How to Crochet a Lion Brand Backpack
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A comfortable chair with good lighting is a great place to crochet.Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images
Choose a comfortable place to sit to crochet the backpack. This location needs bright light so that you can see your stitches. Place all tools and materials within reach. - 2
A gauge swatch will help you make sure the backpack will be the proper length and width.Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images
Check your gauge with the selected crochet hook and Lion Brand yarn. Crochet 8 chain stitches in a loop. Place your stitch marker on the first stitch. Crochet 8 rounds of single crochet. Remember to move the stitch marker up each time you begin a new round. After you crochet 8 rounds cast the stitches off and cut of the end of the yarn. The Finished gauge swatch should measure 4 inches tall. Change hooks until you achieve the desired size. This will ensure the backpack comes out in the proper measurements. - 3). Begin to crochet the backpack. Crochet 8 chain stitches. Draw through the first stitch made and make a slip stitch. The eight stitches should form a loop. Insert the stitch marker in the first chain
- 4). Make 2 single crochet stitches in each chain stitch around. Move the stitch marker up to mark the beginning of the next round.
- 5). Single crochet in the first single crochet, then make 2 single crochet stitches in the next. Repeat this all the way around. Remember to move up the stitch marker.
- 6). Single crochet in the first two single crochets. Make 2 single crochets in the next crocheted stitch. Repeat this process across for this round. Move up the stitch marker.
- 7). Continue gradually increasing each round in the same pattern you have been in the previous step. Stop increasing when you reach Round 9. By Row 9, you should have single crocheted in the first 7, and a then have done one single crochet in the next stitch. Remember to move up the stitch marker with each round.
- 8). Single crochet in each stitch around for the next 21 rounds. Keep moving up the stitch marker.
- 9). You should now be on Row 30. Make 3 chain stitches. Skip the first two single crochet stitches, and single crochet in the next two. Repeat all the way around. Move up the stitch marker. These openings will be eyelets for the cord of the backpack.
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Single crochet in each stitch all the way around. This is the top of the backpack. Fasten off and cut off extra yarn. - 11
Make a cord for the backpack. Begin by making 2 chain stitches and joining them together to form a loop. Work a single crochet in each stitch, moving in a continuous spiral. Continue this process until the cord measures 60 inches long. To finish the backpack, fasten off the stitches and cut any extra yarn. - 12
Weave the cord in and out of the eyelets made in Step 9. When you have woven through all of the openings, tie the two ends of the cord together inside the backpack. Pull two large loops of the cord through two back loops of the backpack. These are the straps for the backpack.
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