Inject some vibrancy into your outfits with this statement cross stitch on Tunisian crochet clutch bag designed by Erin Black. The basic pouch is created using Tunisian crochet which is a technique that combines knitting and crochet. The key difference between Tunisian crochet and normal crochet is that you keep more stitches on your crochet hook, just like you do in knitting. If you're new to Tunisian crochet, our pals over at Simply Crochet have a great step by step tutorial on How to do Tunisian crochet. They also have a handy how to do embroidery on crochet tutorial too which will help if you're not confident with cross stitch yet.
Tunisian crochet is a great method for making an aida-like grid fabric, ideal for stitching oversized, chunky crosses onto. Make the half-size clutch for your phone and lippie to slip into, or crochet up the fold-over version for a bit of extra space. We'd love to see your Tunisian crochet clutch bags, so make sure to tag us in your pictures on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
If you fancy trying some different clutch bag patterns, we've got some more beautiful makes for you! You could try our textured puff stitch free crochet clutch bag tutorial or this lovely fringed free crochet clutch bag pattern, or if you fancy flexing your sewing skills, you could alwaystry our how to make an envelope clutch bag tutorial.
You will need
Universal Yarn Supreme Cotton (100% cotton, 100g/165m per ball), or alternative Aran cotton yarn, one ball in Seafoam (617) - The smaller clutch uses half a ball
Universal Yarn Supreme Cotton, or alternative Aran cotton yarn, small quantities (5m or less) for cross stitch embroidery in:
- Lavender (606)
- Hot Pink (512)
- Terracotta (614)
- Turquoise (611)
- White (502)
- Lime (618)
Sewing needle and matching thread
You will also need to reference this Cross stitch chart
Please note - as Supreme yarns are not widely available in the UK, a suitable alternative would be the Paintbox Yarns Cotton Aran yarn - but please be aware that you as this comes in 50g balls you will need two balls of the main yarn (Seafoam colour)
Abbreviations
You can find a full list of all abbreviations we use in our abbreviations and conversions guide. This pattern is written in UK terminology but you can easily convert it to US terms using the guide.
Tension
Tension isn’t important for this project but be sure the resulting fabric is dense enough to contain small items within the clutch.
Finished size
Small pouch clutch approx. 12.5 x 25cm (5 x 10″)
Fold-over clutch approx. 25 x 25cm (10 x 10″)
