Crochet Wine Bottle Gift Bag with a Soft White Rim

This crochet wine bottle gift bag combines a round half-double-crochet base, a decorative openwork band and a soft white rim. The source sample is red with a fluffy contrast top and two chain-based handles. Its illustrated file explains the overall construction, but some translated stitch labels are inconsistent. This article is a construction guide that makes those limits clear rather than presenting the wording as a fully verified standalone pattern.

Materials and fitting

The original lists a 4.5 mm hook, approximately 100 g of macramé yarn and 20 g of white velvet yarn. The fiber and thickness of the macramé yarn are not specified precisely. Add scissors, a yarn needle and the empty bottle you want the cover to fit.

No finished bag dimensions, bottle capacity or numerical gauge are provided. Work a base sample and compare it with the bottle before building the tall body. A cover that fits one bottle shape can be too narrow or too short for another, even when their stated capacities are similar.

Read the stitches

The introductory glossary uses US sc for single crochet, hdc for half double crochet and dc for double crochet. Later prose sometimes calls stitches chains while describing ordinary fabric rows. Use the construction photos alongside those translated labels, and resolve an unclear section before continuing.

The main base checkpoints are explicitly given as 10, 20, 30 and 40 hdc. That is a ten-increase circular system. The source joins the rounds and varies the beginning-chain height, so take care not to count an extra chain as an additional hdc.

Construction map

1. Make the source’s chain-six ring and work ten hdc into it.
2. Increase to twenty hdc, then thirty and forty, distributing ten increases per round.
3. Work the next round into the selected edge loop shown in the close-up photos to turn the fabric upward. The count stops increasing as the bottle wall begins.
4. Continue the plain body section for the ten additional rows described in the source, checking the fit against the empty bottle.
5. Work the two openwork rows, then return to the upper solid section before making the handles and white rim.

Keep the bottle nearby for measuring but remove it while crocheting. The base should sit under it without being pulled into a narrow cone. The original does not establish a universal bottle size, so use the actual fit rather than treating forty stitches as a guarantee.

Important wording limits

The first mesh row mentions a chain-one interval and then a chain-two interval in the same passage. The second mesh row specifies chain-two spaces. Those two descriptions are not fully consistent, and the source does not provide a clean final mesh stitch count.

The return to the solid upper fabric also uses a chain label where the surrounding construction appears to describe stitches into stitches. Do not silently replace every such label with hdc or sc and call the result a tested correction. Refer to the original photos or obtain clarification before relying on the bag as a working carrier.

Handles and decorative rim

The source starts each handle with a chain of forty and anchors it across a marked span. It then works back along the chain to reinforce the strap. Its translated attachment positions need to be read with the page-four pictures; mark both handle bases before making the second one so they remain balanced.

The fluffy white yarn is added after the handles, covering their base area as shown. Two decorative top rounds finish the sample. Because velvet stitches can be hard to see, count by touch and use a light-colored marker if needed.

Weave the tails into the firm body yarn rather than relying on loose knots in the velvet. Check the handle attachments before inserting a filled bottle, and support the bottle from underneath when gifting it. The linked file supplies the original photo sequence and the unresolved wording; this guide does not claim independent load testing.

Frequently asked questions

What size bottle does it fit?

The source supplies no verified bottle capacity or finished dimensions. Fit the base and height to the intended empty bottle.

Why is this a construction guide?

The translated mesh intervals and later stitch labels are inconsistent, so the original needs clarification before being treated as a complete corrected pattern.

What are the base counts?

Ten, twenty, thirty and forty half double crochets across the four expanding base rounds.

Original source and more crochet projects

Design credit: Wine Tote, five-page illustrated Drive source. This article explains the supplied source and its construction; it does not claim an independently tested sample. The photographs are from that source, and the checklist is an editorial reading aid.

Open the original pattern in Drive. Source location: Whole PDF. Keep the original instructions and diagrams beside you when working the project.

For another project, explore Anima Floris crochet coasters, or Strand Basket pattern.