Triple Crochet Increase
Corrina FergusonThe treble crochet stitch (aka the triple crochet stitch) is a tall and airy stitch. It’s commonly used in lace patterns and is the perfect stitch to incorporate into a crocheted lace edging. When working a pattern in treble crochet, sometimes a bit of shaping needs to happen. Increases and decreases are used in order to help a piece take shape. In this video, Corrina Ferguson will go over how to work a treble crochet increase.
To work a treble crochet increase, follow these steps:
- Yarn over twice, from back to front
- Insert hook into stitch from front to back
- Yarn over and draw through a loop (4 loops on hook)
- Yarn over and draw through 2 loops (3 loops on hook)
- Yarn over and draw through 2 loops (2 loops on hook)
- Yarn over and draw through 2 loops (1 loop remains on hook and the treble crochet stitch has been created)
- Yarn over twice, from back to front and bring your hook under both legs of the stitch originally worked into, from front to back.
- Yarn over and draw through a loop (4 loops on hook)
- Yarn over and draw through 2 loops (3 loops on hook)
- Yarn over and draw through 2 loops (2 loops on hook)
- Yarn over and draw through 2 loops (1 loop remains on hook and the second treble crochet has been created; 1 stitch increased.
Once the first treble crochet is completed, it’s easy to see where to work to go back into the same stitch to increase because the space has become slightly larger from the first stitch being created in it. As stitches are increased, the shape of the fabric will change and will begin to get wider.
This video follows US crochet terminology.
The triple crochet stitch is one of my favorites. It's fun to make. It makes a beautiful open area fabric, and it's easy to work with. Hi, I'm Corrina Ferguson, and in this video, I'm gonna show you how to increase in triple crochet. So, we wanna know how to increase in triple crochet, or how to work a triple crochet increase.
And a triple crochet increase is just like any others that you've worked. You basically work a triple crochet twice into the same stitch. So, I've got a couple of rows of triple crochet here and I'm gonna show you how to work the increase. So, I've already done a few triple crochets at the beginning of the row, just so we can get to a point where we're ready to work the increase, which is the two triple crochets in one stitch. So to work the triple crochet, the first one we work as follows.
We've got our hook, one loop on it. We yarn over twice. So now we have three strands on the hook. We take the hook, insert it into the stitch from front to back, just like normal. We yarn over and pull through that loop.
We now have four strands or loops on the hook. And we yarn over, pull through two once, yarn over, pull through two twice, yarn over, pull through two three times. And that's how I kind of keep track of myself to make sure I'm working a triple crochet. I have to do that pull through two maneuver three times to make it a triple crochet. And to do the increase, we're just gonna work a triple crochet again, in the same spot.
And you can see that spot that we just worked into is kind of enlarged? So, yarn over twice, hook into the stitch, pull through that loop, four on the hook, yarn over, pull through two once, yarn over, pull through two twice, yarn over, pull through two three times. And I'm gonna work a couple more just plain triple crochets, so that we can get a little space from these ones that we just did. And then I wanna walk you through doing it again, 'cause the more you practice, the easier it gets. So, finishing my triple.
I got a space that I wanna do an increase in. Got my loop on my hook. Yarn over twice. Hook into the stitch front to back, making sure, of course, that we have both strands of the stitch in there. We yarn over, pull through one.
We've got four on the hook. Yarn over, pull through two once. Yarn over, pull through two twice. Yarn over, pull through two three times. And we're going back into that same stitch to work the increase.
So we yarn over twice on our hook. Go into the same stitch. Pull through that loop. One and then two, and then three times, we come through the two. And then we have our increase, and I'm gonna take the hook out, just to show you.
So here, down in the bottom, we have all of our normal triple crochets into the others. And then here you can see, this is the first increase that we did. There are two triple crochets in the same stitch, which is going to add to our stitch count for future rows. Same over here. I did two triple crochets into the same stitch, and that will increase our stitch count with a triple crochet increase.
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