These 5 Useful Crochet Projects are easy to do and make great handmade gifts for your family and friends!

Crochet is one of those hobbies with which you can make a lot of useful things. You can make them in whichever color you want to match your decor or your style. 

There are so many free patterns available, all you have to do is search on google, or if you are a visual person like me search on Pinterest. 

I have saved so many patterns that I wonder if I will ever be able to try all of them! 

However, I am sharing the patterns that I have tried and liked. Thank you to these wonderful designers who have shared these patterns for free! Please do visit their websites to get the patterns. I will provide the links below.

Here are the 5 Useful Crochet Projects that I have tried and loved:

Crochet Potholder

 This potholder is really thick and made of cotton yarn. Cotton yarn is recommended for making potholders. This pattern is worked in the round with just single crochet! So it is easy to do and can be made in a few hours if you have the time. It actually took a few days as I worked on it maybe around an hour every day for about 3 to 4 days. I used almost one whole skein of cotton yarn. I bought my yarn at Walmart. 

 You can find the pattern here: Super Easy Crochet Potholder

Crochet Coasters/Mug Rugs

I absolutely love the way these turned out! You can make these really fast, I think I made 2 a day probably just working on them for about an hour or 2. These were easy to make, and you just add tassels to make them look really cute. 

 Make sets of these to give as gifts, I’m sure your family and friends will love this useful beautiful gift. 

The pattern is by Amanda at Love & Stitch.com and can be found here. The Darcie mug rug

Key Ring Wrist Lanyard

Have you ever had to go out somewhere with just your keys and not have anywhere to put them? If you didn’t have any pockets or if you didn’t want to carry your handbag. I’ve been in this situation many times when taking my kids to the park. I always ended up carrying my keys in my hand. These lanyards work up very fast and can solve this problem.  So now I just put my keys on this lanyard and slide it on my wrist. This makes a really useful gift. You can make several of these in a day. It took less than 30 minutes to make one. 

This pattern is from Lisa at Stitch in Progress, it can be found here.

Cotton Bath Scrubbies

These bath scrubbers are so quick to do, you can make one in 10 minutes. Make them in different colors. 

I found that these do not lather very well, so I tried one with acrylic yarn, which worked a little better. Let me know if you find the perfect yarn to make these.

I am all for reducing my plastic waste, so I started using these instead of plastic loofahs which are really bad for the environment.

This pattern is by Marie at Makes and Takes, You can find the pattern here Crochet Bath Scrubbies

UPDATE: After a lot of trials and errors, I have finally found the bath scrubber that works well! So I have an entire post on them, Bath Scrubbers  Do check it out.

Scrunchies

Scrunchies have become very popular nowadays. These velvet scrunchies as so soft and can be made in less than half an hour. These make great gifts too. You can make them in several colors, not just velvet but lots of other yarns too. 

This pattern is by Marianne at Yarnworx Studio. You can find her pattern here Velvety Scrunchies

UPDATE: These velvet scrunchies are now available in my Etsy shop!

Hope you enjoyed reading about these projects and will try some of them out. 

A huge thank you to all the designers for sharing these amazing patterns for free. 

Please support them by visiting their websites. 

Thank you so much for visiting!!

If you don’t know how to crochet and would like to learn, please read this Learn how to crochet

and Learn the Basic Crochet Stitches

Crochet is fun and a great stress buster! I am sure you will not regret learning!:)

Happy Crocheting!