Crochet Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch Tutorial with Video – Day 2 of Advent Calendar MCAL 2025
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Learn the crochet extreme drop leaf stitch to add a cozy, unique falling leaves effect to your projects. This free tutorial includes step-by-step written instructions, a video tutorial, and free crochet patterns to practice with.
It’s time to kick off this year’s Advent Calendar Mystery Crochet Along. This year, we’re keeping things fun with a simple 3-day rotation: Day 1 is a giveaway, Day 2 is a stitch tutorial, and Day 3 is a free crochet pattern using the stitch from the day before. Then the cycle starts again and continues right up until December 24th. Each day will be a fun holiday surprise for crochet lovers!
The first stitch tutorial in this year’s line-up is the Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch, one of my favorite textured stitches. It creates a beautiful, unique “falling leaves” look that feels both festive and cozy, perfect for holiday makes or anything you want to give a little extra charm. Even though it looks fancy, it’s much easier to work than you might expect, so you get that “wow” factor without the stress. Plus, using two contrasting colors makes the leaf shapes pop even more, giving your work a unique look that really grabs attention.
This tutorial comes with easy-to-follow written instructions and a full video tutorial, making it super simple for beginners or anyone trying this stitch for the first time. I’ll walk you through each step so you can learn at your own pace and feel confident as you go.
And when you’re ready to practice your new skills, you can find a mystery free crochet pattern that use the Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch on my blog tomorrow as part of my Advent Calendar Mystery CAL. You’ll either get free-to-view access to the zipper pouch, basket, or snowman lovey. If you want all 3, grab the ebook here to get all 24 patterns with the 8-stitch tutorials instantly.
All Advent Calendar Mystery CAL Stitches + Patterns
This Holiday Season is very special! The Advent Calendar Mystery Crochet Along includes 8 free stitch tutorials (with videos), 8 free crochet gift patterns, and 8 giveaway days with lots of prizes. But there are actually 24 patterns. But you don’t know which day each stitch tutorial and which 1 of the 3 stitch-related patterns gets published on the following day.
But you can get all of them (8 stitches and 24 patterns) with instant access right now as an AD-FREE and PRINTER-FRIENDLY ebook. Use the code 10GIFTS to save $10 until December 24th, 2025 HERE!!!
Now let’s start this fun crochet Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch tutorial with a video tutorial, written instructions and step-by-step pictures.
Video Tutorial of the Crochet Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch
Crochet Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch Written Tutorial
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Instructions for the Crochet Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch
Before you start crocheting the Zipper Pouch, the basket, or the Snowman Lovey, let’s first go through the stitch tutorial and learn how to crochet this stitch.
INSTRUCTIONS:
To make a swatch to practice this stitch, make a chain with a multiple of 7+10+1.
ATC = Alternative Turning Chain (height of dc st) or ch 3, both count as a dc st
ALL first dc sts are ATC sts.
R1: start from the 2nd ch from the hook, 1 dc per st, turn
Do NOT skip any stitches after the ch 1!
R2: 1 dc in 5 sts, *ch 1, 1 dc in 7 sts, repeat from * until last 5 sts, 1 dc in 5 sts, turn
Ignore the ch-1 made from previous row, just crochet into the dc sts
R3: 1 dc in 4 sts, ch 1, 1 dc in 2 sts, ch 1, *1 dc in 5 sts, ch 1, 1 dc in 2 sts, ch 1, repeat from * until last 4 sts, 1 dc in 4 sts, turn
R4: 1 dc in 3 sts, ch 1, *1 dc in 4 sts, ch 1, 1 dc in 3 sts, ch 1, repeat from * until last 3 sts, 1 dc in 3 sts, turn
Switch colors
Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch = (yo, insert into first ch-1 from R4, pull up a loop) twice (5 loops), (yo, insert into first ch-1 from R3, pull up a loop) twice (9 loops), (yo, insert into first ch-1 from R2, pull up a loop) twice (13 loops), (yo, insert into second ch-1 from R3, pull up a loop) twice (17 loops), (yo, insert into second ch-1 from R4, pull up a loop) twice (21 loops), yo and pull through ALL loops
R5: *1 sc in 3 sts, Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch, ch 1+2, repeat from * until the end, turn
R6: 1 sc in 3 sts, *2 sc into ch 2 space, 1 sc in ch-1 space, 1 sc in 4 sts, repeat from * until the end, finish with 1 sc in 3 sts, turn
Change colors back to the original color or continue with this color starting from R1 until R6
Now you have learned the extreme drop leaf stitch, practice your skills with these patterns (get all 3 in the ebook here), one of them gets published for free as part of the Advent Calendar Mystery CAL tomorrow.
More Free Crochet Stitch Tutorials
If you like fun Crochet Stitch Tutorials, you might also like these:
- Catherine Wheel Stitch Tutorial
- Alpache Tears Crochet Stitch
- Brick Stitch Tutorial
- Arrow Stitch Tutorial
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