How To Treble Crochet Stitch (tr) – Learn Everything In Detail
If you want to learn how to treble crochet stitch in detail, have hook & yarn and follow along with this tutorial, where I will teach you everything about this technique in a few minutes. I hope you have already practiced basic stitches till double crochet. If yes, this guide will be easier for you.
I will tell the basics of triple or treble crochet, provide a step-by-step guide on increasing and decreasing, and provide a video tutorial and pictures. I shall also explain how to make taller stitches than the treble to bring your skills to new heights.
Treble crochet results in a beautiful open texture and taller the fabric quickly. That’s why It has a vast usage, so you will certainly need to learn this, and I will help you.
What Is Treble Crochet Stitch?
Treble crochet is the stitch taller than the double crochet but smaller than the double treble crochet. It belongs to one of six basic crochet stitches, resulting in a large stitch with relativly bigger gaps and more flexible. It will be more helpful for you to make the open or lacy crochet projects.
Abbreviation & Chart Symbol And For Treble Crochet
You can identify the treble crochet in the pattern by the abbreviation ‘tr‘ with the number you must do. Make sure the UK patterns have a different symbol as ‘dc.’ When looking at a chart, you can identify treble crochet by a long ‘T‘ with two sloped lines crossing the center chart symbol. Remember the right one; don’t confuse double and half double crochet.
What I Need To Do Before Treble Crochet?
Before you start treble crochet tie the slip knot and then add foundation row of chains. Then make 4 turning chains to start the new row of treble crochet to follow the tutorial. You will count the these turning chains as first treble crochet. Most patterns will certainly mention that.
How To Do A Treble Crochet?
Below will step-by-step instructions with pictures and video tutorial in the last to learn how to crochet treble stitch:
Skill Level: Easy
Materials:
- Practicing yarn – worsted and lightweight as I am using is best for beginners
- Crochet Hook
Step 1: Yarn Over Twice
Wrap the yarn around the crochet hook shaft two times from the back to the front (or yarn over twice!). This will help you to develop three loops on your crochet hook.
Step 2: Insert Hook To Next Stitch
As we already have done the turning chain, instead of inserting the hook into the fifth chain (skipping them!), you will insert it into the next stitch. In this way, you will get the required height.
See, the inserted shaft passed through, and there are three loops on the crochet hook due to the two yarns over before.
Step 3: Yarn Over Again
One more yarn over will be needed to develop one more loop in your crochet hook. So YO again.
Step 4: Pull The Hook Through stitch
Keeping the groove (hook!), grabbing the working yarn, pull the hook through the stitch.
See that Four loops on the crochet hook are available that need to be removed.
Step 5: Yarn Over Again And Pull Through Two Loops
Now Yarn over again and pull through only two loops on the crochet hook.
See, the crochet hook is passing through only two stitches.
But still, there are three loops left on the crochet hook that need to be removed unless one loop is left.
Step 6: Yarn Over Again And Pull Through Two
Yarn over again and repeat as you did in the previous step (pulling through the two loops).
Check: two loops are left on the hook, but we only want to be a slip knot.
Step 7: Yarn Over Agin And Pull Through Last Two
Last time, yarn over again and pull through both the loops that were left.
Finally, one crochet stitch is completed with a height equal to the four chain stitches.
Continue Working.
Now, you can repeat the 1-7 steps again and again and complete one row or round according to the number of foundation chains you have created until you start another row.
How To Start a New Treble Crochet Row?
Each time you want to start a new treble crochet row or round, you will only need to make 4 chains at the beginning. This is the same step as we did at the start of the tutorial but mostly done when starting a row or round. This will add the needed height for the treble crochet. Then, you can again follow the same 1- 7 steps.
How To Do Treble Crochet Increase?
Whenever you see ‘tr inc’ in a pattern, instead of making one treble crochet stitch and moving to the next, put two treble crochet in the same stitch. It will make the row or round wider. When following a pattern, you can see “tr inc.” Others may write differently, like “2 dc in same st”. But both will have the same meaning.
How To Do Treble Crochet Decrease?
Start the first treble crochet stitch in the next stitch space, but don’t finish it; leave the last two loops on your hook. Then start the second treble crochet in the next stitch space, and again, don’t finish it. You should now have three loops on your hook. Next, yarn over the hook and pull it through all the loops. That’s it! You’ve just turned two stitches into one, making that part narrower.
Are There Taller Crochet Stitches?
Off course! You can make stitch taller and taller, but it will become more flexible and spaced with increased height. Usually, beginners only need to practice 6 basic crochet stitches, in which treble crochet also comes. Usually, there are two more stitches, double treble and triple treble. As these stitches are similar to the treble, you can easily do them after learning the treble crochet.
Double Treble Crochet (dtr): It is taller than the treble but smaller than the triple treble. To do this:
- YO (yarn over) thrice.
- Insert Hook into sixth stitches, skipping five stitches.
- YO and pull up a loop. There will be 5 loops on the hook.
- YO and pull through two.
- YO pull through the other two.
- YO and pull through the other two.
- YO and pull through the last two.
Triple Treble Crochet (ttr): It is even taller than the double treble and is used when even more gaps and height are needed. To do this:
- YO four times.
- Insert Hook into sixth stitches, skipping five stitches.
- YO and pull up a loop. There will be 5 loops on the hook.
- YO and pull through two.
- YO pull through the other two.
- YO and pull through the other two.
- YO and pull through the last two.
