How to Crochet Puff Stitch – Tutorial For Beginners

Puff stitch makes one of the most beautiful textures in crochet work and is not as difficult. It is especially true when you have this easy puff stitch tutorial for beginners. In this guide, you will learn the procedure of crocheting puffs, revise the previous lessons, and learn amazing things about this stitch. After learning, you can implement this on blankets, scarves, and shawls.

How to Crochet Puff Stitch?

Although a little time-consuming, learning puff stitch is fun and easy; let’s learn how:

Procedures to Know before Puff Stitch

Half-double crochet: Although not exactly similar, puff stitch is quite like half-double crochet, made bulky by repeatedly pulling loops. Or you can say this incomplete half-double crochets. Let’s revise the half-double crochet:

• Yarn over (wrapping hook around yarn) before inserting the hook into the stitch.
• Yarn over and pull up a loop after inserting the hook. (in the case of puff stitch, you perform more yarn overs followed by pulling up the loop each time by inserting a hook in the same stitch again and again).
• Yarn over and pull through all loops on the hook.

Chain (for foundation and securing): Learn how to chain here.

Instruction for the Puff Stitch

Below are the step-by-step instructions on how to crochet puff stitch:

1. Make a foundation row of chains with two turning chains before you start the puff.
2. Yarn over and insert the hook into the space or stitch (according to the pattern).
3. Yarn over and pull up a loop.
4. *Yarn over, insert hook into the same stitch, yarn over, and pull up a loop.
5. Repeat * two more times.
6. Yarn over and pull through all 9 loops on the crochet.
7. Your first cluster and puff stitch are completed.
8. Now skip one stitch and repeat the steps from 1-6.
9. Then go similarly in the row.

If you want to learn more about crochet puffs visually, I recommend you to check the tutorial made by OkieGirlBling’n’Things.