Simple Crochet Bangle Tutorial

I’ve seen crochet bangles popping up on Pinterest for a while. Since I actually had a couple of wooden bangles in the closet, almost forgotten and wishing for a purpose, I thought I’d try my hand at making one.

Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a good explanation online for how to do it. After several tries, I figured it out, and thought I’d post some instructions here in case anyone else wants to do it.

Materials:

Two skeins of yarn. I used Lily Sugar ‘n Cream in green and pink. You could use the same color. I definitely recommend two strands at once though.
Crochet hook. I used a size I (6mm), which is actually one size smaller than the yarn recommends for just one strand. If you’re using a different yarn than mine, just follow that guideline of going down one size in your hook
Wooden bangle. Mine is a dome shaped 2 3/4 inch one that I got on clearance last year at Hancock Fabrics. If you have a plastic one lying around, or another size, that would work too. For this style, I wouldn’t go too small in diameter, though.

Before we begin, a note about using the double yarn in different colors. It looks cute, but it is a bit more work than using two strands of the same color would be. The yarn doesn’t want to naturally end up in the right order every time you pull it around the bracelet. So go slowly, twist it when you need to, and you’ll maintain an “ABAB” pattern. (that’s kindergarten talk for this pattern. they’re working on such things right now at my daughter’s school) In the tutorial photos below, you’ll notice I’m not particular about this. It’s not too easy to take photos while you crochet! But in the final product, I was more careful.

To begin, don’t tie a slipknot as you normally would at the beginning of a crochet project. Instead, simply wrap the yarn around the hook as shown below.

Then, using the bangle, pull the yarn from behind and hook it. Pull the loop through the one loop on the hook. This is your starting stitch.

For the remainder of the bracelet, you will make single crochet stitches, alternating between bringing you hook up from the front and the back of the bracelet. So for your second stitch, bring the hook up from behind, grab the yarn and pull to the bottom of the bracelet.

Then reach your hook up behind the bracelet again and grab the yarn. You now have two stitches on your hook.

Hook the yarn again from the front and pull through both loops.

From here, continue like this:

place hook behind bangle, hook yarn, pull to bottom
wrap yarn around front of bangle, hook, pull though two loops

Keep pushing the completed stitches together as you go, so that you don’t see any wood peeking through, until you cover the entire bangle. When you’re done, tie your starting yarn to your ending yarn. Using a yarn needle, pull the yarn under the stitches for a couple of inches, then cut.