*Update Dragon Scale Tutorial – 2/8/25*

Hi pal! Welcome back to the blog! Today I am sharing with you a refresh on my most popular crochet pattern to date, my D&D Dragon Scale Dice Bag / Mermaid Scale Bag / Whatever You Want To Call It Bag, and I am SO freaking excited. I didn’t really touch anything here on the blog itself, other than adding in a few things, like this paragraph and the video right under it, but other than that the main changes come with the Ravelry PDF you can purchase if you want.

For Ravelry, I included a new PDF as well, that has the 2025 formatting with the checkboxes and things. If you want to snag that you can do that here, and use the code “D&D50” to get it for 50% off! Yes, I know it’s only $5 normally, but I figured it might help someone snag a PDF version of a pattern they really want and why not make it easier?

Anyway, this pattern is super versatile, you can use whatever yarn and hook you want with it, and I show you exactly how that works in the YouTube tutorial. I hope you enjoy it, I hope it helps, and I’ll see y’all later!

Today I am sharing an old pattern with yall, but one of my favorites and most popular ones from my old blog. This hasn’t been tested by anyone, but it has been made plenty of times with nothing tossed my way so I assume it makes enough sense for you to make your own bags. I wrote this in 2018 and have updated it as best as I can, but please let me know if you run into any issues! 

Project Supplies

• One Skein Mandala Baby in Acre Woods – shown in the YouTube video
• OR
• One skein of worsted weight yarn (Red Heart Super Saver in Artist Print)  for the smaller bag.
• OR
• 2 skeins of worsted weight yarn (Red Heart Super Saver in Retro Stripes) for the larger cross body bag
• Size 5.0mm hook
• Tapestry Needle
• Scissors

Dice Info

Pixel Dice Link

Pattern Notes

• Please read all notes and directions before starting the pattern. 
• Chain stitches at the beginning of each round do not count as a stitch.

Pattern Directions

Bag

To start, make a magic circle, chain two

Row 1 – 10 dc in the magic circle, sl stitch to join, ch 2

Row 2 – *2 dc in 1st st* repeat around and sl st to join, ch 2 (20 st total)

Row 3- *1 dc in 1st st, 2 dc in 2nd st* and sl st to join, ch 2 ( 30 st total) 

 For the smaller dice bag, continue with row 4  below. If you want to continue on with the larger cross body trinket bag, continue below under “Larger Bag Cont.” 

Row 4 – Dc in 1st st, dc in each st around. Slst to join, ch 2 (30) 

Row 5 – In ch 2 space, put 2 dc, *chain 1, skip 2 stitches, and put 2 dc in the 3rd stitch* repeat around for a total of 40 dc clusters, sl stitch to join, ch 2

Row 6- *This is where it gets a bit tricky to describe so I will do my best, but if you get confused please reference the YouTube video* 

In that first set of dc’s, you are going to front post dc down the side of the first one 3 times, chain 1, then turn your work and dc 3 times up the second dc of the set. You will continue around the row doing the same thing on each set of dc’s, sl st to join, then turn your work.

Essentially, 4 front post double crochets worked down this post.

Row 7– Here is where you build the next row to support your crocodile stitches you will make in row 8. You will dc in the gap in the middle of your first crocodile stitches / dragon scale, then put two dc through the joined area of the two crocodile stitches / dragon scale and row 8. (shown in the second photo below) Repeat around (shown in the 3rd photo) and sl st to join, chain 2.

Repeat rows 6 & 7 until your bag is as deep as you want, mine are normally 5 rows of crocodile stitches, but you can make them as tall as you want.

Final steps are below for both bags – Finishing

Larger Bag Cont. 

Row 4 – *1 dc in 1st 2 st, 2dc in 3rd st*  sl st to join, ch 2 (40 st total)

Row 5- *1 dc in the 1st 3 st, 2dc in the 4th* sl st to join, ch 2 (50 st total)

Row 6- “1 dc in 1st 4 st, 2dc in 5th st* sl st to join, ch 2 (60 st total)

Row 7 – dc all the way around, sl st to join, ch 2 (60)

Awesome messy photo of row 6 and 7 together (because I forgot to take one of row 6…)

Row 8 – in ch 2 space, put 2 dc, *chain 1, skip 2 stitches, and put 2 dc in the 3rd stitch* repeat around for a total of 40 dc clusters, sl stitch to join, ch 2

Row 9- *This is where it gets a bit tricky to describe so I will do my best, but if you get confused please reference the YouTube video.* 

In that first set of dc’s, you are going to front post dc down the side of the first one 4 times, chain 1, then turn your work and dc 4 times up the second dc of the set. You will continue around the row doing the same thing on each set of dc’s, sl st to join, then turn your work.

Essentially, 4 front post double crochets worked down this post.

Row 10 – Here is where you build the next row to support your crocodile stitches / dragon scale you will make in row 11. You will dc in the gap in the middle of your first crocodile stitches / dragon scale, then put two dc through the joined area of the two crocodile stitches / dragon scale and row 8. (shown in the second photo below) Repeat around (shown in the 3rd photo) and sl st to join, chain 2.

Repeat rows 9 & 10 until your bag is as deep as you want, mine are normally 5 rows of crocodile stitches / dragon scale, but you can make them as tall as you want.

Finishing 

To finish the bag, make sure you are ending on a crocodile stitches / dragon scale row, and then double crochet all the way around, sl st to join and finish off.

To create the strap, I did ch 5, make 4 hdc, ch 1 and turn and worked that back and forth, until it was long enough to wear as a cross body bag (this will depend on each person, I am 5 ft 2 with a super short torso, and mine was 44 inches long). 

You can also use the Romanian I-Cord Tutorial found here for the strap as well!

To create the cinch tie, chain 120, then turn and slip stitch all the way back through the chain, finish that off and weave it in between the dc’s around the top of the bag and turn it into a “cinch” bag.