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For the circle zigzag, we use a square stitch to change the direction of our
circle stitches. So, before trying this,
you should've already done a square lanyard and a circle lanyard.
Start by doing the starting square stitch and then do eight circle stitches.
Now that I've done eight circle stitches,
I'm going to use a square stitch to change directions.
So, here we see that my red strand is on the right at the top.
So, I'm going to do a square stitch.
Now my red strand at the top is on the left.
So, now I'm going to do eight more circle stitches.
So, here we have these other eight stitches and they're going to the opposite direction
as the first eight stitches.
So again, I'll do a square stitch to change direction and then I'll do eight
more stitches. Then, I'll just keep repeating this process until I'm ready for the finishing
square stitch. Now, you don't have to do eight.
You can do any number.
I was just using eight to illustrate and I want to show one other thing.
As you're doing the circle zigzag,
you might forget how many stitches you've actually done.
So, I want to show how to count and this may seem a little tedious,
but it will be helpful.
So, the bottom, we can see our first,
well in my case, is my first yellow loop.
That was the starting stitch.
Then, if I count around, you see all the loops? That will tell me how
many stitches I've done. So, there's a starting stitch.
Then, there's the first circle stitch,
second circle stitch, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh, and eighth. This one right here is the square stitch to change direction.
Then, going the other way, one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven,
and eight. That's how you count the number of stitches.