Crochet Tutorial: How to Make a 3-Color Popcorn Stitch

Learn how to create the popcorn stitch using three different colors of yarn, with Molla Mills

Crochet allows you to express your personality, style and creativity in a colorful and tactile way. There are many techniques you can use to create your own, unique, piece, one of them being the popcorn stitch: a bouncy, bobble-type stitch crocheted into your design.

Molla Mills (@molla_mills) is a Finnish crochet pattern designer and author who teaches the delights of crochet to people all over the world. For the past ten years, she has also been spreading her love for the art through a series of books called “Virkkuri” - “crochet artist” in Finnish - which have been translated into ten languages.

In this tutorial, Molla will show you how you can add a sense of fun to your crochet pieces with the popcorn stitch.

How to crochet a popcorn stitch

What you will need:

- 3 different colors of yarn
- Crochet hook

1. Start with your foundation chain

Make a basic foundation chain from the main yarn you will be using. In this case, this is the lilac yarn

2. Begin the double crochet stitch

Hold the yellow and white yarn in the same hand as your hook. Then, bring the lilac yarn over your hook and insert the hook into the 4th stitch of the foundation chain. Loop all three yarns over the hook, but pull only the lilac yarn through the stitch. You should now have three hoops on your hook. Bring the lilac yarn over the hook, and pull it through the first two loops on your hook. Again, bring your lilac yarn over the hook, and pull it through the remaining two loops. Now, the yellow and white yarn should run freely through the stitching.

3. Create the popcorn stitch

Depending on the pattern you’re following, count how many stitches you should have before you start bringing the second color into the design for the popcorn stitch. This guide will show you how to count stitches. Once you reach your final stitch, pull the white yarn through. At this point, the white yarn should be the color around your hook. Within this single stitch, create 6 white stitches. Make the final stitch with the lilac yarn.

4. Make the popcorn stitch “pop”

Remove the hook from the final, lilac stitch, and insert your hook into the first, white stitch. Grab the lilac hoop with the hook and pull it through the white stitch tightly, to create the bouncy effect of the popcorn stitch.

Did you enjoy this tutorial? If you’d like to learn how to infuse your crochet designs with your own personal style, check out Molla Mill’s online course Crochet Pattern Design: Find Your Signature Style.

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