How To Crochet The Easy Sedge Stitch + Video Tutorial
The sedge stitch is an easy stitch pattern that’s made from combining basic stitches. To make it you work a single crochet, half double crochet and a double crochet all in the same stitch.
Not only is it made with basic crochet stitches, the stitch repeat is simple and it’s also has only one repeat row. So you’ll quickly have this one memorized.
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This is one of my favorite stitches to work. It’s a great stitch for relaxing and easy crochet evenings. You can check out the Wild Lupine crochet washcloth pattern which features this stitch.
The Tivoli Purse crochet pattern works it up in the round. These are both great projects to work on with this stitch.
This is one of those stitches that would work well for baby blankets. Like the wattle stitch it has texture without too many holes. You can see what I mean in the Eileen baby blanket pattern.
More About This Stitch
The sedge stitch is highly textured and creates a more dense stitch pattern. It uses an average amount of yarn. It’s not quite the yarn eater as that of a bobble or puff stitch pattern. But it’s also not an open lacy stitch pattern which generally use the least amount of yarn.
The washcloth pattern I designed with this stitch only uses 60-90 yards of yarn. And the Tivoli purse pattern uses 319 yds, so less than two balls of Lion Brand’s 24/7 cotton!
You might also enjoy the spiked sedge stitch. There are lots of textured crochet stitches and some of them look similar, like the suzette stitch. But this one only uses two stitches whereas the sedge uses all 3!
Notes
Since the sedge stitch features all 3 stitches it’s a multiple of 3, plus 1. So chain to 3, 6, 9, 12, etc., and then add 1 more. How many you chain depends on how wide you’d like your project to be.
Stitches / Abbreviations
U.S. Crochet Terms
ch – chain
hdc – half double crochet
dc – double crochet
Skill Level
Beginner – Easy
Video Tutorial
Watch the video tutorial on my YouTube channel.
How to Crochet Sedge Stitch
Learn how to crochet the easy and textured sedge stitch.
Materials
- Any weight yarn, I'm using a #4 worsted weight yarn.
Tools
- Hook size to match your yarn, I'm using a 6 mm hook (US Size J-10) for my medium weight yarn).
- tapestry needle
- measuring tape
- scissors
- stitch markers
Instructions
- Start with a stitch multiple of 3, plus 1 more.
- Here I chain 25.
- Row 1. In the second ch from your hook place (hdc, dc) place st marker in skipped ch as it counts as the first sc and you will work the last stitch of the next row into it.
- (Row 1 cont.) Skip 2 ch, place (sc, hdc, dc) all in next ch
- (Row 1 cont.) Repeat step 4 across the row.
- (Row 1 cont.)When you have 2 chs left, sk next ch and sc in last ch, turn. (25 sts)
- Row 2. Ch 1,
in same st place (hdc, dc),
- (Row 2 cont.)*{Sk next 2 sts, place (sc, hdc, dc) all in next st}
- (Row 2 cont.)Rep step 8 to last 3 sts at the end of the row.
- (Row 2 cont.)Sk next 2 sts, place last sc in ch 1, turn. (25 sts)
- Row 3. Ch 1, in same st place (hdc, dc), *{sk next 2 sts, place (sc, hdc, dc) all in next st}, rep from *
until last 3 sts at end of row, sk next 2 sts, sc in ch 1, turn. (25 sts)
- Rep Row 3 for desired length of project.
- Cut yarn and weave in ends.
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