Free Crochet Corner Bookmark Pattern

Looking for a nice and thoughtful gift for the book lover in your life? This free Corner Crochet Bookmark Pattern is a clever, chic way to mark your spot. Grab your hook and let’s crochet a corner bookmark!

Free Crochet Corner Bookmark Pattern

This is the NINTH installment of the 2025 Donation Crochet Series. I can hardly believe that we’re already 3/4 of the way through this crochet series, and thinking back on all of the awesome things we’ve crocheted this year sure puts a smile on my face.

We’ve made a Walker Organizer, oodles of super quick hats for the homeless, a “Comfort Blanket” for someone undergoing chemotherapy or illness, slippers to wear in the hospital, a Twiddle Muff for Alzheimer’s patients, and so much more.

This month we’re making something super special for someone we care about that loves to read. Whether this person is on bedrest for a while, on Hospice, undergoing chemotherapy or other treatments, or even if they just love to read, this crocheted corner bookmark could be the perfect thing to let them know – and to remind them often – that you are thinking of them and that you love them.

Every time they use this corner bookmark they’ll have the reassurance of your unwavering support. If you find yourself unsure how to support a friend going through a hard time, this might be just the thing. A cream colored version with pearls incorporated would make for a gorgeous corner bookmark for a Bible! I may need to do that for the person in my life currently battling an ongoing illness.

This would also be a great pattern to make multiples of for donating to a local hospital or Hospice, library, or long term care facility. They work up quickly and don’t take much yarn! They are also easy to memorize.

To use a corner bookmark, you’ll simply insert the pages into the triangle and settle it into place. What’s great about this pattern is that it can be made using virtually ANY thin yarn and since this is a pattern that can be made as small or as large as you like, simply keep going! Note that it’s better to have it be a bit too big than too small and fall out easily.

For this pattern I am using Animation yarn from WeCrochet. This is a DK weight mercerized cotton that creates a nice and thin fabric and the color choices are vast! You can grab these little skeins individually or in a multipack set with lots of colors.

Other great yarn choices include Willow Yarns Farmhouse Cotton, Comfy Fingering, or Aunt Lydia’s crochet thread.

If you want to try a delicate one (maybe even with beads or pearls) you might try using a size 10 crochet thread like this. If you use a yarn that thin you’ll need to use a much smaller hook but the good news is that you can continue to add width until the bookmark is as large as needed or desired. It would be absolutely gorgeous! Ready? Let’s make one!

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Materials:

Animation yarn (less than one skein per bookmark)

Crochet hook in size 3mm

Yarn Needle

Stitch Marker

Gauge: unimportant

Pattern Notes:

Pattern written using US terms.

The chain at the beginning of the row does not count as a stitch.

Tr = Treble Crochet (tutorial here)

Crossed Dc is used in even numbered rows. (tutorial here)

RS = Right Side = odd numbered rows

Pattern:

Make two…

Row 1: Magic Circle, (Tr, 7dc, Tr) in circle. Mark the centermost stitch and pull circle closed. (9)

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Row 2: Ch-2, turn, Tr in first st. Dc in next, dc in first st again (crossed dc made), * sk-next st, dc in next, dc in skipped st * repeat between * * to stitch marker. (dc, ch-1, dc, ch-1, dc) in marked st. Move marker to new center st. Repeat between * * to end. Tr in same as last st. (15)

Row 3: Ch-2, turn, (Tr, dc) in first st, dc in each st to marker, 5dc in marked st. Move marker to new center st. Dc in each st across, (dc, Tr) in final st. (21)

*make sure not to miss the chain-spaces from the previous row!

Rows 4 through (5, 7, 9, etc): alternate rows 2 & 3

When the desired width is reached, rotate to work across the row ends…

Ch-1, sc across row ends, placing one picot stitch every 4th stitch (only if desired). When you get to the magic circle beginning tail, crochet around it until you get to the other side to avoid having to weave in that end.

Fasten off the first triangle. Make the second triangle.

Construction:

Stack the triangles with the “wrong sides” touching. Ch-1, sc through both thicknesses to corner, 3sc in corner st, sc through both thicknesses across. Fasten off and weave in all ends, making sure the edges are nice and secure.

That’s it! On some of my early drafts of this pattern I added a Crab Stitch edging to the perimeter, but I think that with most yarns it weighs it down too much and makes it fit not as nicely to be used as a bookmark. I do think, however, if you were to use the #10 crochet thread with a tiny hook, that it would not be too bulky and it would give a beautiful finished edging.