Free Crochet Fruit Basket Pattern – Easy Amigurumi Basket

This is an easy, beginner friendly free crochet fruit basket pattern, including the crochet apple applique that is sewn around the basket. The basket is made with sport weight cotton yarn and a B/1 (2.5 mm) crochet hook, and it is about 5 inch / 12 cm wide.

You can use any yarn that you like to crochet this cute basket, just keep in mind that thicker yarn and a bigger hook will make it turn out larger. Made with bulky yarn, it can easily fit real fruit!

The best part: all my crochet fruit patterns fit inside this basket! Fill it with a pear, banana, orange, strawberry, apple and lemon, or make your own mix of fruit.

Want to see what others have crocheted with my patterns? Check out the Made by You gallery for inspiration from crocheters around the world.

How to crochet and Apple Applique Video

PDF Pattern Crochet Fruit Basket

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Basic Stitches Tutorial

Basic Stitches Tutorial:
If you are a beginner that want to learn how to crochet, check out my beginner-friendly basic stitches tutorial, it has many instructional videos on how to crochet every stitch. It shows you all you need to know to make your very own cute basket with this free fruit basket crochet pattern.

Materials:

These are the materials that I used. Feel free to replace them with other materials of your choice. If you wish to crochet a larger or smaller version of this fruit basket using this free easy crochet pattern, you can simply use a thicker or thinner yarn and crochet hook.

Cotton Sport Weight (fine) version 5 inch (12 cm)
– Beige fine cotton.
– Red fine cotton.
– Green fine cotton
– Brown fine Cotton: 028
– Synthetic Poly Filling
– Crochet hook size B/1 (2.5 mm)

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Supplies:
– Scissors
– Tapestry needles with blunt point, nr. 16 or 17
– Pins

TIP: Are you using Blanket yarn to make a large fruit basket? Then I recommend a L/11 (8.0 mm) crochet hook.
For Super Bulky Chenille yarn I recommend a H/8 (5.0 mm) crochet hook, for bulky velvet yarn a E/4 (3.5 mm) crochet hook.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations (U.S. Terms) used in this free fruit basket crochet pattern:
(All abbreviations are explained in my basic stitches tutorial)
Rnd: Round
st: stitch
sc: single crochet
hdc: half double crochet
sl st: slip stitch
inc: increase
dec: decrease
ch: chain

Free Fruit Basket Crochet Pattern

Basket:

Use beige yarn
Rnd 1: start 10 hdc in a magic ring (10)
Rnd 2: inc 20 times (20)
Rnd 3: (hdc, inc in next st) repeat 10 times (30)
Rnd 4: (hdc in next 2 st, inc in next st) repeat 10 times (40)
Rnd 5: (hdc in next 3 st, inc in next st) repeat 10 times (50)
Rnd 6: (hdc in next 4 st, inc in next st) repeat 10 times (60)
Rnd 7: (hdc in next 5 st, inc in next st) repeat 10 times (70)
Rnd 8: (hdc in next 6 st, inc in next st) repeat 10 times (80)
Rnd 9: (hdc in next 7 st, inc in next st) repeat 10 times (90)
Rnd 10: FLO sc in all 90 st (90)
Rnd 11-25: sc in all 90 st (90)
Now fold the upper part in half. The wall will be thicker this way and more firm.
Rnd 26: Going through the stitches of round 25 and the BLO of round 10 (photo 1-2): sc in all 90 st (90)

Fasten off and sew the remaining yarn in the basket.
Next we are going to crochet the mini apples to sew on the side of the fruit basket.

Apple Appliqué

Make 5 green and 5 red apples:
There is a video on how to crochet the mini apple appliqué on the top of this page.
Rnd 1: start 6 sc in a magic ring (6)
Rnd 2: inc 5 times, change to brown yarn, slst in the next st, ch 2, crochet in the second chain from your crochet hook: 1 slst, fasten off and sew the brown yarn in the apple (10)
Use the red and green yarn to sew the apples on the basket.
Sew all the little apples on the side of the basket, with an interspace of 5 stitches. Pin the apples on the basket first and change interspace if needed.