Granny’s Knitting Shreddies

My grand-daughter had watched the advert on TV where Granny’s / Nana’s are sat knitting Shreddies cereal and asked me if I sit knitting Shreddies on an evening.

There isn’t a knitting stitch that would have the lattice open criss-cross pattern of Shreddies.  BUT there is a crochet stitch!  I had to spend a bit of time looking for my crocheting hooks, it has been years since I have crochet.

I knitted a stocking stitch square in dark brown Double Knit wool.  I crochet a chain the same width as the square and then used trebles and 2 chain spaces in rows till the work was long enough to cover 2 sides of the square.  I stepped the next row in so that when it was laid behind the first layer the trebles would show between the first gaps, like Shreddies are layered.

I continued until the work was the same length as the first Shreddies layer.

I sewed up two sides of the knitted piece and the sides and tops of the crochet layers, and sewed them to the top of the knitted pocket.  I used 3 lengths of the same dark brown Double Knit wool to crochet a strong shoulder length strap.

I crochet 2, 2 loop pieces, for button holes.  My grand-daughter choose 2 peach bow buttons.

Does anyone know a knitting stitch that you could do to make the layered effect like Shreddies?  Or is the advert false advertising?