A video tutorial can be found here.
This fun little project is beginner-friendly. It uses only a couple of basic stitches. The soft, cotton, wristlet strap is machine washable and makes it comfortable to keep your keys "on-hand" or find them in your purse. Make them in seasonal colors to have a cute, handmade accessory any time of the year.
You can use this to carry your keys and keep your hands free, to hang your keys up when you get home, or clip them onto a summer swim bag. There are so many possibilities and once you start using one you won't ever want to be without it!
To work up this pattern you will need to know the single crochet and bobble stitches. A video tutorial on how to do the single crochet stitch can be found here. A video tutorial on how to make a bobble stitch can be found here.
MATERIALS
Materials:
Peaches ‘n Cream Cotton Yarn in Ecru
.4 ounces/20 yards
3.25 mm crochet hook
Scissors
GUAGE
2 square inches= 7 stitches and 8 rows
FINISHED SIZE
6½”x ¾” or 16.5cm x 2cm (Excluding Clasp)
NOTES
This pattern is written in US crochet terms.
Keeping loose tension for the chain stitch at the beginning of each row and blocking help to keep the strap from twisting.
A modified bobble stitch will be used instead of the standard bobble stitch (where 5 unfinished double crochets are made and then finished by pulling through 6 loops), make 3 unfinished double crochet, and finish by pulling through 4 loops. A video tutorial on how to make a bobble stitch can be found here.
To make the bobble:
Yarn over, insert your hook into the stitch, and pull up a loop.
Yarn over, pull through 2 loops.
Repeat two more times, until you have 4 loops on your hook.
Yarn over, pull through all 4 loops.
When you single crochet into the next stitch your bobble will pop out the back.
PATTERN
Chain 5
Row 1: Single crochet in the second chain from hook and in each chain across. (4)
Row 2: Chain 1, turn, bobble stitch in the first stitch, single crochet in the next stitch, repeat bobble stitch, single crochet one more time. (4)
Row 3: Chain 1, turn, single crochet in each stitch across. (4)
Row 4-35: Repeat rows 2 and 3.
At this point, there should be 17 bobble stitches. (Refer to picture above)
Fold the project in half. (Refer to picture above)
Row 36: Single crochet in each stitch across through both ends. (4) (Refer to picture above)
Row 37-43: Chain 1, turn, single crochet in each stitch across. (4) (Refer to picture above)
Finish off, leaving an 8-inch tail for sewing.
Slide swivel clasp over single crochet rows. (Refer to picture above)
With a darning needle, sew row 43 to row 37. Go back and forth twice for a total of 8 sewn stitches. (Refer to picture above)
Weave in the tails.
Attach this beautiful strap to your keys, wallet, or clutch, and go show it off!
A video tutorial can be found on my YouTube channel here.+
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