If you’re ready to take your crochet skills to the next level, learning how to double treble crochet is a quick accomplishment. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through exactly how to double treble crochet—slowly and clearly—so you can feel confident adding it to your projects.
How to Double Treble Crochet Video
Below is a step by step video showing how to double treble crochet. Click the video box below or head here https://youtu.be/tZyMnkBKO54
This tall, elegant stitch creates an airy, open texture that’s perfect for a lightweight quick crochet scarf or a lacy blanket
What Is a Double Treble Crochet?
A double treble crochet also called the dtr crochet stitch is one of the tallest basic crochet stitches. It’s taller than a treble crochet and is created by wrapping the yarn around your hook three times before inserting it into the stitch.
Because of its height, this stitch: works up quicker than the double crochet stitch, and creates a soft drapey fabric.
How to Double Treble Crochet Step by Step Tutorial
Step 1: Start with your required number of crochet chains.
Step 2: Wrap your yarn around the crochet hook three times. You should now have four loops on your hook (including the original loop).
Step 3: Insert hook into the 5th chain from the hook, and pull up a loop. You will now have 5 loops on your hook.
Step 4: Now you’ll work the loops off two at a time as explained below.
- Yarn over, pull through 2 loops → 4 loops left
- Yarn over, pull through 2 loops → 3 loops left
- Yarn over, pull through 2 loops → 2 loops left
- Yarn over, pull through 2 loops → 1 loop left
And that’s it—you’ve completed one double treble crochet!
Continue this into your next stitch and repeat. This creates a tall stitch that builds height quickly and gives the scarf that airy, elegant drape.
In this tutorial I am using Dollar Tree Yarn, and I love how this project turned out!
What is the difference between Treble and Double Treble Crochet?
A Double Treble Crochet stitch is taller than a normal Treble Crochet simply because we add an extra yarn over.
For a normal Treble stitch, we would yarn over twice before entering the fabric, whereas for the Double Treble Crochet we yarn over thrice before entering the fabric thus adding extra height to our stitch.
You can easily swap the Double Treble and just make this a Treble Crochet Scarf with a 3 chain turn instead.
Conclusion:
Double treble crochet might look complicated at first, but once you understand the rhythm, it becomes almost meditative. The height and elegance of this stitch can transform simple projects into something truly special.
Explore more crochet stitches in the Crochet Stitch Library.
