Crochet pattern to make covers for pots

Smarten up some of your everyday objects by crocheting these pretty covers for them! Follow this fantastic crochet pattern from Woman's Weekly and give your tissue-box and jam jars a new lease of life

Fun as plant-pot covers, useful to hold bathroom bits, or with a jam jar inside as a cheerful flower vase. The charming tissue-box covers will be best-sellers too!

How to crochet

Measurements

Jam-jar cover - Fits 340g jam jar.
Tissue-box cover - Fits square tissue box.

Materials

Jam-jar cover
- 1 x 100g ball of Wendy Classics Supreme Luxury Cotton DK in main colour (Green 1859 or Crystal Blue 1892) and 1 ball in contrast colour (Powder Pink 1894 or Vintage Rose 1896). Size 3.50 crochet hook.

Tissue-box cover
- 1 x 100g ball of Wendy Classics Supreme Luxury Cotton DK in Sweet Lilac (1891) and 1 ball in White (1820). Size 3.50 crochet hook; 1.20m of narrow ribbon.

Both items: Yarn costs £3.22 per 100g ball. For yarn stockists, write to: Thomas B. Ramsden and Co. (Bradford) Ltd, Netherfield Road, Guiseley, West Yorkshire LS20 9PD (01943 872264).

Tension
20 stitches and 21 rows, to 10 x 10cm, over pattern, using size 3.50 hook.

Abbreviations
Ch, chain; st, stitch; dc, double crochet; slst, slip st.

Note
Yarn amounts are based on average requirements and are therefore approximate.
Instructions in square brackets are worked as stated after 2nd bracket.

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