Granny’s no square hand bag
A girl can never have enough bags. Nor shoes, for that matter, but that’s a different story.
Feeling crochety, I thought I’d make myself one. Pattern of choice: Debbie Stoller‘s Granny no square handbag. Basically, you just need to crochet a number of so-called granny squares. I used the pattern described in Debbie’s book, but it goes without saying that you can use just any pattern, as long as they are squares. You can make as many squares as you want to get the bag as large or as small as you want. I did just what the book prescribed and made twelve of them.
Once you have all the squares, you only need to crochet them together. Inside out, it then looks something like this:
That’s the less fun part of granny squares, a lot of loose thread that needs to be tucked in. It takes a while and can get rather tiresome, but once this is done, the only thing that’s left to do is the shoulder strap. And that goes really fast.
To decorate the squares, Debbie advises to get some rivets. Not knowing what rivets were exactly, I asked the shop lady for them. Unfortunately, the only rivets she had were with holes in them, like the ones that are used in belts. And having holes in my bag, no matter how small, is not exactly something I wanted. So instead, I used the upper half of press on buttons. And now it looks like this:
The crochet part is now finished. Now I still want to make a lining for it. Something that just went on the to do list.
