Bands of Beads Tote Bag

This pattern comes courtesy of The Snuggles Project, which was founded a few years ago to provide nice soft beds for animals kept in cages in shelters. This is a volunteer project, and the website lists dozens of patterns for snuggle beds in knit, crochet, and sewing. Clicking on the link below the picture will [...]

Grab & Go Tote

In the “why didn’t I think of that” category. Crochet! magazine has produced a pattern based upon those ever popular  Bean  Land’s End “boat bags” in canvas, several of which I’ve owned for years. Think I’m going to whip up one of these – you can never have too many totes, right?!
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Knitted Market Bag

Bags, purses, sacks, I just can’t have enough of them. Most of them are full of yarns, incomplete projects, patterns, and books. This one looks a lot like the crocheted market bag I posted a while back, only this is knitted. I like to crochet, but LOVE to knit. Anyway, here’s the latest great bag [...]

Felted Recycled Cell Phone Case

One of the hottest fiber crafts around these days is making felted items out of thrift shop wool sweaters. A few months ago I visited our local GoodWill store and actually had trouble selecting which ones to buy, there were so many fantastic 100% wool sweaters! I left with 7, some in solid colors and [...]

BYOBag

I took one look at this picture and just have to make one of these really cool bags right now. Or maybe 2 or 3.
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Beach Bag

Expandable, washable, and ecologically correct – the perfect beach/tote/shopping bag.
Made with crochet cotton with size G (4 mm) hook.
http://www.coatsandclark.com/Crafts/Crochet/Projects/Accessories/WC1664+Crochet+Beach+Bag.htm

Shell and Cluster Purse

Pretty and elegant.
Crochet nylon cord and size G hook

http://www.jpfun.com/patterns/featured/p125027clustersnshellspurse.pdf

On the Bias Shoulder Bag

Probably like most knitters, my project selections vary with the seasons. Now in the first week of autumn, my focus is switching to bags, either felted or done in an unusual pattern. I’ve only tried bias knitting a couple of times, and when I came across this little purse, had to put it on my [...]

“Green” Mesh Shopping Tote

We’ve been taking our own bags to the grocery store for several years now, and I’m trying to remember to bring one of these colorful crochet totes whenever I go shopping at other stores as well. This is a quick, easy pattern, and using different multicolor yarns, the variety can be endless. These easy to [...]

Net Tote Bag – “green” crochet

Everyone’s going green these days, and here’s a little stretchy bag that can help with the cause. I like to keep one or two “green” bags in our cars for every shopping eventuality.
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Here are 2 other mesh bag patterns:
takealong tote
market bag