Baskets for Stocking Yarn Free Patterns

Yarn is lively. It’ll roll away from you and unravel just as soon as you take your eye off of it. Don’t let that happen. Take charge of your skeins with crocheted yarn baskets.

No matter what curves life throws you, it is always good to have an adequate amount of yarn supplies, with adequate meaning anywhere from a few skeins to “I can’t get into my basement”. Even if it is irrational to some, we all need to store yarn. Each ball of yarn, similar to toys and kids, is necessary and we welcome it with delight. Below you will find crochet baskets for stocking yarn patterns that not only allow you to organize your stash but also will use up some of said stash and give you an excuse a next yarn shopping!

Color Wheel Basket Free Crochet Pattern

The Color Wheel Basket pattern a beautiful and robust free-standing basket for yarn. It has rigid, self-supporting sides and sturdy rope-like loops for carrying. It’s also an absolute decorative gem, that keeps your yarns tidy and organized, while itself being a n amazing conversation piece in the room. Best of all, the project is not difficult to make, so you can enjoy both making it and then soon thereafter using it to support your other projects.

Skills: Easy Designer: ChiWei Ranck

Color Wheel Basket

Ombre Basket

The Ombre basket is a beautiful, thickly stitched yarn holder with shaded sides. The ombre yarns give it that transitional color band look that goes very well with so many decors. The sides are rigid and the basket itself has a stash-holding large capacity. Best of all: it’s easy and fun to make.

The full article about this pattern is here:

Ombre Basket

Large Crochet Basket for stocking yarn

So, the Ombre basket is good, but you think it’s not good enough for you? Your stash is too big? Your yarn hoarding needs too great? Never fear, the Ombre plus large basket is here. This enlarged, stiffened pattern will fit the bill and hold loads more yarn, so you can rest easy in the confidence that your skeins are safely contained.

The full article about this pattern is here:

Large Basket by All About Ami

Ombre Basket

Chunky Basket Free Crochet Pattern

This is the perfect basket to keep your yarns and hooks in. This bulky-stitched container is sturdy and robust, it surely has some stiffness in the walls that lets it stay upright. It is usually made with thicker yarn, but you can make it work with thinner yarns as well by using multiple strands at a time and strongly tightened stitches. Obviously, the stiffer the yarn, the better! The link to the free pattern for this chunky basket for stocking yarn is under the photo.

Skills: beginner Designer: Crochet in Color

Chunky Basket Free Crochet Pattern

The full article about this pattern is here:

Chunky Basket

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Maroccan basket for stocking yarn

Here is a lovely, rigid yarn basket done in the moroccan style. It’s a beautiful and easy piece that will be fun to make, and indeed to use as a support for your subsequent projects.

The full article about this pattern is here:

Maroccan Basket

Fair Isle Basket

This basket is a little gem and a work of art in itself. Better still, it’s super useful as well, a true combination of the best of form and function. This basket is indeed one of the ones with the most rigid walls that will never collapse.