Tiny tapestry crochet bag Heart

Tiny tapestry crochet bag Heart

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Materials

• Yarn: any thin yarn will work. I used Järbo 8/4 100% Cotton “Mercerized & Gassed” 50 g (linen and red).
• 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 6.5 x 9.0 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). 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 39 modified single crochets, join with a slip stitch.

Alternatively, you can work in continuous rounds, which means that in the end of a round you don’t join with a sl st, but instead continue making msc in the top of the first st of the round. Remember to use a marker showing the beginning of each row. Follow the color chart showing how you should change colors.

Pattern

The bag

Start by chaining 20 with linen 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 all other rounds you will join with a sl st to the ch 1). In total you should have 40 st.

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

Round 2-18: ch 1, msc in every st of the prev round. Join with a sl st.

Making the holes for the string:

Round 19: ch 1, msc in the next st *ch2, skip 2 st of the prev round, 2 msc*, rep ** 9 times, ch 2, skip 2 st of the prev round, join with a sl st.

Round 20: ch 1, msc in the next st *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 ** 9 times, 2 msc in the ch2 space of the prev round, join with a sl st.

Round 21-24: ch 1, msc in every st of the prev round. Join with a sl st.

Fasten off.

Making the string

Start by chaining. The length of the chain should be around 20-21 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.

Color chart

How to read the chart

Each square represents a stitch and its color. In each round you have 40 stitches (40 columns in the chart). Rows represent rounds. For each round you have to read the row in the chart from right to left. The chain that you make in the beginning of each round counts a stitch (except in the first round).

In the chart, dark gray 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 20, you will grab both yarns you need to hide: the one in round 20 and the one in round 19. See photo instructions.

Photo instructions

Making the bag

Round 1

1. Chain 20.

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

3. Keep making single crochets until you reach the end of the chain.

4. Make one single crochet in the end of the chain.

5. Then make one more single crochet in the same stitch.

6. Next make single crochets on the other side of the chain.

7. Make one single crochet in the end of the chain.

8. Join with a slip stitch to the first single crochet of this round. You join to the first single crochet only in this first round, in other rounds join to the chain that you make in the beginning of each round. That chain will count as a stitch.

Round 2

9. Now put the red yarn behind the hook and in front of the linen yarn like it is shown in the picture.

10. Chain one. Now the red yarn is secured (notice that it is wrapped around with the linen yarn).

11. Insert your hook in the next stitch grabbing just the back loop like it shown in the picture.

12. Yarn over the linen yarn.

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

14. Next, instead of yarning over, yarn under like it is shown in the picture.

15. Pull the yarn through both loops on your hook. You have just made a modified single crochet. Notice that the red yarn is wrapped around with the linen yarn.

16. Make modified single crochets until the end of the round.

17. Next insert your hook in the chain that you made in the beginning of the round. Leave the red yarn aside like it is shown in the picture.

18. Yarn over the linen yarn and make a slip stitch.

Round 3

19. Then bring the red yarn back and make modified single crochets as it was shown before.

Round 4

20. In round 4 you have to change color because the 30th stitch in round 4 is red. Make 28 stitches with the linen yarn. Start making the 29th stitch and stop when you have two loops on your hook.

21. Then put the red yarn up like it is shown in the picture.

22. Yarn under the red yarn.

23. Pull the yarn through both loops on your hook. Now the red yarn is ready to use.

24. Start making the 30th stitch with the red yarn and stop when you have two loops on your hook. The next stitch is linen, therefore you need to change color again.

25. So, put the linen yarn up and yarn under.

26. Pull the yarn through both loops on your hook. The linen yarn is ready to use.

Round 19

27. In round 19 you have to make holes for a string. So, chain one and make one modified single crochet.

28. Then chain two.

29. Skip the next two stitches and make two modified single crochets in the next two stitches. Notice that the red yarn is “hanging” in the hole, that is fine.

30. Continue making holes until the end of the round. In the end chain two.

31. Skip two last stitches and join with a slip stitch to the chain that you made in the beginning of this round.

Round 20

32. Next chain one and make one modified single crochet.

33. Then insert your hook in the chain two space of the previous round. You should grab both red yarns: from round 20 and from round 19.

34. Yarn over the linen yarn and pull it through. Now you have two loops on your hook.

35. Yarn under and pull the yarn through both loops.

36. Make one more modified single crochet in the same chain two space, then make two modified single crochets in the next two stitches. Continue working in the same way until the end of the round.

Finished mini tapestry crochet bag Heart

37. 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 tiny tapestry crochet bag with a heart!

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