If you like beautifully textured crochet stitches that are dense and don’t provide much space between the stitches (here’s looking at you Mr. “I don’t want holes in my blanket”) then the crochet trinity stitch just might be the stitch you are looking for.
The crochet trinity stitch is a beautiful and versatile stitch pattern that adds texture and depth to your crochet projects. In this tutorial on how to do the trinity stitch, we’ll guide you through each step of the trinity stitch, from starting the trinity stitch on the foundation chain to creating the stitch on a regular crochet row.
Trinity Stitch Abbreviation
This stitch is most often abbreviated in crochet patterns as: ‘trn st‘
Crochet Patterns From First The Coffee Crochet That Use The Trinity Stitch:
What Stitches Do You Need for the Trinity Stitch
To complete the trinity stitch you will need to know how to do a chain and how to complete the single crochet stitch.
Trinity Crochet Stitch Video
How to Do the Crochet Trinity Stitch
The crochet trinity stitch is made completing a single crochet in the first stitch of the row and then doing single crochet 3 together stitches across the row followed by a chain across the row until the last stitch where a single crochet is used in place of the chain one.
Instructions
Trinity Stitch on a Foundation Chain
- Create a foundation chain with an even number.
- Single Crochet in the 2nd chain from the hook.
- Starting in the chain that you just worked, insert your crochet hook, yarn over and pull up a loop (2 loops on your hook)
- Insert your hook into the next chain and pull up a loop (3 loops on your hook)
- Insert your hook into the following chain and pull up a loop (4 loops on your hook)
- Yarn over and pull through all 4 loops on your hook
- Chain one to close off the stitch.
- Continue repeating steps 3 through 7 until there are 2 chains left.
- For the last trinity stitch repeat steps 3 through 6, do not chain 1.
- Single crochet in the last chain.
Trinity Stitch on a Regular Crochet Row
- Chain 1 and turn your work.
- Single crochet into the 1st stitch of the row.
- Insert your hook into the stitch that you just worked, yarn over and pull up a loop (2 loops on your hook)
- Insert your hook into the next stitch and pull up a loop (3 loops on your hook)
- Insert your hook into the following stitch and pull up a loop (4 loops on your hook)
- Yarn over and pull through all loops on your hook.
- Chain one to close off the stitch.
- Continue repeating steps 3 through 7 until there are 2 stitches left in the row.
- For the last trinity stitch repeat steps 3 through 6, do not chain 1 after this stitch.
- Single crochet into the last stitch of the row.
