Like every other basic stitch, trebles can be combined with other stitches to make interesting stitch patterns. They can be used in a variety of different ways and worked into many different configurations, including rows, squares, circles, triangles, and other shapes. In this tutorial, you’ll first learn how to work a treble crochet stitch. Then you’ll also learn how to work treble crochet in rows. Note that this is a right-handed crochet pattern. If you are left-handed, you will reverse the direction to work from left to right across the rows. See also: crocheting left-handed. However, you will yarn over an extra time at the beginning, which allows you to create a stitch that is slightly taller than double crochet. If you already know the difference between single crochet and double crochet then you will understand the similar difference between double crochet and treble crochet. You can work treble crochet in almost any yarn or crochet thread. It can be worked in rows or in rounds. Alternately, there are other ways you can get started; for example, you could crochet your treble stitches directly into fabric. Or you could work them into a piece that you’ve already begun. If that’s what you want to do, you’ll skip the starting chain and proceed working your treble crochet into the next stitch to be worked. The first four of your chain stitches will count as your first treble crochet stitch. When you crochet your next stitch, you’ll want to work into the fifth chain from your crochet hook. When you’ve crocheted across the entire row, here’s how the completed row of treble crochet stitches might look. This number of chains isn’t set in stone; it’s simply a suggested number of chain stitches that works well for a majority of crocheters under ordinary circumstances. There might be plenty of reasons why you’d want to work a longer or shorter turning chain, and you should feel free to do so if you like. Of course, if your crochet pattern indicates that you should use a different number for the starting chain, then you should follow the pattern’s instructions. From here on out, you can just keep repeating those steps ad infinitum until the piece is as long as you want it to be. Of course, as with other basic crochet stitches, you can work treble crochet into one loop only (front loop or back loop) to achieve different design effects. If your crochet pattern doesn’t state otherwise then you will work through both loops. At left, you can feast your eyes on a photo of the finished treble crochet stitch fabric.
