Hi, guys. It’s been a while. I planned on keeping up my posting streak but I guess I didn’t do that. If you noticed, most of my recent posts were small projects. I intentionally crocheted some of them so I’d have something to post. After my last post, I was stuck on what to make because I didn’t have anything to post. Finally, I made something, but I didn’t take process pictures so I thought I wouldn’t post it. However, today I decided to do it anyway, so here I am.
I picked up some balls of 100g 4-ply yarn at the store some months ago when I travelled and they’ve been sitting at home ever since. I bought them without knowing what exactly I wanted to make. After a while, I thought I’d make bags with them since they were a bit chunky and would be even chunkier doubled, so that evening when I was bored at home with all my devices off, I decided to finally do something with those yarns.
I had a screenshot of a bag on my phone that I could tell was made using the moss stitch and I liked the look of it so I decided to freehand a bag using the moss stitch.
I had four colours of the yarn — 2 balls of turquoise, 2 balls of forest green, and two shades of bright blue which I mistakenly picked because I wanted to get the same shade, one of them in particular. I decided to go with the forest green because I liked it better than the turquoise for the bag and I wasn’t sure the blue I liked better would be enough.
I wanted to work the bag in the round so I began with an oval bag bottom. By the way, I doubled the yarn by using the two balls at the same time and I used a 4mm hook size.
I didn’t want the bag to be big, just something portable. It was evening when I started and by the time it was beginning to get dark, I had finished the body and had started on the strap. I made reductions on the last 2 rows to make the shape a bit curved at the top before I began crocheting the straps.
I crocheted the strap by starting a few stitches from the sides then I reduced in a few rows till it was thin enough and then increased for a few rows again.
I did half of the strap, completing it the next morning. Then, I single crocheted round each side of the opening to make it neater.
To complete the bag, I went looking for my last handmade tag and sewed it to the bottom right of the body with green thread. My bag was finally ready!
When I showed my neighbours telling her that I was bored so I made the bag, she stared at me, just a little short of awestruck. 😅I guess not everyone can say that they were bored so they whipped up something that pretty.
I had to use a lighter to burn the fuzz of the yarn to make it neater. 🤦🏽♀️Yeah, acrylic yarn. I was so happy that it turned out looking this pretty because I didn’t think about using acrylic yarn to make nice bags before. I only had my eyes on paracord and T-shirt yarn that I have still not got my hands on. Anyways, after the oroject, this was the amount of yarn I had left.
I took the bag to church the next day and my friends gushed over it. They’d seen it on my WhatsApp status and spotted it as soon as they saw me.
Dear crocheters in the house, what’s your experience with making bags with acrylic yarn if you’ve made one before?
Looks like acrylic yarns are great for bags. This is pretty and I like the color. I’m not surprised your friends gushed over it.
Great job.
Yeah, I’ve seen some bags made with acrylic yarn on the internet actually, but if I’m getting yarn for it, I’d buy one that doesn’t have much fuzz.
Thank you, Abena!
This is really pretty I truly love this bag! :)
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😊Awn, thank you.
I'm just learning there are different categories of yarn and I am also just seeing that we make really beautiful wool in Nigeria 😍. The bag is lovely and I can't wait to visit Lagos so I can purchase a lot of yarn for my crochet projects
Thank you so much! Yeah, we even have a Nigerian brand of milk cotton yarn now, and you might not need to travel to Lagos to get the yarns you want. You could try searching where you live.
Trust me I have searched, all I got was the regular yarn. People do not really take crocheting seriously at my end.