Teardrop Crochet Hanging Baskets: Three-Size Pattern Guide

Teardrop crochet hanging baskets get their elongated shape from one concentrated increase point and a later run of decreases. The source photo tutorial offers small, medium and large versions, each finished with a crab-stitch rim and a reinforced hanging loop. This guide maps all three sizes and explains a count discrepancy in the medium opening, so it does not get hidden beneath the finishing round.

Cord, tools and sizing

The original calls for 4–5 mm cotton, acrylic or polyester cord, approximately 250–300 m for the three-basket set. Its main hook choices are 5 or 6 mm, with a smaller 2.5–3 mm hook for hiding the cord ends. Add scissors and a stitch marker.

No fixed finished width or height is supplied. The source explains that cord thickness and tension control the result. Use its sample photographs as shape references rather than treating the three labels as guaranteed dimensions.

Read the loop placement

The instructions use US sc, ch and sl st. An increase places two sc in one stitch; sc3inc places three sc in one stitch and adds two stitches overall. A decrease joins two stitches into one.

The body is described as back-loop work with an additional rear bar caught to make a tighter structure. Study the close-up loop photos on PDF page five before starting. This is more specific than automatically using only one visible top loop, and it affects the firmness and horizontal ridges.

Small basket: follow the complete shape

Begin with six sc in a magic ring, then work the source’s marked spiral increase rounds to twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty and thirty-six stitches. After that flat growth, each shaping round places one three-sc increase at the teardrop point.

The totals rise to 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. The point moves progressively through the opening stitches as specified in the source. The reduction round then uses eight sc, the three-sc increase, seven sc and eighteen decreases. That consumes the 52 incoming stitches and produces 36. Work the following plain 36-stitch round before fastening off.

Medium and large count map

The medium base grows to 42 before its point-building rounds, which take it to 62. Its reduction line reads ten sc, a three-sc increase, nine sc and twenty-one decreases. That consumes 62 incoming stitches and produces 43 stitches. The following line instead prints 41 sc.

Those numbers conflict. This guide flags the arithmetic and does not present an independently tested correction. Check the original photos and obtain clarification before finishing the medium version; do not skip two unexplained stitches merely to force the printed 41.

The large base grows to 48, then the point rounds take it to 72. Its reduction uses twelve sc, a three-sc increase, eleven sc and twenty-four decreases, producing 50. The next plain round is also written as 50, so those two large-size counts agree.

Rim and reinforced loop

Rejoin cord at the upper center and work crab stitch, or reverse single crochet, around the opening. The source’s illustrated direction works into the stitch to the right for a right-handed maker. Keep the rim even enough to frame the opening without closing it.

The loop begins with ch 14 joined back at its base. The written line calls for fourteen sc around the loop, while a photo annotation uses a different stitch label; consult that close-up rather than treating the two labels as interchangeable. A longer cord tail wraps and binds the loop using the pictured concealed finishing method.

Hang the finished basket from a suitable secure hook and begin with light contents. Its load capacity is not specified by the source and depends on the cord, stitches, loop and wall fixing. The editorial checklist highlights the shaping and medium-size count issue; it is not an extra stitch diagram.

Frequently asked questions

What creates the pointed shape?

A concentrated three-single-crochet increase adds two stitches at the teardrop point on each shaping round.

Which size has the count discrepancy?

The medium reduction produces 43 stitches from its written operations, while the next source round says 41.

Are finished dimensions supplied?

No. The source provides three versions but says the actual size depends on cord thickness and tension.

Original source and more crochet projects

Design credit: Set of 3 Hanging Baskets, twenty-page Drive photo tutorial. 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.