A Multi–Patterned Crochet Bag.

Hello Hello✨

It is yet another Monday, one I've been looking forward to:)

For this week, I will be sharing with you one of my most recent crochet projects. Sometime last week, I was supposed to briefly meet an acquaintance. For this meeting, I didn't want to carry so many items so I opted to go with just my phone, a small notepad and a pen.

I rummaged through my closet for a bag that would fit these items perfectly but the bags I saw were either too big or too small. Nothing moderate enough to fit a few items. Eventually, I dropped every other thing and went out with just my phone; moreover, the phone has an inbuilt notepad right?

Before leaving the house that day, I made a mental note to crochet a moderate looking bag. I had no particular design or colour combination in mind at the time.

Once it was time to make the project, I went through my yarn cupboard and found the perfect colour for the base–blue. It turns out that this particular yarn was gifted to me many months back by a darling friend and a fellow crocheter.

Special coverage; one of the best gifts to give a crocheter is yarn!

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Tools Used

For this project, I used the following items:

• 4.0mm crochet hook
• Measuring tape
• Yarns
• Darning needle
• A pair of scissors

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Procedures

The first step to achieving this lovely looking bag is making the base of the bag. For the base, I made a chain of thirty-five. With the initial chain intact, I went ahead to make single crochet stitches into every chain except the last.

Into the last chain, I made three single crochet stitches instead of one. With that,I finished row one and proceeded to row two.

Still with single crochet stitches, I went round the stitches in row one and made an increase of three on both ends. For row three, I made a slip stitch and repeated row two.

After this, I went around row three using half double crochet stitches in order to define the project properly. After this, I began making a seemingly new pattern. For this pattern, I made a chain of four, skipped one stitch and made a double crochet stitch into the body of the next stitch. This causes the bulge. Afterwards, I went back to the stitch I skipped and made a regular double crochet stitch there. I pretty much repeated this pattern till the end of the eighth row.

For rows nine and ten, I changed the colour of my yarn to a lighter shade of blue and made half double crochet stitches round.

From row eleven, I started alternating mesh stitches and half double crochet stitches. For every row of mesh stitch I made, a row of half double crochet stitches followed. This is what creates the properly defined mesh pattern. Also, for the mesh stitch, I skipped only one chain each time.

On the twentieth row, I stopped making the mesh pattern and made two rows of half double crochet stitches for the finishing look.

The last part of this project was the bag handle. I opted to make just one handle instead of the regular two I usually make.

I made a chain of fifty from one side of the bag and into this chain, I made half double crochet stitches. For the handle, I made a total of six rows from one end and connected the other end of the handle using slip stitches.

The last thing I did was sew in loose yarns that I didn't work over and my bag was pretty much ready. Hopefully, the next time I need to carry just a few items out, this crochet bag would come in handy.

What do you think of the colour combinations? The patterns used? And the bag in general?

^{Look who wanted to be part of the photoshoot}

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All images used belong to me and were taken with my mobile device except stated otherwise.

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Love🤍