Tranquility Yoga Bag in Caron Simply Soft Paints - Downloadable PDF

Tranquility Yoga Bag in Caron Simply Soft Paints – Crochet Pattern by Brenda Lewis

The Tranquility Yoga Bag is a free, downloadable crochet pattern designed by Brenda Lewis and worked in Caron Simply Soft Paints yarn. This practical and stylish bag is sized specifically to carry a yoga mat, making it a perfect project for crafters who want to combine function with handmade charm. The finished bag measures approximately 6½ inches (16.5 cm) in diameter and 27 inches (68.5 cm) tall — proportions ideally suited to rolling up and storing a standard yoga mat with ease.

Who This Pattern Is For

Rated as a beginner-level crochet project, the Tranquility Yoga Bag is an excellent choice for newer crocheters who are comfortable with basic stitches and are ready to tackle working in the round. The construction is straightforward and repetitive, making it a confidence-building project that produces a genuinely useful, everyday item. More experienced crocheters will find it a relaxing, meditative make — fitting for a yoga-themed bag.

Materials and Yarn

The pattern calls for Caron Simply Soft Paints, a worsted weight yarn in the colorway Spring Break (0004). One skein of 113 g / 4 oz (190 m / 208 yds) is used for the project. Caron Simply Soft Paints is a self-striping, variegated yarn that produces gentle color transitions automatically as you work, meaning no color changes or yarn joins are needed to achieve a multi-toned, painterly effect. This makes it particularly well-suited to a beginner pattern, as the yarn itself does much of the decorative work.

As a worsted weight yarn, it works up quickly and creates a fabric with good structure and body — important qualities for a bag that needs to hold its shape while supporting the weight of a yoga mat.

Hook and Gauge

The pattern is worked in single crochet, with a gauge of 16 stitches and 18 rows to 4 inches (10 cm). Checking gauge before beginning is recommended to ensure the bag reaches its intended finished dimensions. The specific hook size is used to achieve this gauge with the Caron Simply Soft Paints worsted weight yarn.

Construction and Techniques

The Tranquility Yoga Bag is worked entirely in continuous rounds — a technique where the crocheter does not join at the end of each round and does not turn the work. Instead, a stitch marker is placed at the beginning of the round and moved upward as the work progresses. This method creates a seamless, spiral fabric with no visible join lines, giving the finished bag a clean, polished appearance.

Construction begins at the bottom of the bag, which is worked as a flat circle using a classic crochet increase method:

• Foundation: A chain of 3 is joined with a slip stitch to form a ring, and 9 single crochet stitches are worked into the ring to begin the circular base.
• Increasing rounds: Subsequent rounds use evenly spaced increases — working 2 single crochet into increase stitches — to expand the circle outward. Each round adds 9 stitches, building the flat circular base round by round (18 stitches, then 27, then 36, and so on).
• Body: Once the base reaches the desired diameter, the increases are stopped and the sides of the bag are worked straight upward in continuous rounds of single crochet to build the tall cylindrical body.

Stitches Used

• Chain (ch / chs) — used to begin the foundation ring and as part of the starting chain
• Slip stitch (sl st) — used to join the foundation chain into a ring
• Single crochet (sc) — the primary stitch used throughout the entire bag, both for the base and the body
• Half double crochet (hdc) — referenced in the pattern abbreviations, indicating its use in finishing details or structural elements of the bag

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