Quick Crochet Pots Pattern

There've been two hanks of t-shirt yarn lurking in my closet ever since we moved to NYC.  It's lovely, but I've never been sure what to do with it.  At first, it was meant to become a throw rug for the kitchen, but after I finished stitching it, the final product just didn't feel as squishy as I had hoped, so I frogged the entire rug and rewound the yarn balls, deciding to wait until I had the right project for the t-shirt yarn's texture.  

And then last weekend, I started thinking about how nice it would be to have enough pots to hide away all of the pens and pencils and bits and bobs that otherwise clutter up our desk.  So out came the t-shirt yarn!  It's sturdy enough to support the sides of a basket, and pliable enough to allow for little dome-shaped lids.

I didn't use any special pattern, but just did the following:

*****Small Pot*****

- Begin with a magic circle

Round 1: 6 double crochet into the magic circle beginning with a ch3 for the first dc, pull circle closed, slip stitch into the 3rd chain of the original ch3. (6 dc)

Round 2: 2 dc into each stitch around beginning with a ch3 for the first dc.  Slip stitch into the 3rd chain of the original ch3 to close. (12 dc)

Round 3: Working in the back loops only, 1 dc in each stitch around, starting with a ch3 for the first dc.  Slip stitch into the 3rd chain of the original ch3 to close. (12 dc)

Round 4: Repeat round 3.

Fasten off and weave in ends.

For the lid: Repeat rounds 1 & 2, make the little knob with a ch10 looped and secured through the central hole.

*****Large Pot*****

- Begin with a magic circle

Round 1: 6 double crochet into the magic circle beginning with a ch3 for the first dc, pull circle closed, slip stitch into the 3rd chain of the original ch3. (6 dc)

Round 2: 2 dc into each stitch around beginning with a ch3 for the first dc.  Slip stitch into the 3rd chain of the original ch3 to close. (12 dc)

Round 3: Begin with another ch3, dc into the same stitch, 1dc in next stitch.  Continue pattern of 2dc in next stitch, 1 dc in next stitch around.  Slip stitch into the 3rd chain of the original ch3 to close. (18 dc)

Round 4: Working in the back loops only, 1 dc in each stitch around, starting with a ch3 for the first dc.  Slip stitch into the 3rd chain of the original ch3 to close.

Rounds 5 & 6: Repeat round 4.

Fasten off and weave in ends.

For the lid: Repeat rounds 1-3, make the little knob with a ch 12 looped and secured through the central hole.

For me, the lids naturally held their slightly curved shape when I molded them, but if yours don't, you can always work the last row of the lid with a few decreases in order to make it more convex.

What would you stash in a pretty little pot?

Happy stitching!

Lots of love,

~Mersydotes