Watermelon Pouch

 Good morning!

Today's Pattern is such a fun little item, a small pouch! Great for many number of things. We keep dice in ours, but they would also be great to hold a few small tampons too.

This pattern uses beads, and for those of you familiar with them, this wont be a problem, but if you haven't used beads before you will need a bit of a lesson. Now I could type out a lengthy description on how to do this, but I think it would be easier to show you a video so, Here is a fantastic one by the Crochet Crowd.

The trick to getting these beads to look like seeds is to give them random placement. So! The instructions do not tell you when to add the beads, just place them where it feels right for you. I used 5 on this particular one, but they were rather largish beads, and had I used smaller ones I would have added some more.

Supplies:
DK 8ply yarn in pink, green and white
5mm crochet hook for pouch
3mm crochet hook for tie
black beads
Needle that will pass through the bead

Thread beads onto your pink yarn
1: ch2, hdc in the first ch 10 times, join.
2: ch2, 2hdc in each stitch around, join
3-4: ch2, hdc in each stitch around, join.
End pink yarn and join white
5-6: ch1, sc in each stitch around, join
End white yarn and join green
7: ch3, 2dc in each stitch around, join.
End off and weave in all loose ends.

Tie
ch70. Weave tie in and out of the stitches of round 6. Pull to gather and tie a bow.