Express your tastes with a useful, customized crochet bag!
You can never have too many bags: it is difficult to deny a universal truth like this. There are many bags that catch our attention when we scroll through social media feeds, or maybe we notice them when walking down the street ... But you can't always find the one that's just right for you. It's always a matter of personal style and taste, and perhaps by resorting to making some DIY creations you will find an easy way to best express your wishes.
There are many techniques for making walk-about bags, and one of the easiest to learn how to crochet them: in the vast majority of cases, in fact, the projects needed to create accessories using crochet involve using just a few basic stitches. Get inspiration from the ideas listed below:
A traveller's bag which is reminiscent of times past, and with a rigid opening that allows one to easily find anything which is inside it. Using simple stitches, the outside is easily made. The handles and accessories are then produced, while inside everything is lined using a beautiful contrasting fabric that becomes a nice, colorful surprise every time you open the bag!
If, on the other hand, you like a bag with more understated and geometric lines, and which looks a bit like a very elegant model from a luxury fashion house, you can replicate its shape using crochet. Also, in this case, the stitches are very simple, in order not to distract from the purity of the model. The bag, however, is much softer, and is a variation of the tote bags that come in very useful during the summer. Plus, it's a thicker knit with a tight weave that doesn't need an inner lining ... But there's nothing stopping you from adding one.
Tutorial via stitching-together.com
Do you prefer the idea of a more compact, round handbag? It's a more playful and fun accessory, suitable for everyday life.
Longer and softer, this model is also not stiffened by adding metal or wooden elements and therefore to make it more robust, a very thick yarn is used - necessarily produced with basic stitches so as not to be too bulky in appearance.
A bag like this creates the impression of being able to contain a lot of things!
To enrich your bags with more refined details, you can also consider using different materials for the handles than the yarn used for the rest of the bag. Leather, bamboo, rope ... There are so many choices available!
A small, but roomy bucket-shaped bag with a round base - this is a model which seems to highlight the carefree days of summer. But perhaps by using more intense and velvety colors, it can becomes a model used throughout the whole year!
Have you ever created crochet bags?
