Free crochet bag tutorial.

The crochet bag tutorial you've waited for to welcome summer.

Summer crochet bag step by step tutorial.

Hello dear friends,

Today I'll show you how to make a colorful practical crochet bag for beach and summer, one of its best advantages, it is lined in an easy way with transparent sheets, so no water or wet clothes will ruin it. "smile"

Supplies

You will need cotton yarn in 6 different colors
A hole puncher
PVC transparent flexible sheets, found in art stores from 0-8 mm thickness A4 sheets or in hardware stores in rolls
Crochet hook suitable to your yarn
Scissors

Note

I used 6 colors of yarn of my choice, you can use whatever colors you like, or just one simple color, or even make different designs to the whole bag by using only 4 rectangles on each side of the bag instead of six, there are plenty of choices, this is how fun handmade crafts are, aren't they ?

Front and back

Same six similar blocks in different colors, so for this bag, make two rectangles of every color, one for back and one for front, same for all six colors, on total twelve blocks of same pattern.

Abbreviations

ch :chain

sc : single crochet

dc : double crochet

rep. : repeat

nxt : next

sk : skip

tr2tog :  triple two together

trtr : triple treple crochet 

Pattern

ch 59

1 dc in 8th ch from hook, *ch2, sk2, dc in nxt ch, rep. fr. * across, turn.

Row 1: (RS) ch1, 1 sc in 1st dc, *ch9, sk1dc, [1sc, ch4, tr2tog] in nxt dc, sk1dc, [tr2tog, ch4, 1sc] in nxt dc, rep. from * across to within last 2 ch-2 spaces, ch9, sk1dc, 1sc in 3rd ch of space, turn.

Row 2: ch10 (as trtr, ch4), 1sc in nxt ch9 loop, *ch4, [tr2tog, ch4, sl. st, ch4, tr2tog] in nxt tr2tog, ch4, 1sc in nxt ch-9 loop, rep. from * then ch4, trtr in last sc, turn.

Row 3: ch1, 1sc in 1st trtr, *ch5, 1sc in top of nxt tr2tog, rep. from * across ending with last 1 sc in 6th ch of turning ch, turn.

Row 4: ch4, dc in nxt sc, ch2, * dc in nxt ch-5 loop, ch2, dc in nxt sc, rep. from * across,
Repeat from row 1 to row 4 another 2 times, cut yarn, fast off.

Now it's time to cut PVC sheets into 

12 pieces 12 x 20 cm (5 x 8 in)

2 pieces 38 x 5 cm (15 x 2 in)

1 piece 42 x 5 cm (17 x 2 in)

1 long piece in desired length for the handle with width 5 cm (2 in) I made it 64 x 5 cm (25 x 2 in)

Make holes across the whole circumferences of those 16 pieces using the hole puncher, then with crochet hook and yarn work across with single crochet , just making 2 or 3 sc in the corners

the 12 pieces, 2 in each color of your choices corresponding to those crochet blocks you made.

Then the other 4 long pieces, use only one color to unite your whole bag, it could be one used in the blocks, or maybe a 7th color, again it's your choice.

Assembly

As we work in granny squares join, join each two blocks with their linings with simple single crochet stitch, for example, if you will join the orange and purple colored blocks together, the orange right side is facing you, behind it, the right side of its transparent lining, followed by the purple lining wrong side, then at the end from your side, the purple crochet block wrong side, in this way, you assemble the crochet bag with its lining in one step.

After you join the 6 rectangles for the front, and the other 6 rectangles for the back, join those long transparent stripes we have for the sides and bottom, and also the handle, all the joins are in single crochet.

Note: in the bag I made in the pictures, I have the side , bottom, and handle stripes are in pieces, this is more difficult, and not much durable for the handle, so I changed the tutorial to whole stripes instead of pieces.

Now you have your beach colorful crochet bag assembled and lined, some embellishments and you are ready to go camping, beach, vacations, even shopping, with this crochet stylish bag.

Tell me if you liked the idea, any questions , please leave a comment, I will be very happy to see your ideas, or projects done with that tutorial, share the idea, but please refer to my blog for copy rights, have a good day/night crafting.