Crochet Mini Trinket Dish Pattern For Cute Storage

Make adorable and practical Crochet Mini Trinket Dishes for holding small items. Cute designs include bears and frogs to brighten your space!

Crocheting a Mini Trinket Dish is a delightful way to combine functionality with cuteness in your space. These tiny dishes offer the perfect spot for storing small treasures, adding charm with playful designs like bears and frogs. Using a simple pattern, this project allows beginners and seasoned crocheters alike to enjoy a fun and rewarding process. Select your favorite yarn colors, and as each stitch comes together, watch your creations come to life. With each dish, you're fashioning a personal and adorable solution for organizing and showcasing the little things you cherish most in your daily routine.

Why love this pattern?

1. Adorable Design: The trinket dishes are shaped like cute bears and frogs, making them visually appealing and perfect for adding a touch of whimsy to your space.
2. Functionality: Despite their small size, these dishes are practical for storing small items such as jewelry or stitch markers. They can keep your space organized while being decorative.
3. Customization: The pattern is flexible, allowing you to personalize the trinket dishes. For instance, the bear and frog faces can be customized with different facial features or expressions.
4. Quick Project: Given their small size, these trinket dishes can be completed fairly quickly, providing a sense of accomplishment without requiring a long-term commitment.
5. Gift Potential: These trinket dishes make excellent handmade gifts, showing thoughtfulness and care to friends and family.

How To Crochet Mini Bear & Frog Trinket Dish

Materials Needed:

• Yarn in green (frog) and brown (bear), white, and black
• Crochet hook
• Stitch markers
• Plastic eyes (for the bear)
• Glue

Frog Trinket Dish

Base of the Dish

1. Magic Ring:
   • Wrap the yarn around your fingers.
   • Flip it to see two lines.
   • Hook under the 1st line and over the 2nd line.
   • Finish with a chain (this forms the magic ring).
2. Row 1:
   • Make 2 chains (counts as first double crochet).
   • Double crochet (DC) 9 times into the magic ring. You should have 10 DC including the initial chains.
   • Pull the yarn to close the magic ring.
   • Slip stitch (SL ST) into the 2nd chain.
3. Row 2:
   • Start with 2 chains (counts as first double crochet).
   • DC into the same stitch (increase).
   • Continue making 2 DC in each stitch around.
   • 
   • Slip stitch into the 2nd chain.
4. Row 3:
   • Start with 2 chains (counts as first double crochet).
   • DC into the next stitch.
   • Increase in the next stitch (2 DC in one stitch).
   • Continue the pattern of 1 DC in one stitch, increase in the next, until the end of the row.
   • Slip stitch into the 2nd chain.
5. Rows 4-5:
   • Start with 2 chains.
   • DC in each stitch around.
   • Slip stitch into the 2nd chain at the end of each row.

Frog Details

1. Making the Mouth:
   • Start with 7 slip stitches.
   • Skip 2 stitches, in the 3rd stitch make 6 treble crochets (TR).
   • Skip 2 stitches, SL ST in the 3rd stitch.
   • Continue with slip stitch for the next 8 stitches.
   • Cut the yarn and secure the ends.
   • 
2. Eyes:
   • Make a magic ring.
   • Chain 2 (counts as first double crochet).
   • Double crochet 7 times into the magic ring (total 8 DC).
   • Pull the yarn to close the ring, SL ST into the 2nd chain.
   • Make another identical eye.
   • For the black part of the eye, use black yarn to create a horizontal line across the white eye.
   • Secure and weave in the ends.
   • Glue the eyes onto the dish.
   • Make a letter "V" on the 4th row for the frog's mouth, secure and weave in the yarn ends.

Bear Trinket Dish

The base pattern is the same as the frog trinket dish.

Bear Details

1. Nose:
   • Make a magic ring.
   • Single crochet (SC) 6 times into the ring.
   • Pull the yarn to close the ring, SL ST into the first stitch.
   • Cut the yarn and weave in the ends.
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2. Eyes:
   • Use 6 mm plastic eyes, place them between the 4th and 5th rows, 3 stitches apart.
   • For the nose, place it centered between the eyes.
   • You can cut the pointy part of the plastic eyes if necessary and secure them with glue.

And that's it! Your adorable mini bear and frog trinket dishes are ready to use for storing your stitch markers or other small items.

@From Littlespot