Tunisian bag

[DesertCrocheter]

Now that my swap partner Krista has received her pet swap package, I can post a photo here of the portion of the gift that was for her: a Tunisian bag. I used that graph-making website several have posted here (thank you!) to take a knit pillow pattern and turn it into a graph. Although I frogged the upper portion several times, I still didn't get the face right. I realize looking at it that I didn't follow the chart and curve the cheek of the cat. Ah well, it's all a learning experience, right? I used Gong cotton in a dark plum, with Gong cotton black and white for the cat (they had no gray, which I needed to make the cat face more subtle). But I'm proud, as this was my first Tunisian project ever! The handle, by the way, is granite stitch. There's an interior pocket done with hdc.

 

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Thanks for peeking, and any comments or advice on Tunisian or using graphs welcome! Patty

[catheryn]

Great bag!!!!!

[uplate6674]

It looks great! I can't wait to learn Tunisian crochet.

[Riohnna]

Wow!

[Julexia]

Cute bag! Nice job for your first time!

[Lesalicious]

I haven't yet to teach myself tunisian but, your bag making me want to give it a try great job.

[misssmaggie]

Nice!!! Thanks for sharing!

[monkeybabies]

Yup...now seeing this, I may wip out my tunisian hook. Very nice bag!

[SilverDragon]

Very nice. I've GOT to learn how to do this.......

[crochetluvknot]

great job

[trinichiqn]

Great job. Love the colour choice. What is the name of the site you used?

[DesertCrocheter]

KnitPro. Several people posted the link in various threads and I had bookmarked it years ago but never tried it. But reading that Tunisian creates perfectly square stitches made me think this would be a good thing to learn to use graphs. Patty

[mar3185]

Love this bag - I've tried Tunisian before but it always seems to take me forever - so bravo!!!