How to Crochet Tulip Bag for Spring

Learn how to crochet an amigurumi tulip bag for your spring outings, market visits, and home decoration with a step-by-step tutorial from Misyel Shin. This bag is shaped like a giant crochet tulip with the flower has space for holding your essentials instead of stuffing.

This crochet bag can be crocheted in any color of natural tulip with the option available for adjusting the strap length. You can also crochet this tulip bag for gifting to someone.

The complete video guide for crocheting this bag will be available at the end of this post and for more insights, scroll down below.

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Skills Needed: Creating a magic ring, single crochets (SC), slip stitches (Sl St), and gradual increases (Inc) for shaping the tulip flower and bag body. Intermediate skills include alternating between single, double, and treble crochets for decorative edging and working decreases for shaping leaves. Crocheting a double-chain handle and assembling the bag with precise attachment techniques.

Guide Span: 27 Minutes Only

Personalization Tips: You can omit the strap and fill the stuffing in the flower top for crocheting a nice tulip amigurumi. Choose colors from red, yellow, and purple as they are the most popular.

Crochet Tulip Bag Tutorial

This crochet tulip bag tutorial begins with forming the tulip flower, followed by crocheting the bag body and decorative leaves. It crochets shaping and assembling professionally, making it an excellent project for both beginners and intermediate crocheters. Here is a quick overview of this crochet tulip bag:

Start with a Magic Ring: Use pink yarn to form a magic ring. Crochet six single crochets into the ring and pull the tail to close it. Round 2: Work two single crochets (Inc) in each stitch for a total of 12 stitches. Round 3: Alternate between one single crochet (SC) and an increase for 18 stitches. Round 4: Continue with SC-Inc-SC for 24 stitches. Gradually increase in subsequent rounds by following the pattern of SC and Inc combinations.
Round Consistency: From rounds 9 to 18, work single crochets in each stitch without increasing.
Shaping the Top Edge: Create a decorative edge by alternating slip stitches, single crochets, double crochets, and treble crochets.

Finalizing: Fasten off the yarn and weave in the ends. Adding the Stem and Leaves Use green yarn to form a magic ring and work eight single crochets into it. Build up the stem with single crochets for 8 rows, stuffing it with dacron for firmness.
Leaf Design: Begin with a magic ring, work three single crochets, and pull the ring tight. Gradually increase the leaf size in rounds with Inc and SC combinations. Add decreases in the final rounds to shape the leaf.
Attach Decorations: Use hot glue to attach the tulip and leaves to the bag’s body. Optionally add small embellishments like crochet dots for added charm.
Handle Creation: Create a double-chain strap using two 1-meter yarn strands for durability. Secure the handle ends to the bag with slip stitches or sewing.

Crochet Stitches

Following are the crochet stitches needed for crocheting this tulip bag:

SC (Single Crochet): Insert the hook into the stitch, yarn over, pull through the stitch, yarn over, and pull through both loops on your hook.
Sl St (Slip Stitch): Insert the hook into the stitch, yarn over, pull through the stitch and the loop on your hook.
Inc (Increase): Work two single crochet stitches into the same stitch.
DC (Double Crochet): Yarn over, insert the hook into the stitch, yarn over, pull through the stitch, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, and pull through the remaining two loops.
HDC (Half Double Crochet): Yarn over, insert the hook into the stitch, yarn over, pull through the stitch, yarn over, and pull through all three loops on your hook.
Tr (Treble Crochet): Yarn over twice, insert the hook into the stitch, yarn over, pull through the stitch, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through two more loops, yarn over, and pull through the last two loops.