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Free tapestry crochet pattern
Piggy Bank
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. In tapestry crochet this makes a pillow front or bag panel; repeat it for a full graphgan. 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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Lion Brand · Vanna's Choice · Terracotta
507 stitches · ~169g · 2 skeins
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Bernat · Super Value · White
1,993 stitches · ~665g · 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
- 166
- Ends · intarsia
- 8
- 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
- ALion Brand Terracotta
- 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 RS50 sc B
- 4 WS50 sc B
- 5 RS50 sc B
- 6 WS50 sc B
- 7 RS13 sc B8 sc A6 sc B8 sc A15 sc B
- 8 WS13 sc B12 sc A3 sc B11 sc A11 sc B
- 9 RS11 sc B12 sc A2 sc B12 sc A13 sc B
- 10 WS13 sc B12 sc A2 sc B12 sc A11 sc B
- 11 RS11 sc B3 sc A5 sc B4 sc A2 sc B4 sc A4 sc B4 sc A13 sc B
- 12 WS13 sc B3 sc A5 sc B10 sc A5 sc B3 sc A11 sc B
- 13 RS11 sc B3 sc A5 sc B10 sc A5 sc B3 sc A13 sc B
- 14 WS13 sc B3 sc A5 sc B10 sc A5 sc B3 sc A11 sc B
- 15 RS11 sc B3 sc A20 sc B3 sc A13 sc B
- 16 WS12 sc B4 sc A20 sc B4 sc A10 sc B
- 17 RS9 sc B5 sc A20 sc B5 sc A11 sc B
- 18 WS10 sc B5 sc A21 sc B6 sc A8 sc B
- 19 RS7 sc B6 sc A23 sc B4 sc A10 sc B
- 20 WS9 sc B4 sc A26 sc B8 sc A3 sc B
- 21 RS2 sc B9 sc A26 sc B4 sc A9 sc B
- 22 WS9 sc B3 sc A28 sc B8 sc A2 sc B
- 23 RS2 sc B7 sc A29 sc B3 sc A9 sc B
- 24 WS6 sc B6 sc A32 sc B4 sc A2 sc B
Show all 50 rows
- 25 RS2 sc B4 sc A32 sc B7 sc A5 sc B
- 26 WS4 sc B8 sc A20 sc B2 sc A10 sc B4 sc A2 sc B
- 27 RS2 sc B4 sc A9 sc B3 sc A20 sc B9 sc A3 sc B
- 28 WS3 sc B4 sc A2 sc B4 sc A19 sc B3 sc A6 sc B7 sc A2 sc B
- 29 RS2 sc B8 sc A6 sc B2 sc A19 sc B4 sc A3 sc B4 sc A2 sc B
- 30 WS2 sc B4 sc A3 sc B5 sc A26 sc B8 sc A2 sc B
- 31 RS3 sc B8 sc A25 sc B4 sc A4 sc B4 sc A2 sc B
- 32 WS2 sc B4 sc A4 sc B5 sc A24 sc B4 sc A7 sc B
- 33 RS7 sc B5 sc A21 sc B6 sc A6 sc B2 sc A3 sc B
- 34 WS12 sc B7 sc A19 sc B4 sc A8 sc B
- 35 RS9 sc B3 sc A3 sc B5 sc A7 sc B10 sc A13 sc B
- 36 WS15 sc B21 sc A2 sc B3 sc A9 sc B
- 37 RS9 sc B3 sc A1 sc B20 sc A17 sc B
- 38 WS19 sc B22 sc A9 sc B
- 39 RS9 sc B8 sc A6 sc B2 sc A25 sc B
- 40 WS34 sc B7 sc A9 sc B
- 41 RS9 sc B5 sc A36 sc B
- 42 WS50 sc B
- 43 RS50 sc B
- 44 WS50 sc B
- 45 RS50 sc B
- 46 WS50 sc B
- 47 RS50 sc B
- 48 WS50 sc B
- 49 RS50 sc B
- 50 WS50 sc B
Work the pattern · row tracker
Row tracker
Row 1 of 50 - 2% done · tap the chart to pin the exact stitch you’re on
Row 1 (RS) ← 50 sc B
Progress saves on this device and in the link above — down to the exact stitch when you’ve pinned one. Bookmark the link, or paste it into your Ravelry project notes to pick up precisely 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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