Blue Crochet Bag
Aug. 8th, 2012 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenAt last, I have FINISHED the blue crochet bag that I've been working on for the last six months.
Pattern? What pattern? I don't like using them, I'd rather make it up as I go along. Which in this case meant a fair bit of undoing and redoing, but it did settle down eventually. I did have fun experimenting with shell stitch and a sort of zig-zaggy stitch following that. Then the stitch is plain double-crochet with the occasional row of single crochet for variety. The bottom of the bag is a spiral, crocheted over dark blue rope. If you look really closely, you can see the rope, but I don't think it shows in the photos.
Bag, showing spiral bottom:
Bag, with drawstring closed:
With this bag, I was using this lovely dark blue polyester string which I found in one of those $2-store kind of shops, and I grabbed all I could, and went back and grabbed more later when they had more, because it's the only place I've seen that string in. The string is actually darker than it appears in the photos, because the flash made it shiny.
I made the bag a shoulder-bag with a draw-string closure. It isn't lined. I tried to make it plenty roomy, so that it would hopefully be more useful than the tiny bags that people usually get given. (Yes, this destined for a Christmas present for a particular person). I also experimented a bit with some decorative beading near the top; just a few beads, not very many.
Bag, detail of drawstring, strap, and beading:
(edited to point to different offline album)
Pattern? What pattern? I don't like using them, I'd rather make it up as I go along. Which in this case meant a fair bit of undoing and redoing, but it did settle down eventually. I did have fun experimenting with shell stitch and a sort of zig-zaggy stitch following that. Then the stitch is plain double-crochet with the occasional row of single crochet for variety. The bottom of the bag is a spiral, crocheted over dark blue rope. If you look really closely, you can see the rope, but I don't think it shows in the photos.
Bag, showing spiral bottom:
Bag, with drawstring closed:
With this bag, I was using this lovely dark blue polyester string which I found in one of those $2-store kind of shops, and I grabbed all I could, and went back and grabbed more later when they had more, because it's the only place I've seen that string in. The string is actually darker than it appears in the photos, because the flash made it shiny.
I made the bag a shoulder-bag with a draw-string closure. It isn't lined. I tried to make it plenty roomy, so that it would hopefully be more useful than the tiny bags that people usually get given. (Yes, this destined for a Christmas present for a particular person). I also experimented a bit with some decorative beading near the top; just a few beads, not very many.
Bag, detail of drawstring, strap, and beading:
(edited to point to different offline album)
