How to Crochet a pumpkin style draw-string bag. (US Terms)
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Small Pumpkin Pouch
Pumpkin style draw-string bag.
Materials:
Terms:
- ch chain
- FO finish off
- FPdc front-post double crochet
- hdc half double crochet
- inc. 2 stitches into the same place
- MR Magic Ring
- sc single crochet
- sl st slip stitch
- (sl st, ch 1, sc) slip stitch, chain 1, and a single crochet into the same stitch.
Note: special stitch 2FPdctog:
- Yarn over, and insert your hook from the front, going around the front post of the next stitch in the previous row.
- Yarn over, and pull up a loop: 3 loops on your hook.
- Yarn over, and draw through the first two loops on the hook: 2 loops remaining.
- Yarn over, and insert your hook from the front, going around the front post of the same stitch.
- Yarn over, and pull up a loop: 4 loops on your hook.
- Yarn over, and draw through the first two loops on the hook: 3 loops remaining.
- Yarn over, and draw through the last three loops on your hook to complete.
Gauge:
Gague is not important.
6 rounds of single crochet:
Method:
With the 4mm hook and orange yarn:
In contiuous rounds, using a stitch marker to mark each 1st stitch,
R1. MR 8sc [8]
R2. sc inc. x8 [16]
R3. (sc, inc.) x8 [24]
R4. (2 sc, inc.) x8 [32]
R4. (3 sc, inc.) x8 [40]
R6. (4 sc, inc.) x8 [48]
R7. (5 hdc, inc.) x8 [56]
Continous rounds end.
Proceed in individual rounds:
R8. (sl st into back loop & 3rd loop, ch 1, hdc into same stitch), hdc back loop & 3rd loop 54, sc back loop only for the last stitch [56]
R9. (In both loops: sl st, ch 1, sc), (FPdc, FPdc, sc, sc) x13. End with FPdc, FPdc, sc [28 sc + 28 FPdc = 56]
R10-R21. 12 rounds: (sl st, ch 1, sc), (2FPdctog, 2FPdctog, sc [to prevent spiralling, ensure sc is placed into the stitch tucked behind the fp], sc) x13. End 2FPdctog, 2FPdctog, sc [ 28 sc + 28 FPdctog = 56]
R22. (sl st, ch 1, sc), (FPdc, FPdc, sc, sc) x13. End FPdc, FPdc, sc [28 sc + 28 FPdc = 56]
R23. (sl st, ch 1, sc), sc all around [56]
R24. (sl st, ch 1, hdc, ch 1), (skip a stitch, hdc) x26. End hdc, ch 1 [26 hdc + 28 chain spaces = 56]
R25. (sl st, ch 1, sc), (sc into chain space, sc) x27, sc into chain space [56]
Switch to green yarn:
R27. (sl st: complete sl st bringing in green yarn, ch1, sc), sc all around [56]
R28. (sl st, ch 1, sc), sc all around [56]
R29-30. 2 rounds: (sl st, ch 1, sc) dc, sc, dc... end sc, dc [28 sc + 28 dc = 56]
FO
Tie:
Green yarn and 6mm hook
Chain length required for tie [app. 24-26 inches], feed between hdc & chain spaces of round 24
Leaf:
Green yarn and 4mm hook
Leave a tail of 3-4 inches, ch 4,
1st side: sc in 2nd ch, hdc, (2 dc, ch2, sl st)
2nd side: (ch2, 2 dc), hdc, sc.
Leaving a long tail of 3-4 inches, cut and FO: sew tail up the spine of the leaf.
Attach a leaf to each end of tie
