27/07/2026
Instagram won't let me post normal ratio photos so I'm posting in here first instead... What a lucky lot you are!
I don't know if you remember a post from 2023 which was of some granny squares I'd been making as we drove to our holiday (if you doom scroll my page you'll find them, it won't take you long, promise). Well, in the last couple of weeks I decided to finish the WIP, and I use that word lightly because it wasn't even a work in progress. It was just an abandoned pile of squares, stuffed in a bag and stored next to where I sit on the settee where it dreamed of one day realising its full potential... that day has come, and I present to you my beautiful crochet bag π₯°
And I am enjoying being able to say that it is all mine! I've made so many bags over the years which have been gifted that I feel like I've earned this one.
I lined it and everything! Every time I line a bag is a school day. I bought myself a Singer Sewing Machines UK sewing machine for my birthday last year (could have been the year before, the clocks are ticking faster these days and I'm sure someone stole a few months from me last year). And along with mending clothes, taking up trousers and making curtains shorter while they still hang on the rail, I've been enjoying (mostly) how to do new things with it.
Last night I put together the lining for my bag, double lined for poshness, but unbeknownst to me, the bobbin had tangled up and made the stitching bloody awful on the outside of the bag. So I pulled it all out and went to bed marginally defeated.
Today, I tightened my bobbin, relaxed the tension and it all came together like a dream. I sewed my linings together properly (instead of just folding over the top as I stitched), so now my bag is elite and not just posh ππ».
I bought detachable clasp rings and handles for it (because after 3 years, figuring out how to JAYG (Join As You Go) the squares together meant the very idea of crocheting a handle was becoming soul destroying). And so... I now have pink AND tan faux leather handles so I can choose a colour to suit my outfit, or my mood!
I purposely made one pocket with a contrasting top so that I could tell which side has the pocket to hold my mobile phone. Anything to alleviate guesswork and brainfog π€£
I *think* the fabric was from Fabric Love UK π€ I knew I had it, and had spent weeks looking for it, only to find it yesterday in the very bag of fabrics I thought it was in to begin with π The clasps and handles are from the 'zon
Hope you like it, but I don't mind if you don't, cos I love it, and it's MINE MINE MINE... don't be jelly π€ͺ
