Crochet Tinsel Stitch Tutorial with Video – Day 17 of Advent Calendar MCAL 2025

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Try out the crochet Tinsel Stitch on your next Christmas project with my free and easy tutorial with written instructions and a video tutorial.

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We’ve arrived at Day 17 of this year’s Advent Calendar Mystery Crochet Along! The CAL keeps unfolding in its familiar 3-day pattern. A giveaway, a stitch tutorial, then a free pattern featuring the previous day’s stitch. This cycle repeats right up to Christmas eve.

The Crochet Tinsel Stitch is perfect for adding a festive, Christmas touch to your projects. It is easy, simple, fun, and textured, and works beautifully in blankets, scarves, or decorations.

I also love using it in my three patterns, fingerless gloves, a mug cozy, or a tablet cover. I show you how to make it step by step in my tutorial and patterns so you can create your own cheerful, textured crochet.

You’ll find easy written instructions paired with a complete video tutorial, so learning this stitch is simple even if it’s your first time. I explain every step so you can follow along at your own speed.

Once you’re ready to use your new stitch, check my blog tomorrow for a free mystery crochet pattern in the Advent Calendar Mystery CAL. You will get one of my three Tinsel Stitch projects, either fingerless gloves, a mug cozy, or a tablet cover. 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 Tinsel Stitch tutorial with a video tutorial, written instructions and step-by-step pictures.

Video Tutorial of the Crochet Tinsel Stitch

Crochet Tinsel Stitch Written Tutorial

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Instructions for the Crochet Tinsel Stitch

Before you start crocheting the Fingerless Gloves, Mug Cozy or Kindle Cover, 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 2 + 1 (with color A)

R1: start from the 2nd ch from the hook, 1 sc per st, turn

ATC = Alternative Turning Chain (height of dc st) or ch 3, both count as a dc st

ALL first dc sts are ATC sts.

R2: 1 dc per st, turn

R3: 1 sc in 2 sts, *ch 2, sk 1 (not 2), 1 sc, repeat from * until the end, turn

R4: 1 dc per st (count ch 2 as 1 st), turn

Repeat R3-4 for the pattern

Last row: 1 sc per st, fasten off

Color B

Start on the 2nd sc st from R3, 1 sc, ch 2,  *now go to the next dc in ch-2 space from R4, 1 sc, ch 2, then go to the next sc st from R3, 1 sc, ch 2, repeat from * until you have 1 sc st and 1 dc st left, ch 3, gp to the dc on the edge, 1 sc, ch 3, turn your work upside down (not to the other side), **now go to the next sc row (would be R5) to the next sc, 1 sc, ch 2, then go to the next dc of ch-2 space (from R6), 1 sc, repeat from ** until the end of the row. Continue the same style of pattern in a zig zag the entire foundation pattern.

Fasten off.

Now you have learned the Tinsel Stitch, you can try out your new skills with these patterns (get all 3 in the ebook here) published for free as part of the Advent Calendar Mystery CAL.

More Free Crochet Stitch Tutorials

If you like fun Crochet Stitch Tutorials, you might also like these:

1. Harvest Stitch Tutorial
2. Feather Stitch Tutorial
3. Extreme Drop Leaf Stitch Tutorial
4. Broomstick Lace Stitch Tutorial

Show Me Your Projects

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I’ll be here to help you with this pattern and anything else you decide to try. Ask in my group and you’ll get plenty of support.

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