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Free tapestry crochet pattern
Paint Bucket
By StitchingLab ·
This 50×50 chart finishes at roughly 13×12 inches in worsted-weight tapestry crochet, using 2 colors — a clean two-color project — a good first counted chart. As a tapestry piece it works as a wall hanging, cushion, or afghan square. The grid, materials estimate, and written row-by-row instructions below are all free; open the chart in the editor to resize it or swap the palette to yarns you already own.
- Stitch type
- Tapestry crochet
- Grid
- 50 × 50
- Colors
- 2
Make it fit your project
This chart is 50×50 stitches — about 13×12″ in worsted-weight tapestry crochet. Pick a project and the motif rescales onto the right canvas (centered, never stretched), ready to fine-tune in the editor.
Chart
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Materials
834g total · 2 colors
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Caron · Simply Soft · Pagoda
652 stitches · ~218g · 2 skeins
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Bernat · Super Value · White
1,848 stitches · ~616g · 4 skeins
Project kit
Gear this chart actually calls for
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Clover Amour Crochet Hook Set
Comfort-grip hooks in every size a chart can call for — one set covers the whole CYC weight range. — 4.5-5.5 mm (7 to I-9) — one size down hides the carried strand
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Tapestry Needles
Blunt-tip needles for weaving in the ends every color change leaves behind.
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Locking Stitch Markers
Mark pattern repeats, color-section starts, and the first stitch of the round so a miscount never survives a row.
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Yarn Ball Winder
Center-pull cakes feed evenly and stand still while you work — worth it once a project runs to many skeins. — 6 skeins wind into tidy center-pull cakes
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Sharp Yarn Snips
Small, sharp snips cut yarn clean at every color change — cleaner joins and easier weaving-in than scissors.
Project reality check
intermediate- Strands at once
- 9
- Color changes
- 196
- Ends · intarsia
- 12
- Ends · tapestry
- 4
- Up to 9 strands will be active in a single row — wind one bobbin per strand before you start to avoid tangles.
Written instructions
- ACaron Pagoda
- BBernat White
Before you start
- Foundation: ch 51; sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across (50 sc).
- Ch 1 at the start of every row (does not count as a stitch), turn.
- Change color on the LAST stitch of the old color: work the final yarn over with the new color.
- Tapestry style: carry the unused strand and crochet over it. Intarsia style: use a separate bobbin per color area and drop/pick up.
- US terms. RS rows are read right to left on the chart, WS rows left to right.
- 1 RS50 sc B
- 2 WS50 sc B
- 3 RS7 sc B3 sc A40 sc B
- 4 WS38 sc B7 sc A5 sc B
- 5 RS4 sc B9 sc A37 sc B
- 6 WS36 sc B11 sc A3 sc B
- 7 RS3 sc B4 sc A3 sc B4 sc A15 sc B4 sc A17 sc B
- 8 WS15 sc B8 sc A13 sc B4 sc A4 sc B4 sc A2 sc B
- 9 RS2 sc B4 sc A5 sc B3 sc A12 sc B10 sc A14 sc B
- 10 WS13 sc B12 sc A11 sc B4 sc A4 sc B4 sc A2 sc B
- 11 RS3 sc B4 sc A3 sc B4 sc A10 sc B6 sc A3 sc B5 sc A12 sc B
- 12 WS11 sc B5 sc A5 sc B6 sc A9 sc B5 sc A1 sc B5 sc A3 sc B
- 13 RS4 sc B9 sc A9 sc B6 sc A7 sc B5 sc A10 sc B
- 14 WS9 sc B5 sc A9 sc B6 sc A9 sc B8 sc A4 sc B
- 15 RS5 sc B6 sc A9 sc B6 sc A11 sc B5 sc A8 sc B
- 16 WS7 sc B5 sc A13 sc B6 sc A8 sc B5 sc A6 sc B
- 17 RS6 sc B4 sc A8 sc B6 sc A15 sc B5 sc A6 sc B
- 18 WS5 sc B5 sc A17 sc B6 sc A7 sc B3 sc A7 sc B
- 19 RS16 sc B6 sc A19 sc B5 sc A4 sc B
- 20 WS3 sc B5 sc A21 sc B6 sc A15 sc B
- 21 RS14 sc B6 sc A23 sc B5 sc A2 sc B
- 22 WS2 sc B35 sc A13 sc B
- 23 RS12 sc B36 sc A2 sc B
- 24 WS2 sc B37 sc A11 sc B
Show all 50 rows
- 25 RS10 sc B38 sc A2 sc B
- 26 WS3 sc B4 sc A28 sc B6 sc A9 sc B
- 27 RS9 sc B5 sc A28 sc B5 sc A3 sc B
- 28 WS4 sc B5 sc A28 sc B4 sc A9 sc B
- 29 RS9 sc B5 sc A26 sc B5 sc A5 sc B
- 30 WS6 sc B5 sc A24 sc B5 sc A10 sc B
- 31 RS11 sc B5 sc A22 sc B5 sc A7 sc B
- 32 WS8 sc B5 sc A20 sc B5 sc A12 sc B
- 33 RS13 sc B5 sc A18 sc B5 sc A9 sc B
- 34 WS10 sc B5 sc A16 sc B5 sc A14 sc B
- 35 RS15 sc B5 sc A8 sc B3 sc A3 sc B5 sc A11 sc B
- 36 WS12 sc B5 sc A1 sc B5 sc A6 sc B5 sc A16 sc B
- 37 RS17 sc B5 sc A6 sc B9 sc A13 sc B
- 38 WS14 sc B7 sc A6 sc B5 sc A18 sc B
- 39 RS19 sc B5 sc A5 sc B6 sc A15 sc B
- 40 WS14 sc B7 sc A4 sc B5 sc A20 sc B
- 41 RS21 sc B5 sc A2 sc B9 sc A13 sc B
- 42 WS12 sc B5 sc A1 sc B10 sc A22 sc B
- 43 RS23 sc B8 sc A3 sc B5 sc A11 sc B
- 44 WS10 sc B5 sc A5 sc B6 sc A24 sc B
- 45 RS25 sc B4 sc A7 sc B5 sc A9 sc B
- 46 WS9 sc B4 sc A9 sc B1 sc A27 sc B
- 47 RS38 sc B3 sc A9 sc B
- 48 WS10 sc B1 sc A39 sc B
- 49 RS50 sc B
- 50 WS50 sc B
Work the pattern · row tracker
Row tracker
Row 1 of 50 - 2% done
Row 1 (RS) ← 50 sc B
Progress saves on this device and in the link above — bookmark it, or paste it into your Ravelry project notes to pick up exactly where you stopped, on any device.
Pattern code · SLPN v1
A canonical, lossless representation of this pattern. Paste it into any StitchingLab converter to reload, or share it as a single line of text.
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