The Everyday Drop Hanging Basket is a simple, modern crochet basket designed to add flexible storage wherever you need it. It's a place to "drop" those everyday items and know right where to find them later. Make your own with just one skein of Bernat Future Inspire and the Moogly pattern below!
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Make One For Every Room
With its soft teardrop shape and clean lines, it’s perfect for organizing small essentials, from craft notions to daily necessities to everyday odds and ends. Hung on a hook, knob, or peg, it works beautifully in bathrooms, entryways, and more!
Make it decorative with (battery-operated) candles and flowers - it's also great for potted plants, mine are just too big! I plan on using it to stop losing my gloves (which are determined to lose themselves otherwise).
The Everyday Drop Hanging Basket is crocheted with Bernat Future Inspire Yarn, a recycled-fiber blend that offers stitch definition with just a bit of a halo. Even better, you can get two baskets out of one skein, making it a quick, budget-friendly project and a great way to try out this new yarn (available on Yarnspirations and in select Walmart stores).
Fast to stitch and endlessly useful, it’s a satisfying project you’ll want to make again and again!
Everyday Drop Hanging Basket
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US - N, 9.0 mm - Furls Streamline
50 yds Bernat Future Inspire (170 g/6 oz, 99 m/108 yds; 6 - super bulky)
Colorway Shown: Slated (1 skein makes two baskets)
Gauge: 9 hdc x 7 rows = 4" [10cm]
Finished Size: approx 10" tall x 7" wide
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Everyday Drop Hanging Basket Tutorial
Hdc2tog - Half Double Crochet Decrease
Special Stitch:
Hdc2tog - Half Double Crochet Decrease: Yo and insert hook in next st, yo and pull up loop through stitch, insert hook in next st, yo and pull up loop through stitch, yo and pull through all 4 loops on hook.
NOTES:
There is one turn in this pattern, at the end of Rnd 4.
Use a stitch marker in the first and last st of each round.
Joining with a sc creates a "ch-1 sp."
Joining with a ch-3 and tr creates a "ch-6 sp."
Everyday Drop Hanging Basket INSTRUCTIONS:
Rnd 1: Make a magic circle and ch 1, hdc 10 in the ring; join to first st with sl st. (10 sts)
Rnd 2: Ch 1, 2 hdc in each st around; join with sl st. (20 sts)
Rnd 3: Ch 1, hdc in the first st, 2 hdc in the next st, *hdc in the next st, 2 hdc in the next st; rep from * around, join with sl st. (30 sts)
Rnd 4: Ch 1, 2 hdc in the first st, hdc in the next 2 sts, *2 hdc in the next st, hdc in the next 2 sts; rep from * around, join with sl st and TURN. (40 sts)
Rnd 5: Ch 1, hdc in the sl st, hdc in each rem st around, hdc in sl st again, join to first st with sc. (42 sts)
Rnd 6: Ch 1, hdc in the ch-1 sp, hdc in each rem st around, hdc in ch-1 sp again, join to first st with sc. (44 sts)
Rnd 7: Ch 1, hdc in the ch-1 sp, hdc in the next 10 sts, hdc2tog, [hdc in the next 9 sts, hdc2tog] twice, hdc in the last 10 sts, hdc in ch-1 sp again, join to first st with sc. (43 sts)
Rnd 8: Ch 1, hdc in the ch-1 sp, [hdc in the next 9 sts, hdc2tog] three times, hdc in the last 10 sts, hdc in ch-1 sp again, ch 3, join to first st with tr. (42 sts)
Rnd 9: Ch 1, 4 sc in the ch-6 sp, hdc in the next 10 sts, hdc2tog 11 times, hdc in the last 10 sts, 4 sc in the ch-6 sp again; break yarn and seamless join. (42 sts)
Weave in all ends.
The Everyday Drop Hanging Basket is a small project with a big everyday impact! I’d love to see how you use yours - be sure to share your photos on social media and tag @mooglyblog so I can see all your wonderful projects!
The Fine Print
Written pattern copyright Tamara Kelly 2026, all rights reserved. Please do not reprint or repost this pattern, but please do link to this page to share this pattern with others. If you wish to make items for sale from this pattern or translate it to another language, please visit the About page for details. Thank you to Yarnspirations for providing the yarn for this pattern.
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