Dog Toy Basket: Free Crochet Pattern
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Does your furry friend love play time? Then its time to crochet them a dog toy basket to hold all of their toys and bones. Use this free crochet pattern to make one!
Dog Toy Basket
This dog toy basket pattern is the newest installment of the 2024 Dog Crochet Series. This is a year-long series during which I design one new crochet pattern per month relating to pets. Check out all of the other dog series patterns and posts at this page. There are some great ones so far!
I absolutely love it when my girl Cher gets feisty and throws her toys around. I call her “Spicy Cher” and she is so much fun to watch. She also has her favorite bones that have a peanut butter like filling similar to these. She’ll work on those bones for months!
Her other favorite is this red Kong tug of war toy. She’s had that one for a loooong time and hasn’t been able to tear it apart yet. The stuffed toys are new for this pattern release and I can tell you that they won’t last long! 🤣 She’s patiently waiting for me to finish photos. Haha!!
Now I have a place to store her dog toys and bones with this basket crochet pattern. Excellent!
For this basket we are using Comfy Bulky yarn. This is the heaviest weight version of the Comfy line, some of my favorite yarn. Other Comfy yarn weights are Fingering, Sport, and Worsted.
Ready to make the dog toy basket? Let’s work one up today because they don’t take long! Here’s what you’ll need…
Note that you could use a regular cotton like Dishie and that would work just fine, just know that the basket will come out slightly smaller than mine.
Materials:
Comfy Bulky Yarn – Size 5/Bulky weight yarn (Hawk and Ivory pictured)
-approx. 370 yards
Crochet hook in size 7mm
Gauge: unimportant, but 10.5 sts in 4” width using Waistcoat stitch
Basket Sizing: approx. 9″ diameter
Pattern Notes:
Pattern written using US terms.
Work in a spiral throughout.
Magic Circle alternative = ch-4, sl st to first ch made.
Crab Stitch = reverse single crochet (tutorial here)
BLO = Back Loop Only
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For this basket we are using the Waistcoat stitch, a variation of the single crochet. Watch a tutorial for this stitch here.
If you need help reading a crochet pattern, make sure you head over here and check out this detailed post.
Hold yarn double stranded throughout.
Pattern:
Round 1: Magic Circle, sc, 7hdc in circle. Do not join, mark the first st of each round with a st marker. (8)
Round 2: 2hdc in each st around. (16)
Round 3: * hdc in next st, 2hdc in next st * repeat between * * around. (24)
Round 4: * hdc in next 2 sts, 2hdc in next st * repeat between * * around. (32)
Round 5: * hdc in next 3 sts, 2hdc in next st * repeat between * * around. (40)
Round 6: * hdc in next 4 sts, 2hdc in next st * repeat between * * around. (48)
Round 7: * hdc in next 5 sts, 2hdc in next st * repeat between * * around. (56)
Round 8: * hdc in next 6 sts, 2hdc in next st * repeat between * * around. (64)
Round 9: * hdc in next 7 sts, 2hdc in next st * repeat between * * around. (72)
Round 10: Sc in BLO of each st around. (72)
Rounds 11 – 26: Wc in each st around. (72)
Note: Basket as pictured changes colors to “Ivory” at round 22. If desired, continue adding height here.
Finishing: Sl st to next st, ch-1, Crab Stitch in each st around. Fasten off and weave in all ends.
I hope that this dog toy basket is the perfect size to hold all of your dogs favorite things. Remember to check back the second Friday of each month for a NEW pattern in the year-long series.
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