Tapestry crochet zipper pouch Mila

Here is a free crochet pattern for a tapestry crochet zipper pouch Mila. This design is one of my favorites so far 🙂 I hope that you will like it too and that you will give it a try.

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

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Good luck!

Tapestry crochet zipper pouch Mila

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Materials

Yarn: any thin yarn will work. I used Madame Tricot Paris Almina 8/4 mercerized cotton 100% 50 g = 169 m. Colors: 9999 (black) and 5309 (beige).
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

Notes

The size of my pouch is 11.0 x 8.0 cm.

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).

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 chaining 35 with black yarn.

Round 1: To make the first round, you will work 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. In total you should have 70 st. Don’t join with a sl st, instead continue with the next round.

Now add the beige yarn and follow the color chart for all rounds until the end.

Round 2-23: msc in every st of the prev round.

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.

Color chart

How to read the chart

Each square represents a stitch and its color. In each round you have 70 stitches (70 columns in the chart). Rows represent rounds. For each round you have to read the row in the chart from right to left.

Photo instructions for the tapestry crochet zipper pouch Mila

Round 1

1. Start by chaining 35 with black yarn. You will start working in the second chain from your hook.

2. So, make a single crochet in the second chain from your hook.

3. Keep making single crochets in every stitch until the end of the row.

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

11. Yarn under the black yarn.

12. Pull the yarn through. Notice how the beige yarn is wrapped around with the black yarn.

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

14. Yarn over the black yarn.

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

16. Yarn under the black yarn.

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

18. 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 beige, therefore, you need to change yarn color.

19. So, put the beige yarn up and yarn under.

20. Pull the yarn through. Now your beige yarn is ready to use.

Round 3

21. Complete the stitch with the beige yarn.

22. Then make the second stitch with the beige yarn, start making the third one, but stop when you have two loops on your hook because you have to change yarn color again. So, put the black yarn up.

23. Yarn under and pull the yarn through. The black yarn is ready to use again.

24. Start making the fourth stitch with the black yarn, but don’t complete it, because you have to change color again.

25. So, complete the fourth stitch with the beige yarn.

26. Continue to follow the color chart.

Round 23

27. When you complete round 23, you have to even out the edge by making four slip stitches in the back loop only. So, leave the beige yarn aside and insert your hook in the next stitch grabbing just the back loop.

28. Yarn over.

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

30. Then pull the first loop through the second one. You have just made a slip stitch in the back loop only. Then make three more slip stitches in the back loop only in the next three stitches.