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How to Crochet the Bobble Stitch: Written and Video Tutorial

ByAshlea

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The Bobble Stitch is a great, fun crochet stitch that will add pizzazz to your next crocheted piece. It’s easier than it sounds, so grab your hook and let’s get started!

How to Crochet the Bobble Stitch

How to Crochet the Bobble Stitch

When crocheting the bobble stitch, we are pulling up a series of loops that we will then pull through all at once. Since the bobbles are worked on the “wrong” side of the fabric, this makes the stitch puff out on the opposite side of the work, making it into a little “bobble”. We can use these bobbles to create designs, spell words, or just to add a bit of flare to crochet. This stitch is a bit of a yarn eater, but it’s so worth it. Isn’t it pretty?!

How to crochet the gorgeous bobble stitch

Bobble Stitch Written Tutorial

1. Yarn over, insert your hook into the next stitch and pull up a loop. Yarn over, pull through two loops. (This is essentially completing the first half of one double crochet stitch – you should now have two loops on your hook.)

2. Repeat number one in the same stitch/space until you have a total of 6 loops on your hook.

3. Yarn over, pull through all 6 loops at once. (It helps to keep this part a bit tighter than the rest.

4. Single crochet in next stitch.

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Bobble made!

Each bobble stitch is followed by another, shorter stitch (the single crochet) because that will help that bobble really “pop” through to the other side.

How you start the next row will depend on what pattern you are following. Some patterns call for Double Crochet while others call for Half Double, or even a single row or Single Crochet if the bobbles are intended to be very close to one another. The taller that row in between each bobble row, the farther apart the bobbles will be.

Want to see the bobble stitch in action? Here’s a VIDEO tutorial!

Bobble Stitch Video Tutorial

If you would rather watch this video on YouTube, you can find it on my channel here. Don’t forget to subscribe while you’re there!

I am using the Bobble Stitch in my stitch sampler blanket pattern, Creighton’s Blanket. This blanket is completely customizable, simply crochet as many squares for the size indicated here, and then connect the squares, slap a border on it, and call it a blanket. So fast, so easy, and an awesome project for those warm summer months when you don’t want to work on a large project.

Creighton's Blanket crochet pattern draped over a crib side.

More crochet stitch tutorials:

The Mini Bean Stitch (Elizabeth Stitch)
How to Crochet: Foundation Half Double Crochet
Tunisian Simple Crochet Tutorial
How to Crochet the Moss Stitch (Written and Video Tutorial)

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16 Comments

  1. Good day. Thank you for the tutorial on the bobble stitch. I crochet blankets for my Grandbabies with their names etc on them. I do one sc between every letter but it often ends up with the blanket being a bit wavey. What am I doing wrong? Regards Lyn
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  3. Hi, if I wanted to make a bigger square, could you please let me know what multiples to use that will work with your square pattern.
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  5. I found multiple bobble stitch tutorials and felt a little overwhelmed (I suck at crochet), but your sample was easily the best aesthetically, and your video explained it the clearest. I got it down in one go and didn't have to re-watch for the second bobble, thank you, you're awesome!
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  6. Hi there! I have been making these squares to do my own sampler blanket and all of the. Bobble squares come out slightly slanted and not perfectly square. Is this normal? Or might I be doing something wrong? Thank you!
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  7. Ashlea, I love your pattern and am excited about starting it but have a question about the type of yarn you used and where you purchased it. I’m making the baby blanket and want to use the exact same colors of Midnight blue/silver. Im assuming it’s not baby yarn. What is your recommendation to use and where do you find it. This is for my new grandchild on the way and I want it to be perfect.
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  9. Hi, I love your blanket. Would you please let me know which stitch you used in your dish cloth example- the bobble stitch, the single crochet right afterward then start the bobble stitch again - right after the single crochet- correct? Then you mention that we can choose whether we would like to do a subsequent row of single, or double crochet. Which did you use in this subsequent row in your bible stitch sampler and video? Have you ever tried a triple crochet here? I like your sampler- would you tell me what stitch you used in the subsequent row? Would it be possible to send me the written pattern, please?
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  10. Thank you so much for the tutorial on the bobble stitch. Now that I have watched you do it I find it IS easy, but I watched some others before this and they went so fast and explained nothing. Left my head spinning. Again many thanks.
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  11. The bobble stitch was what I use on a baby blanket but ended up re starting on the right side for every row having to sew the loose ends in . Thought there must be a way to work this stitch so the bobble was always on the front ,on one side. You have shown me the easy way to do it , thankyou .
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    1. Hi Penny! I'm assuming you are asking about the blanket pattern...in which case, I will have an ad-free version soon.
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