Spooky Halloween basket with bats

Here is a free crochet pattern for the Spooky Halloween basket with bats. This pattern is from the Spooky Halloween collection. You can see the full collection here.

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I have a few more patterns that fit perfectly for Halloween: the drawstring bag with a ghost, the drawstring bag with a bat, the drawstring bag with a skull, the tapestry crochet drawstring bag with a cat, the tapestry crochet moon bag and the spider coasters.

If you haven’t tried tapestry crochet before, you can take a look at my tutorial here.

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Spooky Halloween basket with bats

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Materials

Yarn: any thin yarn will work. I used Soft FRAYA Cotton 8/4 100% Organic cotton 50g – 180 m, colors: black and orange.
Hook: as suggested on your yarn label. I used a 2.0 mm hook.

Abbreviations (US terms)

ch: chain
sl st: slip stitch
sc: single crochet
msc: modified single crochet
prev: previous
st: stitch

Notes

The diameter of my basket is 10.0 cm and the height is 5.0 cm (10.0 cm when not folded in).

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 the basket. 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).

You will work in continuous rounds, which means that in the end of a round you don’t join with a slip stitch, but instead continue making modified single crochets in the top of the first stitch of the round. Remember to use a marker showing the beginning of each round. Follow the color chart showing how you should change colors.

Pattern

Start by making a magic (adjustable) ring with the black yarn.

Round 1: 8 sc in the magic ring. (8 st in total)

Introduce the orange yarn.

Round 2: msc inc in every st. (16 st)

Round 3: *msc inc, 1 msc in the next st*, rep ** 8 times. (24 st)

Round 4: msc; *msc inc, 2 msc*, rep ** 7 times, msc inc, msc. (32 st)

Round 5: 2 msc; *msc inc, 3 msc*, rep ** 7 times, msc inc, msc. (40 st)

Round 6: 3 msc; *msc inc, 4 msc*, rep ** 7 times, msc inc, msc. (48 st)

Round 7: 4 msc; *msc inc, 5 msc*, rep ** 7 times, msc inc, msc. (56 st)

Round 8: 5 msc; *msc inc, 6 msc*. rep ** 7 times, msc inc, msc. (64 st)

Round 9: 6 msc; *msc inc, 7 msc*. rep ** 7 times, msc inc, msc. (72 st)

Round 10: 7 msc; *msc inc, 8 msc*. rep ** 7 times, msc inc, msc. (80 st)

Round 11: 8 msc; *msc inc, 9 msc*. rep ** 7 times, msc inc, msc. (88 st)

Round 12: 9 msc; *msc inc, 10 msc*. rep ** 7 times, msc inc, msc. (96 st)

The bottom of the basket is finished.

Round 13-35: msc in every st of the prev round. (96 st)

In the end make 4 additional sl st in the back loop only in the next 4 st to even out the edge. Fasten off. Fold in the sides of the basket.

Color chart

How to read the chart

Each square represents a stitch and its color. In total there are 96 stitches in one round. The chart represents a half of the pattern: the first 48 stitches (48 columns in the chart) in a round. Stitches 49-96 are the same as 1-48. Rows represent rounds (there are 35 rounds, however, the first 12 rounds are not shown in the color chart: they are all black and they are the round base of the basket). For each round you have to read the row in the chart from right to left.

You can find a more detailed tutorial explaining how to read a color chart and when and how to change yarn color here.

Photo instructions for the spooky Halloween basket with bats

Round 1

1. Start by making a magic ring. Then make 8 single crochets in the magic ring. Tighten the ring by pulling the end of the yarn.

Round 2

2. Don’t make a slip stitch. Instead insert your hook in the top of the first single crochet grabbing just the back loop.

3. Yarn over.

4. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook. In round 2 you have to introduce orange yarn. So, put the orange yarn behind your hook and in front of the black yarn like it is shown in the picture.

5. Then yarn under the black yarn.

6. Pull the yarn through. You have just made a modified single crochet.

7. To make a modified single crochet increase you have to make the second modified single crochet in the same stitch.

8. Continue making single crochet increases in every stitch until the end of the round.

Round 3

9. Make a modified single crochet increase in the first stitch, then make a modified single crochet. Continue following the written pattern.

Round 13

10. Keep following the written pattern until the end of round 13. Don’t complete the last stitch of the round, stop when you have two loops on your hook. The first stitch in round 14 is orange. This means that you have to change yarn color.

11. So, put the orange yarn up.

12. Yarn under the orange yarn.

13. Pull the yarn through. Now your orange yarn is ready to use.

Round 14

14. Continue working with the orange yarn.

Round 15

15. In round 15 make three full modified single crochets with the orange yarn. Then start making the fourth one, but complete it with the black yarn, because the fifth stitch in round 15 is black.

16. Start making the fifth stitch with the black yarn, but stop when you have two loops on your hook. The next stitch is orange, so you have to change yarn color again.