14-Day Learn to Crochet—Treble Crochet

Hi, welcome back to the 14 day Learn to Crochet series. I'm Brenda K.B. Anderson and in this video, I'm gonna be showing you how to work the treble crochet. Treble crochet is also sometimes called triple crochet, so watch out for that. It could be either way in the pattern and they mean the same thing.

So, this is a swatch of treble crochet. You can see it's even a little more tall than the double crochet stitches that we did in the last video. So the taller stitches mean there are larger holes between and lots of drape, very drapey. So, to begin a treble crochet swatch, we are going to chain 10 stitches. You can chain whatever you like and if you're working on the dishcloths then I would chain 16 stitches just like in the previous videos, one two three four five six seven eight nine ten.

And because the treble crochet is taller, you guessed it, the turning chain is also going to be taller. So for a treble crochet, you need to chain four stitches for the turning chain, so one two three four. And like we talked earlier, if your turning chains are, kind of, bagging out and pulling away from your fabric, then you might wanna try chaining one less. So in this case, you would just chain three chains for your beginning chain for your treble crochet or you can try making your chains a little bit tighter. So we chained four chains for a treble crochet, turning chain.

So that's one two three four. So those are your turning chain and we're gonna work into the fifth chain from the hook. So we're gonna yarn over twice, one two and then we're gonna insert our hook underneath that fifth stitch from the hook, yarn over one more time, pull up the loop and then we're gonna yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two. So we, you probably noticed we did that three times for the treble crochet, treble which sounds like a triple, which means three. So that's how I remember how many times...

how to make the stitch, how to make a treble crochet. So let's do that again. We yarn over twice, one two and we're gonna insert our hook, front-to-back under that back bump, yarn over, pull up the loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two, there's your treble crochet. And like the other swatches that we made, I mentioned, you know, I like to work into that back bump of the foundation chain. You could be working into the top, it doesn't make a difference.

You choose which way you want to do it. All right, so we'll make another treble crochet, yarn over twice, insert hook, yarn over, pull up the loop. And now we're gonna do this step three times. Yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two. Right, so we'll work that all the way across our chain.

Just remember to start with the two yarn overs. All right, so we've worked all the way across our chain and it's really easy to count these stitches because there's so much air between each stitch. So, if you were counting your stitches, you would count one two three four five six seven eight nine ten. You know, if you were counting your turning chain as a stitch, that would be 11 but I'm not counting my turning chain here. However, if you did wanna work...

if you did wanna count your turning chain as a stitch, this is how you would do it. So we're gonna chain one two three four, there's your turning chain and you would skip that first stitch, if you're counting your turning chain as a stitch and then you'd go into the stitch. So wrap it twice, insert hook, pull up the loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two. So that is what that looks like. See, there's a little bit of a bigger gap there because this turning chain isn't quite as thick as one of the treble crochet stitches.

So if you didn't like how that looked, you could, instead of counting your turning chain, as though it were stitch you would just work in the first stitch right here and you're turning chain is just turning chain, it doesn't count. So, you yarn over twice and then we're gonna work in that first V there. So, these are all part of your turning chain, that one right there is where we're working, one two three. So you can see what that looks like there, they're a little closer to each other. We'll do another treble crochet here, one two three and another one, one two three.

And so what happens if you want to increase in treble crochet, if you wanna add stitches across? So, it's just the same as the other stitch patterns. You're just gonna put two stitches or however many the pattern tells you, into the next stitch. So we're gonna do two stitches in this treble crochet. So, yarn over twice, insert hook, pull up the loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two and then repeat the same process all working into that stitch.

Pull through two, pull through two, pull through two, so we've just increased. So there's two stitches now worked into one stitch. We'll do that one more time. One two three, yarn over twice, insert, pull up the loop and one two three. So there, you can see that this is starting to, kind of, bend our fabric because we're adding more stitches across here, they need a place to go.

So, that is how you would increase, when you're working in treble crochet. If you wanted to decrease, we'll just back up a little bit here. If you wanted to have fewer stitches because you're working in something wider and you want it to become narrower, then you would work like this. Yarn over twice, just like you do in a normal treble crochet then you insert your stitch or you insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop. And then you're going to hold back that last yarn over of the stitch, so it'll look like this.

So you'll yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two and then you're gonna stop. Then you're going to repeat that same process but into the next stitch here. So you'll yarn over twice, insert your hook, yarn over, pull up the loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two and then stop and you should have three loops on your hook. Then you yarn over and pull through all three. That connects those two stitches together into one stitch right there.

So if you look at the top of it, there's a one stitch, there's a one V right there. And if you look at the bottom, it's got two legs going down into those stitches. So let's do that one more time. So we'll yarn over twice, insert your hook, yarn over, pull up the loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two and stop. Yarn over twice, insert your hook into the following stich, pull up the loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two and stop.

And then you're going to do one more yarn over and pull through everything, all three. So we've done two treble crochet, decrease stitches. This is also known as treble crochet two together which is abbreviated tr and then the number two and then tog, tog stands for together. So trouble crochet two together. So, if you are working on your dish cloth swatches, you're going to chain 16 stitches and then you'll add your turning chain of either three or four stitches and then you'll work back and forth in turn rows in the treble crochet stitch pattern until it becomes a square.

And then after that, you're going to work the same single crochet edging that we've worked in the previous videos about making the edging for your dish cloth swatches. And then you will end up with a lovely dishcloth swatch that looks just like this. And after you have practiced a bit with the treble crochet or made your dishcloth swatch, then please join me for the next video where we're gonna learn how to make a cowl. And in that video, you're going to be able to practice all of the stitches and techniques that you've learned so far. So make sure that you've watched videos one through eight before you move on to the next lesson.