Inside Lachie’s 365-Metre Crochet Chain Record
If you are looking up the longest crochet chain by a child on Kids World Records, the listing to know is Lachie's chain of 1,197.51 feet (365 metres), the listed result in the Boys' 7-9 Division. He completed it in Pāuatahanui, Wellington Region, New Zealand, on August 16, 2026.
That listing was verified on the official Longest Crochet Chain page for ages 7-9 on September 6, 2026. A benchmark can change once a newer attempt is approved, so the live page is always the place to see where the number stands today.
What the listing covers — and what it doesn't
Lachie's chain is the Kids World Records result for one division: boys aged 7-9. There is no single, undivided "longest crochet chain by a child" listing that covers every age group at once.
Kids World Records accepts participants from ages 4 to 16, and individual achievements are sorted into four age ranges: 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, and 13-16. Each range also has boy, girl, and gender X divisions. That structure exists so children are compared with a fair group rather than with every other child on the site. A seven-year-old is not measured against a sixteen-year-old.
Age decides which division applies. It is not the thing being judged — the number that counts is the chain, not the birthday. The Kids World Records FAQ explains how the divisions work.
Another age or gender division may have its own crochet chain listing, so the 7-9 figure is not automatically the relevant one for every child.
One measurement, measured directly
Kids World Records titles are built on a single clear measurement that does not depend on another measurement. For the Longest Crochet Chain, that measurement is the final physical length of the completed chain.
Length is not combined with anything else — not completion time, not stitch count, not accuracy, not yarn weight. A result that depended on speed and length together, or quantity and accuracy together, would be far harder to judge fairly. One number keeps the comparison honest, and it keeps the evidence simple, because a judge needs to see that length clearly and nothing more complicated than that.
What judges need to see
Evidence exists so a judge can check the result without having been in the room. For a length record, the public Kids World Records guidance requires photos and a video showing the final attempt being measured, with the measurement clearly visible.
A few practical points from that guidance:
- Photos should be high-resolution, well lit, and unaltered. Filters, or crops that hide the measurement, do not help a judge.
- Video must not be edited before submission. Send the original footage rather than a tidied-up highlights version.
- Upload the actual file. A link to a video-hosting website is not accepted as the submission.
- Watch the footage before uploading it, and keep the original files afterwards.
Think of the camera as the judge's eyes. Nobody is scoring style or technique — the job of the footage is to make the number readable. Requirements for a specific title can also be more detailed than a public listing shows, so anything the official guidance does not cover is worth confirming with Kids World Records rather than guessing.
What a family checks before submitting
A child does the crocheting, but the account and the paperwork belong to an adult. A parent or legal guardian registers, completes adult verification, adds the child aged 4-16, and submits the attempt with its evidence. The step-by-step guide to breaking a Kids World Record sets out that sequence in full.
Before anything is sent in, it is worth confirming three things:
- The exact title, the applicable age and gender division, and the requirements attached to them. Those are the terms a judge will assess the submission against.
- That the evidence shows what it needs to show. Review the photos and footage, check that the final measurement is legible, then upload the original files.
- That the attempt is recent. Kids World Records applies a one-year window to submissions, so an attempt completed more than a year before it is sent in should not be submitted.
Judges then review the evidence to confirm that the applicable rules were followed and that the result can be clearly verified. A bigger number does not by itself mean approval. If the rules were not followed, or the measurement cannot be read in the evidence, the submission will not stand — which is also why the strongest submissions tend to be the ones where the proof was planned at the same time as the attempt.
Where to look next
The official Longest Crochet Chain page shows where the benchmark sits now, and the Kids World Records FAQ covers the divisions and the evidence rules. Check both close to the date of any attempt, because benchmarks and requirements can change. When a parent or legal guardian has a recent, clearly documented attempt ready, the Break a Record page is where the account is set up and the evidence is sent in.