{"id":921,"date":"2015-05-05T12:34:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joytomake.co.uk\/?p=921"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:48:25","slug":"beautiful-crochet-tote-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joytomake.co.uk\/crochet-2\/beautiful-crochet-tote-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful crochet tote bag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oooh I loved the pattern as soon as I saw it, gorgeous burnt orange a\u00a0 real zinga for the summer\u2026.\u00a0 And different too.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a crocheted tote bag, I used Natura XL<\/a>\u00a0 the colour was perfect, and the weight of the cotton just right for the bag.\u00a0 Using a 5mm hook I started at the top of the bag creating a simple ribbed look with double crochet into the back of each stitch.\u00a0 The main body of the bag was all done in a \u2018bobble\u2019 stitch, which I adapted slightly from the pattern as I felt it was too bulky and would make the bag too heavy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The bobble stitch was fairly easy to do, with the yarn over the hook first and inserting the hook, yarn over again and pulling the loop through about 2.5mm (1\u201d) repeating that so that you have 7 loops on the hook before pulling a final yarn over through all of them to tighten the bobble at the top. That is repeated along the row and when you get to the end you find you have twice as many stitches so you have to turn and do a double crochet into every other stitch to get back to the right amount.<\/p>\n