Get ready for the season with this free crochet pattern for a water bottle cozy. ‘Coz, now that it’s sunny, you might want to swap your coffee cup cozy for one to carry your water bottle.
This is a free crochet pattern for an adorable bottle bag, that will make you want to take your water along, wherever you go, just to show of the bag you’ve made!
Plus, it is a tutorial on how to crochet. This is what’s great about this free crochet pattern. It comes with a wonderfully detailed, illustrated tutorial that has instructions in ‘Crochet’- language and has crochet directions in plain English.
These factors makes this an ideal project to learn to crochet.
Let’s get to crochet your personalized water bottles.
Free Crochet Pattern Water Bottle Cozy – MATERIALS Needed
Cotton/wool yarn, e.g. Can be made in Sugar’n Cream 100% Cotton Yarn or in Lion Brand Fishermen’s Wool Yarn
. (Note: this wool yarn is slightly finer than the cotton).
Browse around a little to get the yarn you really like.
Tip: Using a uniform yarn that allows you to easily see the patterns you’re learning to crochet. Even yarn also allows you to observe how even your stitches are.
HOOK: Size H, aluminium crochet hook
GAUGE: This pattern is assuming a fairly loose crochet, to loosely fit your bottle, your keys, some change, and perhaps even a lipstick. Ha!
Tip: If you crochet tightly, this pouch will be snug around your water bottle. However, if you’re REALLY tight, it will fit loosely around a soda can or make a nice little license/money pouch. So, adjust the pattern to upsize it as desired.
‘Learn to Crochet’- Tutorial & Bag Pattern – combination
In this Free Crochet Pattern Water Bottle Cozy – tutorial, you will see two sets of instructions. The first set is how you would see this pattern written out in a book or pattern magazine. Below that, in plain English (or as close as I can get and still be speaking ‘crochet’) is the translation. I suggest reading through both, and taking the time to see how the ‘plain English’ version relates to the pattern terminology.
Crochet Bag Pattern
ROUND 3
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ROUND 20: CROCHET IN ABBREVIATIONS
ch 3. Working in BLO of previous row, *hdc in each of next 2 sts. Sc in stitch at top of shell, hdc in next 2 sts, dc in next st. Repeat from * around. Join with sl st in 3rd ch of beg ch. (36 stitches) |
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ROUND 20: CROCHET IN PLAIN ENGLISH Chain 3. (This counts as your beginning double crochet. Notice that it is worked in the top of a single crochet from the row below. That’s important, because with this row, you’re going to be evening out the ripples to make a nice flat working area for the next row.)Now work one half-double crochet in each of the next two stitches. You should be at the top of the shell now. Work a single crochet into the stitch there. Work one half-double crochet into each of the next two stitches. This puts you at the bottom of the ‘valley’ between shells, and you’re going to work a double crochet into the single crochet there.See the pattern here? Double crochets get worked in the sc from the previous row, single crochets get worked in the top of the shell, and half-doubles go between.When you get to the end of the row, you should end with the last two stitches as half-double crochets. Join with a slip stitch to the top of the beginning chain 3. |
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Lining Your Crochet Bag
If you wish, you could line this project with a pretty inside fabric. Here are some fabric ideas that will blend really well with simple off-white of this crochet bottle bag.
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Add a Handle to Your Crochet Bag
If you wish, you could crochet and attach a handle, or an over the shoulder sling to the bag. Crochet a cord, or use the same fabric as the inner lining.
Add Your Style & Ideas to This Base Crochet Pattern
This crochet tutorial is so detailed that it is actually become fairly easy to make your own design changes. Make the bag longer or shorter. Add colors and whimsy to it, as it pleases you.
Go wild: use different yarn and hooks…. I wonder how this would look when made out of paper yarn and a huge hook. Probably a quite amazing home decoration piece!
Or transform it into a really fine work and add beads, ribbons and studs to make this into a divine pyjama bag for a niece’s doll.
Free Crochet Pattern Water Bottle Cozy – Source
Many, many, many thanks to the wonderfully funny veteran crochet artist and teacher Donya Beasley who is sharing her decades of crochet experience with us in detailed pictures and plain English ‘translations’ of crochet speak! Donya has been teaching crochet in the Arts & Science Department at the University of Atlanta.
HOW TO CROCHET A DOUBLE BASE CHAIN – VIDEO
HOW TO CROCHET A SLIP STITCH – VIDEO
HOW TO CROCHET A SINGLE CROCHET – VIDEO
This si such a cute project and I love the pictures it makes it so much easier to understand!
Great tutorial! Thanks for linking up with Sugar & Spice.
Great tutorial! Thanks for stopping by my blog, and thanks for the tip on opening up the comment section. . . I really appreciate it!!!
Hi, I am really having trouble with Round 3.
1. Round 3.
2. Round 3. Crochet in abbreviations
3. Round 3. Crochet in plain english
Please rush! help! I need to make it within the next couple of days.
Thank you.
Loretta.
No panic. We’re here… What exactly is the problem?
Hello,
Ok, I must be a complete dope! I try to follow this really close, however, mine keeps rolling up! It won’t lay flat like the pictures.
I don’t know what I am doing wrong! Help me, please…..
I purchase one of these, but since my caner I need to carry water every where and it is the best. It would be awesome if I could make my own.
Can you help?
thanks
Angel
Hai angel.
You are brave to start something new, and so by that mere fact you are not a ‘complete dope’.
While this is a ‘learn crochet’ project, it has a variety of stitches in it and while easy, it is not SUPER easy.
So, give yourself some credit, and let me see if I can help you.
First of all, ‘the problem’ might not be a problem at all. So what if it rolls up?
Does whatever you have produced so far fit your water bottle?
That’s what matters.
I am guessing that you are using lighter yarn than used here, and possibly you are crocheting tight.
And that one or both of these factors make your project curl up while you are working on it.
If the curling up bothers you, try crocheting a bit looser.
An easy way to do this is simply use a little bigger crochet hook than you are using now.
Hope this all helps.
Let me know how it turns out and do send in a picture!
Rose
Help! i have been searching for a water bottle cover and this one is perfect but I am unable to print the pattern! How can print the instructions? Thank you