Crochet Tutorials

These free tutorials will help you learn the basic crochet stitches.

• Chain stitch tutorial
• Single crochet stitch tutorial
• Back loop single crochet stitch tutorial
• Double crochet stitch tutorial
• Half double crochet stitch tutorial
• Slip stitch tutorial
• Surface crochet slip stitches tutorial

Tunisian Crochet Stitches:

• Afghan stitch tutorial
• Tunisian knit stitch tutorial

If you'd like to learn more crochet stitches, check out this page featuring crochet stitch instructions. It's like a virtual stitch dictionary, only it's free!

These tutorials feature handy skills and techniques that you'll be able to use frequently when you crochet.

• How to make a slip knot
• How to work through the front loops or back loops of a crochet stitch
• How to crochet in the round
• How to crochet overtop of yarn ends -- Helps to avoid having to weave in as many loose ends
• How to carry yarn up the sides of your work when crocheting stripes
• How to change colors in single crochet stitch
• How to do tapestry crochet, a technique for creating colorful patterned fabrics with mid-row color changes
• Tutorial for working an easy beaded crochet technique
• How to join crocheted afghan squares with whip stitch

It's easy to crochet a scarf. What's perhaps not so easy: deciding on how each little detail of your scarf will look. All those decisions can get a little overwhelming! This tutorial will help you work through the process of creating and finishing a crocheted scarf.

Here's an overview explaining the process of crocheting a blanket, including insights about some of the different choices and decisions you'll encounter while making your blanket uniquely your own. Along the way, you'll find examples and links to free crochet patterns for different blankets you can crochet.

Would you like to learn how to crochet flowers? If so, you'll find these flower tutorials helpful.

• Tutorial for crocheting an abstract flower motif
• Frost flower crochet tutorial
• Flower applique pattern with tutorial
• Tutorial for crocheting a small flower in embroidery floss or crochet thread

If you'd rather work from a concise crochet pattern instead of a tutorial, be sure to take a look at this list of free flower patterns.

Crochet is a lovely medium for making jewelry. Some jewelry projects might seem a little tricky at first glance, but these tutorials will break them down step-by-step so that you can create your own pretty crocheted baubles and trinkets.

• Tutorial for crocheting a beaded necklace with dichroic glass pendant
• Tutorial for crocheting a layered choker necklace with flower

This crocheted dishcloth looks fancy, but it's actually an easy pattern -- especially when you can see pictures of each step in the process of crocheting it.

The edging is optional. If you want to crochet the edging, there's a free edging tutorial too.

If you do add the edging, the finished project works out to be a bit bigger than your average dishcloth. Sometimes I use mine as a dish towel instead.

I've created a free crochet pattern with tutorial for this beaded apple shape. You can use the apple design as an applique for embellishing many different types of craft projects.

This tutorial takes you through the process of crocheting beginner-friendly circle shapes, which you'll then join together to form a trivet in the shape of a snowflake. Metal bottle caps give the trivet extra height and dimension.