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Home / Crochet / Tutorials / Puffy Spike Stitch Tutorial

Puffy Spike Stitch Tutorial

March 20, 2014 · Rhelena · 7 Comments

Puffy Spike Stitch
Puffy Spike Stitch

The puffy spike stitch is an excellent stitch for adding beautiful details to both sides of your crocheted work. Although the stitch does look slightly different on the wrong side, it’s not that noticeable. Unless you look closely, you might not even see the difference.

The stitch is basically a combination of the spike and puff stitches. It is worked by going down into the rows beneath and drawing up loops. All loops are kept on the hook until the last loop is drawn up. The yarn is then wrapped over the hook and pulled through all the loops on the hook. The stitch is then closed off with a chain.

For this tutorial I’ll show you how to make it with five spikes. But if you wanted to, you could also make it with three or seven spikes. The concept is the same for all three – you just need more space to work the seven spikes than you do for the three spikes. If you want to see the variations, scroll down to the bottom for some images.

To the left you can see an image showing the right side of the stitch and to the right you see an image showing the wrong side. They are basically the same except for the slant is in the opposite direction.

Right Side
Right Side
Notice how the right side slants to the left and the wrong side to the right. Aside from that, they are basically the same.
Wrong Side
Wrong Side

Instructions

Step 1:

To make the puffy spike stitch make your stitches up to where the puffy spike stitch is to go. Skip the next stitch and place a stitch marker into the next stitch. I’m lazy when it comes to using stitch markers, but in this case you need a marker there in order to know which stitch to crochet into next. Otherwise the puff stitch will cover the area and you might end up guessing.

The skipped stitch is the center point of where the puff stitch is made and will not be worked into. This is the stitch from where you do all your counting to the right and left.

Skip a Stitch Place Stitch Marker in Next Stitch
Skip a Stitch Place Stitch Marker in Next Stitch

Step 2:

Count over 2 stitches to the right and 1 down. You don’t need a stitch marker here, but I used one to show where you will make your first spike.

2 Sts to the Right and 1 Down
2 Sts to the Right and 1 Down

Step 3:

With yarn over hook, insert your hook into the marked stitch (2 sts to right and 1 row below). Wrap the yarn over and pull through. 3 loops on the hook.

Yo and Pull Up a Lp - 3 Lps
Yo and Pull Up a Lp – 3 Lps

Step 4: Now count over 1 stitch to the right and 2 down. Again, I used a stitch marker, but it’s not needed for when you crochet.

1 st to the Right and 2 Rows Down.
1 st to the Right and 2 Rows Down.

Step 5:

With yarn over hook, insert your hook into the marked stitch (1 st to right and 2 rows below). Wrap the yarn over and pull through. 5 loops on the hook.

Yo and Pull Up a Lp - 5 Lps
Yo and Pull Up a Lp – 5 Lps

Step 6:

The third spike is worked straight down 3 rows below.

3 Rows Straight Down
3 Rows Straight Down

Step 7:

With yarn over hook, insert your hook into the marked stitch (3 rows below). Wrap the yarn over and pull through. 7 loops on the hook.

Yo and Pull Up a Lp - 7 Lps
Yo and Pull Up a Lp – 7 Lps

Step 8:

Moving over to the left now, count over 1 stitch to the left and 2 rows below.

1 St to the Left and 2 Rows Down.
1 St to the Left and 2 Rows Down.

Step 9:

With yarn over hook, insert your hook into the marked stitch (1 st to the left and 2 rows below). Wrap the yarn over and pull through. 9 loops on the hook.

Yo and Pull Up a Lp - 9 Lps
Yo and Pull Up a Lp – 9 Lps

Step 10:

The last spike is worked 2 stitches to the left and 1 row below.

2 Sts to the Left and 1 Row Down
2 Sts to the Left and 1 Row Down

Step 11:

With yarn over hook, insert your hook into the marked stitch (2 sts to the left and 1 row below). Wrap the yarn over and pull through. 11 loops on the hook.

Yo and Pull Up a Lp - 11 Lps
Yo and Pull Up a Lp – 11 Lps

Step 12:

Yarn over pull through all 11 loops.

Yo, and Pull Through All Lps
Yo, and Pull Through All Lps

Step 13:

Chain 1 to close the stitch.

Ch 1 to Close
Ch 1 to Close

Step 14:

Work your next single crochet into the marked stitch of current row.

Sc in Marked St of Last Row.
Sc in Marked St of Last Row.

This is the top view of the stitch. When you count your stitches it looks like you have 10 stitches in the row, but really you only have 9. If you look closely you’ll see that the one loop is smaller than the rest. This is technically the top of the spike stitch, but it’s much easier to skip that one and work into the stitches beside it.

Top View of Completed Stitch
Top View of Completed Stitch

In this image you can see that the tighter stitch sits directly over the puffy spike stitch.

Another View
Another View

Here are the three variations of the puffy spike stitch.

Variations
Variations
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Comments

  1. dawn says

    October 26, 2014 at 10:45 am

    Beautiful

    Reply
  2. rlape85 says

    March 18, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    Do you have a video tutorial for this pattern? that will be very helpful.

    Reply
    • Rhelena says

      March 30, 2015 at 8:03 pm

      No I don’t at the moment. Sorry.

      Reply
  3. maria says

    September 12, 2015 at 6:55 pm

    What the multiple for the Patten

    Reply
    • Rhelena says

      September 13, 2015 at 8:41 am

      It all depends on how many spikes and how many stitches you want in between the spikes. For this tutorial I did 5 spikes and I believe I had 3 sts in between the spikes for a total of 8. You can do this with 3, 5 or 7 spikes, and then have any number of sts in between to give you the look you want. :)

      Reply
  4. Ginny says

    May 30, 2019 at 2:43 am

    The stitch is lovely but is there an actual pattern for a blanket?

    Reply
    • Rhelena says

      June 1, 2019 at 3:23 pm

      Sorry not yet… It’s on my to-do list, but I’m not sure when I’ll get to it.

      Reply

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