How to make a crochet box with your own hands?
Crochet technique allows you to make various things and crafts, including a complex configuration. You can tie a jar, a square box, a fancy-shaped bottle into colored threads by making an original box for storing various trifles. Buttons, jewelry, candy, needles and thimbles, beads, hairpins - a crocheted box made with your own hands can be a reliable, and most importantly, a beautiful repository for any small items.
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Crochet boxes: schemes and stages of production
For needlework it is necessary to prepare the following materials and tools:
- hook, scissors, tape measure to measure the size of future crafts;
- a jar or box that will become the basis of the product;
- knitting yarns (multicolored yarn remains are perfect, best of all, with the introduction of synthetic fibers - such yarns will last longer);
- buttons, beads, ribbons, which will be used for decoration and original decor.
By the way! For knitted caskets, you can take any suitable shape jars: from cosmetic cream, baby food, coffee, tea. Even a regular glass jar can be drastically changed by knitting, so that no one will suspect a standard container in an elegant knitwear product.
Round knitted caskets: detailed instructions
For beginning knitters it is best to try your hand from crocheted round knitted boxes. For this fit any plastic jar, for example, from a cream. Depending on the size, 30-50 g of thread will be needed, hook No. 2.5 or 3.
A detailed description of how to crochet a round box
- First, fit the bottom. It should be tight, so it is best to knit the posts without single crochet or with one nakida. Knit according to the scheme, gradually increasing the number of loops until the circle becomes the required diameter.
- The side walls knit in a circle double crochet without adding. At this stage, experienced knitters can knit various decorative elements of the pattern: make nakida, bumps, insert openwork elements.
- The side walls can be knitted in different colors, changing the thread in order.
- In the process of knitting a round box with a crochet, do not forget to try on your craft on a jar, checking the size and determining the subsequent amount of work.
- If a plastic jar is inserted inside, then it is necessary to tie the inner knitting side. It is created similar to the front side.
- The lid is knitted in this way: two circles of the required diameter are made. A plastic lid is inserted between them and tied around with single crochets. You can decorate the edge with a contrasting thread and the reception of the “pitch” step.
- The final stage is the creation of decorative elements. These can be flowers, leaves, you can sew buttons, beads, beads, decorate with ribbons, inserting it into openwork holes.
Knitted openwork products with patterns of floral motifs
Unusually beautiful openwork crochet boxes with diagrams and descriptions. Their feature is the absence of a frame. They are starched or soaked with sugar syrup, after which they become strong and keep their shape.
Openwork boxes for needlework knit by the scheme. Square products look very nice. It is necessary to connect 6 openwork squares, to connect them with each other by columns without single crochet in the form of a cube.
Fairy fungus
Unusually interesting and original needlework box knitted in the form of a mushroom. If you know how to knit in a circle, then it will not be difficult for you to knit a leg and a mushroom cap. But the easiest way to do it is crochet.
Important! The shape of the mushroom is held by thick threads and single crochets, which will create a dense pattern.
The leg of the mushroom is knitted from a light, beige thread according to the scheme. For the cap, you should take a brown yarn, from which the circle is knitted according to the scheme with decreases in the last rows for a beautiful rounding. The hat can be decorated with a pompon of the same yarn or show imagination by tying leaves and berries.
Unusual house
An original and unusual gift can be made with your own hands - a crocheted knitted box in the shape of a house with diagrams and descriptions.
For its manufacture should take a jar or cardboard box of a round shape. She is tied around in a circle with double crochets in the usual manner. Windows, doors can be knitted along the way work with threads of a different color or make applications and sew them. The roof of the house is knitted in the form of a cone. For rigidity, you can insert a cardboard inside. To decorate the roof show imagination. You can decorate it with flowers, leaves, sew ribbons, beads.
Square box
If you do not know how to crochet a beautiful box for beginners, then try to knit a square one.
Take any cardboard box of a suitable size, 100 g of basic yarn and several colored balls to create a flower arrangement. Tie the squares that correspond to the size of one side of the box with a checkerboard pattern. Tie the seamy side of the future product with the usual “grandma's square”. The front and back squares are interconnected (the sides of the box are inserted between the layers) with single crochets. Similarly, the lid is knitted. To give volume inside between the layers and the cardboard layer cotton is packed.
Heart box
An unusual type of needlework is a crocheted jewelry box from a decorative cord. She is tied up strictly according to the scheme. After the work is completed, the product must be starched and left to dry completely.
To make the heart shape perfect, try making an improvised frame from wooden struts (you can take toothpicks) and stretch the finished product between them.
Needle cake cakes and knitted cake
If you have a lot of multi-colored remnants of yarn, make a nice needle bar in the form of small cakes and pastries. These boxes crochet under the scheme. For rigidity make the frame of felt. This is a soft, but dense material that is badly crushed.
Borders, bottom and lid are cut out of felt. They are crocheted with ordinary double crochets. All parts are stitched together or connected with single crochets.
The original crafts in the form of a cake can be made from the usual box of candy.
The creation of original caskets from yarn is an unusual type of needlework, which will bring a lot of pleasure. You will not only feel joy in the process of work, but also get an original useful thing that will decorate the interior or will become a useful place to store various trifles.
VIDEO: Knitting a box with a lid with your own hands.