This free step-by-step crochet stitch tutorial shows how to make a treble crochet (trc). Sometimes this stitch is also called a triple crochet. It is similar to a double crochet (dc); you just need to yarn over one more time. It is one of the basic crochet stitches. The photo instructions below show how to make this stitch.
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Row 1
1. Start by chaining any number of chains. You will start working in the fifth chain from your hook.
2. So, yarn over twice.
3. Insert your hook in the fifth chain from your hook.
4. Yarn over.
5. Pull the yarn through. Now you have four loops on your hook.
6. Yarn over.
7. Pull the yarn through the first two loops on your hook. Now you have three loops on your hook.
8. Yarn over.
9. Pull the yarn through the first two loops on your hook. Now you have two loops on your hook.
10. Yarn over.
11. Pull the yarn through both loops on your hook. You have just made a treble crochet!
12. Make one more treble crochet in the next stitch.
13. Continue making treble crochets in every stitch until the end of the row.
14. At the end of the row chain four.
Row 2
15. Turn your work around. Chain four counts as a stitch. So, you will start working in the second stitch.
16. Make a treble crochet in the second stitch.
17. Continue working in the same way until the end of the row.
18. Make the last stitch in the turning chain of the previous row. For the rest of the pattern repeat row 2.
Finished treble crochet
19. Done!
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