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how do you make a crossed ripple stitch?

I am doing the 63 easy to crochet pattern stiches and just cant figure out this one.

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1. I think I have that book. Hold on and I will look for you. *EDIT* There is a little illustration in my book. It looks like you have to go back a few stitches to make the crossed stitch. Here is what my instructions say: Ch 27 loosely. Row 1: Sc in second ch from hook and in each ch across: 26 sc. Row 2: Ch 3 (counts as first dc, now and throughout), turn. * [Skip next two sc, dc in next sc, ch 1, working around dc just made, dc in first skipped sc (Cross St just made)]; repeat from * across to last sc, dc in last sc: 8 cross sts. So how I read this is after you chain 3 and turn your work, skip the first two single crochet and make a double crochet in the third single crochet from the end. After you do that, chain 1, then yarn over your hook. Go back to the first skipped single crochet (which would be the one next to the chain 3 or last double crochet) and just make a double crochet like you normally would--only in this case it will be crossed over and the stitch will be a little longer. I see that by row four, you are doing something slightly different, so I will try to explain that too. All you are doing there is making a long double crochet. It's a double crochet, but instead of making it on the row you are on, you are just making it a few rows down. In this case, you have to go around the post of the double crochet you made the crossed stitch over (or the one under the crossed stitch), but it has to be the one that is TWO rows down (or in the last row you made double crochets on). Be careful not to go through the stitch, you want to go around it. (In my book, this is the stitch that has the illustration.) If you are still having problems, let me know and I will add more to this if I can.