The Block Crochet Stitch is a perfect basic stitch for every single crocheter to learn. It is a fairly easy stitch and creates a colorful and unique design!
The block stitch builds up really quickly and you’ll have a blanket before you know it. The stitch is beginner friendly and, despite being ideal for blankets, it’s much more versatile than that. This simple stitch is also known as the Chocolate Box, or plain Box Stitch. It is a combination of single and double crochet stitches with a chain stitch in between.
Depending on which colors you use, the variations are endless. You can use this beautiful crochet stitch for so many things including blankets, washcloths, scarves and more.
How to do the Block Crochet Stitch:
- First, make a chain in a multiple of 3+1
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row one, turn your work and crochet one single crochet in the second chain from your hook, and another single crochet in the next chain along. Then chain two. Now skip two chain stitches from the foundation row and single crochet into the next chain stitch. Then chain two, and then put a single crochet into the next chain. Then chain two again, and continue the pattern of one single crochet, two chains, until you come to the last stitch. Put a single crochet into the last chain of the row. Turn your work and chain two.
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For row two, double crochet into the base of that chain two, your turning chain. After that, you will simply put three double crochets into every two chain space from the row below. Finish the row by putting one double crochet into the last stitch.
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For row three, chain one. You may want to change yarn color for this row, so either finish off the previous yarn with a tail of an inch and a half, and join the new yarn with a slipknot, or yarn over with the new yarn and stitch it in to anchor. Then put one single crochet into the chain one. Next, you’ll single crochet into the space between the double crochet groups on the previous row. Then chain two, and single crochet in the space between the next two groups of double crochets. You’ll finish the row off with a single crochet into the last stitch, and you may well want to change yarn colors again at this point, either going back to your original shade or joining a contrasting color.
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The next row is row four, which you’ll start off by chaining two and turning. Double crochet into the base of the chain two. Then it’s three double crochets in the two chain space from the previous row.
Thanks to Hopeful Honey for the video.
