I Like ‘Purse’onality

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I love homemade bags and have them in many colours.  I don’t use any bags/purses that are store bought but have ones with a little ‘purse’onality.  I’ve also made many bags to give away as gifts.  One of my favourites is a granny square bag in black, dark gray, light grey and white.

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I found this cute pattern for a bag made out of granny squares a few years ago. It is great for using up odd bits and pieces of yarn.  It’s called Inga’s crocheted bag.  I just tweaked it a bit and took out the squares that formed the bottom.

black and grey 'purse'onality tote bag - craftygardener.ca

In total, for my pattern, you need 13 granny squares and then some yarn for join them together and made the straps.  I always get lots of comments on my bags when I am out and about.

lining the black and grey 'purse'onality tote bag - craftygardener.ca

I also love to line my bags, with inside pockets, so that smaller items don’t poke through the crochet.  I also line the straps as this stops them from stretching out.

Over the years here are some I’ve made in different colours.

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The next bag pattern is from a pattern book that I have called Trendsetting Totes.   This one is the shell pattern shown just under the title.

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I made the first couple according to the pattern and then decided to change it up a bit.

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brown shell bag3a

This time I added a few more rows of the shell pattern and used 3 colours which cut back on the plain top.  I really like how this one turned out. The one below is one of my favourites.

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Is it grey? or gray?

One of the the yarns and it said grey, but noticed the darker one said gray.

Either one is acceptable.  It comes down to the American or British spelling … rather like having a u in colour or not.  So I’m presuming the gray yarn was made in the States and the grey one comes from Canada.

grAy for America and grEy for England.

I used all sorts of little tricks like this when I used to teach and kids will remember much better.

As I’m British as well as Canadian (have dual nationality) I will use grey … but how about you?

crochet blue bag at craftygardener.ca

This is a blue bag made using the same pattern and lined with some lovely blue striped cotton.

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10 Responses

  1. Nicola
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    Love your bags and how the same basic pattern can look so different by just changing the colours. I say Grey, but then that’s my British roots talking!

  2. Myrtle
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    I like your bags also and I also noticed how different same bags can look different by changing colours

  3. Margie
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    Cute bags! I think I’ve always used the different spellings interchangeably.

  4. Sheltie Times
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    Grey is one of those odd colors that has so many shades and it really does pick up on the surrounding colors.

  5. Marjan Hoebeke-Pfaff
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    These bags are awesome, dear Linda! Makes my hands itch and make me want to start maken at least one right away! Thank you for joining the Granny-Spiration Link-Up Party! Pinned!

  8. Teresa
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    I love the bags,, especially the first one. Thank you for sharing at The Really Crafty Link Party. Pinned.

    • Crafty
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      Thanks Jeannie, the bags are great conversation starters when I’m out.

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