Are you tired of plastic grocery bags cluttering up your home? Or maybe you’re simply looking for a functional yet stylish way to organize them and keep them out of the way.
Either way, you’re in the right place! The Mini Bean Crochet Grocery Bag Storer is a solution that you can make yourself.
This crochet grocery bag storer pattern uses the Mini Bean Stitch and about 240 yards of cotton yarn and is designed to be both beautiful and long-lasting.
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Crochet Grocery Bag Holder Pattern Notes:
- This crochet pattern is written in US terms.
- This pattern is worked in the round all in one piece.
- The initial chain at the start of each round does not count as a stitch.
- Finished size: 16 inches long x 6 inches wide (40.64 cm x 15.24 cm) when laid out flat
- You can make this bag holder taller by increasing the number of repeat rows you do
- To change the diameter of the bag holder, Round 2 needs to be an even number.
- The handle/hanger is adjustable by increasing the number of chains and single crochet stitches that you use in it.
- When switching skeins of yarn it is best to do so once you end a round of mini bean stitches and start a new round.
Materials Needed:
- 240 yards of medium 4-weight cotton yarn
- Yarn used: 2 skeins Loops & Threads Capri Eco Cotton ~ 135 grams
- 5.50 mm crochet hook
- Yarn needle to weave in ends.
- Stitch markers
- Scissors
Crochet Abbreviations Used (US Terms):
- st/sts – stitch/stitches
- sl st – slip stitch
- ch – chain
- sc – single crochet
- sc2tog – single crochet two together
- hdc – half double crochet
- mb st – mini bean stitch
- x – times (ex 2x = two times)
Special Stitch Instructions:
sc2tog – insert hook into next stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, insert hook into the following stitch, yarn over and pull a loop, yarn over again, and pull through all 3 loops on your hook.
mb st – insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop (2 loops on hook), yarn over, insert hook into the same stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop (4 loops on hook), yarn over and pull through all 4 loops on your hook, chain 1 to finish and close the stitch. – a mini bean stitch will count as a total of 2 stitches
Grocery Bag Holder Video Tutorial
Grocery Bag Holder Crochet Pattern
Base/Foundation: ch 20, join 1st and last st of chain with as sl st
Round 1: ch 1, hdc 32 times into the ring all around foundation chain, join last hdc with 1st hdc of the round with a sl st (32 stitches)
Round 2: ch 1, starting in 1st stitch: [hdc in next stitch, hdc 2x in next stitch]16x, join last hdc with 1st hdc of the round with a sl st (48 stitches)
Rounds 3 – 6: ch 1, starting in 1st st: hdc in each st all the way around, join last hdc with 1st hdc of the round with a sl st (48 stitches)
Round 7: ch 1, mb st in the 1st st, skip 1st, * mb st in the next st, skip next st, repeat from * all around, sl st to join 1st and last mb sts. (24 mb sts [48 sts total])
Round 8: ch 1, mb st in sp between previous row’s starting ch and last mb st, * mb st in the next ch sp, repeat from * all around, sl st to join 1st and last mb sts (24 mb sts [48 sts total])
Round 9: sl st into the next ch sp, ch 1, mb st into same ch sp, * mb st in the next ch sp, repeat from * all around, sl st to join 1st and last mb sts (24 mb sts [48 sts total])
Round 10 – 49 : repeat rounds 8 – 9
Round 50: sl st into the next ch sp, ch 1, hdc 2x in same ch sp, * hdc 2x in next ch sp, repeat from * all around, join last hdc with 1st hdc of the round with a sl st (48 sts)
Round 51: ch 1, starting in 1st st: hdc in each st all the way around, join last hdc with 1st hdc of the round with a sl st (48 stitches)
Round 52: ch 1, (starting in the 1st stitch) * hdc in the next stitch, sc2tog over the next 2 stitches, repeat from * all around, join last sc2tog with 1st hdc of the round with a sl st (32 stitches)
Round 53: ch 1, starting in 1st stitch: hdc in each stitch all the way around, join last hdc with 1st hdc of the round with a sl st (32 stitches)
Top Ring/Ring for Hanging:
Base: starting from Round 53, ch 1, (starting in the 1st st) sc in each of the next 4 stitches
Round 1: ch 12, sl st to join chain to the 1st sc of the 4 sc of the base of the ring. (This will create a loop)
Round 2: sc 26 times into the loop going back in the direction you just chained, sl st to the stitch after Row 1 that is in Round 40
Fasten off and weave in your ends.
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