Enhance your market bag's beauty and storage capacity with a single project by learning how to crochet this mini frog pouch charm with a tutorial from Littlespot. It features cute googly eyes and is perfect for saving daily essentials like Airpods, coins, lipsticks, etc.
This frog charm can be completed within half an hour in any color though presented in dark green. You can proudly gift it to anybody.
Check out the complete video guide available at the end of this post and also quick guides for easily following the pattern.
Skill Level: Beginners. This crochet frog pouch charm uses a very basic bottom-to-top pattern and needs crocheting small rounds using basic crochet stitches and sewing and glueing them on the frog. A bit of embroidery is also required for smiling expression. You can work with stitch markers to improve your work by keeping track of them.
Guide Span: 13 Minutes Only
Personalization Tips: Fill inside the stuffing instead, add legs and arms as chain lengths and get a tiny amigurumi for little ones. You can also make it an ornament keeping the same pouch structure. Try popular colors including parrot, blue and pink.
Crochet Mini Frog Pouch Tutorial
The quick crochet tutorial below will walk through crocheting a frog mini pouch with both verbal and on-screen written instructions. The instructions focus on simple stitches, making it accessible and fun to create.
Below are some key highlights of the tutorial:
- Starting the Body: The body is worked from bottom to top. You will begin with a slip knot and create a chain some foundation chains 15 recommended.
- Round 1: You will single crochet in each stitch. In the next chain, make 4 sc, then continue with 12 sc and 3 sc in the last chain (total 32 stitches).
- Rounds 2–14: Continue with sc in each stitch to build the body of the pouch.
Adding the Details: - Round 15: Crochet 10 sc, then chain 4 and sc in the next stitch. Continue with 14 sc, then create a long 50-chain handle and sc in the next stitch. Finish the round with 6 sc and an invisible stitch to fasten off.
Making the Frog Eyes: - Round 1: Use a magic ring to create 4 double crochets (DC) and chain 3.
Round 2: Crochet 2 chains and 5 half double crochets (hdc) to shape the eyes.
Make two eyes, leaving extra yarn to sew them onto the pouch. - Final Touches: Stitch the eyes onto the top part of the pouch and create a mouth by stitching between rounds 2-3 and rounds 4-5 for the upper and lower parts.
Supplies Needed
Following are the supplies used and recommended by the tutor to crochet the mini frog pouch charm:
- Yarns for body and eyes (dark green, black and white). The tutor probably may have used sport or DK weight yarn.
- 2.5mm hook
- Yarn Needle
- Stitch Marker
- Glue
- Optional (stuffing)
Note: One best yarn types to use for a crochet frog pouch is 100% cotton yarn. Cotton yarn offers a combination of durability, softness and color range making it ideal for creating small yet sturdy accessories.
Video Guide
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