Crochet basket pattern: 39 rounds across three pieces, every count written out
This is a free crochet basket pattern. The finished basket is ~16 cm across the top and ~14 cm tall, with each handle standing about 4 cm proud of the side, worked on a 6.5 mm hook in four colours over about two and a half hours. Round 7 is the round that does the work: 48 single crochet in and 48 out, exactly like the rounds either side of it, but taken through back loops only, so the ridge it leaves turns the flat base up into a wall that stands on its own. All 39 rounds are written out below across three pieces, each one carrying the stitch count it ends on.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 39 rounds was checked against the round before it by machine — the counts, the increases and the decreases all add up. What nobody can promise you yet is how it sits in the hand.How we check
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Why it is rated Medium
Medium for the handles: each is worked outward from live rim stitches, so both start points have to be marked on round 23 before the yarn is cut.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — four colours, all weight 5
1 large skein (~120 m)Chunky cotton or t-shirt yarn, CYC weight 5 to 6, worked firm
~40 mSame weight and fibre as the ecru, so the wall keeps one thickness
~20 mSame weight and fibre as the ecru
~20 mSame weight and fibre as the ecru
Tools
4 you probably own, 2 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Measuring tape
Row counter
You need to buy
Locking stitch markers ×4 — one for the round start, two to hold the handle positions through 16 rounds of wall, one spare
A 6.5 mm hook, if your set stops at 6.0 mm
Optional
A cardboard or plastic-canvas disc cut to the base, if you want the bottom to stay perfectly flat under weight
Fabric stiffener, for a wall that stands harder than the yarn alone will hold
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Structural rather than cosmetic: nothing is stuffed, so the fabric is the only thing standing the wall up. If yours flops, drop a hook size rather than pulling the stitches tighter — a hand fighting the hook gives an uneven wall as well as a tired wrist.
Finished size
~16 cm across the top and ~14 cm tall, with each handle standing about 4 cm proud of the side
Chunky cotton and t-shirt yarn of the same weight both work here; t-shirt yarn gives a stiffer wall. Anything lighter than CYC 5 will not hold the sides up, so drop a hook size and expect a smaller basket.
How to make the storage basket, piece by piece
Switching rewrites every round:US8 sc in mrUK8 dc in mrWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The base and sides
Six rounds of pure increase make the bottom. Round 7 goes into the…23 RNDS
starts in naturalEcru· magic ring· Piece 1 of 3
First six rounds[8] [16] [24] [32] [40] [48]
The flat base
RND 1–61[8]
2[16]
3[24]
4[32]
5[40]
6[48]
Back loops — the wall turns up
RND 7–77[48]
Plain wall
RND 8–148[48]
9[48]
10[48]
11[48]
12[48]
13[48]
14[48]
Three stripes
RND 15–2015[48]
16[48]
17[48]
18[48]
19[48]
20[48]
Back to ecru for the rim
RND 21–2321[48]
22[48]
23[48]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreaseBLOback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneBefore you fasten off, count 24 stitches along the rim from your round start and mark that stitch, then mark the stitch 24 further on. Those two marks are where the handles begin, and they are much easier to find now than after the yarn is cut.
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02The handles
Two the same, each a narrow tube of six stitches worked outward from…8 RNDS
starts in charcoal· picked up· Piece 2 of 3
First six rounds[6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6]
1[6]
2[6]
3[6]
4[6]
5[6]
6[6]
7[6]
8[6]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreaseBLOback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneSew the open end down six stitches along the rim from where the handle started, matching the six live stitches to six rim stitches one for one. Work the second handle from the mark opposite and give it the same arch — hold the basket at arm's length and check the two look level before you cut the tail.
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03Right handle
— the same 8 rounds again, worked from piece 028 RNDS
starts in charcoal· picked up· Piece 3 of 3· mirrors the handles
First six rounds[6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6]
1[6]
2[6]
3[6]
4[6]
5[6]
6[6]
7[6]
8[6]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreaseBLOback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
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Three pieces from two lists. One list — the handles — is written once and worked twice, identical round for round; the grey bars are piece length, all drawn to the same scale.39 ROUNDS IN ALL
Eight notes on the storage basket
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02Worked in a continuous spiral throughout. Nothing is joined and nothing is turned.
03Round 7 is worked in back loops only; that ridge is what turns the flat base up into a wall and lets the basket sit level. The stitch count does not change — it is 48 single crochet in and 48 out, exactly like the rounds either side of it.
04Both handles are worked outward from live stitches on round 23 rather than from a magic ring, so neither has a round 1 in the usual sense. Mark the two starting points before you begin the wall: they sit 24 stitches apart, exactly opposite each other on the 48-stitch rim.
05The open end of each handle is sewn down to the rim six stitches along from where it started, using a long tail and a tapestry needle. Crocheting that join through both layers would eat twice the stitches it makes, which is not a move this format counts, so it is a sewn join.
06Change colour on the last pull-through of the round before, so the new colour starts clean. In a spiral each change leaves a small step at the round boundary — keep every change on the same side of the basket and the steps stack into one tidy line instead of wandering.
07Nothing is stuffed. The wall stands on two things and nothing else: the tightness of the fabric, and the back-loop ridge at the base that turns the floor into a corner.
08Yarn and hook here are suggestions. The stitch counts hold at any scale — the same 48-stitch rim in DK on a 3.5 mm hook gives a desk-tidy about 9 cm across.
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