After 3 weeks of knitting, sewing, photographing, pattern and tutorial preparation, here is the Entrelac Messenger Bag I did from the rectangle piece of woven-look I have showed you…. Yippee, I am completely thrill of it’s outcome, never thought it could turn out so perfect and practical.
At first, I just blindly made the entrelac piece without knowing what to do with it. A few options ran through my mind… I could make different kind of bags, cushion or throw pillow cover, may be join a few pieces to become a baby blanket…. but ended up with an Entrelac Messenger Bag.
I added a long straps which act as a gusset for the bag. Added a side pocket to house my giant smart phone. This time I don’t want to sew any zipper, instead I fold the bag down as a closure, so I needed another 2 smaller piece of gusset for the fold down. I always love to line my bag and this time I made a center divider plus a pocket in the bag. The divider inside the Entrelac Messenger Bag is great for holding books and flat item like documents.
See… me carrying my Entrelac Messenger Bag during a photographing outing with friends. Thanks to Mandy who captured this beautiful moment, caught in the act of photo shooting… lol… love it!!!! *** mmmm… I think I need a hair cut soon… ***
I really like this bag, so I try made this with “tusuk sate” because i don’t have knitting needle (i don’t know english of tusuk sate/ maybe “bamboo skewer? “). So this takes a very long time to do it, but I hope I can finish it soon… thanks for your sharing.
Thank you so much for sharing this lovely project!
What a beautiful design! Thank you for sharing your talent/skills with the rest of us and for offering this pattern for free. It’s stunning. I can knit enough to make a really rough-looking scarf. I mostly crochet and would love to try it with this bag. It will probably end up a total disaster but that’s how we learn, right? Thanks again!
Would this bag hold up to carrying a laptop computer? My daughter wants me to make her a messenger bag for her laptop, but I’m afraid that it would be too heavy & would stretch out the bag, etc. This looks like a sturdy one, but wanted your opinion before I attempt it.
This bag is lined so the fabric will hold up the weight of the laptop and won’t stretch out the knitted bag. You will need to a fabric strip inside the strap and sew the ends to the bag’s body, this is to prevent the strap from stretching.
Thanks for tha superb tutorial.I made a bag using your instructions.its come out beautifully.thanks once again
You did a beautiful job on the bag…inside and out. I love the various stitches you incorporated into it as well as the colors! Thank you for sharing how you did it.
I feel like a dope! I didn’t even notice lol thanks!
the pattern is lovely, but i am horrible with gauges and it doesn’t say anywhere how many to cast on, lol
The pdf pattern does give all the information and casting sts….. nothing is missing 🙂
Just wanted to sqy love your bag ….have started it and wanted to know when did you add the pocket and I’m a little confused as to how the gusset and strap are attached please get bag to me as I am half way done with the enterloc stitch part thanks so much susan evans
I sewed the pocket on the gusset/strap before attaching to the entrelac body.
OMG!! I’m so excited I found this site! It has everything I am into craftwise. I will be exploring this site all week. Thanks for coming up with this website. I love it!! Keep creating!!
Welcome, Donna!!! Let’s CREATES!!!
I really love this bag!! Only thing is that my strength lies on crochet hooks… I have no patience for the knitting needles… I know how to crochet the entrelac stich; do you think it will do with that if I crochet not knitt but still make the same pieces and follow your tutorial to put it all together??? I have several messenger bags that are made in my country but i reaaaally like this one , it will be good to own one that i made… I hope u can answer I just want to make sure before I try I kinda think it wont make a diffrence but u never know if you dnt ask 🙂 thank you so much and sorry for taking some of ur time!! Bye :}
Wow… I’m attracted to this bag… so nice and practical! Been looking for a knitted sling bag long time already. Thanks for sharing…
Glad that you love it 🙂
If I were to use only 2 skeins of yarn (1 of each color), do you think that would be enough? They are fairly large skeins, more so than a typical skein is.
Do you know what is the length of your yarn/skein? The yarn I used has 236 yard/ball, that means I used around 472 yards of yarn on each color. of course, I have some yarns left after the project but not a lot especially on the green color.
If you know the length of you yarn in each skein, basically you can estimate if you will have enough yarn to complete the project. Tension would be another issue to consider, if your tension is tight, you will need more yarn.
Hope this help.
not solely knit for 3 weeks, but involve lots of thinking on which design to come out with. I would say, I spend 1.5 weeks to make up the bag on nightly basis (I have many other crafts on the go too), then another 1.5 weeks for sewing, photos and drafting the pattern and tutorial 🙂