Surface Crochet Hook on Fabric

So surface crochet was a bit of a theme for our spring catalog this year for spring 2014 at Valley Yarns. We've got surface crochet in three different patterns, the Sprig Mittens and Scarf set, the Hen Plaid Wrap and in the Nordic Tiles set. Now this is just a standard granny square which is a little bit different than the Nordic tile motif but, the surface crochet on that, that sort of joins it all together is fairly similar, so, we're going to do a little demonstration here for the Nordic Tile set. You wanna start with a slip stitch on your hook and the yarn is gonna stay underneath the peace while you work. So you start right on the edge and reach through the top of the center double crochet there, on the side, see that, right underneath the top? I'm gonna reach through and grab my yarn bring it through and it's just a slip stitch. Then I'm gonna go lower in this same double crochet and go between the legs of the stitch, that little v at the base of the stitch, I'm going to grab the yarn underneath and bring it up and slip stitch. Reach through bring it up and slip stitch. Again, through the top of that center double crochet, bring up a loop, pull it through the loop on your hook. Go through base of the stitch, through the two legs at the base of the stitch, bring up a loop, pull through the loop on your hook, right through the center, same thing, and then, working through these in the opposite way that you worked here, through the two legs at the base of that center double crochet, bring up a loop, pull it through the loop on your hook, the top of the stitch. So your just slip stitching to form a chain from one side of the square across to the other, and then you would chain the number of stitches recommended in the pattern and then do the same thing in the next square.