Learn to crochet the Waffle Stitch with this FREE pattern and video tutorial. The Waffle Stitch offers a beautiful modern texture making the Waffle stitch a popular choice for many projects. There are Right and Left handed video tutorials at the base of this post. Video errata: you should be making your first stitch into the third chain from the hook, not the second. This will give you 26 stitches at the end**
Pattern Use Ideas
Materials and Tools
- Yarn: I used in Sample in video: Debbie Bliss yarn in Fuchsia
- Hook: 5mm
- Scissors
- Darning Needle
Pattern Notes
Written in UK terms but switchable to US terms below.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Stitch Multiple: 3 + 2
This pattern gives you the basic principles for the Waffle stitch, designed to help you create your own projects.
Video tutorial can be found at the base of the post.
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Convert Pattern Terms
Here you can quickly switch between UK and US crochet terms. This will make following the pattern easier as all terms will be converted to your preferred version.
Terms and Abbreviations
Slip Stitch(s): ss(s): Insert hook, yarn over pull through stitch and loop on hook
Chain(s): ch(s): Yarn over, pull through
Double Crochet(s): dc(s): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, you will have two loops on the hook. Yarn over, pull through remaining two loops.
Treble Crochet(s): tr(s): Yarn over, insert into stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, you will have three loops on the hook. Yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through remaining two loops.
Front Post Treble Crochet(s): fptr(s): Yarn over, insert hook around post of stitch from front to back to front, yarn over, pull up a loop, you will have three loops on the hook. Yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through remaining two loops.
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Waffle Stitch Pattern
You are viewing this pattern in UK terms.
Chain in multiples of 3 + 2
Row 1 (WS): tr in 3rd ch from hook (skipped 2-ch does not count as st), tr in each ch across. Turn.
Row 2 (RS): 3 ch (counts as tr here and throughout), *FPtr around next st, tr in next 2 sts, rep from * until 2 sts remain, FPtr around next st, tr in last st. Turn.
Row 3: 3 ch, tr in next st, *FPtr around next 2 sts, tr in next st, rep from * until 1 st remains, tr in last st. Turn.
Rep Rows 2 and 3 until desired height.
Final Row: 3 ch, tr in each st across.
Fasten off and sew in ends.
Video Tutorials
Video errata: you should be making your first stitch into the third chain from the hook, not the second. This will give you 26 stitches at the end.
Right-handed
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Left-handed
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Have you ever tried making the Waffle Stitch in two colors?
I met an elderly woman that made a waffle stitch blanket for her grandson, but she only did it by memory & couldn’t explain how she did it.
When she did the blanket, it was in black & red. When you looked at one side, the ridges were black and the centers were red. When you flipped the blanket over the ridges were red and the centers were black.
I have been looking for several years and have not found any waffle crochet patterns that looked anything like that.
Thank you.
Hi Mary This isn’t something I’ve seen either, but I imagine you could recreate the look by using tapestry crochet – this is where you use two colours together and carry the yarns along so you can swap them to make stitches in either colour. It’s a difficult technique to explain but is actually very simple – if you look at my tutorial for the Summer Breeze Cushion you will see how it’s done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN8Yii_w0AA&t=351s
Any idea how to increase or decrease using a waffle stitch or diamond waffle? I’d like to make a shawl that’s straight across the back, without a line down the middle. So, half of a C2C blanket, I guess.
Hi Kristie It may not be possible to increase/decrease without an obvious break in these patterns due to the way they’re worked. If you wanted to increase you just need to work two stitches in one; I would do this either end on a wrong side row (so the pattern is facing away from you). To decrease you need to work two stitches together and I would also work these at either end
How many foundation stitches would I need to make for this? I am atrocious at working into a long chain and would like to make a waffle stitch baby blanket. Is it multiples of 3+2?
The waffle stitch is worked in multiples of 3, plus 4 for turning