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Crochet Guides

Step-by-step guides, tips and helpful resources to improve your crochet skills. From beginner basics to advanced techniques, find everything you need to create beautiful projects.

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Three crochet books stacked beside a spiral notebook of crochet notes, coloured hooks, yarn and a cup of coffee on a wooden desk.

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Every guide, newest first

Patterns, stitch references and technique guides, ordered by publication date.

5 guides

A crocheted toy octopus with a mustard-yellow head, cream tentacles and embroidered eyes, standing on a wooden surface.

Crochet Amigurumi

Crochet octopus: eight legs, nothing to sew on

An eight-legged octopus worked in one continuous spiral. The legs are chain curls worked straight into the base, so there are no limbs to…

BeginnerHook: 3.0 mm (US D/3) — assumed for the yarn below, not tested hereYarn: DK cotton, about 20 g for the body and legs (assumed); a smooth cotton hides the stuffing better than a hairy oneabout 3 min read
About twenty small crocheted charms in bright colours, including flower fairies, butterflies and worms, each mounted on a metal keyring and arranged on white fabric.

Crochet Keychains

Crochet ball keychain: one spiral, 4.5 cm

A small stuffed ball hung from a split ring, worked in one continuous spiral so there is no seam and no join to unravel.…

BeginnerHook: 2.5 mm (US B/1) — assumed for the yarn below; drop a hook size if filling shows through the fabricYarn: 4-ply / fingering cotton, about 20 g including the ring loop (assumed, not weighed here)about 4 min read
A green crocheted mandala doily with a scalloped edge, pinned out on a blocking hoop.

Crochet Flowers

Crochet daisy: five petals from a ten-stitch ring

A flat five-petal daisy worked from a ten-stitch ring. Each petal consumes exactly two ring stitches, so the last petal meets the first with…

BeginnerHook: 1.75 mm steel hook for the thread version; 3.0 mm (US D/3) for the DK versionYarn: Size 10 crochet cotton for a 4 cm flower; DK cotton gives roughly 6 cm acrossabout 3 min read
Close-up of a cream single crochet swatch showing dense, even columns of V-shaped stitches.

Crochet Stitches

Half double crochet (hdc): height, turning chain and gauge

Half double crochet sits between single and double crochet in height, with more drape than single and less gap than double. The method, the…

BeginnerHook: 5.0 mm (US H/8) with worsted, 4.0 mm (US G/6) with DKYarn: Worsted / aran, or DK for a lighter, drapier fabricabout 3 min read
Close-up of a teal crocheted round in progress on an orange hook, with green stitch markers holding the working loop in place.

Crochet Techniques

Magic ring: a start that closes completely

An adjustable starting loop that pulls completely closed after the first round, so a keychain or an amigurumi body has no hole in the…

Beginnerabout 3 min read

Every guide published on CrochetOasis, newest first. Guides are grouped into five hubs: keychains, amigurumi, flowers, stitches and techniques.

Every guide here currently carries the status Not yet craft-tested: the numbers are internally consistent and derived from stitch mechanics, but nobody has worked the project and measured it. The testing page explains exactly what that does and does not mean.