Tapestry crochet zipper pouch Allison

Tapestry crochet zipper pouch Allison

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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: pink and black.
• Hook: as suggested on your yarn label. I used a 2.0 mm hook.
• A zipper and lining if you wish to attach it.

Abbreviations (US terms)

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

Notes

The size of my pouch is 11.5 x 8.5 cm.

Photo instructions below show how to make a zipper pouch. For this pattern you should be familiar with the tapestry crochet (you can find the tutorial here). 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.

You can find a tutorial showing how to sew in a zipper and attach lining here.

Pattern

Start by chaining 40 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 80 st. Don’t join with a sl st, instead continue with the next round.

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

Round 2-25: msc in every st of the prev round.

When you complete round 25, make 3 sl st in the back loop only in the next 3 stitches to even out the edge. Fasten off and sew in a zipper.

Color chart

How to read the chart

Above you can see a color pattern for the zipper pouch. Each square represents a stitch and its color. In each round you have 80 stitches. The chart above shows only one half of the pattern (columns 1-40 in the chart). Columns 41-80 are the same as columns 1-40. 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 Allison

Round 1

1. Start by chaining 40 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 80 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. Yarn over.

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

10. In round 2 you have to introduce the pink yarn. So, take your pink 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 pink 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. The next stitch is pink, so you have to change working yarn color. Put the pink yarn up.

17. Yarn under the pink yarn.

18. Pull the yarn through. You have just made a modified single crochet! And now your pink yarn is ready to use.

19. Make another modified single crochet in the next stitch with the pink yarn.

20. Then start making the second one, but stop when you have two loops on your hook. The next stitch should be black, so you have to change yarn color again.

21. Complete the stitch with the black yarn.

22. Then continue to follow the color chart.

23. Work in the same way until the end of the row. Complete the last stitch of the row with the pink yarn because the first stitch in round 3 should be pink.

Round 3

24. So, start making the first stitch in round 3 with the pink yarn, but complete it with the black yarn, because the second stitch should be black.

25. Then make one full modified single crochet with the black yarn, start making the next one, but complete it with the pink yarn, because the next stitch should be pink.

26. Continue to follow the color chart until the end of the pattern.

Round 25

27. When you complete round 25, you have to make three slip stitches in the back loop only to even out the edge. So, put the pink yarn away.

28. Insert your hook in the next stitch grabbing just the back loop and yarn over the black yarn.

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

30. Pull the first loop through the second one. You have just made a slip stitch back loop only!

31. Make two more slip stitches back loop only in the next two stitches. Fasten off. You can find a tutorial showing how to sew in a zipper and attach lining here.

Finished tapestry crochet zipper pouch Allison

32. Done!

Enjoy your tapestry crochet zipper pouch Allison!

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