Pattern - Crochet teardrop hanging basket

While decorating my lounge, I realised I wanted a hanging basket for my artificial plants. I’m guilty of only having artificial plants, because I can’t seem to keep a real plant alive 😳.

So with an abundance of artificial plants I was in desperate need of sprucing up my house with some greenery and I love the look of hanging plants. So I thought “hey, why not make one?” So I did, and I love the outcome, and hope you like the pattern.

Notes 

• This pattern uses US terms 
• It’s best to use a stitch marker, removing it when you get to that stitch and replacing once you’ve done that stitch.

Materials used 

• 4 mm hook 
• Cotton yarn  
• stitch marker 
• tapestry needle 
• Scissors 

Terminology used 

1. Sc = single crochet
2. Dc = double crochet
3. Sts = stitches 
4. sk = skip
5. sl st = slip stitch
6. HDC =half double crochet
7. dc2tog = yarn over and insert hook into first stitch yarn over and pull up a loop, you now have 3 loops on your hook, yarn over and pull through the first 2 loops. Leaving 2 loops. Yarn over and insert into the next stitch , pull up a loop and continue to do the first steps of a double crochet, do not finish. You should now have 3 loops on your hook. To complete, yarn over and pull through all 3 loops.
8. cluster = three dc together - yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over pull though 2 loops, but don’t pull through the last 2 yet. You will have 3 loops on your hook, yarn over and start to make another double crochet but don’t finish it, you will have 3 loops on your hook do this one more time and you should have 4 loops on your hook. Yarn over and pull through all 4 loops on your hook and chain 1 to lock the stitch.
9. tr2tog = the same as dg2tog, just with an extra step.
10. Tr = treble crochet
11. ch = chain

Pattern

Foundation Ring: Ch 5, sl st into a ring.

Round 1: Ch 3 , 15 dc in ring, sl st to top of ch-3.

Round 2: Ch 5, (dc, ch 2) 14x, hdc into 3rd ch of ch-5.

Round 3: Ch 2, dc2tog in hdc-sp, (ch 4, cluster in next ch-sp) 15x, ch 1, dc on top of dc2tog.

Round 4: miss the first big chain space and go straight into the Ch1 -sp(Sc in ch-sp, ch 4) 16x, sl st to 1st sc.

Round 5: [(3 sc, ch 1, 3 sc) in ch-sp] 16x, sl st to the 1st three sts.

Round 6: Repeat Round 4. Place the sc’s in the small ch1- sp at the top of the ‘(3 sc, ch 1, 3 sc)’ that we did in the previous round. You can go into the big chain 4 space, but I think that it’s looks better going into the chain 1 space. But do whichever you like best.

Round 7: Ch 3, 2 dc in same st, (5 dc in ch sp) 16x, sl st to top of ch-3.

Round 8: Ch 2, 3 dc in dc, hdc on all remaining dc's, sl st to top of ch-2.

Round 9: Ch 4, sk 1 st, 3dc in same stitch, (ch 1, sk 1 st, dc) 41x, ch 1, sl st into 3rd ch of ch-4, sl st into ch-sp.

Round 10: Ch 2, dc, ch 1, sk 1 dc, 3 dc in same st, (ch 1, dc2tog in ch-sp) 41x, ch 1, sl st to 1st dc, sl st to ch sp.

Round 11: Ch 3, sk 2 dc, tr in dc, (ch 3, tr2tog) 7x, (ch 1, tr2tog) 8x, ch 1, (tr2tog, ch 3) 7x, sl st to tr ch 20, sl st to tr.

It's best for the last round to have consecutive sc's for hiding loose ends:

Round 12: (4 sc in ch sp) 4x, (3 hdc in ch-sp) 2x, 3 dc in ch-sp, (2 tr in ch-sp) 2x, (tr in ch-sp) 5x, (2 tr in ch-sp) 2x, 3 dc in ch-sp, (3 hdc in ch-sp) 2x, (4 sc in ch sp) 4x, 25 sc in ch-20 sp.

Finish the basket by slip stitching all stitches except for the handle. Break off. Weave in loose ends. Enjoy your new hanging basket!