Who doesn’t love a beautiful, unique yarn bowl? But sometimes, something fancy just isn’t in the cards and you need an immediate fix to your yarn loaf flopping on the floor during your project. Sometimes you also have a 2-liter bottle that you’ve been waiting to find a recycle purpose for…. viola! Here’s the fix. A DIY Yarn Bowl.
This DIY Yarn Bowl couldn’t be simpler to make – and I credit my former husband’s mawmaw for the tip.
When I was younger and newly married, I admired how she would have so many 2 liter bottles serving as DIY yarn bowls full of yarn attached actively to projects she was working on. She crocheted like crazy and while my mom taught me to crochet initially, Mawmaw definitely played a role in inspiring me.
She crocheted pot holders and slippers, stuffed animals with spiral legs, a baby blanket for all of her great grandbabies. I never thought of it as an old woman’s hobby as so many people tend to do. I thought of it as something I definitely wanted to do as soon as I could afford some yarn.
She was simple. Save the money for the yarn, anything can be a yarn bowl. Her favorite thing to use was a chopped 2 liter bottle.
It’s among just a few of my favorite crochet tools.
Crochet Car Coasters
Materials
- Scraps of Cotton yarn
Tools
- 4.5mm crochet hook
Instructions
- Create a magic circle, chain 1
- 11 DC in magic circle, Slip Stitch into the top of the first DC
- Chain 2
- 2 DC in each stitch around, Slip Stitch, Fasten off
Here’s a simple step by step visual
If you give this DIY Yarn bowl trick a try, I’d love to know – tag me on instagram @imobsessedwithcrafting.
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