Find a tutorial on how to crochet some adorable animal bag charms, perfect as Christmas gifts or for personal use. The tutorial covers creating bees, ducks, bears, and pigs, each with detailed, easy-to-follow instructions. Chenda suggests making these cute charms to practice your skills. The charms are beginner-friendly and can hold small items. They will especially bring smiles to little faces with options to create any almost any animal just by following one pattern.
Here in this post, you will find every detail about the project so that beginners can also follow the guide in the end.
Skill Level: Beginner
Video Span: 48 Minutes
Crochet Animal Bag Charm Tutorial
The tutorial demonstrates how to crochet these animal bag charms by first making a bee-shaped bag charm. Then she provides ideas for how to crochet small elements for the ducks, bears, and pigs. The steps begin with creating a base using slip knots and single crochet stitches. You can see it is very easy to crochet. Here are the remaining video notes:
- Starting the Bee Base: The project starts with a slip knot and chain of nine stitches. Single crochets are added to each chain to form the first row. The base is created by making increases at both ends of the row to shape the body evenly.
- Building the Rounds: Through continuous rounds of single crochets, increases are made to give the body its structure. For example, row two introduces 26 stitches, and the tutorial marks the importance of using a stitch marker to track progress.
- Adding Stripes: The characteristic bee stripes are formed by switching yarn colours between yellow and black as the project progresses. The colour change occurs smoothly after certain rounds, maintaining the stripe effect.
- Shaping & Finalizing the Body: Rows 12 to 18 involve repeating patterns to achieve the body’s full shape, alternating between yellow and black. The final touches include creating curved sections and attaching the charm string to allow the bee to be hung as an accessory.
- Creating Bee Wings: Small wings are crocheted separately using double crochets and slip stitches. These are then sewn onto the bee’s body for a cute and functional charm accessory.
- Creating Other Animals: The tutorial also includes variations for crocheting other animals, like a duck, bear, and pig, all following similar steps to the bee but with changes in colour and minor design differences.
Supplies Needed
Following are the supplies needed for crocheting these animal bag charms for beginners:
- Milk Cotton yarn,
- size 4ply, 50g for each colour
- 3.5 mm hook
- Darning needle
- Scissors
- Stitch marker
Crochet Abbreviations
There is an on-screen written pattern in the video tutorial for which you need the following stitches and abbreviations:
- Ch (Chain): Yarn over, and pull through the loop on the hook.
- SC (Single Crochet): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through both loops on hook.
- DC (Double Crochet): Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through remaining two loops.
- HDC (Half Double Crochet): Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through all three loops on hook.
- Inc (Increase): Make two stitches in the same stitch.
- Sl St (Slip Stitch): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through stitch and loop on hook.
Sk (Skip): Skip the next stitch, and work into the following stitch. - MR = Magic Ring
- St/Sts Stitch/Stitches
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