Climbing Puffs Stitch | How to Crochet

[music] Hello everyone. I'm Sarah of Rich Textures Crochet and welcome. Today we're going to learn how to crochet the climbing puff stitch, which is a wonderful stitch pattern that you can see here. It features these uh puff stitches that climb kind of in a zigzag fashion up vertically up our fabric. This pattern is the same on both sides, so it's great for those reversible ones. And uh it's not too dense either. Today for the tutorial, I'm going to be using a 5 mm or an H8 crochet hook as well as a little bit of a worsted weight yarn. You'll see my swatch here worked in the 247 cotton by Lion Brand, which is a 100% cotton. Today I'm going to work it in the Heatherly yarn by We Crochet and Nitpick. And this is a wool blend yarn. Down in the description of this video, you'll find a direct link to the free instructions which are found on my website at richtexturescrochet.com. It's linked in the description of this video. Also down in the description, you'll find direct links to my two crochet books available on Amazon, a collection of my favorite stitches, as well as Barn Quilt Blankets, which is five beautiful blanket crochet patterns. Those are there for you to check them out. So, thank you so much for joining me. While you're here, I invite you to take a look around. Don't forget to subscribe. This channel is updated every single week with free crochet patterns and stitch tutorials. Let's grab our hooks and yarn and get started. Now, our stitch today is worked in rows, and we're going to start by making a slip knot. You're then going to work a foundation chain. And our foundation chain today is going to be a multiple of six stitches plus five. So, today I'm going to go ahead and chain 23 chains. Once you have that multiple of six stitches plus five worked, you're going to begin row one by working one double crochet into the fourth chain from your hook and then double crochet into each of the next three chains, including that starting chain three. You'll now have worked five double crochet stitches. Your chain three always counts as a stitch. You're then going to chain one, skip the next chain, and work one double crochet into each of the next five stitches. You're now going to repeat that all the way across. Chain one, skip one, double crochet into each of the next five stitches all the way across until you have four stitches remaining. When you have four stitches remaining, you're going to finish off the row by chaining one, skip the next chain, and work one double crochet into each of the final three stitches. chain three, which counts as a double crochet, and turn your work. For row two, you're going to work one double crochet into each of the next two stitches. You're then going to double crochet into the chain one space. and double crochet into the next stitch. Once again, including that chain three, you have a total of five double crochets. You're then going to work one puff stitch in the previous chain one space two rows below. So, we have our chain one space here. We're going to work our puff stitch reaching back into this space. So, yarn over, bring your hook back into the chain one space, insert your hook, yarn over, and drop a loop to the height of your double crochet. You're going to do that a total of three times. So, once, then yarn over, insert your hook into the chain one space, yarn over, draw up a loop, and one more time. Yarn over, insert your hook into the chain one space, yarn over, draw up a loop. You'll have seven loops on your hook. You're going to yarn over and pull through the first six loops. You'll then have two loops on your hook. Yarn over and pull through two loops. That is our puff stitch. You're then going to skip the next stitch and work one double crochet into each of the next three double crochet stitches. When you come to that chain one space, work one double crochet into your chain one space and double crochet into the next stitch. You're then going to reach back and work your puff stitch into that previous chain one space. Repeat that all the way across until you come to your final few stitches. Once you come across and have four stitches remaining, you're going to skip the next stitch and work one double crochet into each of the final three stitches, which includes the top of your starting chain three. That brings you to the end of your row two. Chain three and turn your work. Now for row three, we're going to work one double crochet into each of the next four stitches. including your chain three, you have a total of five double crochet. We're now going to work a puff stitch. And the puff stitch is going to be placed back into this little gap between your puff stitch and the double crochet right before it. So you're going to yarn over, bring your hook back, find your puff stitch, and then in the space between the two stitches, right before that puff stitch, work one puff stitch. You're then going to skip that next stitch, work one double crochet into each of the next five stitches. And then work one puff stitch back into the space just before your previous puff stitch two rows below. Repeat that all the way across until you have four stitches remaining. When you come across and have four stitches remaining, skip that next stitch and work one double crochet into each of the next three stitches. And that is all there is to working this climbing puff stitch. for here on after you're going to simply repeat your row three. Chain three, turn your work, work your four double crochets, followed by your puff stitch, skip one, work five double crochets, and then your puff stitch across to your final three stitches. And uh then continue on from there. And that's all there is to working this climbing puff stitch. So, thank you so much for joining me. Once again, while you're here, I invite you to subscribe, take a look around, and I look forward to seeing you again soon. Until then, happy crocheting. Bye. >> [music]