Brandt Plant Pot Cover - Free Crochet Pattern For Home in Paintbox Yarns Recycled Cotton Worsted by Paintbox Yarns

Brandt Plant Pot Cover – Free Crochet Pattern Summary

The Brandt Plant Pot Cover is a free, downloadable crochet pattern by Paintbox Yarns, designed to create a stylish, textile cover for a standard plant pot. Rated as intermediate in difficulty, this pattern produces a finished piece measuring 11¾in/30cm in height and 20¼in/51.5cm in circumference, making it well suited to covering a medium-to-large houseplant pot. It is a practical and decorative home accessory that brings colour and texture to any interior space.

What Is Being Made

The finished item is a plant pot cover — a fabric sleeve designed to slip over an existing plant pot, concealing it within a handcrafted textile shell. This type of home accessory has become increasingly popular as a sustainable and personalised alternative to buying decorative pots, and the Brandt design adds a bold, colourwork aesthetic through the use of a stranded colourwork technique worked in three coordinating shades.

Techniques Used

• Worked flat: Sections of the cover are crocheted back and forth in rows, producing a flat fabric that is later joined.
• Worked in the round: Other sections are constructed by working in continuous or joined rounds, allowing the tubular shape of the pot cover to be formed seamlessly.
• Stranded colourwork: The pattern incorporates stranded crochet, a technique in which two or more colours are carried across a row simultaneously. The colour not currently in use is laid across the top of the working stitches and trapped (caught) as you crochet, preventing long, loose floats from forming on the inside of the fabric. This creates a neat, double-layered fabric with colourwork motifs on the right side.
• Seamed construction: The finished flat or partial pieces are joined using a seam, giving the pot cover its three-dimensional structure.
• Colour changes: The pattern includes specific instructions for changing colour mid-row or mid-round. The technique involves working the final stitch of the old colour until two loops remain on the hook, then drawing the new colour through those last two loops to complete the stitch cleanly, ensuring crisp colour transitions.

Stitches Used

• Single crochet (sc) — referred to in UK terminology as double crochet (dc). This is the primary stitch used throughout the pattern and forms the dense, even fabric ideal for colourwork and structural pot covers.
• Chain (ch/chs): Used for foundation chains and any turning or joining chains required during construction.
• Slip stitch (sl st): Used for joining rounds and finishing.

The use of single crochet as the base stitch is particularly well suited to stranded colourwork, as its short height and tight structure keep colourwork motifs looking crisp and well defined, with minimal distortion between colour sections.

Materials Required

The pattern is designed specifically for Paintbox Yarns Recycled Cotton Worsted, a worsted weight yarn made from recycled cotton fibres. Three colourways are called for:

• Steel Blue (A) — 1 x 3.5oz/100g ball
• String (B) — 1 x 3.5oz/100g ball
• Night Blue (C) — 1 x 3.5oz/100g ball

The recommended hook is a US H/8 (5mm) crochet hook. Additional materials include scissors and a large-eyed needle for weaving in ends and seaming.

Gauge and Sizing

The stated gauge is 15.5 stitches and 16 rows to a 4in/10cm square worked in single crochet using a US H/8 (5mm) hook. Achieving the correct gauge is important for ensuring the pot cover fits snugly around a pot of the intended dimensions. The finished cover measures 11¾in/30cm tall with a 20¼in/51.5cm