Zigzag diamond crochet pouch with a zipper

Crochet pouch with a zipper

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Materials

• Yarn: any thin yarn will work. I used Järbo 8/4 100% Cotton “Mercerized & Gassed” 50 g (offwhite and light gray).
• 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 crochet pouch with a zipper is 12.5 x 9.5 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 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). Except the first round, every round is made in the same way: chain one, make 71 modified single crochets, join with a slip stitch. Follow the color chart showing how to change colors.

Pattern

Start by chaining 35 + 1 with white 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 total you should have 72 st.

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

Round 2-25 ch 1, msc in every st of the prev round. Join with a sl st.

Fasten off. Sew in a zipper.

Color chart

How to read the chart

Each square represents a stitch and its color. In each round you have 72 stitches (36 columns in the chart times two). Rows represent rounds. For each round you have to read the row in the scheme from right to left (when you have 36 stitches done, start from 1). The chain that you make in the beginning of each round counts a stitch.

After finishing the first round you have 72 white stitches. Before joining with a sl st, check what is the color of the first st in the next round. Round 2 starts with a white st, therefore, the sl st should be white (if the row would start in gray, the sl st would be in gray). Round 2 says you need 2 white stitches, then 3 gray, 3 white, etc. So, chain 1, start making an msc and since the next st should be gray, finish the msc with your gray yarn. Make 2 msc in gray, start the third msc in gray and finish it with your white yarn. Keep working in the same principle till the end.

Rules for changing color

• The last msc of the round: 

Finish making your last msc of the round with the same color yarn as the first st of the round. For example, round 2 ends with a white st and starts with a white st, therefore, finish the last st of round 2 with white yarn. Round 9 starts with a gray st, ends with a white st, therefore, finish the last msc of round 9 with gray yarn.

• The slip stitch:

The color of a sl st depends on the color of the first st in the next round. For example, round 14 ends with a gray st (this round starts with a gray stitch too, so finish making your msc with gray yarn); round 15 starts with a white st and it means that you should make a sl st in white. Then, since the second st in round 15 is gray, you should change your yarn color again: chain one with your gray yarn (this chain will become the top of your second gray stitch). See photo instructions.

Photo instructions

1. Round 1. Start with a chain and make single crochets around it. Join with a sl st to the first sc in this round, not to the chain 1. You do this only in the first round, in all other rounds you have to make a sl st into the ch 1 which you make in the beginning of the round.

2. Round 2. Put the gray yarn behind your hook and in front of the white yarn that you are working with.

3. Round 2. Chain one. Now your gray yarn is secured.

4. Round 2. Insert your hook into the next st grabbing just the back loop.

5. Round 2. Yarn over.

6. Round 2. Pull the yarn through the loop. Now you have two white loops on your hook.

7. Round 2. Since the next stitch should be in gray, you should finish your msc with gray yarn: yarn under your gray yarn.

8. Round 2. Pull the yarn through both loops on your hook. You have just made your first msc. If the stitch feels a bit loose, you can gently pull the white yarn to tighten it up.

9. Round 2. Make two full msc in gray, start the third gray msc and finish it with the white yarn because the sixth st in round 2 should be in white. Keep following the color chart.

10. Round 2. When you are at the end of round 2, finish the last stitch with the white yarn because the first stitch in round 2 is white too.

11. Round 2. Insert your hook into the chain one that you made in the beginning of this round.

12. Round 2. Make a sl st with your white yarn because the first st in round 3 should be white. This sl st will become the “body” of the first st in round 3.

13. Round 3. The second st in round 3 is gray, therefore, you have to change yarn color. Chain one with the gray yarn. This chain will become the top of the second st in round 3. Keep following the color chart.

14. Round 3. Finish the last msc of round 3 with the white yarn because the first st in this round was white.

15. Round 3. Make a sl st with the gray yarn because the first st in round 4 is gray.

16. Keep following the color chart and the rules for changing yarn color. Done!

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