Sadly this post is not devoted to my favourite dessert in Frankie and Benny’s (which brings back memories of my student days and lunchtime specials after half day lectures on Mondays). Nor is it about my ability to waffle on about random stuff (especially yarn) to anyone who’ll listen.
However, the waffle stitch could almost be described as ‘delicious’, if wool were edible and didn’t make your teeth squeak (I will never forget that feeling but it didn’t stop me chewing my jumper sleeves as a child!) It is a really easy stitch and works up very quickly as it only consists of treble crochet, with a two row repeating pattern. I tried a chart from a book first, but hated the way the ends of the rows turned out so I frogged it. I then found this tutorial by Bella Coco and I much preferred the way the row ends were straighter. It only uses a chain 1 to move to the next row, rather than the chain 3 used in my first attempt (the ends of the rows looked like they had small caterpillars attached!) I’m not happy with the last row of the square and if I did it again I would just continue the waffle stitch into the last row what than finish with a row of all trebles (I actually did half trebles as trebles made the square too big).
It looks like a super warm stitch for a blanket and I know it’s used for wash cloths too. I think I’d get bored if I made a whole blanket using it though! (I must work on my attention span.)
Have you ever made anything using a waffle stitch? How did you work the last row to make sure it was finished neatly?
It looks like a waffle!! I like this pattern! Got he munchies now though….
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Sorry about the munchies, it’s a nice warm pattern though. 😊
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I have never made anything with the waffle stitch, however I have seen it many times. I’m not really sure that I like this stitch, especially made into a whole blanket. The wash cloth wouldn’t make me happy either as I like mine smooth. I like the color of your square and the white border is very nice. Great post! 😃
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Thank you. 😊 I think it’d make a nice warm baby blanket for a winter baby but a big blanket would take forever!
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I’ve only attempted it once and didn’t get very far. I did think it was easy but it must’ve not been the right time because I just couldn’t get it to look right.
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I think it can be tricky because of working around the posts and stitches ‘hiding’ and messing up the pattern, it caught me out first time around.
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I’ve completed dish clothes with this stitch and love it…I think I’ll have to try it again! 😉
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I love how simple it is to create texture, crochet never ceases to amaze me. 😊
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you are quite creative in a lot of ways!
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Thank you 😊
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I have never used it but thanks for the tips. Looks great!
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Thank you 😊
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I’m looking at that waffle stitch thinking I could eat it. Never done it myself – which may be just as well as I my be disappointed with the texture if I try to scoff it down 😉
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Haha, I think you might be right. Best stick to the restaurant version. 😊
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I love Bella Coco’s tutorial videos! I used her video for a solid granny square. 🙂
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They are very good aren’t they. 😊
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I like that stitch it makes me hungry for waffles.😆
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Me too,; it’s a good one. 😊
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