon's Fourth and Second Series stitch patterns

This week I pulled some stitch patterns from the fourth and second series. I attempted to follow the directions for the Lewis Point stitch pattern from the fourth series and the Beehive stitch pattern and the Rice stitch pattern from the second series. Let's see how that went. For all of these I used a 4.5mm hook and worsted weight yarn from my scrap bag. I'm pretty sure it was all Red Heart Super Saver.

The Rice Stitch pattern seemed like it would be a quick and easy stitch pattern to work up and it actually was. It's not that easy to get the hook through all of the loops on it but it makes an interesting pattern. Start with a chain for whatever length you need. Wrap the yarn around the hook five times and insert into the fourth chain from the hook, yarn over and draw the yarn through all of the loops on the hook, chain one, skip the next chain in the foundation and repeat the stitch. Rows after that are started with a chain three and the rice stitch is worked under the chain stitch of the previous row. This looks similar to a Bullion Stitch.

The next one I tried was the Beehive pattern. Here's the illustration.

My version is pretty close. The back of mine looked more like their illustration so that's what I'm showing in the photo. This one is a little longer to write out so I'm not going to do that today but if you're interested in having that pattern written out, let me know and I'll work on that for a future post.

And last we have the Lewis Point pattern.

This one didn't go so well. I had trouble getting things to line up with their directions and I only had one stitch at the end when they said I should have two.  I did it in two different colors so you can see where the points are a little easier. The whole thing leans even though I have 12 stitches per row. (I chained 13 and started my first single crochet in the second stitch from the hook). I have no idea what I did wrong. I tried different numbers of stitches between the points. After trying this a number of times this was the best I could come up with.

There's no rating this time since it's three stitch patterns and not a finished item. I did enjoy the first two stitch patterns but the third one was frustrating. It seems like it could be an interesting pattern if I could get it to work.

​Here's a photo of the Lewis Point directions if you want to try it. Don't forget this is UK terms and let me know how it goes.