Tapestry crochet drawstring bag Lucy

Tapestry crochet drawstring bag Lucy

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Materials

• Yarn: any thin yarn will work. I used DIAMOND 8/4 mercerized cotton 100% 50 g. Colors: 201 (white) and 3304 (lilac).
• 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 my bag is 7.5 x 12.0 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 bag and a string. 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).

For this pattern you can 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.

Round 2-24: msc in every st of the prev round.

Making the holes for the string:

Round 25: msc, *ch2, skip 2 st of the prev round, 2 msc*, rep ** 11 times, ch 2, skip 2 st of the prev round, msc.

Round 26: msc, *2 msc in the ch2 space of the prev round (make sure to grab the loose yarn hanging in the ch2 space in the prev round too), 2 msc*, rep ** 11 times. 2 msc in the ch2 space of the prev round, msc.

Round 27-31: msc in every st of the prev round.

Make 4 sl st to “even out” the edge. Fasten off.

Making the string

Start by chaining. The length of the chain should be around 25-26 cm long. Make a row of slip stitches in the third loop of the chain as it is shown in photo instructions below. When you reach the end of the row, fasten off. You are ready to weave in the string into your bag. Done!

Color chart

How to read the chart

Each square represents a stitch and its color. In each round you have 48 stitches (48 columns in the chart). Rows represent rounds. For each round you have to read the row in the chart from right to left.

In the chart, empty squares indicate where you should make holes for the string. When you chain 2 for a hole, you cannot hide the yarn you are not working with: it will be ‘hanging’ in the hole. Don’t worry, when you will make round 26, you will grab both yarns you need to hide: the one in round 26 and the one in round 25. See photo instructions.

Photo instructions for the tapestry crochet drawstring bag Lucy

Making the bag

Round 1

1. Start by chaining 24.

2. Make a single crochet in the second chain from your hook.

3. Continue making single crochets until the end of the chain.

4. Then make one single crochet in the end of the chain.

5. Turn your work and make one more single crochet in the same stitch.

6. Then continue making single crochets in every stitch until you reach the end.

7. Make one single crochet in the end of the chain. In total you should have 48 stitches.

Round 2

8. Don’t join with a slip stitch. Instead insert your hook in the top of the first single crochet of the first round grabbing just the back loop.

9. Yarn over.

10. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook.

11. In round 2 you have to introduce the white yarn. So, take your white yarn and put it behind your hook and in front of the lilac yarn like it is shown in the picture.

12. Yarn under the lilac yarn.

13. Pull the yarn through. Notice how the white yarn is wrapped around with the lilac yarn.

14. Then insert your hook in the next stitch grabbing just the back loop.

15. Yarn over the lilac yarn.

16. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook.

17. Yarn under the lilac yarn.

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

19. Keep working in the same way until the end of the round. When you make the last modified single crochet, don’t finish it, stop when you have two loops on your hook. The first stitch in round 3 should be white, therefore, you need to change yarn color.

20. So, put the white yarn up like it is shown in the picture.

21. Yarn under the white yarn.

22. Pull the yarn through. Now your white yarn is ready to use.

Round 3

23. Next make modified single crochets with the white yarn until the end of the round. Like before, when you make the last stitch, stop when you have two loops on your hook because you have to change yarn color (the first stitch in round 4 is lilac).

24. So, finish the last modified single crochet of this round with the lilac yarn.

Round 4

25. Start making the first stitch in round 4 with the lilac yarn but stop when you have two loops on your hook. You have to change yarn color because the next stitch should be white.

26. So, finish the first stitch of this round with the white yarn.

27. Then make one full modified single crochet with the white yarn, start the second one, but finish it with the lilac yarn. Keep following the color chart.

Round 25

28. In round 25 you have to make holes for a string. Make one modified single crochet.

29. Then chain two.

30. Then skip two stitches of the previous round and make two modified single crochets in the next two stitches. You can see that the white yarn is hanging in the hole. That is fine.

31. Chain two, skip two stitches and make two modified single crochets in the next two stitches. Keep working in the same way until the end of the round.

Round 26

32. Make one modified single crochet.

33. Then insert your hook in the chain two space grabbing both white yarns like it is shown in the picture.

34. Yarn over the lilac yarn.

35. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook.

36. Yarn under the lilac yarn.

37. Pull the yarn through both loops on your hook.

38. Make one more modified single crochet in the chain two space of the previous round. Then make two modified single crochets in the next two stitches.

39. Then make two modified single crochets in the next chain two space of the previous round and two modified single crochets in the next two stitches.

40. Continue working in the same way until the end of the round. Remember to finish the last stitch of the round with the white yarn. Notice that the holes are not perfectly aligned, as well as the color pattern, but that is normal when you work in continuous rounds.

Round 31

41. When you are done with round 31, you need to make a few slip stitches to “even out” the edge.

42. So, leave the white yarn aside and insert your hook in the next stitch grabbing just the back loop.

43. Yarn over the lilac yarn.

44. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook.

45. Next pull the first loop through the second one. You have just made a slip stitch.

46. Make three more slip stitches in the next three stitches.

Finished tapestry crochet drawstring bag Lucy

47. Done!

Making the string

1. Start with a chain.

2. Now you will be working in the third loop of your chain which is behind ‘v’.

3. Insert your hook in the third loop of the chain and yarn over.

4. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook.

5. Pull the first loop through the other one. Now you have one loop on hour hook. You have just made your first slip stitch.

6. In the photo you can see that after several stitches it starts looking like two chains stuck together. Continue making slip stitches in the third loop of the chain until the end of the row. Fasten off. Done!

Enjoy your tapestry crochet drawstring bag Lucy!

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