Hey Dearies! Back with another super cute pattern! This is a market back that I had a blast making! Plus it was super simple to make as well. I ended up making this for my nieces 5th birthday and she loved it!
I would say that this bag a normal size for a bag, it’s not huge, but it’s big enough to fit what you would normally put in your purse. Well, for me, but you can use it for anything!
This pattern is going to be split into 3 parts. The base, handle, and gussett (which is a long part than connects both of the bases, I will explain more as we get there to hopefully make a little more sense).
Let’s begin talking about what you will need for this project:
- Medium Yarn
- Make sure you have 2 skiens of the colors you want to use. You will be working with 2 strains of yarn with this project.
- I used Red Heart in white and orchard. You don’t have to change colors unless you want to, but I did just to see how it would look like.
- 5.0 mm hook
- Sewing needle
- Stitch markers
Base and Handle (Make 2 of these)
Grab 2 strains of yarn, of your choice, chain 37.
Row 1: Single crochet in the second chain from your hook and in each chain across. Turn. (36)
Row 2: Chain 1. single crochet across. (36)
Rows 3-12: Repeat row 2. Once row 12 is done, you can change into another 2 strains of color. I dropped the white by cutting it and crocheting over it. I just grabbed the other end of the yarn I was working on to replace my white.
Note: You don’t have to switch colors, but I did.
Row 13: Chain 3 (counts as a double crochet), skip the first stitch, double crochet in the next stitch and in each st across. Turn. (36)
Rows 14-19: Repeat row 13. Once at row 13, go back to using the 2 main colors that you were working with before. (You don’t have to do this unless you want to!)
Rows 20-27: Repeat row 2. Turn.
Now, we are going to be working on the handle part, we are NOT fasting off, not yet, but I just wanted to make sure before you start to fasten off.
Row 28: Chain 1, single crochet in the next 6 stitches. Chain 50. Single crochet the last 6 stitches.
Row 29: Chain 1. Single crochet in the 6 stitches. Work a single crochet in each of the chains. Single crochet in the last 6 stitches. Fasten off and sew in any loose ends.
Once you have made two of the bases with handles, lets start on the gussett, or the part we are going to use to connect it all together!
Gussett (Make only 1 of these)
Working with 2 strains, again.
Row 1: Single crochet in the second chain from the hook. Single crochet across. Turn. (5)
Row 2: Chain 1. Single crochet across. Turn.
Repeat row 2 until it measures out to be about 30in. Fasten off and weave in any loose ends. Fold the gussett, from front to back, at the folded part, place a stitch marker on the row that is in the middle fold.
Assembly:
There are two ways to do this:
- Single crochet around the long sides of the gussett and single crochet around the 3 sides of the bases. Sewing them together.
- Single crocheting all the pieces together, using 2 strands.
Whichever way you want to do it, is fine. I found that the first one made it a little bit easier for me to connect them, but I also wanted that nice thick border it has.
When you connect them, the short side of the gussett is the closest to the handles.
If you are single crocheting around, to connect them, make sure that when you get to the corner, you single crochet 3 times.
There you have it! I’ve been one of those people that just love the crochet bag idea and I had to share this on with you all! A very simple pattern, but it can be tricky to assemble!
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