These video tutorials approach crochet lounge pants from different directions: adaptable trousers, a named beach pants design, wide leg trousers for advanced beginners, and a matching tapestry crochet lounge set. Watch the full tutorial before choosing one.
Wide leg and tapestry crochet versions both benefit from stitch markers to track your rounds through any waistband shaping.
Crochet lounge pants tutorials to explore
1. Easy Crochet Pants, Trousers, or Shorts
WoolyWondersCrochet’s tutorial is a 30-minute video showing how to crochet easy pants, trousers or shorts in any size from baby to child to adult, and the description says it is suitable for beginners. The designer used a 4 mm hook and Drops Lima yarn. Because one method covers all three garment types, it is a flexible starting point if you haven’t decided which silhouette you want. The video has been watched more than 370,000 times.
2. By The Sea Pants
ByKaterina Designs’ By The Sea Pants tutorial runs about 45 minutes and covers the whole pattern from the waistband to the final edging. You learn how to work short rows for a higher back rise, crochet and assemble the panels, make a clean structured elastic waistband, and add side slits, front pockets and faux pocket flaps. The sample uses sport or DK weight yarn (Hobbii Seashell, a cotton, bamboo and linen blend) and a 4 mm hook, plus three thin elastic bands for the waistband.
3. Wide Leg Crochet Trousers
JeggoCrochet’s wide leg trousers tutorial (about 39 minutes) is aimed at advanced beginners, and the gauge is 22 stitches by 17 rounds over 4 inches in half double crochet. The description says a PDF pattern is available to download from the designer’s site, and that you may sell the trousers if you credit her as the designer. It is a different shape from the more fitted lounge pants in the other videos.
4. Matching Tapestry Crochet Lounge Set
Calluna Crochet’s video (about 106 minutes) shows how to crochet a matching tapestry crochet sweater and pants with a flower design, and she describes it as fairly beginner friendly, though it leans toward intermediate in some parts. She walks through adjusting the measurements to your own body, working the tapestry crochet stitch, adding ribbing to the sweater and adding an elastic waistband to the pants. The sweater alone used about 6 skeins (2,130 yards) of white yarn for the base.
5. Cozy Pants With Pockets
Petpetcrochets’ tutorial (about 21 minutes) shows how to crochet simple pants with pockets, customized to your own measurements, and links to a matching ruffle tube top tutorial. The sample uses a 4.5 mm hook (the description lists 4.5/4 mm) and weight 4 yarn, Caron Blossom Cake in Yacht Club, and she used around 500 g for a size XS. It comes with timestamps (waistband, then increasing for the hips) and optional wooden beads.
6. The Easiest Crochet Pants & Shorts Tutorial
Hannah Drapinski’s video (about 35 minutes) shows her easiest crochet pants and shorts. The shorts took about a day and only 400 yards of yarn, and the pants took about 1,300 yards. She used Hobbii Friends and Rainbow 100% cotton yarns, which were sent to her by Hobbii, and says you can easily switch up the colors. The timestamps cover the waistband, increasing for the hips, normal rows and the legs. It has been watched over 250,000 times.
7. Cozy Sweatpants
TCDDIY’s sweatpants tutorial (about 45 minutes) is a beginner-friendly step-by-step video using only basic stitches, and it creates a unique ribbing that adds design and function. The timestamps cover the waistband length and seam, the pant leg (starting with shorts and then lengthening), the cuff and the drawstring. The pattern link goes to Etsy, so the complete written pattern is sold there while the video is free.
