I belong to a group on Facebook called "Random Acts of Crochet Kindness USA", and I've been making these adorable crocheted fortune cookies to leave in places where people will find them and pick them up.
They're super cute, and super easy. If you'd like to make one or a hundred, take a look at this video tutorial for a walk-through of the pattern.
Prefer written instructions? Here you go!
FORTUNE COOKIES (Crochet Pattern)
Materials:
Scraps of sport weight (size 3) yarn
Size D crochet hook
Yarn needle
Slips of fortune cookie papers
Ch 3 (counts as center hole and first dc).
Round 1: dc 11 times in the 3rd ch from the hook. With the initial ch-2, that makes 12 dcs. Join with sl st in top ch of initial ch-2.
Round 2: ch 2 (counts as first dc), dc in same st as ch-2, then 2dcs in each st around. Join with sl st in top ch of initial ch-2. [24 dcs]
Round 3: rep Round 2. [48 dcs]
Round 4: ch 2 (counts as first dc), dc in same st as ch-2, then dc in next st, [2dcs in next st, dc in following st] around. Join with sl st in top ch of initial ch-2. [72 dcs]
Cut yarn leaving a 12” tail with which you will finish the fortune cookie.
Thread tail through yarn needle and slip the yarn through the st next to the last st you worked.
Fold the circle in half, with the yarn tail about an 1” higher than the fold. (You are offsetting the place where you begin stitching, so you will have an open, unsewn place at the end to insert the fortune.)
Working from inside the fold to outside the fold, slip the needle through the inside loop of the stitch on the opposite side of where the tail is and draw the yarn tight. Then, continuing to work from the inside of the fold to the outside of the fold, slip the needle through the inside loop of the stitch on the opposite side. Skip every other stitch as you continue to close up the top of the fortune cookie. End by leaving a similar size hole on the opposite end of the cookie.
Knot the yarn but do not cut it.
Weave the tail through the crocheting and draw the needle out the bottom edge of the fold. Make another knot here, but do not cut the yarn.
Pull the two open ends of the fortune cookie together and sew them tightly together. Make another knot. Weave in the end and cut yarn.
Pull the fortune cookie open and insert the fortune.
Download the document for printing your own fortune slips here:
You can edit the file to print anything you like on the slips.
Hope you enjoyed this pattern!
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