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FREE Pattern - Square Market Bag

This pattern is part of the Global Crochet Collaboration. If you haven't heard of the collaboration before now, it's 9 crochet pattern designers offering different FREE crochet patterns in 2025. There are 3 new patterns each month.


It's my turn again! While I was trying to figure out what type of pattern I would offer I happened to be shopping at a Hobby Lobby and saw this pretty yarn :) It took a few weeks before I knew what type of project I would make with the yarn, sometimes you have to wait for the yarn to tell you what it wants to be.


The pattern testers had fun with this bag pattern, I hope you enjoy it as well!


If you would like to purchase the pdf, you can find it on Ravelry for $2.50.



 





MATERIALS

  • Caron Cotton Cakes (60% Cotton, 40% Acrylic, 530 yards / 485 meters, 8.8 ounces / 200 grams) Color: Beachglass: 1 cake

  • Other Yarn Options: Any light weight worsted yarn.


HOOKS & SUPPLIES

  • Hook US 7 / 4.5 mm

  • Scissors

  • Yarn Needle

  • Measuring Tape

  • Stitch Marker (Optional)

GAUGE

  • First 4 rounds = 4” across


FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

  • Laying Flat: 14” wide x 12” tall (not including the handles)


PATTERN KEY (US Terms)

  •  2dctog = 2 double crochet together

  • ch = chain

  • dc = double crochet

  • dc2tog = double crochet 2 together

  • fsc = foundation single crochet

  • MC = magic circle

  • sc = single crochet

  • sc2tog = single crochet 2 together

  • slst = slip stitch

  • sp(s) = space(s)

  • st(s) = stitch(es)

  • YO = yarn over


SPECIAL STITCHES & TECHNIQUES


 

EXPERIENCE LEVEL

  • Advanced Beginner


PATTERN NOTES

  • - Repeat instructions between the asterisks.

  • (  ) - All stitches in the brackets worked in the same stitch or chain space.

  • [ ] - Repeat instructions between the brackets.

  • Working in the round, join with a slip stitch at the end of each round, to the first stitch of the round.

  • Chain spaces do not count as stitches.

  • The chain 1 & chain 2 at the beginning of the rounds do not count as stitches.


 

INSTRUCTIONS


Round 1: create the MC, ch 2, 4 dc, ch 2 4 times. Join. (16 dc)


NOTE: The chain 2 will now be referred to as “the corner”.

The sections between the corners will be referred to as “the side”.


Round 2: slst across to the first corner, ch 2, [ (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in the corner, dc across to the next corner ] around. Join. (8 dc/side)


Round 3: slst across to the first corner, ch 1,  [ (2 sc, ch 2, 2 sc) in the corner, sc across to the next corner ] around. Join. (12 sc/side)


Rounds 4 & 5: slst across to the first corner, ch 2,  [ (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in the corner, dc across to the next corner ] around. Join. (20 dc/side)


Rounds 6 - 8: Repeat Rounds 3 - 5. (32 dc/side)


Round 9: slst across to the first corner, ch 1,  [ (2 sc, ch 2, 2 sc) in the corner, sc across to the next corner ] around. Join. (36 sc/side)


Round 10 & 11: slst across to the first corner, ch 2,  [ (dc, ch 2, dc) in the corner, dc across to the next corner ] around. Join. (40 dc/side)



Round 12: slst across to the first corner, ch 1,  [ (2 sc, ch 2, 2 sc) in the corner, sc across to the next corner ] around. Join. (44 sc/side)


Round 13: slst across to the first corner, ch 2,  [ (dc, ch 2, dc) in the corner, ch 1, skip 1 st, (2dctog in the next st, ch 1, skip 1 st) 8 times, dc in the next st, dc2tog, skip 2 sts, dc2tog, dc in the next st, ch 1, skip 1 st, (2dctog in the next st, ch 1, skip 1 st) 8 times ] around. Join. (16 - 2dctog/side, 6 dc/side, 2 - dc2tog/side)


Round 14: slst across to the first corner, ch 1, [ (2 sc, ch 2, 2 sc) in the corner, sc in the next st, sc in the next ch sp, (sc in the next st, sc in the next ch sp) 8 times, sc2tog, skip 2 sts, sc2tog, sc in the next ch sp, (sc in the next st, sc in the next ch sp) 8 times, sc in the next st ] around. Join. (40 sc/side, 2 - sc2tog/side)


Rounds 15 & 16: slst across to the first corner, ch 2,  [ (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in the corner, dc in the next 18 sts, dc2tog, skip 2, dc2tog, dc in the next 18 sts ] around. Join. (40 dc/side, 2 - dc2tog/side)


Round 17: slst across to the first corner, ch 1,  [ (2 sc, ch 2, 2 sc) in the corner, sc in the next 18 sts, sc2tog, skip 2, sc2tog, sc in the next 18 sts ] around. Join. (40 sc/side, 2 - sc2tog/side)

 

Rounds 18 - 27: Repeat Rounds 13 - 17.


Round 28: slst across to the first corner, ch 1,  [ 3 sc in the corner, sc in the next 19 sts, sc2tog, skip 2, sc2tog, sc in the next 19 sts ] around. Join. 


Fasten off, weave in ends.



HANDLES - Make 2

NOTE: Leave a long tail at each end of the handle for sewing onto the bag.


Row 1: fsc 100.


Rows 2 & 3: ch 1, sc in each st across.


FINISHING


Fasten off. Place one end of the handle through the corner of the last dc round, fold over and sew together. Place the other end through the next corner, fold over and sew together.

Do the same for the other handle on the other 2 corners.


 

PIN FOR LATER





 
 
 
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