Learn New Crochet Stitches and Techniques With These Free Crochet Tutorials
We’re excited to pass our crochet knowledge onto you, ensuring that as many people as possible will continue to enjoy this amazing art and craft. With that in mind, I’ve collected links to a wide variety of our free crochet tutorials, and posted them all on this page for you to browse through. Whether you’re a brand new crocheter or an expert, these free tutorials will help you to learn new crochet stitches and also to discover other fun and exciting crochet techniques. Enjoy!
Crochet Stitch Tutorials:
Tunisian Crochet Stitch Tutorials:
If you’d like to learn more crochet stitches, check out this page featuring crochet stitch instructions. It’s like a virtual crochet stitch dictionary, only it’s free!
Tutorials for Learning Basic Crochet Techniques:
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 End Off in Crochet
- How to crochet overtop of yarn ends — This technique helps you to avoid having to weave in as many loose ends. (Coming Soon)
- 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
- FREE tutorial for how to crochet shapes using beads and wire.
- How to join crocheted afghan squares with whip stitch
Crochet Project Tutorials:
How to Crochet a Scarf
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.
How to Crochet a Blanket (Coming Soon)
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.
How to Crochet Borders for Blankets (Coming Soon!)
Borders can enhance the look of any crocheted or knitted blanket. This tutorial will give you basic instructions for crocheting a border, and you’ll also find links to free border patterns you can use on all your blankets and afghans.
Learn How to Crochet a Granny Square — Free Pattern With Tutorial
Granny squares are popular crochet projects, and it’s no wonder. They’re easy, they’re fun to crochet, and there are zillions of different things you can do with them. If you’d like to try making a granny square, check out this free granny square crochet tutorial.
Criss Cross Granny Square — Free Crochet Pattern With Tutorial
This granny square is a unique design with an interesting criss cross in the center. Learn how to crochet the criss cross granny square with this step-by-step photo tutorial.
Tutorials for Crocheting Flowers
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 (coming soon!)
- Multicolored crochet flower applique pattern with tutorial
- Tutorial for crocheting a small flower in embroidery floss or crochet thread
Tutorials for Crocheting Jewelry
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 (coming soon!)
Crochet a Cotton Dishcloth — Free Crochet Pattern With Tutorial Coming soon!
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.
How to Sew a Lining for a Pouch or Bag
This tutorial will help you add a lining to rectangular or square crochet projects such as purses, tote bags or pouches. I demonstrate the technique on a small checkered pouch, but the same steps could be used for lining larger bags as well.
Lining your projects isn’t always essential, but it’s really a good thing to do if you want to be sure that things won’t come falling out of the bag.
How to Crochet a Snowflake-Shaped Trivet — Free Beginner’s Pattern and Tutorial
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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.
Learn How to Fabric Crochet With an Easy Project
Crocheting with fabric strips is a little different than crocheting with yarn. The biggest difference: you have to work a bit harder to crochet with fabric strips, because you need to prepare the fabric before you start crocheting. This fabric crochet tutorials is helpful for learning how to use fabric strips from old sheets or reclaimed fabrics and transforming them into a lovely new project — in this case, a necklace, which is quick and easy to do; but once you understand the technique, you can also use it for crocheting larger projects like rag rugs, baskets and “rag bags” or tote bags.
See Also: All About Fabric Crochet
How to Crochet a Scarf
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.
Learn How to Crochet a Beaded Apple Shape
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.
So there you have it: Bunches of helpful crochet tutorials for teaching you how to do new crochet stitches, how to learn new crochet techniques and how to make new crochet projects. We hope these tutorials are helpful to you as you work at improving your crochet skills.
Happy crafting!
Learn More About Crochet:
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- Click Here to Learn How to Crochet; This Link Takes You to a Total Beginne’’s Guide to Crochet.
- Click here to find crochet stitch tutorials and instructions.
- Click here to learn more crochet techniques.
- Click HERE to Find Fabulous Yarn for Crochet and Knitting
- Click here to learn about crochet hooks.
- Click here to find my favorite crochet project bag.
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