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How To Loop Stitch | Video Tutorial

If you have browsed around Hooked by Kati, you will know how much I love to use the loop stitch in my crochet amigurumi. This tutorial will show you how to do the loop stitch as well as loop stitch increases and decreases.

How to crochet the loop stitch, a video and photo tutorial for the stitch as well loop stitch increases and decreases. From Hooked by Kati

The loop stitch is my favorite stitch for making fur for a number of reasons.

  1. No weaving in strands after the fact! The loop stitch allows you to add fur as you go! It’s so much faster than threading it like fringe.
  2. Nice, even fur. The loop stitch allows you to create nice, even length of fur all over the body of your amigurumi.
  3. Versatility. The loop stitch can be done in every row, every other row, or is fits and spurts. It can be left in loops, cut into straight pieces, or even brushed into fluffy fur! All with the same stitch!

In my patterns, the loop stitch is abbreviated as “loop-st” with “inc” or “dec” after it as needed. For example, if you were to make 3 loop stitches, then done one loop stitch dec, it would look like:

“3 loop-st, loop-st dec”

Some designers also use “lp st” to abbreviate loop stitch.


Right-Handed Loop Stitch Tutorial

Left-Handed Loop Stitch Tutorial

This tutorial features Red Heart With Love yarn and is done with a Furls Odyssey G (4.00mm) hook.


Loop Stitch: Step By Step

  1. Insert hook into stitch.
  2. Wrap yarn front to back over index finger.
  3. Using hook, go over the yarn on the far side of your finger.
  4. Go under the far side strand and grab the near side strand with the hook.
  5. Pull the loop on the hook back around the far side strand the way you came.
  6. Pull the loop through the stitch.
  7. Yarn over, pull through both loops on hook to finish the loop stitch.
  8. Remove your finger from the loop.
How to crochet the loop stitch, a video and photo tutorial for the stitch as well loop stitch increases and decreases. From Hooked by Kati


Keep practicing and you will have it down in no time!


Now Show Off Your Skills!

I’d love to see your loop stitches! Take a picture and upload it to Instagram with the hashtag #hookedbykati or tag me directly with @hookedbykati. Your beautiful stitch work could be featured in our weekly newsletter!

Want to use your new skill in a few amigurumi patterns? Here are a few Hooked by Kati patterns that feature the loop stitch!

Have more questions? I’m always here to help! 

How to crochet the loop stitch, a video and photo tutorial for the stitch as well loop stitch increases and decreases. From Hooked by Kati

Yarn on, 

Kati

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7 Comments

  1. I have a question on the rounds. When I made the body I had the right side of the first 12 sc rows facing me and the loops on the wrong side but I worked in continuous rounds which means the top of the body came out wrong side showing with the loops facing out. Is that how it should be?

  2. I am just learning the loop stitch – I am working a pattern that says
    (2 loop, 2 loop in next stitch) (24 stitches)

    When I do what I think is right, I end with a lot more than 24 stitches.

    Can you offer any advise?!

    1. It looks like no one answered your question. To me, it sounds like the expanded version of those directions would be loop stitch in the next stitch, loop stitch in the next stitch, 2 loop stitches in the next stitch. Repeat 5 times. That gives you 24 stitches. Does that work?

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