How to Crochet Orange Drawstring Pouch With No Magic Ring

Learn how to crochet a little orange drawstring pouch, perfect for holding small gifts, with a step-by-step tutorial from Yarn Symphony. This quick pouch can double as a bag charm and cleverly starts without using the magic ring, making it perfect for beginners. You can also use it as a pumpkin pouch for Halloween or Thanksgiving gifting and customize it in a range of ways.

The complete guide for crocheting this little orange drawstring bag will be available at the end of this post. Let’s get started!

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Skills Used: Skills include making a slip knot, chaining, single crochet, increasing stitches to form a round base, maintaining consistent stitch count for the right shape, and making chain spaces for the drawstring closure.

The tutorial also demonstrates basic leaf shaping using single crochets, half-double crochets, double crochets, and treble crochets, along with techniques for securing loose yarn tails and assembling parts neatly.

Guide Span: 20 Minutes

Personalization Tips: The orange drawstring pouch can be easily customized by changing yarn colors to create different fruit-inspired designs. Using yellow yarn can turn it into a lemon pouch, while red can create a strawberry version with embroidered seeds. The drawstring can be replaced with ribbons, braided yarn, or even a beaded cord.

Crochet Orange Drawstring Tutorial

The tutorial explains how to create a round base without a magic ring, shape this fruit pouch, form chain spaces for the drawstring, and crochet a leaf for decoration. The project is quick, easy, and customizable. Here is a quick overview of this guide:

Creating the Base: The base starts with a slip knot and six single crochets into the first chain, followed by gradual increases in each round to form a circular base.
Building the Pouch Body: The pouch is worked continuously in rounds without increases, maintaining 42 single crochet stitches per round from round 8 to round 18.
Forming the Drawstring Holes: In round 19, chain stitches are used to create 14 evenly spaced gaps to thread the drawstring later.
Closing the Rounds: The pouch is finished with a slip stitch, and the yarn tail is hidden securely using a yarn needle.
Crocheting the Leaf: A leaf is made separately using chains, single crochets, half-double crochets, double crochets, and treble crochets, giving it a natural curved shape.
Attaching the Leaf & Finishing Touches: The leaf is sewn onto the top of the pouch, and a drawstring is threaded through the chain spaces, completing the project.

Stitches and Abbreviations

Following are the crochet abbreviations that the tutor uses for the crochet orange drawstring bag in the on-screen pattern and quick revisions for each:

CH – Chain: Yarn over and pull through the loop on your hook.
SC – Single Crochet: Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, and pull through both loops on hook.
INC – Increase: Make two single crochets in the same stitch.
SL ST – Slip Stitch: Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, and pull through both the stitch and the loop on your hook.
HDC – Half Double Crochet: Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, and pull through all three loops on hook.
DC – Double Crochet: Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, and pull through the remaining two loops.
TR – Treble Crochet: Yarn over twice, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, and pull through the last two loops.