I prefer to work with the zipper to avoid the thread and needle and ruining the final look of my project. You can make easy crochet zipper pouches or even pencil cases.
Using cotton yarn like Lily Sugar'n Cream with Coats & Clark 7" all-purpose zipper, you can create one of these pretty quickly.
My finished pouch is 7.5" wide by 5" deep. If you wish, you can add more yarn to the ball to make it deeper.
Materials
- Yarn - 1 Ball of Lily Sugar'n Cream. 71g / 2.5 oz, 109 meters / 120 yards. Colour shown is hot blue.
- Tapestry Needle.
- Hook 4.5 mm / G/6.
- 1 - 7" Long Coats & Clark All Purpose Zipper
Instructions
Step 1
Mark your zipper using a felted tip marker and mark every ¼" distance. Don't go beyond the length of the zipper, as shown below. The ends of the zipper will be inside the project.
Step 2
Grab some yarn and make it the length that is adequate to get round. I factored in 1 foot of yarn for every inch that the zipper is. In my case, my starting yarn was 7 feet long.
Tie a knot on the end of the yarn and poke it through the starting hole from the back to the front. Pull the yarn through until it stops at the knot.
Step 3
Insert the tapestry into the same hole and go back down. Pull through until a small loop exists. DO NOT PULL ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
Step 4
Insert needle into the next marked spot from the back to the front. Go through the middle of the previous loop. Pull yarn through.
Firm up the first loop by pulling tight enough to make it look even. DO NOT OVER PULL.
Go back down through the same hole through the middle of the loop you are working through.
Step 5
Continue working down the zipper until the last marked spot. Insert the needle from back to front on the marked stitch across the zipper and do the same steps of going through the loop and back down like you have been.
Continue down the other side of the zipper edging.
Step 6
Jump across the zipper like you had before and go through the loop when going from back to front.
Intentionally go back down on the outside of that loop to hold that loop down.
Secure the yarn on the underside of the zipper and begin the project.
Step 7
Attach yarn to any back loop (loop closest to edge of the zipper tape. 1 single crochet in each stitch and on the stitches that are jumping over the zipper, place 3 single crochet in those stitches.
Do not join when you get back around.
Continue around in a continuous revolution of 1 single crochet in each regular stitch until you get the desired depth of your pouch. I stopped after 5" was completed.
Flatten the bag with the yarn at one end. Instead of single crochet around, just go through the front and back of the back to close the bottom of the back by applying 1 single crochet in each. Weave in the ends and turn the pouch inside out to secure the tail end to the inside of the pouch.
Video Tutorial
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