How to Crochet a Triangle

[@MsMatador7]

Thank you Benjamin...Your tutorial was very easy to understand; I especially appreciate the instructions at the end, where you explain how to do different shaped triangles...

[@emmastenhouse7299]

WOW! Thank you so much... I think I've watched nearly every 'how to crochet a triangle' video and kept ending up with a weird squashed blob. I set myself the challenge of making my daughter a dinosaur hat with spikes for Christmas... forgetting I don't know how to crochet 😆 I've just made my first perfect triangle thanks to you!

[@marymcnally8513]

great tutorial. The angle of the camera is really helpful. And thanks for the fast forward. Well done!

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Mary McNally thanks! You are welcome.

[@iAmSage17]

Omgoodness, this is the best tutorial that I could find on crocheting triangles! Thanks! Very simple and super helpful. I needed spikes for a dino I'm making ^_^

[@Loveleeloofalady]

Thanks you just saved my butt on a scarf I was making with tassels and needed a point.. Every other video did not show a proper decrease . Thank you . Great explanation.

[@fayhaskins6870]

Thank you so much! I found it easy to follow and understand your directions :) Can't wait to check out your other videos. What a find!!

[@irishredrose5145]

Benjamin, I can't thank you enough for your video. I am working on a princess blanket for my very first granddaughter who is due in Feb. 2016. I was trying to figure out how to crochet an umbrella. So, after looking at many of them, I figured if I crochet 2 or 3 triangles and turn them upside down I would have an umbrella after attaching them together. Thanks to your video it worked out great. Star

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

+Irish Red Rose Awesome!! Thanks for watching, please share your photos when you're done over on my facebook group!

[@arlenerogerswilhite]

This is the best yet!!! so simple. I love it! Thanks for teaching.

[@iannaomivause6474]

Great tutorial the only one I could actually follow. Plain and simple worked out great. I used it for a shark fin on my shark blanket so thanks heaps

[@ginginfarragher9932]

Thank you so much! I have been searching for different sized triangles for my project, and even tho there's common sense to the wider and narrower versions, I needed to hear the detailed explanation. I feel more confident now :)

[@janettekleynhans6409]

I'm still a beginner and struggled with triangles for a couple of days, thanks to your video I'm good to go! Very good video Thank you!

[@bismuththeanarchist7420]

I want to make a trioforce but before I can even think to do that I need to learn to make a triangle. these smaller ones have been hard but I found doubling the size helps me see what I'm working with easier and I think that's helping me actually get a coherent triangle rather than frustrated after 2 rows and not really sure which way I was even working

[@robertaspratley6675]

OMG YOU MADE Making a triangle so easy thanks for this wonderful video.

[@grumpygayguy3419]

I know this is a few years late but this is exactly what I was looking for to finish off a project I am working on :-D

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Great! Glad it could help!

[@lindahardingham5390]

Thanks for explaining how to make different sizes of triangles.. very helpful! I'm going to have a go at making my granddaughter a teepee for Christmas. :)

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Awesome! Thanks for watching.

[@giodrakes]

Thank you!!!! I watched a few videos before you and couldn't get what they meant, but your video is short, sweet and to the point, and now I know :D lol Thanks!

[@vijayagauri7988]

Thank you. Crocheting a triangle is very much simplified. Now I can do a fox's head and tail.

[@sydnicasanover]

So at the end if you count that last ch 1 as a row you should have a total of 12 rows correct? I'm just trying to make sure I finish it correctly.

[@MoMaryR]

To start, you chained 11 and then sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch to end right?

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Correct!

[@ginginfarragher9932]

I am doing a project where I'm incorporating in a 90 degree triangle, and I need to reverse it on the opposite side of the project. I don't want to flip the triangle because I want the stitches to look alike. How would you suggest I INcrease the row, -but in the same gradual, neat way and still be the same exact size? I have an idea, but you may have a better one! Thanks :)

[@lisawilliams9519]

thank you! I'm looking to try something new for a cosplay item, and your video definitely helped. I appreciate the tip for making them longer and shorter as well

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

+Lisa Sanger cool! Share your pics when you can!

[@HooliganGirl73]

what r u cosplaying? 😃

[@lisawilliams9519]

I was the pokemon glaceon. Ended up running out of time and bought a hat instead of crocheting the ears, but im still holding onto this video!

[@gretztx]

what do you mean by decrees?

[@Kimzeb0410]

Thank you Benjamin for your tutorial. I have to make a Jamaican Flag and your tutorial was perfect. Thank you again.

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

+Kimzeb0410 You're welcome! thanks for watching!

[@msbrown6407]

Kimzeb0410 can i see it?

[@Kimzeb0410]

I made the triangles but I didn't didn't use them. I wasn't able figure out how to incorporate them into the blanket. I'm saving the triangles for something else.

[@terrancecolligan3740]

What do you mean by decrease in the first two and decrease in the last two stitches?

[@emilymendoza2269]

Single crochet 2 together also read as sc2tog in a pattern. What you do is do like you are going to do a single crochet and instead of pulling the thread through to close it you go to the next stitch and draw up a loop in that stitch. Then yarn over and pull the yarn through all three loops

[@cherylhutchinson2206]

@@emilymendoza2269 Doesn't mean a thing to me. He should have shown us what it meant to decrease 2 together. If you are a beginner like me your instructions are as meaningless as his. Shoot!

[@dadscornerentertainment1102]

@@cherylhutchinson2206 i cant think of a better way to explain it, emily did a good job so i think your next best thing it so look up a video on how to do a decrease stitch. put your crochet hook in your next stitch. yarn over, pull through a loop and you'll be left with 2 loops on your hook. now put your hook in the next stitch, yarn over and pull through a loop. you'll now have 3 loops on your hook. yarn over and pull through all 3 loops on your hook. you just made a decrease stitch, which should leave you with 1 loop on your hook.

[@cherylhutchinson2206]

@@dadscornerentertainment1102 Nah. I am the kind that needs to DO this kind of thing to learn it, not watch someone else do it when they are already so familiar with it they assume you know exactly what they are talking about. I am an absolute beginner. I ended up asking this lady I know. She watched me do it and used a knitting needle to point to exactly where the needle should go. Lol. No I am not an idiot. This just isn't my thing. But I am enjoying it.

[@dadscornerentertainment1102]

Cheryl hutchinson sorry I was just trying to help lol glad you got it though

[@stephaniejohnson7637]

The sweater you have in the back ground, do you have a video on that, trying to make a sweater for my husband. Can you please let me know. Thank you.

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Stephanie Johnson Hi! I do have a 10 lesson course on that! Head over to Curious.com and find my video on how to Crochet a Raglan Style Sweater!

[@stephaniejohnson7637]

Ok. Thank you.

[@rachelbarkan9781]

My triangle looked like a regect tortilla chip, lol. Could you explain decreasing a little more in depth?

[@TheLizwho]

seems easy enough will give it a try thanks for the talk through I haven't been having any luck doing my cat ears for hats

[@melodielovescrochet8298]

Thank you. Love the way you cut your yarn. lol

[@potatomae7744]

did you just...break the yarn with your hands? 😐

[@justinekenner3763]

Do you have a written pattern. I need to make fins for my baby shark blanket

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

I do not, however if you follow along the video, it should be easy to figure out.

[@jessiweitl9856]

How do you "decrease?" That part wasn't too clear. Do I skip stitches?

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Hi Jessi, if you watch my second video, I believe I cover decreasing. What you are essentially doing is single-crocheting two stitches together.

[@pixielover4404]

thank you! this was very helpful, I used this vid to crochet cat ears. :)

[@eveconnelly7185]

hey, are you left handed or am i holding it wrong? x

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

I am not left handed, I am right handed :)

[@MillaloveHandmade]

Just what I was looking for! Thank you! Going to make some bunting :)

[@joyharris0417]

Can you show how to decrease

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Joy Harris I sure can!

[@MsDtoliver]

thank you you made it so simple 👏

[@LushMontana]

THANK YOU😻😻😻🎈🎈🎈🧸🧸🧸👍👍👍

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

You're welcome!

[@TealPetunia]

Thank you. I need to add ears to my Pinkie Pie hat. This makes that very easy. :)

[@beliamacias2958]

Lol thank you for teaching, n get in everything right on point. Some people just talk, talk, so much, or are so slow, n don't teach anything. Don't mean to offend. Anyway, thanks

[@barbarastarr1057]

Thank you, very good video

[@Bathna33]

Yay! Will try this for the kitty ears!

[@laceybaxter5424]

thank u soooooo much this really helped me ALOT! :) :) :) :)

[@hellofthewolf]

thank you

[@momalot61]

Now, I need to know how to put several together to make a circle?

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Roxanne McCulloch-Perry if you look at my video on how to crochet a hat in the round, you'll see how it is like seeing 6 triangles together

[@momalot61]

Hats in the round I can do. I'm trying to make an Umbrella corp logo, 4 red triangles and 4 white. Then put together with black. I can make the triangles but can't get them to fit together correctly. Ideas?

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Roxanne McCulloch-Perry oh! Can you email me! [e-mail]. I'll see what I can come up with :)

[@howardquinn669]

Bigger yarn and larger needle would add better visibility.

[@beeclassy4867]

Triangles are cool.

[@ob1183]

thank you 💗

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

You are welcome!

[@HCPF123]

Excellent! Thank you ;)

[@jadesak4896]

anyone tell you that you look like a young Mathew Broderick? Ferris Bueller's day off... I'm sure you get that all the time. anyway Thanks for the video, I had a hard time making a triangle until I saw your video!

[@skysin2321]

thanks for the video I have to make shapes for my anut ,she has her daycare

[@bloomerfilms]

Thank you for this! Going to make a d20 die lol

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Have fun! Remember not to over fill it like I did XD

[@janepipia]

Not helpful for some who is a beginner. How do you decrease? I would assume a person who knows how to decrease would be able to figure out a triangle with out a video.

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Jane Pipia hi there, thanks for your feedback. I believe I have a video on the basics of increasing and decreasing, but I guess I’m noticing not everyone is seeing that video first, my apologies!

[@heartfullbutterfly314]

I would just youtube search it, but I'll try to explain it. When written a decrease looks like sctog. Which means single crochet 2 stitches together. So when you are about to finish a stitch and have the 2 remaining loops on your hook. Keep those 2 loops on you hook and begin the next single crochet except when you are about to finish pull through all the remaining loops on your hook. I don't know how to word this without it sounding confusing so I'm sorry about that, but just know its a lot easier than it sounds

[@catfishtotoro.3549]

My triangle was 6 chains so the video was no help. It's not your fault, and I made a triangle in the end! :)

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Cat? Fish? Totoro. The great thing about crochet is that you can easily alter patterns etc. and reach the desired outcome.

[@agathepolard9778]

parler francai ou soutitre

[@wrgtb3083]

"This is when you start decreasing". But I won't explain or show that, even though it's the fundamental point of the pattern. I'll show you how to single crochet, which you should already know...🙄🙄🙄

[@ritakasparian2171]

I dont understand how u just did that thanks for nothing

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Hi Rita, if you could be more specific about what you didn't understand perhaps I could help you. Otherwise I'm sorry that you found this video unhelpful.

[@talmcgee3315]

Illuminati

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

shhh... Don't tell anyone...

[@annahall6519]

YOU CANT CROCHEY IF YOUR A BOY HOW ARE YOU DOING A TUTORIAL? WOW YOU ARE VERY DEFIANT WOW

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

A Hall I can't?? That's news to me! I should go back in time to 7 years ago and tell myself that....

[@annahall6519]

Benjamin Krudwig Haha sorry, I was kidding :) You're great, again sorry that was not a very obvious joke :P

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

A Hall haha :P Unfortunately in this wonderful world of KZbin, that was very much like a real comment lol. I'm just glad you actually know the difference between your and you're ;) Good try though! lol!

[@merrymary6542]

+Benjamin Krudwig I'm teaching my 10yo granddaughter to crochet and her 6yo brother wants a red afghan. I told him about Rosey Grier doing needlepoint during NFL breaks - Nobody messed with him! I'm going to teach Liam how to crochet next!!

[@idkwhatimdoing4563]

The ILLUMINATI

[@shaptastic25]

You're such a cutie!! Can we get gay married, and crochet together and call it day :):)

[@ala7075]

You can't just say what you're doing. It makes zero sense

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

What?

[@katrinavince1741]

hi benjamin, thanks for the video. advice : put the ball in a teapot as the yarn comes out the spout and unravels inside. next video can you zoom in on your hands ;-) thanks.

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

+Katrina Vince Great idea! I have a couple teapots that I am not using currently! I will definitely zoom in where I can! (It's always a work in progress I fear )