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School supplies have started showing up in stores over the last couple of weeks and at first I thought that seemed so early, but then I realized my kids go back to school in less than a month. Crazy! And I know some people go back even sooner than they do. I am not sure where the summer went exactly, but I guess it is time to think about going back to school.
I have shared a bunch of crocheted pencil bag patterns over the years that I have been blogging, I have a roundup post that has most of them in it. Today I have another pencil bag version, and I'm working on another, that I will share soon.
Today's pattern is a cat pencil bag. Just like a lot of my other pencil bags, it uses my basic pencil bag pattern as a base. Then the eyes, nose, and ears are made separately and added on, as well as an embroidered mouth and whiskers.
It is the perfect size to fill with pens and pencils, or use it to store your crochet hooks, or anything else you want to fill it up with.
How to Crochet a Cat Pencil Bag
You will need:
- Worsted Weight yarn in main color, and small amount of black, white, and pink (for this bag I used Red Heart Super Saver in Light Blue )
- H crochet hook
- 2 buttons (3/4"-1")
- Sewing thread for attaching buttons
- sewing needle
- Yarn needle for weaving in ends
Instructions:
Bag
Row 1: sc in 2nd ch from hook and each ch to the end (30 sc)
Row 2: ch 1, turn, sc in each stitch to end (30 sc)
Row 3-38: repeat row 2
Row 39: ch 1, turn, sc dec, sc in next 26, sc dec (28 sc)
Row 40: ch 1, turn, sc dec, sc in next 24, sc dec (26 sc)
Row 41: ch 1, turn, sc dec, sc in next 22, sc dec (24 sc)
Row 42: ch 1, turn, sc dec, sc in next 20, sc dec (22 sc)
Row 43: ch 1, turn, sc dec, sc in next 18, sc dec (20 sc)
Finish off
You should now have a piece that looks like this a big rectangle that is slightly angled in on one end
Rows 1-18 will be the back of your bag, rows 19-36 will be the front of your bag and rows 37-43 (the last two straight rows and the angled portion) make the flap.
Fold the bag wrong sides together (the sides look pretty much the same so whichever way you think looks better) so that the first 18 rows are on one side and match up with rows 19-36.
Starting in one corner, I always start so that I am working on the front of the bag, sc up the side of the bag through both layers, once you reach the end of the double layers sc in the next two rows and continue up the angled portion, sc in corner stitch, ch 4, skip 1, sc in next 16, ch 4, skip 1, sc in corner, sc down the side of the flap and bag making sure to go through both layers once you reach the bag portion, finish off and weave in ends
Fold flap down to determine button placement, sew on buttons
Row 40: ch 1, turn, sc dec, sc in next 24, sc dec (26 sc)
Row 41: ch 1, turn, sc dec, sc in next 22, sc dec (24 sc)
Row 42: ch 1, turn, sc dec, sc in next 20, sc dec (22 sc)
Row 43: ch 1, turn, sc dec, sc in next 18, sc dec (20 sc)
Finish off
You should now have a piece that looks like this a big rectangle that is slightly angled in on one end
Rows 1-18 will be the back of your bag, rows 19-36 will be the front of your bag and rows 37-43 (the last two straight rows and the angled portion) make the flap.
Fold the bag wrong sides together (the sides look pretty much the same so whichever way you think looks better) so that the first 18 rows are on one side and match up with rows 19-36.
Starting in one corner, I always start so that I am working on the front of the bag, sc up the side of the bag through both layers, once you reach the end of the double layers sc in the next two rows and continue up the angled portion, sc in corner stitch, ch 4, skip 1, sc in next 16, ch 4, skip 1, sc in corner, sc down the side of the flap and bag making sure to go through both layers once you reach the bag portion, finish off and weave in ends
Fold flap down to determine button placement, sew on buttons
Ears
begin with magic ring
Round 1: ch 1, 4 sc in magic ring (4 sc)
Round 2: 3 sc in first stitch, 1 sc, 3 sc in next, 1 sc (8 sc)
Round 3: 1 sc, 2 sc in next, 1 sc in next 3 stitches, 2 sc in next, 1 sc in next 2 (10 sc)
Round 4: 1 sc in first 2 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, 1 sc in next 4 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, 1 sc in next 2 stitches (12 sc)
Round 5: 1 sc in first 2 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, 1 sc in next 5 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, 1 sc in next 3 stitches (14 sc)
Round 6: 1 sc in first 3 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, 1 sc in next 6 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, 1 sc in next 3 stitches (16 sc)
Round 7: 1 sc in first 4 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, 1 sc in next 7 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch, 1 sc in next 3 stitches (18 sc)
Finish off leaving long tail for sewing
Eyes
begin with magic ring with black yarn, make 2
Round 1: ch 1, 6 sc in magic ring, join to first sc with sl st (6 sc)
Round 1: ch 1, 6 sc in magic ring, join to first sc with sl st (6 sc)
Finish off leaving long tail for sewing
Nose
with pink yarn
ch 3, work 2 dc in the first ch, finish off and cut yarn, leaving long tail for sewing and embroidering mouth
Assembly
Flatten the ears and stitch to the top of the bag right where the flap fold over.
Stitch the eyes on. Stitch the nose in between the eyes with the tail of yarn, then continuing with the same tail make a stitch below the nose and then a couple of stitches off to each side to make the mouth.
Using white yarn make a small stitch on each eye, and make three whiskers on each side of the nose.
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