Building Up the Willow Line with the Free Will Wine Bottle Cozy Crochet Pattern

How are you doing on this lovely Saturday? Well, it’s Saturday here when I’m at but it might not be where you are. Either way, I hope which ever day it is where you are is delightful. Here I’m hoping to accomplish some much needed house work and get some patterns finished up as well as work on a new “secret” pattern that I’m not sure about still. Don’t you hate that? When you’re working on a pattern and you’re not entirely sure you like how it’s working up but you want to continue working on it? Because you won’t know if you’re happy about it or not until it’s done. That’s where I am at with this pattern I have floating around in my head.

I digress… I actually wrote this pattern up last week and had it all ready to go, but I didn’t have the pictures done. Sometimes the taking and editing of pictures takes me forever to get around to. Not because it takes so long, but because I won’t sit down and get to it. Also, the posting. I’m not consistent with the posting. I’m more content to sit and work up a pattern while watching Grey’s Anatomy reruns, all the other stuff is hard. Ok, not hard, but not as fun. :p
As the title says I’m expanding the Willow line some more, with a bottle cozy.  I was inspired by other designers posting adorable pictures of their bottle cozies and I genuinely said, “I want to make one.” So I did. And you can too, it’s very easy.

If you appreciate my weekly patterns, please consider purchasing the Willow Bottle Cozy pdf in my Ravelry shop to help me bring more patterns to my blog.

Materials:

• US G (4.00 mm) crochet hook

  

• Worsted/ medium/ size #4 weight yarn
  • 2.8 oz. / 140 yards
  • 2 – 3 colors
  • I used Loops and Threads Impeccable
• Yarn needle

Gauge: 

• 19 hdcs x 9 rows = 4.5”

Terms/stitches used:

• St: stitch
• Slip st: slip stitch
• Ch: chain
• Sc: single crochet
• Spike sc: spike single crochet
• Hdc: half double crochet
• Spike hdc: spike half double crochet

Note:

• This pattern is worked from the bottom up, in 3 sections: the Base, the Sides, and the Handles.
• This pattern is worked in the round with a slip st into the first st from the last.
• If you would like to make this pattern taller, just keep adding rows before you get to the handles.
• The ch 1 at the beginning of the rows does not count as a stitch.
• You will need to know how to work into the back loop only for this pattern.
• Color A is green, color B is pink, and color C is cream in the photos.
• Instead of fastening off between color changes, you can just drop the yarn for the color you’re not longer using and pick it back up again when it comes time to use it. This will cut down on the amount of ends you will have to weave in, but the inside might not be as clean as some people would like. It’s your decision on this, I like to drop the yarn and pick it back up because I hate weaving in ends (unless it’s a gift and then I’ll clean it up).
• The spike stitches used in this pattern overlap the previous row creating a very thick final fabric, this is deliberate.

Finished product dimensions:

• Height: 13.5”
• Diameter: 5.25” – 5.5”
• Base diameter: 3″

Pattern Instructions:

-Base-

Color A: Row 1: Create a magic circle, ch 1, sc 6 times into the circle, slip st into the first st – 6 scs
Row 2: Ch 1, sc twice into the same st as join and into each st around, slip st into the first st – 12 scs
Row 3: Ch 1, sc twice into the same st as join, sc once into the next st, *sc twice into the next st, sc once into the next st,* repeat from * to * 4 more times, slip st into the first st  – 18 scs
Row 4: Ch 1, sc once into the same st as join and into the next st, sc twice into the next st, * sc once into the next 2 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 4 more times, slip st into the first st  – 24 scs
Row 5: Ch 1, sc twice into the same st as join, sc once into the next 3 sts, *sc twice into the next st, sc once into the next 3 sts,* repeat from * to * 4 more times, slip st into the first st – 30 scs
Row 6: Ch 1, sc once into the first st and into the next 3 sts, sc twice into the next st, *sc once into the next 4 sts, sc twice into the next st,* repeat from * to * 4 more times, slip st into the first st  – 36 scs
Row 7: Ch 1, sc twice into the same st as join, sc once into the next 5 sts, *sc twice into the next st, sc once into the next 5 sts,* repeat from * to * 4 more times, slip st into the first st  – 42 scs
Note: your base should be 3″ in diameter at this point.
Row 8: Ch 1, sc once into the back loop only as the same st as join and all the way around, slip st into the first st – 42 scs

-Sides-

Row 9: Ch 1, sc once into the same st as join and all the way around, slip st into the first st  – 42 scs
Color B: Row 10: Ch 1, sc into the same st as join, spike st into the next st, *sc into the next st, spike sc into the next st,* repeat from * to * 19 more times, slip st into the first st – 21 scs, 21 spike scs
Row 11: Ch 1, spike sc into the same st as join, sc into the next st, *spike sc into the next st, sc into the next st,* repeat from * to * 19 more times, slip st into the first st  – 21 spike scs, 21 scs
Color C: Rows 12 – 13: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color A: Rows 14 – 15: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color B: Row 16: Ch 1, hdc once into the same st as join, spike hdc into the next st, *hdc into the next st, spike hdc into the next st,* repeat from * to * 19 more times, slip st into first st  – 21 hdcs, 21 spike hdcs
Row 17: Ch 1, hdc once into the same st as join and all the way around, slip st into the first st  – 42 hdcs
Row 18: Ch 1, sc once into the same st as join and all the way around, slip st into the first st  – 42 scs
Color C: Rows 19 – 20: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color A: Rows 21 – 22: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color B: Rows 23 – 24: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color C: Rows 25 – 27: repeat rows 16 – 18
Color A: Rows 28 – 29: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color B: Rows 30 – 31: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color C: Rows 32 – 33: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color A: Rows 34 – 36: repeat rows 16 – 18
Color B: Rows 37 – 38: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color C: Rows 39 – 40: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color A: Rows 41 – 42: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color B: Rows 43 – 45: repeat rows 16 – 18
Color C: Rows 46 – 47: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color A: Rows 48 – 49: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color B: Rows 50 – 51: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color C: Rows 52 – 54: repeat rows 16 – 18
Color A: Rows 55 – 56: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color B: Rows 57 – 58: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color C: Rows 59 – 60: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color A: Rows 61 – 63: repeat rows 16 – 18
Color B: Rows 64 – 65: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color C: Rows 66 – 67: repeat rows 10 – 11
Color A: Rows 68 – 69: repeat rows 10 – 11
Fasten off  color A.

– Handles –

Color B: Row 70: repeat row 10
Row 71: Ch 1, sc once into the same st as join and into the next 5 sts, ch 12, skip the next 10 sts, sc into the next 11 sts, ch 12, skip the next 10 sts, sc into the last 5 sts, slip st into the first st – 22 scs
Rows 72 – 73: Ch 1, sc once into the same st as join and each st all the way around (this includes the scs and ch sts for row 72), slip st into the first st – 46 scs
Fasten off color B.
Color C: Row 74: Ch 1, sc into the same st as join, spike st into the next st, *sc into the next st, spike sc into the next st,* repeat from * to * 21 more times, slip st into the first st – 23 scs, 23 spike scs
Fasten off color C.

Finishing: Be sure to close the magic circle tightly and weave in all your ends.

Although the instructions look very long, it’s really not that complicated of a pattern, I swear. Once you get the basic rhythm of the pattern, it’ll breeze right on by.
So, that’s all for me this post. I’m hoping sometime this week we’ll get the blog transferred over to www.divinedebris.com and I’ll get a mailing list set up so that those of you who are interested can keep up to date on what I’m doing and what patterns I’m releasing. I hope you like this pattern and don’t forget to share your finished pictures on Ravelry, my FB page or Instagram (use the hashtag #DivineDebris). I’ll share the photos I come across!

This post is linked up with Linkly Ladies by Crystalized Designs.