BROCCOLI CHALK BAG PATTERN

Once again we have a food related climbing chalk bag pattern coming your way! Featuring: the Broccoli Chalk Bag!

BRRROOOOCCCCCOOOLLLIII! More food related crocheted climbing chalk bags! It’s turning into my favorite thing to crochet, and I have to say making vegetables is my jam. I have always loved veggies more than fruit. From just a little girl, broccoli has been one of my favorite foods and I generally don’t eat any fruit at all. Weird, huh?

To make these delicious and wavy florets, I crocheted a few rows of ruffles. What are florets you ask? The flowery, darker green part of the broccoli that turns out to actually be undeveloped flower buds! Who would have known?

Not a climber? This little cutie makes a perfect yarn scrap basket or even a little bag! Cinch it up with a crocheted chain, instead of paracord, and you have your self a little on-the-go bag!

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DESCRIPTION

This broccoli-shaped chalk bag is fun AND funky! I cannot get over how cute the ruffles turned out on the floret section. Any worsted weight acrylic yarn in two different colors of green will work. The whole chalk bag uses about 100 grams of yarn and comes out to be roughly 6 inches tall and 5 inches wide. This little chalk bag just came out so cute and is climbing ready.

Slip some paracord in the back for a belt or just set it down next to you on your bouldering pad – however you use this chalk bag, its bound to get some laughs.

MATERIALS

Worsted weight acrylic yarn – 100 g total of yarn needed: Lion Brand’s Vanna’s Choice Yarn is an excellent yarn with many, many color options – including 5 different greens. The light green base uses ~35 g of yarn and the dark green florets ~60 g of yarn.
Size H (5 mm) crochet hook
Finishing needle
~1 yard of paracord for belt

Chalk Bag Fabric Liner and Pull Cord Materials (Click here to receive your free PDF tutorial on how to add a fabric liner and pull cord to your chalk bag):

14 inches of paracord
Toggle stopper
Lightweight fabric liner (<1 square yard)
Refillable chalk ball
Eyelet or grommet

ABBREVIATIONS

ch: chain

st: stitch

sl st: slip stitch

sc: single crochet

sc2tog: single crochet two stitches together

hdc: half-double crochet

dc: double crochet

blo: back loops only

flo: front loops only

GUAGE

4 ” by 4 ” square = 10 st by 12 rows of hdc with size H (5 mm) crochet hook *achieving gauge is not necessary if you follow the directions for sizing your chalk bag base, below.

DIRECTIONS

BROCCOLI

This piece is started in the round with joining and no turning. To achieve an invisible and straight seam, work your first stitch of the next round into the same stitch as your chain and end the round slip stitching into the first stitch of the previous round.

Begin with your size H (5 mm) crochet hook and light green worsted weight yarn.

Magic Circle

(Wondering what the checkboxes are for? Check out this tutorial and make online patterns easier to follow!)

Round 1: ch 1. hdc 8 in magic circle. sl st to first st. (8)
Round 2: ch 1. 2hdc in each st around. sl st to first st. (16)
Round 3: ch 1. hdc in first st, 2hdc in next st. Repeat around. sl st to first st. (24)
Round 4: ch 1. hdc in first 2 st, 2hdc in next st. Repeat around. sl st to first st. (32)
Round 5: ch 1. hdc in first 3 st, 2hdc in next st. Repeat around. sl st to first st. (40)
Round 6: ch 1. hdc in first 4 st, 2hdc in next st. Repeat around. sl st to first st. (48) Round base should be ~4.5 inches across, once you finish entire main bag the base will be ~5 inches across. To create a larger base for a chalk bucket continue in this pattern, to create a smaller base for smaller hands take out a row or two.
Round 7: ch 1. hdc blo around. sl st to first st. (48)
Round 8-15: hdc, both loops, around. (48) Chalk bag should be ~3.5 inches tall.

Do not fasten off, switch to dark green yarn. You will now create the dark green, ruffly floret of the broccoli top. You are making three sections of ruffle. For each ruffle section, you will have to fasten off and fasten back on behind that row.

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Row 16 (flo): ch 2. 4dc flo in each st around. sl st to first st. (192)
Row 17: ch 2. dc in each st around (both loops). sl st to first st. (192) You will now fasten off and fasten back onto the back loop opposite Row 16, which was in the front loops only – see photo below
Row 18 (blo): ch 1. sc blo in next 6 st, sc2tog blo. Repeat around. sl st to first st. (42)
Row 19 (flo): ch 2. 4dc flo in each st around. sl st to first st. (168) You will now fasten off and fasten back onto the back loop opposite Row 16, which was in the front loops only.
Row 20 (blo): ch 1. sc blo in next 5 st, sc2tog blo. Repeat around. sl st to first st. (36)
Row 21 (flo): ch 2. 4dc flo in each st around. sl st to first st. (144) You will now fasten off and fasten back onto the back loop opposite Row 16, which was in the front loops only.
Row 22 (blo): ch 1. sc blo in next 4 st, sc2tog blo. Repeat around. sl st to first st. (30)
Row 23: ch 1. sc in both loops in next 3 st, sc2tog. Repeat around. sl st to first st. (24)
Row 24-25: ch 1. sc in each st around. sl st to first st. (24)

After finishing off from Row 17, you will fasten back on to back loops left from Row 15. These back loops are what you will crochet in for Row 18, behind Row 16 and 17.

Finish off and weave in ends.

ASSEMBLY

Remember you can click here to get a free PDF guide to adding your own fabric liner and pull cord to your chalk bag!

Since this chalk bag looks best when closed along the top row, I threaded a length of ~10 inch long paracord through the stitches of the last 3 rows and added a toggle to pull it closed. When following the fabric liner sewing tutorial, you can then skip the last pull cord and toggle step.

Loop the yard of paracord through the weave of your chalk bag at the back and tie around your waist. Cut down to proper length.

Your chalk bag is complete! Get out and climb!

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2 thoughts on “BROCCOLI CHALK BAG PATTERN”

denise says:

December 16, 2019 at 9:19 pm

Thanks so much Ellie! I needed to make some crochet veggies for my daughter’s music teacher (who sometimes gives her a cup full of cooked veggies when her lesson is done). This helped so much with the curly top on the broccoli~! 😉

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1. Ellie Price says:
  
  December 17, 2019 at 10:36 am
  
  I am so happy this pattern was able to work for you! If you end up posting your broccoli I would love to see it! Tag me on IG @hookyarncarabiner 🙂 Thank you for sharing!