Thermal Crochet Stitch Tutorial

Hi pals! Welcome back to the blog! Today I am showing you how to make the thermal stitch. I have a video tutorial all ready for you on Youtube (and of course you can just click below to watch it), and I have a written/photo tutorial for you here. This stitch was one of my top performing reels on Facebook and I have had a TON of requests to give you a full length thermal crochet stitch tutorial, so without further ado, here it is!

Oh, one more thing before I get into the how-to’s, what is this stitch even good for? Well, if I am being honest, it’s a yarn eater, which means it uses up a lot of yarn to get far in your project. So for me, I love to use up my cotton scraps and make thermal dish cloths or pot pads (I wouldn’t use them as pot holders, I just set my pots on top of them, but others have so if you want to that’s on you lol.)

The thermal crochet stitch is also a great stitch for sweaters, mittens, beanies, scarves, blankets (again, remember this uses up a TON of yarn), really it can be used anywhere you want a thicker fabric in your crochet. It doesn’t really get “drapey” and holds its shape well, and I think it’s an under appreciated stitch for sure. I’ll link a few patterns that use it below.

Step one: Make a slip knot and chain as many stitches as you want. I chained 12 for this example.

Step two: Single crochet in the second chain from the hook and in each stitch across. Chain 1 and turn your work. I have 11 stitches now.

Step three: Single crochet in the back loop of the first stitch, and each stitch across. Chain 1 and turn.

Step four: Single crochet in the back loop of the current row, and the unworked stitch from the previous row. Continue this across in each stitch, working through both rows. Chain 1 and turn.

Repeat row four until you reach your desired length.

To finish you have a few options. You can just finish a “row four” and then finish off at the end and weave in your ends. You can single crochet back across the top of the row, which will make it match the first row a little better. (That’s what I did in the YouTube video above.) Or you can insert your hook into the full stitch on the current row, as well as the unworked stitch from the previous row (that would put 3 “bars” on your hook), and finish your single crochet. This will “close up” the top and won’t leave any stitches unworked.

After that you just weave in your ends and you’re all done!