Last Updated on December 12, 2023

Beautiful and elegant, the Catherine’s Wheel Crochet Stitch is a lovely stitch that creates a solid and reversible crochet fabric with a beautiful texture.

This stitch is great for blankets, bags, and purses.

In this post, you will find both a photo tutorial and an envelope crochet purse pattern.

catherine's wheel crochet stitch free tutorial made by gootie

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How to Crochet the Catherine’s Wheel Crochet Stitch?

The Catherine’s Wheel crochet stitch is actually pretty easy. The stitch is made using only chains, single crochet, and double crochet.

The crochet wheel-like texture is formed by working 7 double crochet stitches into the same stitch to create one half of the wheel, and then on the next row, you crochet 7 double crochet together to create the other half of the wheel.

catherines wheel crochet stitch made by gootie

Are Crochet Harlequin stitch and Cathrine Wheel The Same Stitch?

I know these two stitches look really similar, and both stitches do use a very similar technique of working half of the circle in every row.

But the Harlequin crochet stitch is less rounded compared to the Catherine’s Wheel stitch, since the middle stitch of the half circle is being skipped and not worked into, which makes the stitch more of a ‘diamonded-shaped’, than a ‘wheel-shaped’ like the Catherine’s.

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Catherine’s Wheel Stitch Crochet Blanket

The Catherine’s Wheel Crochet stitch is just perfect to use when making a blanket!

It’s soft, the texture is really unique, and the best part? The Catherine stitch works up really quickly because it uses mainly double crochet stitches!

So to make a blanket using the Catherine Wheel stitch, make a chain with a multiple of 10 stitches, then add 6 stitches and 1 more stitch for the beginning chain.

How to Crochet The Catherine’s Wheel Stitch

* Pin this pattern for later HERE.
* Get the ad-free, step-by-step photo tutorial onRavelry.

Skill Level – easy

Abbreviations(US)

st – stitch
ch – chain
sc – single crochet
dc – double crochet

Notes

This pattern consists of multiples of 10 stitches + 6 stitches + 1 stitch (for the initial chain). This means that you make any multiple of 10 stitches, then add 6 +1 stitches.
This pattern was featured in the Stash Busting Challenge 2022 hosted by Hortense from Knitting with Chopsticks.

Catherine’s Wheel Crochet Stitch Photo-Tutorial

For this tutorial chain 37 stitches (10×3 + 6 +1).

Row 1: 1sc in the second ch from hook, 1sc in next ch.
* Skip 3 ch’s, work 7 dc in next ch, skip 3 ch’s, 1sc in next 3 ch’s; Repeat from * to last 4 ch’s. Skip 3 ch’s, work 4 dc in last ch, turn.

Row 2: ch1, 1sc in next 2 dc.
* ch3, 7dc together over next 7 sts, ch3, 1sc in next 3 sts; Repeat from * to last 4 ch’s. ch3, 4dc together over last 4 sts, turn.

Row 3: ch3, 3dc in first st (top of 4dc cluster).
* Skip ch-3, 1sc in next 3 sts, skip ch-3, work 7 dc into the top of 7dc cluster; Repeat from * to last ch-3 space, skip ch-3, 1sc in next 2 sts, turn.

Row 4: Ch3 (counts as first st), 3dc together over next 3 sts (skip first st).
* ch3, 1sc in next 3 sts, ch3, 7dc together over next 7 sts; Repeat from * to last 2 sts, ch3, 1 sc in next 2 sts, turn.

Row 5: Ch1, 1sc in next 2 sts.
* skip ch-3, work 7 dc into the top of 7dc cluster, skip ch-3, 1sc in next 3 sts; Repeat from * to last ch-3 space, work 4dc in beginning ch-3 of the previous row.

Repeat rows 2-5.

Crochet Envelope Purse Free Pattern

Materials

– Crochet hook 3.5 mm / E (I love the Furls and Clover Hooks)
– 100% cotton yarn – sport weight (you can use Schachenmayr Catania Color) – 35 gr (90 m / 96 yds)
– 0.2” (0.5 cm) diameter button
– Tapestry needle

Finished size – 6.3×4 ” (16×10 cm)

Pattern

chain 47 stitches.

Row 1: 1sc in the second ch from hook, 1sc in each st to the end of the row, turn.

Row 2: ch1, 1sc in the first sc from hook, 1sc in next sc.
* Skip 3 sc’s, work 7 dc in next sc, skip 3 sc’s, 1sc in next 3 sc’s; Repeat from * to last 4 sc’s. Skip 3 ch’s, work 4 dc in last sc, turn.

Row 3: ch1, 1sc in next 2 dc.
* ch3, 7dc together over next 7 sts, ch3, 1sc in next 3 sts; Repeat from * to last 4 ch’s. ch3, 4dc together over last 4 sts, turn.

Row 4: ch3, 3dc in first st (top of 4dc cluster).
* Skip ch-3, 1sc in next 3 sts, skip ch-3, work 7 dc into the top of 7dc cluster; Repeat from * to last ch-3 space, skip ch-3, 1sc in next 2 sts, turn.

Row 5: Ch3 (counts as first st), 3dc together over next 3 sts (skip first st).
* ch3, 1sc in next 3 sts, ch3, 7dc together over next 7 sts; Repeat from * to last 2 sts, ch3, 1 sc in next 2 sts, turn.

Row 6: Ch1, 1sc in next 2 sts.
* skip ch-3, work 7 dc into the top of 7dc cluster, skip ch-3, 1sc in next 3 sts; Repeat from * to last ch-3 space, work 4dc in beginning ch-3 of the previous row.

Repeat rows 3-6 until the work measures 9.5” (24 cm), I repeated the pattern 7 times.
Fold the work up, leaving 1/4 of its length to cover the front of the purse and sew the sides of the work together.
Sew a button at the center.

crochet catherines wheel free pattern made by gootie

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