I hope that you all are doing great. This week I would like to share a free crochet pattern for a honey pouch with a zipper. It is a tapestry crochet project, so if you are not familiar with this technique, you can take a look at the tutorial here.
The color scheme is quite simple: it consists of only two colors and it is easy to follow. I used rather similar colors, linen and offwhite, but you could give a bit more contrast to the pouch by choosing different colors.
Good luck!
Pinterest: Also, you can save it to Pinterest for later here.
Materials
- Yarn: any thin yarn will work. I used Järbo 8/4 100% Cotton “Mercerized & Gassed” 50 g (offwhite and linen).
- Hook: as suggested on your yarn label. I used hook size 2.0.
Abbreviations (US terms)
- ch: chain
- sl st: slip stitch
- sc: single crochet
- msc: modified single crochet
- prev: previous
- st: stitch
- rep * *: repeat from * to *
Notes
The size of my bag is 14.5 x 9.5 cm. You will be working in rounds. For this pattern you should be familiar with the tapestry crochet (you can find the tutorial here). Photo instructions below show the main steps how to make a pouch. This pattern uses a modified single crochet: make a single crochet back loop only, just instead of yarning over for the last step, yarn under (see the tutorial here). Except the first round and the two rounds where you make holes for a string, every round is made in the same way: chain one, make 83 modified single crochets, join with a slip stitch. Follow the color scheme showing how you should change colors.
Pattern
Start by chaining 41 + 1 with white yarn.
Round 1: To make the first round, you will be working down the chain, then turn and work in the other side of the chain. Make sc in every st of the chain starting from the second chain from your hook. Turn. 1 sc in the end of the chain, make sc in every st (starting with the one you have just worked into; now that st has 3 sc in total) until you come back to the beginning of the chain. 1 sc in the end of the chain. Join with a sl st to the first sc of this round. In total you should have 84 st.
Now add the linen yarn and follow the color scheme for all rounds until the end.
Round 2-27: ch 1, msc in every st of the prev round. Join with a sl st.
Fasten off. Sew in a zipper.
Color scheme
How to read the scheme
Each square represents a stitch and its color. In each round you have 84 stitches (42 columns in the scheme times 2). Rows represent rounds. For each round you have to read the row in the scheme from right to left (columns 43 to 84 are the same as 1-42). The chain that you make in the beginning of each round counts a stitch.
After finishing the first round you have 84 white stitches. Before joining with a sl st, check what is the color of the first st in the next round. Round 2 starts with a white st, therefore, the sl st should be white (if the row would start in linen, the sl st would be in linen). Round 2 says you need 3 white stitches, then 6 linen, 8 white, 6 linen, etc. So, chain 1, make one full msc, start the second msc and since the next st should be linen, finish the second msc with your linen yarn. Make 7 msc in linen, start the 8th msc in linen and finish it with your white yarn. Keep working in the same principle till the end.
Rules for changing color
- The last msc of the round:
Finish making your last msc of the round with the same color yarn as the first st of the round. For example, round 2 ends with a white st and starts with a white st, therefore, finish the last st of round 2 with white yarn.
- The slip stitch:
The color of a sl st depends on the color of the first st in the next round. For example, round 4 ends with a white st, so finish making your msc with white yarn; round 5 starts with a linen st and it means that you should make a sl st in linen.
Photo instructions for honey pouch
1. Round 1. Start with a chain and make single crochets around it. Join with a sl st to the first sc in this round, not to the chain 1. You do this only in the first round, in all other rounds you have to make a sl st into the ch 1 which you make in the beginning of the round. Put your linen yarn behind your hook and in front of the white yarn that you are working with.
2. Round 2. Ch 1. Your linen yarn is secured now.
3. Round 2. Make the first msc wrapping the linen yarn. Msc is made like the usual sc, except you work in the back loop only and when you have two loops on your hook, instead of yarning over you should yarn under and pull the yarn through both loops. Start making the second msc with white yarn and finish it with linen yarn.
4. Round 2. Continue making msc with linen yarn.
5. Round 2. To finish the round, insert your hook in the first st of the round, which is a chain.
6. Round 2. Round 3 starts with a white st, therefore make a sl st in white.
7. Round 4. To finish round 3 make a sl st in white. As the second st in round 4 is in linen, chain 1 in linen.
8. Round 4. Here you can see the first stitch in white and the second in linen.
9. Follow the color scheme till the end. Done!
Enjoy your pouch!
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