Free crochet drawstring pouch pattern — 115 rounds across two pieces
Crochet drawstring pouch free pattern for a bag about 23 cm around and 13 cm tall, worked on a 4.0 mm hook in three colours over about three hours. Nothing is built into the wall to take the cord — no eyelets, no skipped stitches — because the cord is threaded under and over the stitches of round 25 with a needle once the pouch is off the hook, which is why the last four rounds can stay plain. The body's 25 rounds and the cord's 90 are written out separately, each round carrying the count it ends on.
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Why it is rated Easy
Easy: one back-loop round turns the base into a wall and after that nothing changes for eighteen rounds. The cord is 90 rounds of four stitches.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — three colours, all weight 4
1 skein (~40 g)Worsted / aran cotton, CYC 4
~10 g, leftovers are plentyWorsted / aran cotton, CYC 4
~30 gWorsted / aran cotton, CYC 4
Tools
3 you probably own, 1 to buyYou likely have
Scissors
Stitch markers
Measuring tape
You need to buy
A large-eye tapestry needle with a blunt tip — it has to carry the whole cord through the stitches of the top round
Optional
A stitch marker in a contrast colour for the round start
Two wooden beads, 12 mm hole, to finish the cord ends
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Worked firmly in plain single crochet. A looser hand gives a wider, softer pouch and eats more yarn; if you can see between the stitches when you hold the wall up, drop half a hook size.
Finished size
~11.5 cm across laid flat (23 cm around) and ~13 cm tall
How to make the drawstring pouch, piece by piece
Switching rewrites every round:US6 sc in mrUK6 dc in mrWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The body
Six rounds out to a flat 36-stitch disc, one round through the back…25 RNDS
starts in oatmeal· magic ring· Piece 1 of 2
First six rounds[6] [12] [18] [24] [30] [36]
The flat base
RND 1–61[6]
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4[24]
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Back loops only — the wall folds up here
RND 7–77[36]
Straight wall, with the rust band at 15
RND 8–238[36]
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Cocoa top — the cord goes through 25
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US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreaseBLOback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneSet it on the table and look at the base. It should sit flat and the wall should stand without help — that is the back-loop round doing its work. Weave in the ends before you thread the cord, because the top round gets crowded afterwards.
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02The drawstring
Four stitches around and 90 rounds tall. It comes off the hook as a…90 RNDS
starts in cocoa· magic ring· Piece 2 of 2
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US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreaseBLOback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneThread it on the tapestry needle and weave it under and over the stitches of round 25 the whole way around. Bring both ends out on the same side, pull them level, and knot them together.
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Seven notes on the drawstring pouch
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02The whole pouch is plain single crochet worked in a continuous spiral. The fabric comes out smooth all over — there is no ribbing, no openwork and no gaps anywhere in it.
03Round 7 is worked in back loops only. It is still 36 single crochet in and 36 single crochet out, so the count does not change; the free front loops leave a ridge, and the wall stands up from that ridge instead of spreading outward.
04There are no eyelet holes. Finish the pouch first, then thread the cord onto the tapestry needle and weave it in and out of the stitches of round 25, all the way around, coming back out beside where you went in.
05The drawstring is worked as a slim four-stitch tube, 90 rounds long, which comes out around 46 cm — about 25 cm of that is taken up going around the pouch, leaving roughly 10 cm at each end to knot and pull.
06Both colour changes happen at the start of a round, never partway through one. Carry the resting yarn up the inside of the wall, or cut it and weave the tail in.
07Round 1 of the cord is a magic ring of 4. Pull it closed tightly — that end gets buried inside the knot later, so it does not have to be pretty.
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