​Stripped Crochet Bag

You’ll need:

160g of 100% cotton yarn (105m/115g) of pink mélange color;

225g of the same yarn, but blue color;

140g of the same yarn, but white color;

Crochet hook 5.

Stitches control: 10,5 sts x 10,5 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

Main Part

Make 80 chain sts with white yarn. Work with the main pattern due to the scheme, make 26 pattern repeats +2 sts for the symmetry. Alternate the colored striped during the whole work. After crocheting 70 rows (60 cm), finish your work.

Upper Part of Bag

Attach blue yarn to the side. Make 7 rows with single crochets. At the same time, make decreases along the 1^st row, using the directions of the scheme. Finish your work.

Make the upper part, using the same description for the second side of bag.

Sides

Attach the blue yarn to the 1^st s of 4^th row of bags upper part, make 54 chain sts, slip st in the last st of the 4^th row.

Cut the yarn.

Make the second side in the same way, but don’t cut the yarn.

Fasten your bag around with 8 rows of single crochets in every st and every crochet. Finish your work.