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My Favorite Yarn Tote… Free Crochet Pattern

My Favorite Yarn Tote… Free Crochet Pattern


My Favorite Yarn Tote… Free Crochet Pattern!!! This is a super fun and very useful project. You can use this as your project bag, fitting up to 6 extra large yarn skeins, or 4 skeins plus your project! It has 2 small holes on each side to thread your different yarn colors through to keep you project running smoothly! This is also a great everyday tote, it is sturdy and easy to carry your groceries, extra goodies for a trip or even for the beach! This uses the Waffle Stitch Technique which is easy to master!

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My Favorite Yarn Tote

Materials:

Yarn: 2 – 5 oz Red Heart Super Saver in Aran Fleck 520 yards total

Hook: G

Stitch Markers

Stitches:

  • Ch – Chain
  • St – Stitch
  • Sp – Space
  • Sk – Skip
  • Sc – Single Crochet
  • Hdc – Half Double Crochet
  • Dc – Double Crochet
  • FP – Front Post
  • Bl – Back Loop
  • Reverse Single Crochet
  • RS – Right Side
  • Decrease( work your stitch over 2 stitches instead of one inserting your hook in each of the 2 indicated pulling up a loop and finishing your stitch)

Size:

11″ tall x 14″ across (32″ around)

My Favorite Yarn Tote... Free Crochet Pattern

Instructions:

Bottom Base: You will be holding 2 strands together

Row 1: Ch 13, sc in 2nd ch from hook and each across. = 12 sc

Row 2-44: Ch 1, turn, sc in each st across. = 12 sc

*You now will work in the round working your way around the 4 sides of your base.

*Make sure to keep moving your markers for the corners, this will assure you lines stay straight in the waffle stitch pattern

Round 45: Make 2 more sc in the same stitch you just made in row 44(1st corner), evenly sc 42 sts across the side rows, 3 sc in the 1st st of row 1(2nd corner), sc in next 10 sts, 3 sc in the next st(3rd corner), evenly sc 42 sts across the side rows, 3 sc in the 1st st of row 44(4th corner), sc in next 10 sts, sl st in next st(last st of row 44 to complete the round), place marker in each corner st. = 116 sc

Round 46: Ch 1, fpsc in each ch around, moving the markers to keep your corner stitches identified. = 116 fpsc (you will not put extra stitches in the corners)

Round 47-50: Ch 1, turn, hdc in the same st and each stitch around, continue to move your markers to identify your corners.= 116 hdc. Finish off at the end of round 50

With RS facing, join 1 strand of yarn in the righthand corner st on the short end.

Round 51: Ch 1, blsc in st, *blsc in next 5 sts, decrease blsc over next 2 sts, blsc in next 5 sts*, Blsc in corner st, blsc in next 44 sts, blsc in next corner st, Repeat *to* once, blsc in corner st, blsc in next 44 sts, Join with sl st around the post of first blsc(this sets up your waffle stitch). = 114 blsc.

Round 52: Ch 3(counts as dc now and throughout), *bldc in next 2 sts, fpdc around next st*, repeat *to* around(your corner sts should always be a fpdc), ending with 2 bldc, join with sl st around beginning ch 3(joining around this st will make this stay in the waffle st pattern)= 38 fpdc & 76 bldc

Round 53: Ch 3, turn, *fpdc in next 2 sts, dc in next st*, repeat *to* around ending with last 2 fpdc, join with sl st around the beginning ch 3. = 76 fpdc & 38 dc

Round 54: Ch 3, turn, *dc in next 2 sts, fpdc around next st*, repeat *to* around ending with last 2 dc, join with st st around the beginning ch 3. = 76 dc & 38 fpdc

Rounds 55-72: Repeat rounds 53 & 54

Round 73: Ch 1, turn fpsc in st, *sc in next 2 sts, fpsc around next st*, repeat *to* around ending with sc in 2 sts, join with st st around the beginning sc. = 76 sc & 38 fpsc

You will now pick back up a second strand holding 2 strands together

Round 74-75: Ch 2(counts as hdc), turn, hdc in each st around, join with sl st. = 114 hdc

Round 76: Ch 1, turn, *hdc in 11 sts, hdc in corner st, hdc in next 9 sts, hdc decrease over next 2 sts, hdc in next 10 sts, hdc decrease over next 2 sts, hdc in nex 9 sts, hdc decrease over next 2 sts, hdc in next 10 sts, hdc in next corner st*, repeat *to* once more, join with sl st. = 108 hdc

Round 77: Ch 1(do not turn), *sc in 2 sts, ch 2, sk 2, sc in 3 sts, ch 2, sk 2, sc in 2 sts, sc in corner st, sc in next 15 sts, ch 15, sk 11, sc in next 15, sc in corner st*, repeat *to* once more, join with sl st to beginning sc. = 2 ch15, 4 ch2 and 78 sc

Round 78: Ch 1, turn, sc across to ch 15 sp, *15 sc in ch 15sp, sc around to ch 2 sp, 2 sc in ch 2sp, sc in next 3, 2 sc in next ch 2sp*, sc around to next ch 15sp, repeat *to*, sc to corner st and join to beginning sc. = 116 sc

Round 79: Ch 1, turn, sc around, join with sl st to beginning sc. = 116 sc

Round 80: Ch 1, reverse sc around, join with sl st and finish off.

Steam Block to shape. You can put a small box inside to hold the shape and steam. Let dry/cool completely

That’s it, you now have completed My Favorite Yarn Tote! I hope you love it and get a lot of use. If you are making it just as a tote, you can skip the small holes in the sides for yarn.

If you have enjoyed My Favorite Yarn Tote, Make sure to check out my Waffle Stitch Dishcloth Free Crochet Pattern too


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Happy Crocheting!!

Elena


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Easy Cat Dishcloth… Free Crochet Pattern!

Easy Cat Dishcloth… Free Crochet Pattern!



This adorable Easy Cat Dishcloth is so simple to make, especially if you love cats! In addition, It is Week 8 of the 2022 Fall Gift Giving Crochet Along 12 Weeks – 12 Dishcloths!!! Using 2 or more colors of cotton yarn, you will create this fun dishcloth for all cat lovers!

Easy Cat Crochet Dishcloth

Surprisingly so easy with a 3 row repeat (actually 2 rows, one you repeat twice!) Additionally, a great gift for the cat lover or fall decoration for your kitchen!

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How to participate in the 2022 Fall Gift Giving CAL:

Firstly -You can come here each Sunday and see the posts. Secondly-You can head to the Crochet With Me Tab at the top of the page. Thirdly-You can subscribe by email for all posts in the “Stay Connected” in the right sidebar or Lastly- Join the Beatrice Ryan Designs CAL Facebook Group – Get posts, tips and help along with fun games and prizes .


Below are the first 7 weeks. They are so much fun, besides… who doesn’t love a great quick gift!

Waffle Stitch Textured Dishcloth – Week 1

Waffle Stitch Dishcloth

Summer Squiggles Dishcloth – Week 2

Summer Squiggles Dishcloth

Bavarian Stitch Dishcloth – Week 3

Bavarian Stitch Dishcloth

Alpine Stitch Dishcloth – Week 4

Autumn Acorn Dishcloth – Week 5

Autumn Acorn Dishcloth

Optical Illusion Dishcloth Week 6

Simple Cluster Dishcloth Week 7


Now on to Week 8 – Easy Cat Dishcloth

Using 2 or more colors makes the cat design pop!

Tips:

  • It is super easy, there are only a few ends to weave in for this project.
  • Use two or more contrasting colors to get the best effect.
  • You can choose any color scheme to make it your own.
  • After the first 2 rows, each color is used for 3 rows until row 15,

Materials:

Yarn: 150 total Yards of Cotton Yarn for each, about 140 yds total and approximately 30 yards of each color if you use 4 colors.

Here is what I used:

  • Color A – Peaches n Cream Panorama
  • Color B – Sugar N Cream in Warm Brown 
  • Color C – Peaches N Cream in Gold
  • Color D – Sugar and Cream in Hot Orange 

Hook G


Stitches:

  • Ch – Chain
  • St – Stitch
  • Sk – Skip
  • Sl St – Slip Stitch
  • Bl – Back Loop
  • Sc – Single Crochet
  • Dc – Double Crochet
  • Shell – (2dc, ch 1, 2dc) all in the same space
  • DS Cl – Drop Stitch Cluster: Yo, insert hook 2 rows below between (2dc, ch1, 2dc)’s encapsulating both rows, pull up loop, yo, draw up loop in same space, yo, draw through all 5 loops on hook. Keep your loops you pull up to the same height as the row you are working on. See Picture

Instructions for the Easy Cat Dishcloth:

Importantly, make sure to read the tips above. They are most important to success!

With Color A, Ch 35

Row 1: Dc in the 4th ch from hook, sk 4 ch, *shell in next ch, sk 4 ch*, repeat *to* 4 more times, dc in the last 2 ch’s. = 4 dc & 5 shells

Row 2: Ch 3(counts as dc now and throughout), turn, dc in next st, shell in each ch 1 sp across, dc in last 2 sts. = 4 dc & 5 shells

Finish off and join color B

Row 3: Ch 3, turn, dc in next st, *ds cl in next sp 2 rows below, shell in next ch 1 sp*, repeat *to* 4 more times, ds cl in next sp 2 rows below, dc in last 2 sts. 2 dc, 6 ds cl & 5 shells

Rows 4 & 5: Ch 3(counts as dc now and throughout), turn, dc in next st, shell in each ch 1 sp across, dc in last 2 sts. = 4 dc & 5 shells

Finish off and join color C

Rows 6-8: Repeat rows 3-5

Finish off and join color D

Rows 9-11: Repeat rows 3-5

Finish off and join color B

Rows 12-14: Repeat rows 3-5

Finish off and join color A

Row 15: Repeat row 3

Row 16: Ch 1, turn, 3 sc in st, sc in next 33 sts and ch sps, 3 sc in next st, evenly sc 33 sts down the side rows, 3 sc in 1st st of bottom row 1, sc 33 sts evenly across bottom of row 1, 3 sc in last st of row 1, evenly sc 33 sts up side rows, join with sl st to beginning sc. = 276 sc

Finish off, turn work over and join color B in any middle corner st.

Row 17: Ch 1, 3 sc in st, *sc in next 35 sts, 3 sc in next st*, repeat *to* around, sc in last 35 sts, join with sl st to beginning sc. =284 sc

Finish off, do not turn work over. Join color A in any BL st.

Row 18: *Sl st in BL of each st to the middle corner st, (sl st, ch 1, sl st) in bl of corner st*, Repeat *to* around, join. – 292 sl st & 4 (sl st, ch 1, sl st)

Finish off, weave ends in and block if needed. Lastly, Enjoy!!!

That’s it!!! You now have an Easy Cat Dishcloth,  So, enjoy and see you soon!!! Meet me right back here next week for week 9 of our 2022 Fall Gift Giving CAL!


This Week’s Amazon Favorite! The Queen’s Poisoner by Jeff Wheeler is book on in the Kingfountain Series… I have read the whole series and loved it! You can get a paper book, audio book or Kindle book. Hope you will give this series a try! All the books in the series are equally as good!



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Happy Crocheting!!

Elena


©Copyright 2022 Elena Hunt/Beatrice Ryan Designs.  All of my patterns and posts are my own work. Do not copy them in any way. If you want to share this information with someone, share the link to this post. Additionally, If you want to share on your own blog, website or social media, then you may use the first photo in this post and link back to this post. You may not give away printed copies of this post. Thank you. This post may contain affiliate link

2022 Crochet with Me… Mystery Winter Afghan Crochet Along… Week 10!!!

2022 Crochet with Me… Mystery Winter Afghan Crochet Along… Week 10!!!



This is it!!! The final week of instructions for the 9th Annual Crochet with Me… Mystery Winter Afghan. Week 10 is the final edging and ends this years project. I love this bright, retro style Mile A Minute Afghan. The project will be available in full soon in PDF format for those of you who would like to make it in your own timing…

Also, all of the weekly instructions will be in the Crochet with Me tab at the top of the page incases you want to make it in weekly time management or are still catching up!

This week we finished the edging and in the instructions there is a photo tutorial so you can see the special shell pattern. If you want to just continue with a couple rows of the chevron style edge and finish it that way.. It is makers choice!

How does a CAL work? Each week I post an easy to do section for 10 weeks. You can come here each Sunday afternoon and get the next set of instructions, Click on the Crochet with Me Tab at the top of the page to find them, join my Beatrice Ryan Designs Facebook CAL Group or in the right sidebar enter your email in Stay Connected to get all my posts by email as they are released.

My final size blocked turned out 48″ x 81″

Let’s get the final stitching started!



Week 10 Stitches

  • Ch – Chain 
  • St – Stitch  
  • Sk – Skip
  • Sl St – Slip Stitch 
  • Sc – Single Crochet
  • Hdc – Half Double Crochet
  • Dc – Double Crochet
  • Special Shell – In designated stitch, sc, ch 3, 3 dc in base of sc, ch 1, sc in same sp. (see pics)
  • Special Shell for Peak – In designated stitch, sc, ch 3, 5 dc in base of sc, ch 1, sc in same sp.

Colors

A – White B – Pumpkin C – Yellow D – Pink E – Self Striping Fruity



Edging

Turn to RS, join color D in the last st you made in row 13.

Row 14: Ch 1, sc in st, sk st, *sc in next 19 sts, 3 sc in next st, sc in next 19 sts, sk 2 sts*, repeat *to* 3 more times, sc in next 19 sts, 3 sc in next st, sc in next 19 sts, sk st, 3 sc in last st, (corner), now working down the side – sc 5 sts evenly in the ends of the 7 rows of chevron, sc in next 230 sts, 5 sc evenly in ends of chevron rows, 3 sc in next st(corner), sk st, *sc in next 19 sts, 3 sc in next st, sc in next 19 sts, sk 2 sts*, repeat *to* 3 more times, sc in next 19 sts, 3 sc in next st, sc in next 19 sts, sk st, 3 sc in last st (corner), now working down the side – sc 5 sts evenly in the ends of the 7 rows of chevron, sc in next 230 sts, 5 sc evenly in ends of chevron rows, 2 sc in same st as beginning sc(final corner), join with sl st.= 902 sc

Row 15: Ch 4(counts as hdc + ch 2), *sk 2 sts, hdc in next st*, ch 2, {Repeat *to* 6 times, hdc in same st(peak), ch 2, repeat *to* 5 times, hdc in next st, ch 1, sk 4 sts(valley), hdc in next st, sk 2 sts}, repeat {to} 3 more times, repeat *to * 6 times, hdc in same st, ch 2, repeat *to* 6 times, hdc in next st, leave last st unworked. Finish off. = 4 ch 1, 67 ch 2 and 72 hdc

Turn project to opposite end RS facing, Join color D in 3rd st of 3sc corner(you will leave the middle corner st unworked)

Row 16: Ch 4(counts as hdc + ch 2), *sk 2 sts, hdc in next st*, ch 2, {Repeat *to* 6 times, hdc in same st(peak), ch 2, repeat *to* 5 times, hdc in next st, ch 1, sk 4 sts(valley), hdc in next st, sk 2 sts}, repeat {to} 3 more times, repeat *to * 6 times, hdc in same st, ch 2, repeat *to* 6 times, hdc in next st, leave last st unworked. Finish off. = 4 ch 1, 67 ch 2 and 72 hdc

RS Facing, join color E to 2nd ch of beginning ch 4 on righthand side.

Row 17: {Make shell(picture tutorial below) in the next 7 ch 2 sps, make peak shell in next ch 2 sp, make shell in next 6 ch 2 sps, *sk ch 1 sp(valley), make shell in next 6 ch 2 sps, make peak shell in next ch 2 sp, make shell in next 6 ch 2 sps*, repeat *to* 2 more times, sk ch 1, make shell in next 6 ch 2 sps, make peak shell in next ch 2 sp, make shell in next 7 ch 2 spcs, 2 sc in side of same hdc(now working down the side), sc in next 244 sts, 2 sc in side of hdc(this was ch4)}, repeat{to} one more time, join with sl st to beginning sc. = 124 shells, 10 peak shells and 496 sc

Block your afghan into shape and show it off to your friends!


That is it… You now have completed our 2022 Crochet with Me, Mystery Winter Afghan CAL!!! Congratulations!!!

Don’t forget, to email your final project picture into [email protected] by Friday April 15th, no later than 11:30pm PST for your chance to win the Grand Prize


More about the weekly prize drawings and Grand Prize:

Grand Prize – There will be a $50 Amazon Gift Card for 1 lucky winner at the end of the CAL. The grand prize will be drawn on Sunday April 17th 2022. To be eligible, you must email a picture and permission by Friday April 15th, 2022 to [email protected] showing your completed project. Entries will be numbered by the order they arrive and the number will be drawn using a random number generator.

Weekly Prize – Each Saturday starting Feb. 5th 2022 – Saturday April 9th 2022 a $10 Amazon Gift Card will be given away to one member in the Beatrice Ryan Designs CAL Group on Facebook. Each Saturday, a post will be made explaining the rules to enter on this group Facebook page. The entry time will only last part of the day and be at random times so every timezone has a chance throughout this project… so stay tuned in the group!

  • Weekly 1 Winner: Theresa N.
  • Weekly 2 Winner: Michelle W.
  • Weekly 3 Winner: Jaree C.
  • Weekly 4 Winner: Krissy H.
  • Weekly 5 Winner Sharon W.
  • Weekly 6 Winner: Regina F.
  • Weekly 7 Winner: Judy B.
  • Weekly 8 Winner: Deborah S.
  • Weekly 9 Winner: Joan P.


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Don’t forget to follow me on my social media sites for more fun!

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I hope you love this project!!  Make sure to share your finished projects on my Beatrice Ryan Designs Facebook Page and make sure to share around social media too! Why share?? Because it shares our Love of Crochet!!

Happy Crocheting!!

Elena


©Copyright 2022 Elena Hunt/Beatrice Ryan Designs.  All of my patterns and posts are my own work. Do not copy them in any way. If you want to share this information with someone, share the link to this post. If you want to share on your own blog, website or social media, then you may use the first photo in this post and link back to this post. You may not give away printed copies of this post. Thank you. This post may contain affiliate links/ads. If you purchase something from a link in this post, I may be compensated.

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