Crochet Stitches

There are thousands of varitions of crochet stitches. I hope to show you, relatively, just a few. From there on you can go on to experiment and design your own, or browse through the web for more ideas or buy or borrow one of the hundreds of books available on the subject (scroll to bottom of page)



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It is amazing and fascinating when you begin to discover just how many variations of crochet stitches there are. Just by altering the number of times you wrap the wool round your hook and when and where you insert your hook you can produce many different looks.

If you are new to crochet then go to Beginner Crochet to learn the basics.

Once you have learned how to hold the hook and yarn and how to make a crochet chain you can go on to learn the four most basic stitches.

Single crochet (UK double Crochet) Double crochet (UK trebles)

Half double crochet (UK half trebles)

and trebles (UK double trebles)

Just by adding more turns of yarn around your hook you can go on to make longer and longer stitches: triple crochet, quadruple crochet, and so forth.

Then, once you have mastered these, you have all the skills neccessary to work hundreds of stitch patterns and textures such as shells, bobbles, raised stitches, zigzags and circles.

You can also further alter the look and feel of your piece simply by using a textured yarn.

There are so many hundreds of variations of every stitch that I could not possibly even begin to cover them all, but there is nothing to stop you experimenting.

Further Reading

Or you can search the thousands of crochet books available at Amazon here

for US residents.

If you reside in the UK go to