How to Crochet the Pansy Stitch -

Today I want to share with you a new stitch I discovered—the Pansy Stitch!

I was looking through a stitch dictionary to find a nice stitch for a cardigan pattern I’m designing, and I stumbled upon a cluster stitch that looked interesting. However, it didn’t quite fit the “look” I wanted for my design, so I played with it until I got the exact look I wanted.

Find the free crochet tutorial & instructions below, or purchase a print-friendly, ad-free PDF with 4 stitch patterns here.

A Unique Crochet Stitch

This crochet stitch has a lot of unique things about it, but I think what I like most is that you can see multiple different things in the decorative stitch pattern.

Some people have called it an angel stitch, a bow stitch, and I saw pansy flowers!

That’s what I love about crochet stitches so much. The eye can focus on different parts of them and see different things.

Anyway, I really like the way it turned out, so I want to share the stitch pattern with you guys!

You can scroll down to view the free tutorial, but…

If you want to put this stitch into action, I’ve created a cardigan pattern from it as well! This is one of my most popular patterns – see below.

Click here to make the Angelica Cardigan, which incorporates the Pansy Stitch!

Want to download and print this stitch pattern?

You can! I have also created a bundle of 4 lace stitch patterns on Etsy which can be found below. Included is the Pansy Stitch, plus 3 OTHER lace stitch patterns written out for easy printing. Find this HERE!

More Tips & Tutorials

How to Crochet the Pansy Stitch

All right, let’s get started!

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To get the PDF version of this pattern (+3 bonus stitch patterns!) click HERE

Watch the video tutorial for this stitch below, or keep scrolling for the written pattern!

Notes:

The stitch pattern is a multiple of 3+1 stitches
The first few rows are just in written instructions; the trickier rows have a full picture tutorial.

Materials:

You can potentially use any yarn and hook to do this stitch. Here is what I used:

Worsted Weight Yarn
G Hook

Special Stitches:

2-dc cluster: *YO, insert hook in ch indicated, YO and pull up a loop. YO, draw through 2 loops on hook; rep from * once more. YO, draw through all 3 loops on hook.

TR Cluster (tutorial for this stitch is included farther down): *YO twice, insert hook in next hdc, YO and pull up a loop, (YO, draw through 2 loops on hook) twice. Rep from * 2 times more, YO and draw through all 4 loops on hook.

Htr (half triple crochet): YO twice, insert hook in indicated st and pull up loop. YO, pull through 2 loops. YO, pull through 3 loops.