The pattern I am sharing with you is a quick and easy project that can be made with scrap yarn using single colour for elegant look or different colours for a fun look.
The pattern is for The Humble bag. This lovely bag comes with an inside pocket as well for keeping those keys or mobile or some cash/ cards.
Whats more this bag takes less than a day to finish too.
Yarn which is used for making this bag is WOA fashions acrylic hand knitting yarn in colour multi blue-light blue. This has been one of the best yarns I have worked with. The texture is so soft and it’s cool on the eyes too. It gave a cozy perfect fit to the garment made using this yarn.
I had ordered an excess quantity of this yarn when I was planning to make the granny square cardigan.Turned out about 150g was still left. After numerous attempts to find another project to make use of this lovely yarn, I decided to make granny squares out of it and later settle on what to do with them.
I was able to make fourteen granny squares and some yarn to sew these together. I wanted to make a crop top. So, I started sewing all these squares together. But to my horror I realised it requires few more squares to complete and I had none left. This made me anxious.
Instead of freaking out I left the project on the table and went to the kitchen. Made some nice n hot honey lemon green tea and came back.
With my system rebooted I arranged and rearranged the squares. And just like that by sewing the bottom three squares turned a bunch of granny squares into this beautiful shape of a bag. Excited and immensely happy with self I immediately made two strings and attached to the top of the bag and ta-da my humble bag came into existence!
This bag is made my stitching together 14 granny squares. Let’s start by making the granny square which we will replicate thirteen times over.
The Humble bag crochet pattern
The yarn used here is 4ply yarn which requires 4.5mm hook to be worked with.
Symbol explaination (US terminology)
- ch- chain
- single crochet
- dc- double crochet
- sl st – slip stitch
(P.S.- the photos attached here are for the granny square pattern. The colour difference is simply because there was no yarn left of the original pattern colour )
Step 1- Ch 4 and form a magic ring with a sl st in the first chain space.
Step 2- Ch 5. *Make three dc in the ring and ch 2*. Repeat *to* two more times. Then make another two dc in the ring space and join the last dc with a sl st to the third chain up.Total stitches at the end of 1st round- 12. (each row increases by 4 stitches and each round increases by 16 stitches here after)
Step 3- Ch 3. * 2 dc in the first corner from the hook, ch 2, make another 2 dc in the same corner space. work dc in the next three stitches* . Repeat * to *two more times. Then make dc in the last two stitches. Sl st in the 3rd chain up. Total count of stitches – 28.
Step 4- Ch 3. dc in the next two stitches. *2dc in the corner chain space, ch 2 another 2 dc in the same corner space. dc in the next seven stitches*. Repeat * to *two more times. Then make dc in the last four stitches.Sl st in the 3rd chain up. Total count of stitches – 44.
Step 5– Ch 3. dc in the next four stitches *2dc in the corner chain space, ch 2 another 2 dc in the same corner space. dc in the next eleven stitches*. Repeat * to *two more times. Then make dc in the last six stitches.Sl st in the 3rd chain up. Total count of stitches – 60.
Step 6- Ch 3. dc in the next seven stitches *2dc in the corner chain space, ch 2 another 2 dc in the same corner space. dc in the next fifteen stitches*. Repeat * to *two more times. Then make dc in the last eight stitches. Sl st in the 3rd chain up. Total count of stitches – 76. Cut the yarn and weave in the ends.
Shoulder straps
Two straps are required to be made. Ch 5 and form a magic ring with sl st in the first chain space. Ch 1 and make sc in the next five stitches. Now, do not join the first and last stitch with sl st. Instead continue making sc in the round till you acheive a desired length for the strap. Cut the yarn and do not sew in the ends. We will require it to fasten it to the bag.
How to put the squares together
Step 1- Arrange the granny squares in the fashion as shown in the picture. Sew them along the edges joning each other.
Step 2- After sewing them all together fold them in the fashion shown in the picture and sew them together like so to complete the body of the bag.
Step 3- Attach the straps by inserting the ends into the corner space of the granny square and tying with a knot. For extra sturdiness sew the yarn into the bag. Then cut and weave in the ends.
Step 4- Sew the last granny square to the inside of the bag to make a small pocket.
Your bag is now complete. Enjoy and have fun crocheting !
