More Crocheted Bags

As promised here are the rest of the bags I crocheted to go with the handles I had purchased.

Large flower crochet bag

Colourful stripes crochet bag

                                  I used this pattern:  crochet bag pattern 

I made my stripes a little different from the pattern. It really doesn't matter what colors you use or how many rows you make of one color so it would be a good project for using up wool scraps.  

For both of these bags I used patons classic wool and felted it as in the" intarsia" crochet bag on another post.  I also did not leave it flat but brought in the sides and tacked them . The bags still fully open and hold a lot. 

The flowers are made without a real pattern but there are many good links to patterns here.

The final bag was completely different as the handles I found were more unique:

Black and white crochet bag

The pattern for this bag is found  here 

This bag was crocheted out of nylon so has a completely different feel.

All the bags are fully lined and a piece of plastic was inserted in the bottom between the lining and the outside in the black and white  one so that it would stand up straight.

I am sorry I didn't take a picture of the inside of the bags. The black and white one has a black and white striped ticking as lining.

All of these are fun to make. Happy Crocheting!

Felted Intarsia Crochet

A couple of years I go I was at Fabricland and found several purse handles on a very good sale and since it is hard for me to resist a real bargain I bought four, planning at some point to make my daughter and three daughters-in-law bags for Christmas.  

I really wanted to try some things I had never done before and "Intarsia crochet" was new to me and I also wanted to do some felting. I found this pattern at:ravelry.com/patterns//viktoria-purse. I used: patons yarns classic wool .

It did take me a while to make and I seemed to have a little trouble keeping count of stitches so did a bit of taking out in the process but I am satisfied with the end result . I will try other patterns like this.

I lined the bag and attached the handles with grosgrain ribbon sewn  between the lining and the outside

There are many tutorials for bag lining online here is one:simple-lining-tutorial

There are many instructions for felting wool. Here is a link: easy felting tutorial

I will share the other three bags I made on another post.