Wookie Water Bottle Holder

Materials

Yarn:  Worsted, Brown and grey

Hook: H

Tapestry Needle

 This pattern is for personal use only!  

Special Stitches:  Loop Stitch

To make loop stitch:

In the pattern, it will tell you to turn, which may seem odd because it is the wrong side, BUT will be doing this because the loops actually come out the back side.

When you take the loop that is on your finger, pull it up so it is about 1.5” high (or however big you want your loops-just try to keep whatever size of the loops you choose about the same for all of them): 

Stick your hook into the next stitch:

Wrap the entire loop (which is two strands) around your hook and pull through the stitch:

Put your loop off to the right hand side and pull up yarn and pull through the loops on hook:

Then give your loop a little tug just to make sure it isn’t kinked inside the stitch at all:

Strap:

The strap will require you to use two strands.  You will need to pull up colors(and in doing so you are dropping the other one)  You will be putting the strand you are not working with on the top of the last completed row so that you can crochet over the strand you are not using so it is incorporated with your work.  If this confuses you I’ll say this in my best Obi Wan voice, “Move along…this is not the pattern you are looking for….”

1.       Ch 14, dc in 3^rd chain (first 2 ch counts as dc) and each chain (12 dc)

2.       Ch 2 (counts as dc throughout), dc in each dc (12 dc)

3.       Ch 2, turn, dc in next dc, join grey, dc in 3 dc pulling up brown in 3^rd dc, brown dc in 2 dc pulling up grey in 2^nd dc, grey dc in 3 dc pulling up brown in 3^rd dc, brown dc in remaining 2 dc.

4.       Ch 2, dc in each dc

5.       Ch 1 brown, ch 1 grey, grey dc in 4 dc pulling up brown in 4^th dc, brown dc in 2 dc pulling up grey in 2^nd dc, grey dc in 4 dc pulling up brown in 4^th dc, brown dc in last dc

6.       Repeat round 5

7.       Ch 2, turn, dc in each dc

8.-32.  Repeat rows 3-7, five more times and then finish off grey

33.  ch 2, turn, dcdec, dc in 8 dc, dcdec

34.  ch 2, turn, dcdec, dc in 4 dc, dcdec

35.  ch 2, turn, dcdec, dc in 2 dc, dcdec

36.  ch 2, turn, dc in 4 dc

Repeat round 36 until strap is desired length; finish off leaving a tail for sewing

Join brown in beginning of strap

1.       Dec, sc in 3 stitches, dec, sc in 3 sttiches, dec

2.       Turn, dec, sc in 2 sc, dec, sc in sc, dec

3.        Dec, sc in 2 sc, dec

4.       Ch 1, sc in 4 sc, finish off leaving a tail for sewing

Bottle Holder

1.       Magic ring, 10 sc in ring; join

2.       Ch 1, 2 sc in each sc; join

3.       (note:  if you are using a smaller water bottle, you may want to omit 3-4 increases on this round-this will fit a larger bottle-it will work for a smaller bottle too, it is just wider than it needs to be) Ch 1, * sc in next sc, 2 sc in next stitch; repeat from * around; join

4.       Ch 1, in BL only, sc in each sc

5.       Ch 1, turn, Loop stitch around.  Do not join.  Continue to loop stitch around until your bottle is desired height, then skip one stitch, sl in next stitch do not finish off!

Finishing edge

1.       Ch 1, sc in each sc; join

2.       Ch 1, sc in 8 sc

3.       Ch 1, turn, sc in each sc

4.       Repeat round 2

5.       Ch 1, turn, sc in 2 sc, ch 3, skip 4 sc, sc in last 2 sc (this will be the hole for the top of the water bottle to stick out of

6.       Ch 1, turn, sc in 2 sc, 4 sc in ch 3 loop, sc in last 2 sc

7.       Turn, dec, sc in 4 sc, dec

8.       Dec, sc in 2 sc, dec

9.       Dec, dec

10.   Ch 1, sc in 2 sc

11.   Repeat round 10

12.   Ch 2, dc in 1^st sc, finish off (this completes the button hole)

Sew button onto holder to coordinate with button hole, sew the strap onto the bottle holder.  Insert water bottle, put on your wookie water holder and do your best Chewbacca impersonation by putting your head back and letting your uvula roll!  Do NOT pull any arms out of socket if you happen to play space chess.