Crochet: Straw Beach Bag {Tutorial & Pattern}
August 17, 2010
This is a crochet straw beach bag (drawstring type) I designed and made with rafia yarn recently. The rafia yarn is thin and flat like plastic strips, softer than rafia twine. It is easy to crochet and the result is surprisingly soft and gentle to touch.
This shoulder bag is made by a double layer crochet technique. The 1st layer is single crochet (back loops only) from bottom to top, then you work upside down for the second layer, just slip stitch on the front loops for each and every stitch. As simple as that!
Remember to crochet 12 holes for the eyelets. Used a long fat white elastic band ( I bought it from hair accessories shop) and sew a fabric to the ends as the ribbon ties. The elastic drawstring closure is superbly convenient, now you don’t have to pull-to-tie and untie-to-release the bag when taking things in and out. Didn’t summer supposed to be easy and relax?
Get the crochet pattern and some how-to photos after the jump. ….
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Tote Bag Made From Recycled Material
April 17, 2009
See what I have made over the past few days…. a tote bag using all recycled material. This is what I called it TRULY Recycle bag!!!
Basically this tote is made from:
- Fused Grocery Platic Bag which I have shown you on my previous few posts. See the red patch with “Esprit” on it, I like this the most
) - My old soft jeans
- My old but seldom used curtain, blue fabric with diamond-shaped print on it
- Rice sack, the brown color fabric. You can use potato sack or peanut sack to replace it.
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Fresh New Look Of My Tote Bag
March 29, 2009
A “Daisy Tote”!!!!It is still not enough to be a diaper bag. What about the diapers and wet tissue? I want them to be in a proper place so that I can access them easily. Again, another strip of elastic band across the bag. I put a magnet button instead of dead stitching it for the elastic to hold the diaper and wet tissue independantly. In future, I can choose to accommodate wider things like books and don’t have to take the stitches out. Flexible and adaptable to whatever occasion huh~
This is how the internal looks like in flat before I sew them into the tote. Upper is my diaper bag arrangement and it can transform to other bag (bottom) one day when my baby grows up. I believe this tote can last for years
As usual, I put my beautiful lable on the zipped pocket – “Handmade by Craftpassion” 
I brought it out this morning for my 6 month-old’s vaccination jabs and got these reactions from the clinic assistants. Their eyes stared at my daisy tote the moment I walked in and their eyes were watching the tote where ever I walked. Before I left, one of the clinic assistants finally articulated her desire and asked me where I bought this tote and it is so beautiful…. haa haa haa I was so happy and felt like floating up to the sky and replied “Oh thanks, it is the only one in the world and it was made by me”. Their eyes turned so big like they don’t believe it and seconds later they asked if I am going to make another one and sell to them, I just gave them a smile and replied politely ” I am afraid not! This is specially for my baby”…. oh the gratification is undescribable!!!! Wonders of HANDMADE, no two pieces of works are identical and the admiration spurs me on to create more!
As I work on it, the internal lining get more and more elaborate. I want it to be my new born baby’s daiper bag, the internal lining must look soft and comfortable, so I did some diagonal quilt sewings onto it with a piece of poly-fluffy….
