Fringe Shopping Bag Crochet Pattern

By: Jamey Ekins from stitch11.com

By: Jamey Ekins from stitch11.com

"If you’ve been wanting an adorable bag, big enough to fit everything you need and some more, look no further. The Fringe Shopping Bag is roomy enough to hold all of your groceries or your entire wardrobe. This Fringe Purse is so spacious and it’s incredibly stylish. Everyone at the store will be asking you where to get one. It’s made in a tricolor of yarns, and uses the zig zag puff stitch and single crochet stitch. The Cascade Avalon Yarn comes in a vast array of colors and is a blend of cotton and acrylic. It’s both soft and versatile, perfect for a bold project like this."

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Easy

Crochet HookG/6 or 4 mm hook

Yarn Weight(4) Medium Weight/Worsted Weight and Aran (16-20 stitches to 4 inches)

Crochet Gauge4” = 12 single crochet by 18 rows

Finished Size Width: 18.5”, Height: 14.5” Handle length: 28” each

Materials List

Sissors
Tapestry needle

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JaneEK

Oct 31, 2018

Our closest and therefore most frequently shopped grocery store is Kroger. Theyve recently announced that in the near future, they wont be offering plastic shopping bags any more. This project would make a nice alternative since it could easily be worked up using plarn made from those same plastic bags. Cloth bags are fine for dry items, but who wants their handiwork messed up by a leaky meat package?

Tricia108

Oct 25, 2018

I wish there were more instructions to this bag. I will have to look up how to do the FSC to begin the bag. I was disappointed that you have to do two sides. It would be nice to have the instructions written in the round so you just have to join the bottom. I do like the look of the bag and may do it anyway.

EditorLP

Oct 26, 2018

Hi Tricia108, sorry to hear you're having trouble with this pattern. FSC means Foundation Single Crochet, which is a way to start a project without chaining. We have a video tutorial on the technique here: https://www.allfreecrochet.com/Crochet-Videos/How-to-Foundation-Single-Crochet. If you're more comfortable starting with a chain, you could ch 47, sc into the ch next to your hook, and in each ch across. This would start you off with 46 stitches, and you could continue the pattern as written from Row 2 onward. I hope this helps! - Laura, editor of AllFreeCrochet

princess6860504

Oct 25, 2018

This is a summer bag that takes you right into fall, easily adapting from your jean shorts and sneakers to your corduroys and leather booties. You can change up your color scheme, too, of course. But why would you want to? These colors seem to be perfectly neutral so that it goes with most of your wardrobe easily! All you need to know are double crochets and half-double crochets to create that zig zag puff that you see.