How to Crochet Mini Bow Wallets (Tutorial for Beginners)

In this post, you’ll learn how to crochet mini bow wallets in three appealing color-combinations with a step-by-step tutorial from Chubby Cheeks. This wallets also feature a very attractive ruffle border and does not require anything except yarn like buttons. You can crochet it in pink, yellow and purple and green colors.

It is a suitable project for beginners and can be used a to store everything from coins, keys, to small personal items. With its neat design which includes a small button hole for easy closure and a well-structured build, everybody will love to receive it as a gift. It really very customizable.

You can find the complete video guide for this crochet bow wallet at the end of this post. For deeper insights about this crochet project, follow through with us below.

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Skills Needed: Making a slip knot, chaining, and mastering single and double crochet stitches. It adds techniques like creating buttonholes, working in the back loop for texture, and an invisible decrease for seamless edges. Additional skills involve slip stitching to join sides and embroidering fine details, such as securing yarn tails neatly for a professional finish.

Guide Span: 42 Minutes

Personalization Tips: To personalize the mini bow wallet, you can explore various color combinations for the body, border, and bow to match personal style. The size of this crochet wallet can be easily adjusted by adjusting the number of foundation chains but make sure you are also able to do the same for the bow.

Crochet Mini Bow Wallets Tutorial

This Crochet Mini Bow Wallet tutorial is an excellent project for both beginner and intermediate crocheters. The wallet’s functionality as a cardholder paired with its aesthetic appeal makes it a versatile handmade item. Its customizable design allows to experiment with colors and patterns. The tutorial for crocheting it is full of helpful tips that will improve your skills.

Getting Started: The tutorial begins with an introduction to materials, including a 3mm hook and light green yarn for the wallet body. It demonstrates forming a slip knot and creating 61 chains.
Creating the Wallet Body: Guides viewers through working rows of 60 single crochets up to round 20. The video emphasizes neat turning and consistent stitch tension.
Making the Buttonhole: Details include creating chains to form a buttonhole in round 10 and continuing with single crochets to maintain structure.
Joining the Sides: The tutorial explains folding the piece and using slip stitches to attach the sides, with markers ensuring accurate alignment.
Adding the Border and Bow: Shows crafting a decorative border using double crochets with chain spaces. A detailed bow-making process involves forming the top and bottom pieces and sewing them onto the wallet.
Finishing Touches: Covers securing yarn tails, assembling parts, and hiding stitches to give the wallet a clean and professional look.

Supplies Mentioned

Following are the supplies that the tutor mentioned for crocheting this mini bow wallet for beginners:

3mm crochet hook
5 ply Milk Cotton Yarn (light green for the body, cream for the bow)
Stitch markers
Needle for sewing
Scissors
Decorative buttons (optional)

Stitch Guides

Several crochet stitches are used for crocheting these mini bow wallets. Here are one-line guides for crocheting each:

Chain (ch): Yarn over, pull through loop on hook.
Single Crochet (sc): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through both loops.
Double Crochet (dc): Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through remaining two loops.
Slip Stitch (sl st): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through both stitch and loop on hook.
Increase (inc): Make two stitches in the same stitch (e.g., 2 sc in the same stitch).
Decrease (dec): Insert hook into next stitch, yarn over, pull through, insert hook into following stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through all loops on hook.
Back Loop Only (BLO): Most stitches produces a top V loop. While working in the BLO, insert the crochet hook in the loop that is far from you.