Top 5 Crochet Stitches for Beginners | Step-by-Step Tutorial

September 26, 2024

Learning to crochet can be overwhelming. But when you learn the most important and commonly-used stitches, it makes things a lot simpler.

When I was learning to crochet, I would often forget how to do each stitch so I searched for the same tutorials over and over again.

This video tutorial gives you a run-down of each of the top 5 most common crochet stitches as well as a step-by-step tutorial for each.

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In this video tutorial, I will teach you how to do the most common crochet stitches so you can stop searching for tutorials and just crochet!

My hope is that this tutorial makes it easy for you to learn the basic stitches so you have them memorized and at-the-ready when you need to use them!

Before you get started, make sure you download the Learn to Crochet for Beginners Checklist to keep track of your progress as you learn to crochet! You can access your checklist at the bottom of this post.

Without further ado, here is my tutorial for the top 5 most important crochet stitches...please watch and enjoy!

Psst... If you are left-handed, I didn't forget about you! Scroll down a little further for the left-handed tutorial.

Psst, psst... all of my videos use US crochet terms.

Top 5 Crochet Stitches for Beginners | Step-by-Step Tutorial

Left-Handed Top 5 Crochet Stitches for Beginners | Step-by-Step Tutorial

Hopefully this video helped you learn and memorize these very important crochet stitches. Don't worry if you don't have them memorized yet. Just make sure to practice on a regular basis until these stitches become second-nature!

As promised, here is the Learn to Crochet for Beginners Checklist. Make sure you download it before you leave :)