Crochet a cheerful bag for the bottle of cheer you bring for hostess and friend! For other seasons of the year, simply change the colors for a year-round gift-giving idea.
What you will need:
RED HEART® Holiday®: 1 ball each 9040 Red/Silver A and 140 White/ Silver B Susan Bates®Crochet Hook: 4mm [US G-6] Split lock stitch marker, yarn needle, 3” (8 cm) x 3” (8 cm) cardboard Gauge: 13 sts = 4”(10 cm); 8 rounds = 3½” (9 cm) in pattern. CHECKYOUR GAUGE.Useany size hook to obtain the gauge
Special Abbreviations
Inc (Increase) = 2 sc in next scdec (decrease) = draw up a loop in next 2 sc, yarn over and draw through all 3 loops
Bag measures 12” (30 cm) tall and 6” (15 cm) wide
Rounds 12-29: Repeat Rounds 10 and 11. Round 30: Repeat Round 10, but do not change color. Continue with A only. Eyelet Round 31: With A, ch 4, skip first 2 sts, *dc in next dc, ch 1, skip next dc; repeat from *around; join with a slip st in 3rd ch of ch-4; turn. Rounds 32-34: Ch 3, skip first dc, dc in each dc around; join; turn. Fasten off at end of Round 34.
Tie
With A, ch 75; slip st in 2nd ch from hook and each ch across. Fasten off. Weave through Eyelet Round 31. Pompons (Make 2) Wrap B around a 3” (8 cm) board 45 times. Tie loops tightly in center. Cut and trim ends. Attach a pompom to each end of tie. Abbreviations
A, B = color A, B; ch = chain; dc = double crochet; mm = millimeters; sc = single
crochet; st(s) = stitch (es); * = repeat whatever follows the * as indicated; [] = work
directions in brackets the number of times specified.
BAG
Round 1: With A, ch 2; 6 sc in 2nd ch from
hook; do not join but work in continuous
rounds. Place marker in first sc and move up
each round.
Round 2: [Inc] 6 times – 12 sc.
Round 3: [Sc in next sc, inc] 6 times – 18 sc.
Round 4: [Sc in next 2 sc, inc] 6 times – 24 sc.
Round 5: [Sc in next 3 sc, inc] 6 times – 30 sc.
Round 6: [Sc in next 4 sc, inc] 6 times – 36 sc.
Round 7: [Sc in next 5 sc, inc] 6 times – 42 sc.
Round 8: Sc in back loop of each sc around;
remove marker and join to first sc; TURN.
Round 9: Ch 1, dec, sc in next 19 sc, dec, sc
in last 19 sc; join; turn – 40 sc.
Round 10: Ch 3, skip first st, dc in next st and
each st around changing to B in last st; join
with a slip st in top of ch-3; turn. Carry unused
color inside bag as you go.
Round 11: Ch 1, slip st in slip st, dc in next dc,
*slip st in next dc, dc in next dc; repeat from *
around, changing to A in last dc; join with slip
st to first slip st; turn.
