Free Highland Hues Highland Cow Basket Crochet Pattern | Adorable Nursery Storage Basket

Okay, so to make the Highland Cow we're going to have a variety of materials this time. So we're going to start off with t-shirt yarn. So the base is going to be made with four different colors of t-shirt yarn, if you want the same colors. These are actually from Temu and I like them. I chose them specifically, I was looking for t-shirt yarn in kind of pastel colors and And literally Temu was the only place that I could find it. But this yarn is actually very nice. I'm very happy with what showed up. It has about 100-ish yards in each one. I rewound this one so I could test it because, of course, Temu's very, you know, hit or miss on knowing your yardage. So I did wind this with my yardage counter and found out it's about 100 yards each. So I will link these if you love these colors. If not, just find t-shirt yarn in colors you like. Poor love. But the exact yardage will be in the pattern below, and then the bangs are going to be made with this Boucle yarn. So Boucle is B-O-U-C-L-E, I will link this actual yarn. This is actually a leftover because I am trying to be kind of zero waste right now. I am attempting to pare down my stash, so I'm really digging in deep. You just need boucle or any kind of like novelty yarn. I'm sure you probably have novelty yarn hanging around whatever you want to make the hair for the cow in the front. Find something cute, or go purchase some, but I will link this just in case. But this was left over from my Temu slippers, which I do love this yarn. This is such soft, pretty yarn. So I will link, I'll link the kit, I'll link the video, so if you haven't seen that yet. But there is a seller that sells this kind of yarn, so I will link this yarn separately from the kit as well. The kit's a pretty good deal. There you go. You can make slippers and get yarn for your cow at the same time. But then what we need also are the horns, and the horns are actually going to be made with some Red Heart Super Saver and I'm bleeding. Hold on. I like literally just stabbed myself. Pay no attention to that, it'll stop bleeding in a second. So I am making the horns out of Red Heart Super Saver, again, leftover yarn. This is from my Canyon Blanket, that's also a free pattern on the website that I love to death. But this is a bunch of leftover yarn, so we will make our horns out of that to put on the sides of our basket. And that is it for the yarn portion. Then all you'll need are some crochet hooks to make this. So we are using a fairly small hook for the basket base because I want it to be fairly stiff so that it'll kind of stand up on its own when it's not full. So we are going to use a 5.5 US hook. These are both from my Clover Amour, they're one of my favorite all-time hooks, so I'm throwing it back because I've been using a lot of furls lately and bringing these guys back. They have a very soft cushiony cushion, so I do enjoy these a lot. Then for the horn, we're going to use a 3.5 US Hook. So you'll need two different hooks. I'll link these as well. They are just one of my all-time favorites. So love them to death. Okay and then you're going to need some stitch markers and yarn needles. I like this really hooking one because the t-shirt yarn is pretty thick on the end so this is very easy to thread and use to weave in those ends and then I have the smaller for like the horns so you'll need a stitch marker for the horns we're going to work this and join these so this is not going to be worked in spirals just the horns will be but you'll need all of that to get started plus Of course, the pattern, so head to the description and get that pattern with the link, and then we'll get started. But first, don't forget to hit the subscribe, like, and notification bell so that you never miss out on free patterns like this, as well as tutorials and reviews of some pretty interesting and questionable stuff. So let's get back to the pattern. Okay, so to begin the base, we're going to do it in all white. You could do the stripes. throughout on the base if you feel adventurous, but since it's not really going to be seen, I'm fine with just going full white, or any of the other colors actually, so you can start with any one you want, but I'm going to do the base in white for mine. So we're going to first start with a magic adjustable loop, so with the tails facing you and the working yarn is facing away, grab it and just twist it down so the working is over the top. We're going to reach through and pull up a loop. and do one chain. So we are going to do or we're going to start the basket with single crochets. So we're going to do six single crochets inside the magic adjustable loop but the rest of the base we're going to do in double crochet. Just because it's faster. The first round we're doing was single so that it kind of makes a better closed hole. If you start with just double, the bottom of the base does not close all the way because the yarn is so thick. So we have one, two, three, four, and then we're gonna go ahead and grab our tail and pull that closed nice and tight. This yarn is very stretchy, very easy to Pull and not break and all that good stuff. So I really like this yarn so far. Okay, so now we're going to slip stitch in the first single crochet. You can always work backwards if you don't know where that is because it looks really far apart. It looks like we're missing stitches. But we have six. We have one, two, three, four, five, six. Those V's are your stitches. They're kind of facing you. So those are what you're going to work into. But we're going to go ahead and pull that through and slip stitch to close. And then that's actually going to take over that first one. So you have one, two, three, four, five, six. So now we are going to work in double crochet. That way we get our base built faster. So to do that, we're going to start with a tall chain instead of a chain three. I love these because it makes it Look nice and dense so you don't have those ugly chain threes. So we're going to do a chain as big as a double crochet and lock it in with another chain. Then we're going to yarn over and we're going to go back into that stitch that we joined and we're going to do a double crochet. Then we're going to do another one in the same stitch because we want to do 12 double crochets all the way around. We're going to do two double crochets in each of our stitches. So we're going to bring our stitch count up to 12. Because this hook is so small, you can see these stitches are very, very stiff. They just stand on their own. So get around to the 12, and then we'll start on round 3. Okay, here's my last double crochet. I have 12 total, and now we're going to join with a slip stitch in that very first double crochet. So we're going to come across, slip stitch that guy, and now pull that nice and tight to pull those all together. Okay, so for round three we're gonna do what we just did again. We're gonna do two double crochets in every stitch around so that way we end with 24 stitches and that helps the basket lay flat or the bottom of it lay flat So we're doing two stitches in every stitch around or two double crochets And that will give us a total of 24 stitches at the end of round three. So go ahead and keep going and we'll meet up right at the end for the next round instructions. Okay, here's my last stitch of round three. And if you're new and you don't know these stitches, I have lots of tutorials that go much slower over these that I encourage you to go watch first. I'm joining with a slip stitch in that first double crochet. But they will walk you through working in the round, single crochet, double crochet, all that good stuff. The new stitch, though, the modified, I don't have one of that. I'm going to have to add a tutorial for that one. That one you can only get here, so we'll do that one a little slower when we get to it. But now for round four, we're going to do another tall chain, lock it in, and now we're going to increase again another 12 stitches, well, this time 12 stitches, and then we're going to put a regular double crochet in between. So that means we're going to do two double crochets in our first stitch. And then we're going to do one double crochet in the next stitch. So we have groups of three, so two double crochets, one double crochet, two double crochets, one double crochet. And we're going to repeat that all the way around, and that's going to bring us to 36 stitches. So keep going, and we'll meet right at the end to start the next round. Okay, here I am, last three. Don't worry if you have like a little bit of a curl like I do. Once you get going with the basket, it's really, it does lay flat, so it is fine. You don't have to make the stitches super tight, because this yarn is so thick that it's sturdy on its own, so don't worry about that. So we're going to join with a slip stitch as usual. First double crochet. So now we have... 36 stitches now we're going to increase to 48 so we're going to do another 12 increases but we're going to space them out by two this time and that gives us a even balanced increase. If I just did all my increases here I'd have this weird blob that would start to form so don't do all your increases at once. You can also do your increases at the end so if you are one that likes to do a Like your double crochet, double crochet, and then increase, you can do that. It's not going to change anything, but I like to do my increases in the beginning. So oops, that was a half double. So we're going to do two in our first stitch, and then one in the next two stitches for a grouping of four. I'm doing that 12 times, so four times 12 is 48 stitches. So again, two double crochets in one stitch. Then one double crochet in each of the next two stitches. More slack. We're going to continue that around. Two double crochets. One double crochet. One double crochet. All the way around for 48 stitches. And we're about halfway there. We're getting there. We're almost time for the basket. So getting close. Okay here I am at the end of round five. Doing my last double crochet. I'm gonna join that with a slip stitch. Now we're going to move on to round six. So for round six we're still increasing, so we're going to do our tall chain and two double crochets in that first stitch. And now we're going to separate our increases by three stitches, so we're going to do a repeat of five stitches total. So we're going to do two double crochets and then one double crochet in each of the next three stitches. So it's going to give us 5, and we're going to do that 12 times around for 60 stitches. So 2 double crochets, and then 1 double crochet in each of the next 3 stitches. So continue with that around, and then we'll meet up at the end for our next round instructions. Okay, here is my last double crochet, round 6. So now we're going to join. We have one more round of increasing. So this time we're going to do our tall chain as normal and two double crochets, but we're going to break up our increases by four stitches this time. So we'll have groups of six. So we're gonna do four single crochets or one single crochet in the next four stitches. This is the last round of increasing and then we'll start on the basket body. So again, we're going to do this 12 times, so we have two double crochets, and then four double crochets, one in each of the next four stitches. So we'll do that 12 times around for a total of 72 stitches, and then we'll start working on making the body and changing colors. So I will see you at the end of round seven with 72 stitches. Okay, here we are in the very last stitch of our round. And now we are ready for round eight and that is the first portion of our body of the basket. So, for this round, we're going to do it slightly different than the rest of the rounds in that we're going to work into the back loop only. So, we're still going to do a tall chain, but this time for a half double crochet, but we're going to do what I'm calling is a modified half double crochet. So, for a normal double crochet, let me just lock in this tall chain first. Normal half double crochets, you would yarn over, so from back. to front and then you would insert in and pull through all three. So look at how that'll do a couple just so you can see the difference. We're going to do just little things so you can see what the difference looks like and then we'll back out and do it the right way. So... That is the regular half double. You get kind of these loops that are coming straight across almost. We're going to do a modified half double. So what we're going to do instead of yarning over from back to front, we're going to place our yarn just kind of in front of our hook. And then, so kind of a front to back yarn over if you will, then we're going to insert in and I kind of hold on to it because it wants to slide over so just kind of hold on to it. Insert in, pull up your loop and you still have three loops on your hook just like a regular half double. Same thing. We're going to pull all the way through and finish that off. So this is going to give just a slightly different look. It gives it more of this kind of diagonal look to it rather than kind of the straight across. So see how this is kind of squatting across. This is kind of giving almost like a little starburst kind of look, I'll say, what I think it kind of looks like. It kind of gives you this like diagonal three strand look. Otherwise the regular one kind of goes up and over and over so you see kind of that last one instead of it kind of being tucked under you see it along with the other loops. So it's just a slightly different look. It's a cool kind of look that I like so that's what I'm using for this basket so that's what we're gonna do. You can do the regular half double if you like but if you like the way that The way that this one in the picture looks, this is how we're doing it. So again, I'm just doing my little tall chain, and we are going to work into the back loop only, so look at your Vs at the top. We're going to go just in that back loop, so we're putting the yarn in front of the hook, going just in the back loop, pulling up the loop, and then pulling through all three. And that's what we're going to do all the way around for this round. We're going to stop at this last stitch because we're going to change colors, so when you When you get to the last stitch, we'll come back and I'm going to switch over to our blue for the next round, but go ahead and keep making that modified HDC all the way around, and I'll see you in just a bit. Okay, here I am at the end of the round, so you can see we have all of the back loop worked, and that's going to give us just kind of like a little bit better of a base. It's just going to start working straight up from there. So I'm going to do the very last stitch, but I'm going to stop at the last step. time. Pulling up my loop, I have my three loops, and now I'm going to change over to my blue, my CB. So if you're not doing the same colors, this is CB, so whatever color you're doing, time to change to that one. So we're going to lay it over, and then pull that through. And I just kind of grab everything and tighten it down. And I'm not going to fasten off CA or my white because we're changing every four rows. So we're gonna go back to white in four, not rows, rounds, four rounds. So it's only gonna travel about two inches. So that's not too bad. If you don't want the yarn showing the travel on the inside of your basket, fasten off and weave in your ends for each round. Otherwise, if you don't care, then just leave it and we'll run it up when we get back to it in four more rounds. So then, with the blue on my hook, I'm going to do my slip stitch. And again, I'm just going to tighten that down again. We're going to go ahead and pull up for our tall chain. And then we're going to do the same thing as the last round, but we're going to work into both loops. So we're going to put the yarn in front, we're going to go into that same stitch that we did our join in as our very first stitch, pull up the loop going through both of our loops up top, and finishing the modified half double. So again, I'm going under both loops of the stitch, pulling up and pulling through. And then I'm going to continue to do that all the way around, and then we're going to come back and switch colors again. We'll meet up at the end of round nine to switch over to the purple next, or your CC. Okay, here I am at the very last stitch of my round in the blue. I'm going to pull up to the last stage, and then get my purple or my CC in, join that, pull everything nice and tight. And then I'm going to join that with a slip stitch in that very first stitch. And then we're going to repeat what we just did with our blue in our purple. So we're going to do a tall chain, lock that in, and then start our modified half double all the way around. So you're gonna do the same exact thing as the last round. Once we get to the end we will join our pink for our final kind of color change. We're still going to be doing more color changes but the final of the different colors and then I'll explain what we're going to do and how we will how you can join your yarn without having to Cut it and weave everything in for each of those tails. So I am going to go through the purple and the pink, because the pink is going to be the exact same as what I just did with the purple, and then we'll come back at the end of the pink so you can see how to join the white, which is pretty simple, but I'll go over it just in case you're a beginner. So I will see you at the end of round 11. Okay, here I am at the end of my pink round 11. So we're going to do one more stitch and then we're going to stop here and then we're going to grab our white. So basically what you're going to do if you do not want to weave in all of your ends is grab your tail and bring it up. Just don't pull too hard because then you'll squish the basket down. So do it slightly loosely. You'll mostly pull on your pink, not your white. So make sure you have a good little bit of slack on that. Not too much slack, you don't want it like hanging out, but that is an option if you don't feel like weaving in every single striped edge. And then what you can do, you'll just bring each one of these up as it's time to use them. So now we're going to repeat this Pattern, so white, blue, purple, pink. two more times so rounds 12 through 15 we're going to repeat 8 9 10 11 and then round 16 through 19 again 8 9 10 11. then after that we're going And finish off the basket portion with just a slight difference, to come back on round 20. so continue on using the four colors until you get to round 19, and then we'll come back and finish the basket off and move on to the rest. Okay, here I am on the very last stitch of round 19, so I'm just going to go up to my very last step and join in my white one last time, my CA. And we're going to be done with the body right after this round. So I'm going to do my slip stitch, got all of my rows done. I love this color combo. So for the very last round we're just going to do a simple single crochet all the way around to give it just a finished edge. So we're going to chain one and single crochet in that same stitch that we joined and then each stitch around. So we're going to make it not too tight, not too loose, just a regular stitch right on top of our last row. That'll just give us kind of a finished edge. Do your single crochets all the way around. Fasten off, weave in your ends, and then we'll move on to the next step. Okay, the basket is complete. Everything's woven in. You can see that it stands up by itself because of that smaller hook. So now we are ready to move on to the ears. So I already made one and you're basically going to make kind of a circle almost and then once that's completed we're going to fold it in and kind of bend it to attach it to the basket. Little highland cow ear. So let's make one more for the other side. So for the ear we're going to start with a magic adjustable loop. So with your tail facing you and the working yarn away from you we're going to grab it, take our right hand and just turn down, cross over, reach through, and pull up the loop like a pretzel here. Then we're going to chain one We're going to do six single crochets in the loop. Single. Six of those and this is this part of the ear and now to close that we're going to take our tail and just pull really tight and this t-shirt yarn is very stretchy so it doesn't break so you can pull it nice and tight. The hole will probably open as you're working so you'll just have that tail that you can pull on to close you can weave it in before you get too Far in here because that's too hard to weave in. I did not weave in this one but you can see it's staying closed so it's up to you if you want to weave in or not. So we are working this in a spiral so we'll need a stitch marker. So for round two we're going to go and do two single crochets in every stitch around. So I always say you can work backwards if you don't know where to start. These beads, you count them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. So right here is where I am starting my first single crochet of the next round. I kind of pull it tight to bring it closer together. I'll do that first one, then I'm going to mark it with my stitch marker so I'm at the beginning of the round, and then we're going to do two in each of these stitches for a total of 12 single crochets. At the end of the round, we've got 12 stitches. You'll see that kind of opened up a little, but I can just always yank on it and close it back up. We're going to do one more round of increasing now. So we're going to go up to 18 stitches by doing two single crochets in the first stitch, two in the first stitch, and then one in the next. We're gonna do that six times for a total of 18 stitches, so two single crochets in one stitch to increase, and then one single crochet in the next stitch. Continue that around. Okay here I am on my last stitch and now we're just going to be single crocheting in the round four rounds and then we'll do one more round after that. We'll do a decrease round just to make it kind of easier to attach the ears to the basket. So continue between stitches or one single crochet in each stitch around and then we'll come back to do the last round. Okay got two stitches left. And now I'm ready for my final round. I am just going to tuck my end in. I'm just going to pull that tight and tuck it in because I'm lazy and it's not like anyone's pulling on the ears once you get them sewed on. So for our very final round, we're going to do a decrease so that way it kind of tucks in a little bit so you can see how it's kind of gone down. So we're going to do that. So to do that, we are going to Do a single crochet two together first in our first stitch and then a regular single crochet in the next stitch. So we're reducing by six stitches down to 12, so we do this six times. A single crochet two together, single crochet. Okay here's my last one, my last single crochet, and then what we're going to do is we're going to slip stitch. In the next stitch, just to bring it down and finish it off, so slip stitch that and then make the tail nice and long so that you can sew it to the basket. We have our second ear, so now we are ready to do our horns. We're just gonna put these to the side because we don't need them yet. So throw those to the side and grab your 3.5 millimeter hook and your worsted weight yarn for the horns. Okay, so we're ready to start making the horns now. So we're gonna do another magic adjustable loop. We're gonna do only four single crochets into this one though. So pull up your loop, chain one, And do four single crochets and what I'm going to do when I close this is I'm actually going to keep the yarn outside because I want to pull on it to make the horn pointy. So I want it to come out so I can yank on it. So here's one that's already finished and then we're going to go ahead and start round two. So for round two, we're going to do two single crochets in every stitch around for a total of eight stitches. So again, we work backwards. One, two, three, four. There's a big jump like all the way on the other side. So that's why I want that out so I can kind of pull on it and bring everything close together. So I'm going to pull up my loop, bring it kind of to the top and pull that down so that way I can get this stitch nice and close together. I'm going to put a stitch marker because we're working in spirals again. And then I'm going to do another one in the same stitch, and then two in each stitch around, four total times. So eight stitches all together. Get my little handy dandy stitch counter that I love from this gal on Etsy. She does Green Owl Pharmacies, like her kind of brand name, but she's under a different name in Etsy, but I'll link it below if you like this thing. It's cool. I use it all the time. Okay, so now for round three. I'm going to do eight stitches again, so now we're going to start kind of forming this tube here. So I'm going to do one single crochet in each stitch, and this is where having that tail on the outside really comes in handy, because now you're going to be making it into a tube, so it kind of helps to bring everything close together. Okay, here's the last stitch of round three. I always change this at the end of the round, so I know that I'm I finished round three, so now I know I'm on round four, so that's how I always keep track when I do any kind of notating what round I'm on. Okay, so for rounds four and five, we're going to do the same thing as round three. We're going to do a single crochet in each stitch around, so just eight stitches total. That's given us this whole little portion here, both loops. So just remember to place your stitch marker so you don't lose track of where you're at. And go ahead and do rounds four and five, and then we'll come back where we're going to do something special on six. Here's my last stitch of round five. Okay, so now round six, we're going to start making this curve. So to do that, we're going to single crochet in the first stitch, our stitch marker back. Okay, and then next we're going to do two single crochets in each of the next four stitches for an increase of four stitches total. Let's do two in each. It's going to give us that little bump out. We'll have three stitches left. We're going to do a single crochet in the next stitch. In the last stitch, we're going to do a single crochet, two together. So we're going to decrease one stitch. Okay. Now for row seven, we're going to do a little bit more increasing. So what we're going to do is we're going to single crochet in the next three stitches. Forgot to move my stuff. Then we're going to do an increase here. So two single crochets in the next stitch. Then we're going to do another single crochet one time in each of the next three stitches. Alrighty, then we're going to do two single crochets in the next stitch to increase again. So we're just increasing by two stitches on this round. And then three single crochets, one in each of the next three stitches. Alright, now we've got kind of a funky little fan going on. So we have a total of 13 stitches now. And what we're going to do for rounds 8... Through 12 is just single crochet in each stitch around. So a total of 13 stitches in each of those. So nothing fancy, just continuing our tube. So go ahead and work on rounds 8 through 12 on your own and we'll meet up right at the end. Okay here's the last stitch and then we're going to do just a slip stitch in the next stitch to bring it down. Make the tail nice and long for sewing it to the basket. And now we are ready to start assembling the basket with all of our stuff. So let's work on that. But first I'm going to weave in these little random bits. If you didn't just stick your yarn inside, weave that one in. But weave this guy in or just bring it through the center. Just don't pull too hard so that you don't lose the point. And then, For the horns. We want them to be slightly stuffed, so if you have stuffing you can use that, or you can use scraps of your yarn, so if you have a bunch of tails from weaving in your basket, you can just stuff those in and use those. So, put a little bit of stuffing before you start sewing. Okay, so I flattened out my basket, and the reason I'm doing that is because I want my horns and ears right on the side. So you can bring them in a little closer if you want, but I like the way that it looks being on the side. And then I'm also going to, I like to kind of have the horns almost like the same size as this portion, so I'm squishing it down just a little bit, like width-wise, I don't know what you would call that, but I'm squishing it down, and then I will sew it directly at the white, And kind of the bottom of the pink or the bottom of. So the top of CA and the bottom of CD. So I'm going to weave the whole thing around through the very last row of stitches through the basket on both sides. Take your time so that way you're even and they look correct. But I'm going to go ahead and start doing that and then we'll come back and add the ears. So kind of what I do just to start off is wherever your tail is Kind of stick it where you want it to go, get it the the shape that you want so that you're putting it in the correct place, and then start your first stitch to bring it through and then kind of end it. You can also get stitch markers and have them help you out so you can get the other end how you want it and stitch marker that in place so it's not flopping around as you are stitching. So that can kind of help hold you in place and then you can start stitching it around. So I'm going to go ahead and attach these two and then we'll come back for the ears. Okay I've got my horns attached now it's time to do the ears. So they're going to go right below the horns and they're going to be kind of kept up a little bit so do it as much as you want you know if you want to do it completely kept up or open a little bit totally up to you the hair is going to fall in front of this so you don't have to worry about you know having it sewn just because the hair is going to hide if you don't so don't worry so now take your time sew the ears on and then we'll come back and do the hair Here is one. Okay I've got the ears attached and now we are ready for hair. Okay now what we've done is cut some lengths of the boucle about eight inches give or take. They'll make them all the exact same size. It looks cuter when there's variation but we're gonna attach them. So I've already attached one just so you can see. We're gonna go around the pink. So we're not gonna go around the white. We want the white to show. So we're gonna go around the pink. Grab our yarn, pull it through kind of like rug latching if you've ever done that, pull this through and then pull it tight. Don't pull it too tight yet because you may want to double up like some of these to give it a little bit more coverage so that way you can pull it out and just do two. So if I wanted to do two I should grab two lengths come through pull those So really it's up to you how you like the look of these and how you want them to look. I kind of, to get them kind of straight, I kind of pull so that they're not way different. Kind of pull that nice and loose for now just so you can see how it's looking. And we're going to fill in all the way to the ears. So just fill in this whole area. You'll have your white visible and then we'll just keep going until it's done and then we'll look at the finished basket Okay here is the basket in all its glory. I kind of just ruffled up the yarn in the front to give kind of a more curly hair kind of look so I don't know I just think it's so cute. I hope you enjoyed making it. I'd love to see what you come up with so be sure to tag me all my socials are below. But until the next time, I'm Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After, and thank you for watching!