Crochet Cord Nesting Bowls

Crochet Cord Nesting Bowls are great for organizing your home and office – and they make a fantastic housewarming gift or craft fair item! With your favorite colors of cotton yarn and a coordinating roll of Bernat Macramé, you can make your own nesting bowls with this free crochet pattern on Moogly!

Disclaimer: Materials for this pattern were provided by Yarnspirations; this post includes affiliate links.

Featuring Bernat Macramé and Lily Sugar’n Cream or Bernat Handicrafter

I’ve been wanting to try making a crochet cord bowl or basket for a long time – and have gotten a lot of requests for tutorials! So when Yarnspirations came out with Bernat Macramé, I knew just what I wanted to use it for first!

To pull the whole thing together, I chose Lily Sugar’n Cream because it’s what I had on hand. It’s strong, easy to use, and the cotton compliments the Bernat Macramé well. Bernat Handicrafter would be a great substitute too – either work!

I couldn’t decide which color combo to use – both Macramé and Sugar’n Cream come in so many, and there are hundreds of possible pairings. So I picked three – one matching, two contrasting. I can’t wait to see what color combos you choose!

Make Crochet Cord Nesting Bowls in Any Size!

Learning how to crochet over cord is a new skill, so I kept this pattern as simple as can be. The increases all line up creating a nice patterning on the bottom, and there are no color changes or yarn changes needed. But don’t let this limit you!

If you’re new to crochet, take a close look at the lines of instruction for the increasing rows. See the number that goes up by one each round? You can keep on increasing just like that to make a bigger bowl base. Then, keep crocheting straight up the sides to make it as tall as you like! Change colors, use a self-striping yarn, make it your own!

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Crochet Cord Nesting Bowls

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US-H, 5.0mm hook – Susan Bates

115 yds Lily Sugar’n Cream or Bernat Handicrafter
(4 – Worsted; 100% cotton; 71g/2.5 oz, 109 m/120 yds)
A: Colorways shown: Soft Ecru (Small – 25 yds), Tangerine (Medium – 35 yds), Meadow (Large – 55 yds)

15 yds Bernat Macramé
(6 – Super Bulky; 57% cotton, 39% viscose polyester, 4% other fibers; 250 g/8.8 oz; 40 m/44 yds)
B: Colorway shown: Natural – less than 1 skein makes all 3 bowls

Stitch markers

Hot Glue or E6000 (optional)

Gauge: 1″ across after Rnd 2

Sizes: Small – 3.25″ diameter; Medium – 4.5″ diameter; Large – 6″ diameter; all bowls approx 2.5 ” tall

Helpful Links:

Crochet Cord Nesting Bowls Tutorial

Crochet Abbreviations

Magic Circle

Enclosing Chains and Stitches (in this pattern it’s the macramé cord)

Notes: 

Wrap the end of the macramé cord in a piece of tape to stop it from fraying as you crochet the bowls.

To make larger bows, continue to increase in pattern and then work as many even rows as desired.

This pattern is worked in a spiral – do not join at the end of the rnd, but do use a stitch marker to mark the first st of each rnd.

Crochet Cord Nesting Bowls

Small – 3.25″ diameter

Rnd 1: With A and leaving a 12″ tail, make a magic circle, ch 1, work 6 sc in the circle. (6 sc)

Rnd 2: Laying B over A so as to crochet over it, work 2 sc with A in each st around, enclosing B. (12 sc)

Rnd 3: Continuing to enclose B in each st, *1 sc in the next st, 2 sc in the next st; rep from * around. (18 sc)

Rnd 4: Continuing to enclose B in each st, *1 sc each of the next 2 sts, 2 sc in the next st; rep from * around. (24 sc)

Rnd 5: Continuing to enclose B in each st, *1 sc each of the next 3 sts, 2 sc in the next st; rep from * around. (30 sc)

Rnd 6 – 11: Continuing to enclose B in each st, work 1 sc in each st around. (30 sc) 

Finishing: Cut A and B. Use a bit of glue to secure the cut end of B. Use the end of A to sew down B in next st. Use glue and beginning tail of A to secure beginning of B at bottom of bowl.

Medium – 4.5″ diameter

Rnd 1 – 5: Rep Rnds 1 – 5 of Small.

Rnd 6: Continuing to enclose B in each st, *1 sc each of the next 4 sts, 2 sc in the next st; rep from * around. (36 sc)

Rnd 7: Continuing to enclose B in each st, *1 sc each of the next 5 sts, 2 sc in the next st; rep from * around. (42 sc)

Rnd 8 – 13: Continuing to enclose B in each st, work 1 sc in each st around. (42 sc) 

Finishing: Cut A and B. Use a bit of glue to secure the cut end of B. Use the end of A to sew down B in next st. Use glue and beginning tail of A to secure beginning of B at bottom of bowl.

Large – 6″ diameter

Rnd 1 – 7: Rep Rnds 1 – 7 of Medium.

Rnd 8: Continuing to enclose B in each st, *1 sc each of the next 6 sts, 2 sc in the next st; rep from * around. (48 sc)

Rnd 9: Continuing to enclose B in each st, *1 sc each of the next 7 sts, 2 sc in the next st; rep from * around. (54 sc)

Rnd 10 – 15: Continuing to enclose B in each st, work 1 sc in each st around. (54 sc) 

Finishing: Cut A and B. Use a bit of glue to secure the cut end of B. Use the end of A to sew down B in next st. Use glue and beginning tail of A to secure beginning of B at bottom of bowl.

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