Crochet Wine Bag in Fall Plaid: Pattern Overview

Crochet wine bottle tote worked in dark orange, orange and cream plaid stripes, with a crocheted flower at the neck and a rounded handle, holding a wine bottle and styled on a wooden table with autumn leaves and soft window light.

Project introduction

Crochet wine bottle bag worked in rust, orange and cream plaid, topped with a loop handle and a large flower accent, shown holding a bottle on a wooden table with autumn leaves and folded blankets behind it.

Crocheted wine bottle bag in orange, rust and cream plaid, with a crocheted flower accent near the bottle neck, photographed close up at a slight angle on a bottle

This Fall Plaid Crochet Wine Bag is a cheerful autumn project from Crochet 365 Knit Too. It is a quick make, described as coming together in a few hours of evening crochet time, and it works as both a bottle carrier and a ready-made gift. Slip a favorite bottle into the tote and you have a present that needs no wrapping.

The design leans on a simple color trick rather than complicated stitches. Gingham is built from white plus one other color, and where those two colors cross in woven fabric they appear to blend into a lighter shade. To copy that effect in yarn, you use white plus two shades of the same contrast color, here a dark orange and a light orange. Plaid is looser and less orderly, with criss crossing stripes that can vary in width.

Buffalo plaid, also called buffalo check, uses evenly shaped squares in two colors such as red and black, and the blend of those two reads as burgundy. In short, buffalo plaid swaps the white of gingham for a dark color and lets the blend supply the third tone.

Two strands of yarn are held together as one for the bag body, which gives the fabric extra thickness. The source suggests either pulling one strand from the outside and one from the inside of the skein, or winding a small separate ball first. Color changes are worked over the unused strand along the row, then that strand is picked up again when it is needed. Double crochet does most of the work, so anyone who enjoys that stitch will feel at home here.

The flower is different: it uses a single strand and a smaller hook, which makes it a good use for leftover scraps.

This overview covers the materials, the construction approach, and the finishing steps. For the full row by row directions, go to the Original designer’s pattern and instructions.

Materials

The supply list is short, and most of it is likely already in a stash. Two hook sizes are needed because the flower is worked at a tighter gauge than the body.

US J 10 (6 mm) crochet hook for the bag body
US G 6 (4.00 mm) crochet hook for the flower
Worsted weight yarn: 1-1/4 oz dark orange (Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice in Brick Color)
Worsted weight yarn: 3/4 oz ivory (Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice in Fisherman Color)
Worsted weight yarn: 1-1/2 oz orange (Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice in Terra Cotta Color)
A scrap of gold yarn for the flower center
Tapestry needle and scissors

The source also points to its own reference pages for crochet abbreviations and a US to UK conversion chart, plus basic stitch tutorials covering single crochet, half double crochet and double crochet. An ad-free printable PDF of the pattern can be purchased from the source site, while the web version stays free to read.

Plaid Wine Cozy Size

The finished crochet wine bag is sized to fit a standard wine bottle. That is the whole of the stated sizing, and it is enough to know the cozy is meant to sit snugly over an ordinary bottle rather than a oversized one.

Crochet Wine Cozy

Crocheted wine cozy in dark red, orange and white gingham plaid standing upright on a pale cloth, with a crocheted handle at the top and an orange flower with a gold center attached near the handle.

The body of the cozy is worked with two strands held together throughout. Start with a magic ring in dark orange on the larger hook. The first round combines a chain three that counts as the first double crochet with eleven more double crochet into the ring, for twelve stitches, joined with a slip stitch. The second round doubles that count: one double crochet in the joining stitch, then two double crochet in each remaining stitch, for twenty four stitches.

From there the gingham effect takes over, worked in even double crochet with the colors alternating in groups of three stitches. Round 3 stays in dark orange to begin, then alternates three double crochet in light orange with three double crochet in dark orange across the round, ending in light orange. Round 4 is the round that brings in white: it alternates three double crochet in white with three double crochet in light orange, then changes back to dark orange at the end of the round.

Rounds 5 and 6 simply repeat rounds 3 and 4, and rounds 7 through 16 keep alternating the same way. At the end of round 16 the working yarn changes to dark orange, and the white and light orange are fastened off and their ends woven in.

Gingham works because the eye blends crossing stripes. Pairing white with two shades of one contrast color imitates the way woven threads overlap and read as a lighter tone at the intersections.

Round 17 continues in dark orange with plain double crochet all the way around, still twenty four stitches. Round 18 is where the handle openings appear: it works single crochet across the first stitches, then a chain fourteen, skips seven stitches, works single crochet across the next five, chains fourteen again, skips seven more, and finishes with single crochet in the last two stitches. Round 19 works sixteen single crochet into each of those chain fourteen loops, with single crochet between them, for forty two stitches.

Round 20 is a plain single crochet round worked all the way around the piece, also forty two stitches, after which the yarn is fastened off and the ends woven in.

Crochet Wine Bag Flower

Close-up of a loopy crocheted flower in light orange with a gold center, attached at the neck of a plaid crochet wine bag whose striped body is blurred behind it.

The flower softens the look of the bottle neck and is the one part of the project worked with a single strand. Using the smaller hook and light orange yarn, begin with a magic ring, then follow the Loopy Flower instructions referenced by the source. When the flower is complete, fasten off and leave a long strand for sewing it on later. Because it takes so little yarn, this is a natural place to use up odds and ends.

Flower Center Faux Button

The little center piece reads as a faux button. With the smaller hook and the gold scrap, make a magic ring and work six single crochet into it, giving six stitches. Fasten off and leave a long strand for sewing. That small gold circle gives the orange petals a contrasting focal point.

Crochet Wine Bag Finishing

Blue crocheted wine bottle cozy with a top handle and three yellow crocheted sunflowers with brown centers attached to the front, holding a bottle with a visible cork, set on a wooden table with pinecones, dried leaves and a small candle.

Brown crocheted wine bottle tote with a plaid pattern in brown, orange and white, a cream flower motif on the front, two small rooster appliques on the side, and a corked bottle visible above the handle, photographed outdoors on concrete.

Crocheted wine bottle cozy in purple and magenta with a large crocheted flower on the left side and a handle over the neck, shown on a wine bottle on a wooden table with glasses, plates and a lamp blurred in the background.

Crochet wine bottle cozy in rust, orange and white plaid stripes with a large crocheted flower at the neck and a curved handle, standing on a wooden table surrounded by autumn leaves, acorns and small pumpkins.

Assembly is quick. Use the fastened-off end from the flower center to attach the center to the flower, then sew the finished flower to one side of the cozy, wherever it looks best. Slip the cozy onto a wine bottle and the project is done. The source notes that these cozies are a favorite from its fall crochet patterns collection, and it invites makers to share finished photos on Instagram or in its Facebook community.

If you enjoy this kind of seasonal making, two related projects are the Fall Crochet Pattern, Hello Pumpkin Pillow: Pattern Overview and the Hello Fall Crochet Pillow - Decor: Pattern Overview.