Hope you are all well and I wish you a GREAT 2017!!! We all deserve a good one!!!
My last blog post is from 7/12/2016 ...... it was time to be back!!!!
Today I'm going to show you a little project that took few days to be completed, because of the use of a small number of granny squares and of the simple construction : a Japanese knot bag !!!
It all started with a simple granny square ...
... and very soon there was a second one ...
... and joining with the "as-you-go method", there were soon more to crochet the first panel of the bag to be ...
... and in no time we had even the second panel ...
Once the two panels were joined, I had to add a simple border along the top (2 rounds of single crochets, US crochet terminology) ...
Then, it was time to add the handles (still granny squares, but smaller of one round) with the peculiarity to be asymmetrical ...
You have to make the longer handle pass through the loop of the smaller handle and you will have something like the following ...
The pattern is from of one of my Japanese crochet books ...
and the bag is shown on page 25 ...
I was working with 2 different hooks (5,5 mm and 6,5 mm), because the yarn for the common background was thicker than the other yarns and, for the same reason, the shells of the background are only of 2 DC (double crochet) and not 3 !!!
See you soon, xxxx Alessandra
