Larger Than Life Bag

[YarnThing]

Hey everybody, I just finished my first Larger Than Life Bag from the Interweave Crochet Spring 2007 issue.

 

I have posted information on Ravelry (my id is yarnthing)

and posted a blog post with LOTS of pictures.

 

Take a look and let me know what you think!

 

Marly

http://knitthing.blogspot.com/2007/08/larger-than-life-bag.html

[CraftyJen]

Fabulous colours!! It's a great bag. Thanks for sharing.

[misssmaggie]

Oh...all the "stuff" that will hold...looks great...pretty colors !!! Thanks for sharing!

[empiricisim]

Love the colors. Very nice work!!

[cmg123]

Nice job. Thanks for sharing your tips on your blog. I plan to make that bag and they were very helpful.

[Shebop]

Beautiful!

[barbn77]

WOW!! I love the colors you chose, very pretty:cheer:yay

[miller3602]

I love the "model" holding the purse! LOL Too funny! But I love the purse.

[hooked2]

Great job on the purse!! And your seams are awesome! (As is your model - he's cute!)

 

I like the brown/pink combo idea too. Especially a chocolate brown!

[SHERYL]

wow!!! Great colors.

[laurastar0962]

very nice, I hope it gets the classes going for you

[shelbyolivia]

The bag is great! What brand is the yellow varigated yarn?

Your DH is a great sport to model for you! Give him smooches!

[umme yusuf]

wow:cheer very nice, great job.

[bobwilson123]

Wow great bag !! lovethe colours and the lining is delish

[YarnThing]

I used Ella Rae Classic yarn for the whole bag. It only took partial skeins of the light gray, electric blue and the variegated but it took two WHOLE skeins of the darker gray!

 

I loved working with this yarn. I had never used it for a project that I wasn't felting but it turned out really nice! Not to mention, it is cost effective as it is about the same price as Patons Classic Wool and it has more colors to choose from!

 

You all are so kind to say such wonderful things about my bag!

 

John (the model) wants me to say thank too :-)

[YarnThing]

Oh...I got the fabric at JoAnns in the quilting section...I LOVE it!

[sammimag]

Looks great!

[sfgwife]

It is very pretty. I read your blog and saw you were wondering about what colors to chose for the next one. I too made one of these and posted it here a while back. I used bright colors for mine and love love love them in it. So you can do a search for posts started by me and it will be there.

[Marcie]

Wow! What a great bag! I absolutely adore the colors you used!

[YarnThing]

I thought I would let you all know why I chose those colors...I was told and noticed in the recent Vogue Knitting that blue and gray are THE colors of the season.

 

So, thought I had a chance to be fashionable and used those colors to make the bag :-)

[Debbi-a1]

Wonderful bag! You did a great job!

Okay, I think I missed it in your blog:blush what did you use for the straps? was it fabric? It looked like they were attached to the fabric before you lined the crochet part.

Thanks for all the info on this.

Debbi

[YarnThing]

I used 2 inch nylon cord (2 yards cut in half). I did attach them to the lining before I joined it to the crochet portion of the bag.

 

I am not a big fan on fabric straps and that is what the pattern called for...so I changed it up :-)

 

The Nylon was NOT hard to work with at all!

[crochetgirl2]

Great job - man-sized too!

[hhensler]

I love it, what more can I say?!

[azuki88]

Love the bag! The colors you chose suit it well.