If you want to try your hand at stitching with multiple beads, this simple pouch is a great place to start. The beads on the front of the pouch create stripes that add weight and need no color changes–great for people who don’t like weaving in ends. Use the bag to hold your tiny treasures or as a gift bag for jewelry and other small items. Or you can line it and keep your notions–like yarn needles–in it.

Skill Level:

Finished Size: 1 3/4″ (4.5 cm) wide, 3″ (7.5 cm) tall

Materials: Size 10 Thread (approximately 30 yards) 40 beads in each of 3 colors Crochet Hook C (2.75 mm)

Gauge:
Rounds 1 – 7 in pattern measure 1 3/4″ (4.5 cm) wide by 3″ (7.5 cm) tall

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Special Instructions:
Dtr with beads: yarn over 3 times, insert hook in next st, yarn over, pull up a loop, (bring up bead, you pull through 2 loops on hook) 4 times. (See multiple bead tutorial)

Crochet Pattern: Beaded Stripe Pouch
String beads – top color should be strung first, bottom color should be strung last.
Round 1: ch 13, working in back loops only, dc in forth ch from hook and in each ch across, working into front loops on opposite side of chain, dc in next 10 ch, sl st in first dc: 20 dc
Round 2: ch 4, turn, dtr with beads in first 10 dc, dtr in next 10 dc, sl st in first dc: 20 dtr
Round 3: ch 3,turn, dc in each dtr around, sl st in first dc: 20 dc
Round 4 – 7: Repeat rows 2-3
Finish off.

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