The Strawberry Bookmark is a quick, low-sew crochet project from Sweet Softies’ Chapter Keepers Collection, featuring a delicate strawberry, leafy stem, and a dainty white flower. Perfect for book lovers, it works up fast with scrap yarn and makes a charming gift or personal keepsake.
The Strawberry Bookmark is a quick, easy, and low-sew project from Sweet Softies’ Chapter Keepers Collection.
This delicate and charming design uses very little yarn, making it the perfect scrap yarn project. It’s also an instant-gratification project, as it works up in no time and requires sewing only for the stem to the strawberry. Featuring a cute strawberry fruit and a long stem with two leaves and a pretty 5 petal white flower, it adds a touch of yarn, nature, and whimsy to any book.
This pattern is not only practical and lightweight but also makes a thoughtful, handmade gift for readers, book lovers, and bookworms alike. Whether for personal use, gifting, or selling at craft fairs, the Strawberry Bookmark is a delightful way to bring a bit of floral charm to every page you turn!
About the Pattern
- Fast to work up
- Easy / Beginner-friendly
- Flower size: 3.5cm across
- Stem is easily adjustable in length
- Great teacher appreciation gift, or gift for book lovers!
- Perfect product to sell at Spring and Summer markets and craft fairs, or at strawberry festivals! (Please remember to credit my design with my name and site if you are selling, such as: "Pattern design by Sweet Softies, www.sweetsofties.com")
Recommended Yarn
This pattern is designed using fingering weight 1 yarn, making it lightweight and delicate! My recommended yarn for this project is Friends Cotton 8/4 from Hobbii. If a bulkier yarn weight is used, the finished bookmark will be larger.
Want more?
The Strawberry Bookmark is part of Sweet Softies' Chapter Keepers Collection! For more, check out the roundup at Chapter Keepers: Free Crochet Bookmark Patterns.
PDF Pattern
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STRAWBERRY BOOKMARK
Free Amigurumi Crochet Pattern
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Pattern Info
Size:
Flower is approximately 3.5cm across
Bookmark length is easily adjustable
Level of Difficulty:
★★☆☆☆ Familiar Beginner. Requires familiarity with stitches used (below).Stitches/Terms Used:
- MR = magic ring
- FO = fasten off
- ch = chain
- sl st = slip stitch
- sc = single crochet
- inc = increase (insert 2 sc in same st)
- hdc = half double crochet
- dc = double crochet
- tr = treble (triple) crochet
- FLO = front loops only
Materials:
- Fingering weight “1” yarn in yellow, white, and green (I used Hobbii Friends Cotton 8/4)
- 2.75mm crochet hook (I use these)
- Stuffing
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
Crochet Instructions
Note: The free version of the pattern comes in written instructions (below). If you want an ad-free printable version of the written instructions, please download the low-cost PDF pattern.
FLOWER
Start with yellow yarn for the center.R1: Insert 5 sc in a MR. Tighten the ring. (5)
R2: Inc around. (10)
Sl st in the next st (this will count as the first st in R3). Switch to white yarn for the petals.
R3: Ch. (Sc+dc+tr in the first st, tr+dc+ch+sl st in the next st) x 5. (5 petals)
Sl st in the next st. Switch to green yarn for the stem. Continue with the leaf instructions.
LEAF
- Ch 9.
- Starting from the 2nd ch from the hook: Sl st, sc, hdc, dc 2, hdc+sc in the next st.
- Turn and continue working on the other side of the leaf. Sc+hdc in the first st. Dc 2 in the next st. Hdc, sc, sl st.
- Now, work down from the tip to the base of the leaf using the surface sl st method (insert hook underneath each st, then YO and pull through for a sl st).
- Sl st back into the stem.
- To make a second leaf, repeat steps #1-5.
- Without FO, continue with the stem instructions.
STEM
- Ch 70, or however long you want the stem to be.
- FO with a long tail for sewing later.
STRAWBERRY
Start with pink yarn.R1: In a MR, insert 6 sc. Tighten the ring. (6)
R2: (Sc, inc) x 3. (9)
R3: (Sc 2, inc) x 3. (12)
R4: (Sc, inc) x 6. (18)
R5-R8: Sc around. (18)
R9: (Sc, dec) x 6. (12)
Stuff the berry.
R10: Dec around. (6)
Switch to green yarn.
R11: Work in FLO this entire round. Sl st in the FLO of the first st. (Ch+dc+ch+sl st) x 6. (6 leaves)
FO with a long tail, and use it to sew the opening closed.
FINISHING
- Embroider tiny seeds on the strawberry using white yarn and a yarn needle.
- Sew the bottom of the stem to the strawberry’s top using the long yarn tail from the stem.
- Weave in all ends. Congratulations on finishing!
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