The crochet cupcake stitch tutorial will help you make a fun, lacey fabric made up of little cupcakes. The cupcake stitch is a double sided, colourful and quirky design. It is great for a variety of projects including blanket borders and aprons. The cupcake stitch will fit perfectly with themes such as baking, shabby chic, birthday’s and children.

How to crochet the cupcake stitch
The cupcake stitch crochet tutorial is easy to intermediate skill level. Its a 5 row repeat and to complete the tutorial you will need to know all your basic crochet stitches as well as knowing how to increase and decrease. You will also need to be confident at changing colours and skipping stitches. You can use any yarn with its recommended crochet hook size to complete the tutorial.
Tutorial notes
Supplies
- Any yarn
- Crochet hook recommended for your yarn
Abbreviations
USA Terminology (UK Translation)
- ch – Chain
- dc – Double crochet
- 2dc – 2 dc in 1 space (increase)
- dc5tog – Double crochet 5 together (decrease)
- sc – Single crochet
Notes
Change colors while completing the previous stitch
Yarn Colors
- A (pale pink)
- B (turquoise)
- C (yellow)
- D (hot pink)
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Cupcake stitch crochet tutorial
Row 1
- Use colour A (pale pink) yarn to begin
- ch multiples of 6 for desired length then start in 2nd ch from the hook
- sc in all chains
Row 2
- Continue with colour A (pale pink)
- ch & turn
- sc in all stitches
Row 3
- Change to colour B (turquoise)
- ch x 2 & turn
- dc, ch x 1 & skip 3 stitches
- (2dc, dc, 2dc, ch x 1 & skip x 3) repeat until 4 stitches are remaining
- dc in last stitch
Row 4
- Change to colour C (yellow)
- ch & turn
- sc in all stitches & ch spaces
Row 5
- Change to colour D (hot pink)
- ch x 2 & turn
- dc, ch x 4, skip x 1
- (dc5tog, ch x 5, skip x 1) repeat until 2 stitches are remaining
- dc in last stitch
Row 6
- Change to colour A (pale pink)
- ch & turn
- sc in first stitch, sc x 5 in chain space
- (sc x 6 in chai space) repeat until 1 chain space remaining
- sc x 4 in last chain space
- sc in last stitch
Row 7+
- Repeat row 2 to 6 until you reach desired size
- Fasten off & weave in ends