How to crochet the knit stitch & Knots Of Love

I crochet and knit, but, have completed more crochet projects because I find crocheting easier, and with  so many knit patterns I love, I've looked into  crocheting them instead.  My problem has been finding the equivalent knit stitch to crochet. Impossible?  NOT, thanks to  The Laughing Willow,  I believe she has invented it. There's a really clean look with stitches on the Surface Braid Hat she created. It's a really pretty beanie, or cloche hat as well as a chemo patient hat.  If you are up for the challenge, check out the Laughing Willow which includes a how to video.

Her blog mentions a wonderful charity, Knots of Love, where aside from money, crocheted and knitted caps for chemo patients and others facing life-threatening illnesses and injuries are donated.

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Five-Spice Hat - Crochet Me

Slip Stitch  is one of the basic stitches used in crochet. It has very little height and is usually used to end a row when crocheting in the round. That was the extent of how I used this stitch until recently when in my search for a cool free hat pattern I found the five spice hat in the above image where the main stitch is slip stitch blo and flo. "blo" a slip stitch in the back loop and "flo" is slip stitch in front loop.  As simple as it is, I always try to find a video preferably or a tutorial so I get it right.  There really is not much information out there.  It is as easy as it sounds but, I find as with all my crocheting it needs polishing....These two sites

Tiny Slip Stitch Has Great Possibilities - Crochet Me Blog - Crochet Me and  slip_stitch_crochet.html has another pattern and describes the Slip Stitch pretty well.