Crocheted Pencil-Shaped Pencil Case

Hey there everyone!  I’m ChiWei and I normally blog over at One Dog Woof.  However, I’m super excited to be joining Amy’s team of One Artsy Mama contributors as the crochet/yarn lady!  This means I’ll be sharing all sorts of yarny fun every month here, as well as at my own bloggy home.

To be honest, it’s summer, and I haven’t picked up my crochet supplies in a good long time.  So I felt a little out of practice.  But, there’s nothing like a deadline to your creative juices flowing, is there?  I grabbed some of my lighter weight and cotton yarns and sat down to think.  Since we’re staring the start of school right in the eye, I thought I’d share a little project that’s cute and might just come in useful – a pencil shaped pencil holder!

How sad is it that I didn’t have #2 pencils at home to take the photo with, I only had one wooden pencil and a handful of mechanical ones.  Still, this crocheted pencil is long enough to fit an unsharpened #2 pencil.  Package it up with a bouquet of yellow #2 for a great teacher’s gift!

Crocheted Pencil Case

Supplies:

Worsted weight yarn in pink, gray, yellow, cream and black
G size hook
tapestry needle
small button
scissors

Pattern:

This pattern is worked in a spiral and admittedly gets a little funky towards the top in order to keep the button at the “front” of the project.

Round 1: Using the pink yarn, start with a magic ring, and work 6 SC in ring. (6 stitches)

Round 2: Work 2 SC into each stitch around. (12 stitches)

Round 3: *Work 1 SC into next stitch, then 2 SC into following stitch* around. (18 stitches)

Round 4: Using only the Back Loops, work 1 SC into each stitch around. (18 stitches)

Round 5, 6, 7: Work 1 SC into each stitch around.  Change to gray yarn on the last SC of Round 7.

Round 8, 9, 10: Works 1 SC into each stitch around.  Change to yellow yarn on the last SC of Round 10.

Round 11 – 33: Work 1 SC into each stitch around.  This works out to be a spiral with no seam.

Here is where we lose the rounds a bit.

With the yellow yarn, work 1 SC into each of next 10 stitches, then CH 11.  This becomes the hinge between the top and bottom.

Skip 11 stitches and SC into the 12th stitch with your chain.  This becomes the opening of the pencil case.

Work 1 SC into next 40 stitches in a round, still using the yellow yarn.  On the 40th stitch, switch to the cream yarn.

Round A: Using the cream yarn, work 1 SC into next 18 stitches to create a round of cream. (18 stitches)

Round B: *Work 4 SC, then sc2tog* 3 times. (15 stitches)

Round C: *Work 3 SC, then sc2tog* 3 times. (12 stitches)

Round D: *Work 2 SC, then sc2tog* 3 times. (9 stitches)

Round E: Work 1 SC into each stitch around. On the last stitch, switch to black yarn. (9 stitches)

Round F: * Work 1 SC, then sc2tog* 3 times. (6 stitches)

Round G: SC2tog 3 times. (3 stitches).  It does get a bit difficult to see here.

Finishing: Close off the hole at the tip and fasten off, weaving in ends.  Using the tapestry needle, add the button at the front of the pencil (opposite the hinge of 10 SC) between the 2nd and 3rd row from the top.  Create a loop on the top part of the pencil opposite the button using a SC in the first round of the top section, ch 5, and slip stitching back into the first round of the top section.  Weave in ends of all color changes.

If you like what you see here, come over to One Dog Woof and see what else I’m up to!