I then had some fun with the brightly coloured bags that I had been saving. I mean once they're gone, they're gone. But the time had come to break them out and cut them up.
I made three different styles of flowers with patterns I picked up from Ravelry. (Where else?) The first pattern was a two-tone designed by SkaMama that I did in white and dark green.
The second was a simpler two-tone number by Drops design. I used a lighter green with pink.
And the third was a very simple two-round crochet flower by Mimi Alelis' Crochet and Other Stuff.
I adlibbed the stems, first crocheting them and then finding it easier to do the chain stitch with a tapestry needle. I also improvised the leaves. I just sewed them down with a few stitchesProject Stats
Started: 16 Apr 09
Finished: 13 May 09
Pattern: my own
Materials: Walmart bags &
various other
Size: 11.5" x 11.5"
of plarn right down the middle.
I think the flowers helped the bag a lot but it's not the sort of thing I'll do all the time. A little too fussy for me. (I'll take 3 hours of straight knitting or even crochet over 1 hour of fiddly stuff any day.) But sometimes you just gotta do.
The plan is to give this to my cousin. I think I gaffed on her Christmas present last year, and hopefully this one will better represent the sincere affection I have for her.
Your flower embellishments are wonderful. It adds so much to the bags. I have added flowers to some recent felted and tee-shirt bags to spruce them up a bit. Your flowers turned out so lovely. Great job!
ReplyDeleteI just love this. Just might be the thing to make me play with plarn!
ReplyDeleteNow ... will you offer this for a class?
Thanks to both of you!
ReplyDelete@Kallie: I DID teach a class. This very bag came from the class in April. (The flowers were added afterwards.)
I love the flowers. Been looking for some embellishments to add to a plarn bag I just finished. You have enspired me!
ReplyDeleteVery cute tote bag :)
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