This week is the final week in the Crochet Dinosaur Series, and to finish we will be making a dinosaur bag to put your playmat and dinosaurs into when they are not being played with. Handy also for taking out with you.
The bag is made primarily of double crochet stripes, in four colours, yellow, sea green, red and white. I also added two bands of dinosaurs, so you know what is in this particular bag. The dinosaur bands are made in Tunisian crochet, something I have wanted to explore a bit more. I definitively enjoyed working out how to make these bands.
If you don't know how to Tunisian crochet I have included instructions and a useful video to get you started. If you don't have the hooks or are not sure about it however, you could always make the band using normal single crochet in a tapestry crochet style.
One thing I did learn was that Tunisian crochet is tighter than my double crochet and I probably could have gone up a hook size to make the bag more even. Since it is at the top and bottom however, it doesn't really affect the bags use.
You can find the pattern below.
I hope you have enjoyed making everything in the Crochet Dinosaur Series, I know I definitely have and my children love playing with them. Thank you for joining me every week and I look forward to seeing you all next week for something new and different.
Vicky x
Dinosaur Bag
The dinosaur bag is approximately 11” wide and 15” long. It is made of double crochet stripes and a
Tunisian crochet band with dinosaur images across the bottom and top. You make one large rectangle and then sew it
together.
1.
Materials and
Resources
Below is a list of everything you will need to make the dinosaur bag
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Double Knit Yarn – 100g balls in the following colours
o
Sea Green
o
Yellow
o
White
o
Red
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Bag draw string clasp
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4mm hook for bag and playmat
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4mm Tunisian crochet hook – depending on your tension you
may wish to go up a size hook here to make it match your gauge on the normal
crochet parts
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Tapestry needle
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Stitch List
Below is a list of all the stitches (and
their abbreviations) featured in this series of patterns. All terms used are American.
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Sc – single crochet
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Dc – double crochet
·
Ch – chain
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Tunisian Crochet
·
Romanian Point Lace Cord
2.
Notes
Here are a few handy tips to help you with the pattern.
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When you change colours on this bag, always do so on the
last stitch, make the last yarn over and pull through in the new colour.
Gauge
The bag, also do not have any specific gauge, depending on how your
tension is they may come out slightly smaller or larger than mine, but this
does not really matter.
Special Stitches
These patterns do occasionally use some stitches that are not commonly
used in basic crochet, I will provide some helpful links for these if you are
not familiar with them.
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Romanian Point Lace Cord - http://bit.ly/2uwYtq3
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Tunisian Crochet - http://bit.ly/2uVyOJS
Tunisian Crochet
Dinosaur Band – in white (W) and sea green (G)
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Row
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Instruction
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Stitches
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1
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Ch 100
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100
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2
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Tc across and
return in W
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100
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3
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(Tc W, tc G, 3 tc
W, tc G, tc W, tc G, 2 tc W) x 10
Return – (2 W, G,
W, G, 3 W, G W) X 10
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100
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4
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(2 tc W, tc G, 2 tc
W, tc G, tc W, tc G, 2 tc W) x 10
Return – ( 2W, G,
W, G, 2 W, G, 2 W) x 10
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100
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5
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(3 tc W, tc G, tc
W, 3 tc G, 2 tc W) x 10
Return – (2 W, 3 G,
W, G, 3 W) x 10
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100
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6
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((4 tc W, 4 tc G, 2
tc W) x10
Return 0 (2 W, 4 G,
4 W) x 10
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100
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7
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(7 tc W, tc G, 2 tc
W) x 10
Return- (2 W, G, 7
W) x 10
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100
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8
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(7 tc W, 2 tc G, tc
W) x 10
Return – (W, 2 G, 7
W) x 10
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100
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9
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(7 tc W, tc G, 2 tc
W) x 10
Return – (2 W, G, 7
W) X 10
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100
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10
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Tc across in W and
return in W
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100
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To make it easier (and since you don’t see the inside) I carried the
yarn across the back when swapping colours.
Below is a graph of the dinosaur which may be easier to follow. You need to repeat this dinosaur graph 10
times to make the strip.
Bag – starting in red
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Row
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Instruction
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Stitches
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1
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Ch 100 + 3, dc in 3rd
ch from hook and in every ch to end, ch 3 and turn
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100
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2
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Dc across, ch 3 and
turn, (change to yellow)
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100
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3-4
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Dc across, ch 3 and
turn, (change to white)
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100
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5-13
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Work Tunisian
dinosaur band as above and change to yellow, ch 3 and turn (change to yellow)
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100
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14
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Work a dc through
each of the Tunisian bars, ch 3 and turn
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100
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15
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Dc across, ch 3 and
turn, change to red
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100
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16-17
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Dc across, ch 3 and
turn (change to sea green)
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100
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18-21
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Dc across, ch 1 and
turn, (change to white)
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100
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22-23
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Hdc across, ch 3
and turn, (change to sea green)
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100
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24-27
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Dc across, ch 3 and
turn, (change to red)
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100
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28-29
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Dc across, ch 3 and
turn (change to yellow)
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100
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30-31
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Dc across, ch 3 and
turn (change to white)
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100
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32-35
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Work Tunisian
dinosaur band as above and change to yellow, ch 3 and turn (change to yellow)
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100
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36-37
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Dc across, ch 3 and
turn, (change to red)
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100
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38-41
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Dc across, ch 3 and
turn, and cast off at end of last row
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100
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Fold last 4 red
rows in half and sew shut to form a large hole for cord to go through
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Fold the rectangle
in half with dinosaurs facing each other and starting in the yellow rows, put
2 sc in each dc and 1 sc in each sc and sc shut the side and bottom of the
bag. Cast off and sew in any ends
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Bag Cord
Make a Romanian point lace cord long about 28-30” long and then thread
through the bag opening. Put the draw
string clasp on both ends of the cord and finish off by knotting both cord
ends. Sew in any ends.
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