This pretty crochet stitch remains one of the most popular crochet stitch tutorials here on The Unraveled Mitten! I’ve just updated this post with a brand new video tutorial for this fun stitch.
Updated 7/2020
Here we are in the last week of our National Crochet Month Celebration! I hope you have enjoyed all the stitches so far!
If you are new here, in celebration of National Crochet Month, every Friday in March I have been sharing a new crochet stitch with you. What better way to advance our skills than to learn new stitches right?
Week 1: Offset V Stitch
Week 2: Back and Front Loop Half Double Crochet
Week 3: Trinity Stitch
Week 4: Balanced Shell Stitch
This week I had a hard time picking a stitch to share with you. I swatched quite a few of them before I settled on the Iris Stitch. This is the same stitch I used on the lace portion of the Petoskey Lace Cowl.
I would qualify this as an easy crochet stitch. If you have mastered your basic stitches and want to move on to something a little more interesting, give this one a try.
The Iris Stitch is a great one for watching TV and crocheting. There is only a one-row repeat and beyond the foundation row, all your stitches are placed in spaces and not in a stitch. I love crochet stitches like this. They are so relaxing and easy to memorize.
This elegant crochet stitch would be great for a variety of different projects: blankets -why does my brain always go there first? Probably because I always wish I had the patience to make them haha – scarves, sweaters, it looks great paired with basic stitches as an accent and pretty much any other project you can dream up.
Materials
-I used Caron Simply Soft in the color Strawberry, which is a #4 worsted weight yarn
-5mm crochet hook
As always please feel free to use any yarn weight and hook combo you want!
Abbreviations
-I use US terminology
-ch(s): chain(s)
-dc: double crochet
-st(s): stitch(es)
-sp(s): space(es)
Notes
Ch 3 counts as 1 dc
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Instructions
Ch a multiple of 4 + 1, plus 2
Row 1: (2 dc, ch 1, 2 dc) in 5th ch from hook. *Skip 3 sts, (2 dc, ch 1, 2 dc) in next ch. Repeat from * across until 2 chs remain. Sk 1 ch, dc in last. Turn.
Row 2: Ch 3. Skip 2 sts. *(2 dc, ch 1, 2 dc) in ch 1 sp, skip 4 sts. Repeat from * across until 3 sts remain. Skip 2 sts, Dc in last. Turn
Repeat row 2 until your piece is the desired size.
That is all there is to it! Easy right?
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how many multiples of 4 (and +3 after that) should one use in order to get a nice size couch or throw blanket? what would be the final expected size?
It depends on your yarn and hook size. You might find this post helpful – Crochet Blanket Size Chart
I love this stitch. I was wondering how you do increases and decreases with this stitch?
I’m doing 2dc, ch, 2dc, ch, 2dc instead of 2dc, ch, 2dc every so often. At first it looks a little weird, but if you continue as normal the next row, it does work.
To decrease I’m doing 1 dc in a space, and then skip it the next row.
(There is probably a correct way to do this, but I just tried something and I like how it looks)
Hope this helps!
Thank you for this beautiful pattern.
I decreased my hook size to make it a little more dense like yours!! 🩷
The stitch is beautiful. Would you email me directions for joining your group. Thanks Linds
I just made this in a baby Afghan and turned out just beautiful… Thank you so much for being so giving..
I want to make this using 2 different colors. What would the pattern be?
Very fun and pretty to crochet 😄
I love the Iris Stitch, so pretty.
Thanks for sharing all of your ideas!
I am using this stitch for a shawl. My foundation rows are dbl crochet (row 1) and half dbl crochet (row 2). I started with the Iris st. on row 3. Do you have any suggestion on how I could decrease gradually?
Juanita
What is the best way to join a series of blocks made with the iris stitch?
Your beginning chain. How many for a twin bed.
I’d like to know as well. I guess I would measure in a twin bed. I have done that in the past and it works. Also how many yards do you think?
so really you are adding 3 to the end of your work
So at the beginning of this pattern it says “ch a multiple of 4 + 1, plus 2”. Does that mean to chain in multiples of 7? Or in multiples of 5 plus 2 extra stitches at the end?
Chain in multiples of 4 then at 3 at the end.
I read this ch multiple as a chain 4 plus 3. The + 1 gives room to turn your work and the + 2 brings your stitch to the height it needs to work the first row. I may have explained this differently, but it’s easier for .e to see it this way. Chain a multiple of 4, then the + 3 is the chain 3 that you will need to do at the beginning of each and every row. This is what gives you a border for each row. I hope this helps! God bless!
I am wondering how many skeins I would need for a couch blanket or I guess you’d say a throw.
Thank you
Ann
1,000 yards, give or take, in a 4 or 5 weight yarn will work up quickly with this stitch pattern. Start with at least 4 skeins, depending on the yardage of each skein and typically around 1,000 will make a good size couch or throw blanket. More yards, bigger blanket.
Love the simplicity of this pattern! Thank you 😊 Do you have a border that you would recommend for this, if someone wanted to add one?