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This week we’re showing you the wide diversity of bags you can make using Bernat yarns. Use these free patterns as inspiration and make your perfect bag.
Bernat Handicrafter Cotton - Market Bag
Bernat Felting - Clutch Purse
Bernat Camouflage - Army Surplus Bag
I have to agree with Arlene’s comment- I think I like the back side of block #4 better than the front side. It looks really neat. The one thing I have not been sure of (after ripping out and starting over twice) is the rows that you purl one and sl3-at the beginning and end. Maybe I’m not leaving the floats long enough, but the ends of those rows pull in and look funny. Will that be ok in the end?
I’ve made several market bags, when the plastic bag ban went into effect and for last year and this year’s stocking stuffers. I really appreciate this pattern being horizontal as opposed to taller (more narrow) like a tote bag. (which I had to modify for myself when using other patterns; really hard for a math-challenged person.)
Wide means the weight is better distributed along the strap AND the contents are less likely to spill if you put the bag down, like when driving from the market/store.
Good job. Thanks
I am trying to make this “Market Bag” but I’m having trouble interpreting the directions.
First: The basic stitch here is described as “(YOH) twice. Draw up a loop in next st. (YOH and draw through 2 loops on hook) twice. Yoh and draw through all 3 loops on hook…”
My problem: I only have 2 loops remaining on the hook when I get to that last point. What am I doing wrong?
Second problem: for the 2nd row, it says “Ch 5 (counts as tr and ch 1.) Miss next 3 ch. Tr in next st.”
My problem: if you miss “3″ chains, then you still have 2 chains unaccounted for. Are you supposed to start the pattern in the 4th chain down (of the new 5 chain), or in the stitch made from the last row (in other words, really skipping all the chains you just made, to start in the last stitch of the preceding row?)
Thanks for any help.
Hi Gloria – I sent your question on to our pattern support folks. they should get back to you via email.
Good luck!
Thank you. After looking at it, I realized what you’re supposed to do is “miss the 3 ch. SPACE.” Should have been obvious, I guess, but at the point of just completing one row – and perhaps being insufficiently caffeinated – I couldn’t figure out how I was supposed to be shaping the pattern for the next row.
I’m half-way done with it now. So far, so good.
Suggestion: Most patterns will say at the end of a line how many spaces or stitches or groupings you’re supposed to have. On this pattern, such a hint would have been very helpful. I wasn’t entirely sure I was proceeding correctly when I ended up with 39 spaces. I hope that’s right, because that’s how it’s working out for me! I’ll find out when I come to finish it off, I guess.
Is the market bag worked in rounds? I can’t figure out the pattern after the 1st row. Do I turn at the end of the first row? Then how do I work on the other side of the body? Thanks, Tammy
I figured the pattern out. Sorry for the sort of stupid question!
Help please. I have followed the pattern until I have reached the 20 in. point, but my confusion is in how to finish the bag. In the pattern it states ” repeat for other side” after the instructions for the handles. Does this refer to the whole pattern or just the handles, and if it’s the whole pattern, then how do we join the two sides togther? There is probably an easy answer to this question that I am just overlooking, but I am fairly new to crochet and am very confused at this point. Thanks!
Oh and this is for the market bag… forgot to mention that
Hi Isis,
I sent your question on to our pattern support folks. They should contact you shortly.